Efren Reyes
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Efren Manalang Reyes (born August 26, 1954) is a Filipino
Filipino people
The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....

 professional pool
Pocket billiards
Pool, also more formally known as pocket billiards or pool billiards , is the family of cue sports and games played on a pool table having six receptacles called pockets along the , into which balls are deposited as the main goal of play. Popular versions include eight-ball and nine-ball...

 player and a two-time world champion. Reyes is considered by many to be the greatest all-around pool player in the history of the game. He is affectionately nicknamed "Bata" ("kid" in English) and "the Magician".

Early life

Reyes was born in Pampanga
Pampanga
Pampanga is a province of the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. Its capital is the City of San Fernando, Pampanga. Pampanga is bordered by the provinces of Bataan and Zambales to the west, Tarlac and Nueva Ecija to the north, and Bulacan to the southeast...

 in 1954. He moved to Manila
Manila
Manila is the capital of the Philippines. It is one of the sixteen cities forming Metro Manila.Manila is located on the eastern shores of Manila Bay and is bordered by Navotas and Caloocan to the north, Quezon City to the northeast, San Juan and Mandaluyong to the east, Makati on the southeast,...

 with his family at the age of 5. In Manila, he worked as a billiards attendant at his uncle's billiards hall, where he started learning the various cue sports. Because he was not tall enough to reach the pool table, he played while standing on Coca-cola cases that he moved around. At night, while he was dreaming of playing pool, the pool table was his bed.

He is called Bata, which is Filipino for "Kid", because there was another older pool player named Efren when he was young. To distinguish between the two, he was referred to as Efren Bata.

Career

Gambling from a young age, Reyes played three cushion billiards in the 1960s and 1970s. After establishing himself as a winner, he was discovered by promoters. This gave him the opportunity to compete in big time tournaments.

Reyes began winning a number of tournaments in the U.S., Europe and parts of Asia. Thus, he started to gain attention and recognition worldwide. At the start of his career, he used aliases to hide his identity so he would be allowed to compete. By the mid-1990s, he had become one of the elite players of the Philippines, alongside Jose Parica
Jose Parica
Jose Parica is a Filipino professional pool player from Manila, nicknamed "Amang" and "the Giant Killer." As a Philippine Hall of Famer, he pioneered the "Filipino invasion" in the United States, especially in the game of nine-ball.Also known as "the King" and "the Legend" in Philippine pool,...

 and Francisco Bustamante
Francisco Bustamante
Francisco Bustamante is a Filipino professional pocket billiards player from Tarlac, and the 2010 World Nine-ball Champion., nicknamed "Django", after the lead character of the film of the same name, and sometimes also called "Bustie", especially in the United States.-Early life:Bustamante is the...

.

Reyes' fame began when he won the US Open Nine Ball Championship in 1994 by defeating Nick Varner
Nick Varner
Nick Varner is an American pool player and was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America in 1992.-Career:...

 in the finals. He was the first non-American to win the event.

Two years later, Efren Reyes and Earl Strickland
Earl Strickland
Earl "The Pearl" Strickland is an American professional pool player and was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame in 2006...

 were chosen to face each other in an event called the Color of Money, named after the movie
The Color of Money
The Color of Money is a 1986 film directed by Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by Richard Price, based on the 1984 novel of the same name by Walter Tevis....

. The event was a three-day race-to-120 challenge match of 9-ball. It was held in Hong Kong, with a winner-take-all prize of US$
United States dollar
The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies....

100,000. Reyes won the match 120-117. This was the largest single-winning purse in a pool event.

Although Earl Strickland was the first to win the WPA World 9-ball Championship, Reyes, in 1999, became the first to win while it was broadcast on television. This tournament was not recognized at the time by the WPA, but Reyes was later retrospectively acknowledged as the winner of one of two world championships held in 1999. Nick Varner won the "official" world title. The two tournaments were merged for the following year, with both men listed as the champion for 1999. At the time, the Matchroom Sport
Matchroom Sport
Matchroom Sport is a sport event promotions company founded by the English entrepreneur Barry Hearn. It first came to attention in the sports of snooker and boxing and is also involved in pool, bowling, golf , fishing, darts and poker...

-organised event in Cardiff
Cardiff
Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...

, Wales
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

, was called the World Professional Pool Championship (despite the entry of many non-professional players).
In 2001, Reyes won the International Billiard Tournament. The event was held in Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

, with over 700 players and a total purse of ¥
Japanese yen
The is the official currency of Japan. It is the third most traded currency in the foreign exchange market after the United States dollar and the euro. It is also widely used as a reserve currency after the U.S. dollar, the euro and the pound sterling...

100M ($850K). Reyes dominated the event and beat Niels Feijen
Niels Feijen
Niels Feijen is a professional pool player, from the Hague, Netherlands. His nickname is "the Terminator".In 2001, Feijen reached the finals of a nine-ball tournament in Tokyo, Japan. The event had a field of more than 700 players and offered the largest prize money at that time. However, he lost...

 in the finals 15-7 and earned the ¥20M ($170K) first prize. At the time, this was the biggest first prize in a pool tournament.

In 2002 he won the $50K winner-take-all International Challenge of Champions
International Challenge of Champions
The International Challenge of Champions is an annual nine-ball pool tournament held at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut. It has always been broadcast on ESPN and is sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association...

, defeating Mika Immonen in a deciding rack after both players split sets.

Near the end of 2004, Reyes beat Marlon Manalo
Marlon Manalo
Marlon Manalo is a Filipino professional pool player from Mandaluyong City, Philippines.-Career:...

 to become the first-ever WPA World Eight Ball Champion. With the win, he became the first player in WPA history to win world championships in two different disciplines.

In December 2005, Reyes won the IPT
International Pool Tour
The International Pool Tour is a professional sports tour created in 2005 by Kevin Trudeau and hosted by Rebecca Grant. It aims to elevate pool to the level of other modern sports. Closely modeled on the PGA Tour, the IPT offered the largest prize funds in pool history in its first year. The tour...

 King of the Hill 8-Ball Shootout. Reyes won a record-breaking $200K for first place by beating fellow Hall of Fame member Mike "the Mouth" Sigel
Mike Sigel
Mike Sigel is an American professional pool player.Sigel has won over 102 major pool tournaments, including 3 US Open Nine-ball Championship tournaments and 5 world pocket billiard championship titles...

 two sets to none (8-0 and 8-5).

In 2006, Reyes and Francisco Bustamante
Francisco Bustamante
Francisco Bustamante is a Filipino professional pocket billiards player from Tarlac, and the 2010 World Nine-ball Champion., nicknamed "Django", after the lead character of the film of the same name, and sometimes also called "Bustie", especially in the United States.-Early life:Bustamante is the...

 represented their country as Team Philippines in the inaugural World Cup of Pool. They defeated Team USA, Earl Strickland
Earl Strickland
Earl "The Pearl" Strickland is an American professional pool player and was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame in 2006...

 and Rodney Morris
Rodney Morris
Rodney Morris is a professional pool player of Hawaiian descent. He currently resides in Spring Hill, Florida....

, to capture the title.

That same year, Reyes won the IPT World Open Eight-ball Championship
IPT World Open Eight-ball Championship
The IPT World Open Eight-ball Championship was an eight-ball tournament held in Reno, Nevada by the International Pool Tour. It was the fourth and last event of the tour as of 2007. It was richest event in the history of cuesports. The total purse was $3M where $500K was offered to the winner.The...

 over Rodney Morris 8-6. He earned $500K which was the largest prize money tournament in the history of pocket billiards. Unfortunately, due to IPT's financial problems, he has not been able to claim much of this money as of 2007.

In 2009, the Filipino tandem of Efren Reyes and Francisco Bustamante beat the German pair of Ralf Souquet and Thorsten Hohmann by a grueling 11-9 score to take their second championship title. This, together with the semifinal finish of the other Filipino team of Ronato Alcano
Ronato Alcano
Ronato Alcano , is a Filipino professional pool player, nicknamed "Ronnie Calamba" and "the Volcano".-Career history:...

 and Dennis Orcollo, was the best performance by a host nation in the tournament's history.

In 2010, Reyes clinched his fifth title in the 12th annual Derby City Classic as the overall champion, making him the most successful player in the tournament's history.

He has topped the AZ Billiards Money List five times: in 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006. In 2006, he set a record by earning $646K in a single year.

Family

He is married to Susan Reyes. They have three children. His son, Frennie Reyes, once competed in the Asian Nine-ball Tour.

Accolades

Numerous fellow professional players have credited Reyes with being the greatest living player in the world. During ESPN television commentary on a semi-finals match between Reyes and Mika Immonen
Mika Immonen
Mika Immonen is a Finnish professional pool player, nicknamed "the Ice Man."He won the WPA World Nine-ball Championship in Cardiff, Wales in 2001. That same year, he was the runner-up to Corey Deuel in the US Open Nine-ball ChampionshipHe has represented Team Europe on thirteen occasions in the...

 at the 2000 Billiard Congress of America Open 9-Ball Championship, veteran professional Billy Incardona stated that Reyes was "indisputably the best player in the world—especially when you consider all games—he can play any game as well as anyone, maybe better than anyone.... In my opinion we're watching probably the greatest player in my lifetime and I've been watching pool for the better part of forty years."

In 1995 Billiards Digest Magazine named Reyes the Player of the Year. The following year, when Reyes was ranked number one on the U.S.'s Pro Billiards Tour, the June 1996 issue of the magazine featured a poll of "billiard cognoscenti"—pro players, billiards writers, industry insiders and the like—to pick the best in billiards in various categories. Billiards' own elite named Reyes the best one-pocket player of all time. The magazine wrote, "While a bevy of one-pocket geniuses abound, Efren Reyes, whose prowess in one-pocket is sometimes obscured by his 9-ball stardom, was the popular pick. Is there anything Bata can't do?"

In 2003, he became the first Asian to be inducted into the Billiard Congress of America
Billiard Congress of America
Billiard Congress of America is a governing body for cue sports in North America , the regional member organization of the World Pool-Billiard Association...

's Hall of Fame.

Reyes was appointed Philippine Sports Ambassador of the 2005 South East Asian Games alongside some of the Philippines' greatest athletes (Allan Caidic
Allan Caidic
Alan Vito Flores Caidic is a retired professional basketball player from the Philippines and is currently an assistant coach of the Barangay Ginebra Kings in the PBA...

, Rafael Nepomuceno) to promote the event throughout the country.

For 2007, he was ranked #2 in Pool & Billiard Magazine's "Fans' Top 20 Favorite Players" poll.

Other awards and honors include:
  • Philippine Legion of Honor
    Philippine Legion of Honor
    The Philippine Legion of Honor was established by President Manuel Roxas, through Philippine Army Circular No. 60 dated July 3, 1947. The Philippine Legion of Honor was patterned after the Legion of Merit of the United States of America, and was meant to honor both civilians and members of the...

  • Philippine Order of Lakandula
    Order of Lakandula
    The Order of Lakandula is one of the highest honors given by the Republic of the Philippines. It is an order of political and civic merit, awarded in memory of Lakandula’s dedication to the responsibilities of leadership, prudence, fortitude, courage and resolve in the service of one’s people.Its...

     "Champion for Life Award"
  • Outstanding Filipino Awardee of the Jaycees
  • Philippine Sportswriters Association Sportsman of the Year
    PSA Sportsman of the Year
    The PSA Sportsman of the Year is given by the Philippine Sportswriters Association to the best Filipino athletes annually. It is one of the most prestigious sport-related awards in the Philippines...

     1999, 2001 and 2006
  • One Pocket Hall of Fame (inducted in 2004)

Films and television

In 2003, Reyes was featured in the Filipino movie Pakners with the late actor Fernando Poe, Jr.
Fernando Poe, Jr.
Ronald Allan Poe y Kelley , better known as Fernando Poe, Jr. and colloquially known as FPJ and Da King, was a Filipino actor and cultural icon. From the 1950s, Poe played steadfast film heroes who fight for the common man, which won him respect and admiration...

. Reyes also appeared in the 2007 short film Nineball.

In one episode of the TV series Magpakailanman, the story follows a young Efren Reyes (portrayed by actor Anjo Yllana
Anjo Yllana
-Early life:Born Andres Jose Garchitorena Yllana, Jr. on April 24, 1968, the eldest of four brothers. His younger brothers include Jomari Yllana and Ryan Yllana.-Personal life:...

) in his early pool-playing days as he progresses from a money player to a tournament contender.

Nicknames and aliases

Reyes is often called by his nickname Bata" (Filipino
Filipino language
This move has drawn much criticism from other regional groups.In 1987, a new constitution introduced many provisions for the language.Article XIV, Section 6, omits any mention of Tagalog as the basis for Filipino, and states that:...

 for "Kid"), given to him by friends at his regular pool hall
Pool hall
A billiard/billiards, pool or snooker hall is a place where people get together for playing cue sports such as pool, snooker or carom billiards...

 to distinguish him from an older Efren.

Reyes, along with the other "Filipino invasion" players revolutionized the way pool is played by their introduction to the sport of pinpoint precision kicking (going into a rail with the cue ball and then hitting an object ball). Reyes' ability to "kick safe" and to kick balls into intended pockets is legendary. This ability, coupled with his superb skill at other aspects of the game, led U.S. professionals to give him the appellation "The Magician." Before Reyes and his compatriots came over to the U.S., no one there had seen anything like their kicking skill set.

"[The] first time I came over to the states, I used an alias of Cesar Morales. Pool players in the US already knew Efren Reyes as a great shooter from the Philippines, but they [hadn't]...seen...[me]...in person." — Efren Reyes

Titles and achievements

  • 2011 US Open One Pocket Championship
  • 2010 Hard Times Billiards, 3rd Annual Chuck Markulis Memorial Tournament
  • 2010 Predator Ten-ball International Championship
  • 2010 Derby City Classic
    Derby City Classic
    The Derby City Classic is an annual pocket billiard convention held every January in Louisville, Kentucky. It is eight days long and offers various disciplines of pocket billiard competitions for pool players of all caliber. It is often referred to as the DCC.hui- History :The annual convention...

     Master of the Table
  • 2010 Derby City Classic
    Derby City Classic
    The Derby City Classic is an annual pocket billiard convention held every January in Louisville, Kentucky. It is eight days long and offers various disciplines of pocket billiard competitions for pool players of all caliber. It is often referred to as the DCC.hui- History :The annual convention...

     Fatboy Challenge 10-ball
  • 2010 Derby City Classic
    Derby City Classic
    The Derby City Classic is an annual pocket billiard convention held every January in Louisville, Kentucky. It is eight days long and offers various disciplines of pocket billiard competitions for pool players of all caliber. It is often referred to as the DCC.hui- History :The annual convention...

     Nine-ball
  • 2009 World Mixed Doubles Classic (with Rubilen Amit)
  • 2009 Galveston Classic One Pocket
  • 2009
    2009 World Cup of Pool
    The 2009 World Cup of Pool is the fourth World Cup of Pool championship. For the first time, it was held outside Europe, at The Annex of SM City North EDSA in Quezon City, Philippines, from September 1 to 6, 2009, and that an all-female duo participated....

     World Cup of Pool
    World Cup of Pool
    The World Cup of Pool is the international annual single-elimination tournament for doubles teams in nine-ball competition. It is held annually, at various locations, and was first held in 2006 in Newport, Wales...

     (with Django Bustamante)
  • 2007 Derby City Classic
    Derby City Classic
    The Derby City Classic is an annual pocket billiard convention held every January in Louisville, Kentucky. It is eight days long and offers various disciplines of pocket billiard competitions for pool players of all caliber. It is often referred to as the DCC.hui- History :The annual convention...

     Master of the Table
  • 2007 Derby City Classic
    Derby City Classic
    The Derby City Classic is an annual pocket billiard convention held every January in Louisville, Kentucky. It is eight days long and offers various disciplines of pocket billiard competitions for pool players of all caliber. It is often referred to as the DCC.hui- History :The annual convention...

     One-Pocket
  • 2007 Pool & Billiard Magazine Top 20 Favorite Players (number 2)
  • 2006 WPA
    World Pool-Billiard Association
    The World Pool-Billiard Association is the international governing body for pocket billiards . The group was formed in 1987, and was initially headed by a provisional board of directors consisting of representatives from Japan, the United States, Sweden, and Germany...

     Asian Nine-ball Tour (Jakarta Leg)
  • 2006 IPT
    International Pool Tour
    The International Pool Tour is a professional sports tour created in 2005 by Kevin Trudeau and hosted by Rebecca Grant. It aims to elevate pool to the level of other modern sports. Closely modeled on the PGA Tour, the IPT offered the largest prize funds in pool history in its first year. The tour...

     World Open Eight-ball Championship
    IPT World Open Eight-ball Championship
    The IPT World Open Eight-ball Championship was an eight-ball tournament held in Reno, Nevada by the International Pool Tour. It was the fourth and last event of the tour as of 2007. It was richest event in the history of cuesports. The total purse was $3M where $500K was offered to the winner.The...

  • 2006 World Cup of Pool
    World Cup of Pool
    The World Cup of Pool is the international annual single-elimination tournament for doubles teams in nine-ball competition. It is held annually, at various locations, and was first held in 2006 in Newport, Wales...

     (with Django Bustamante)
  • 2006 WPA Asian Nine-ball Tour (Vietnam Leg)
  • 2006 Derby City Classic
    Derby City Classic
    The Derby City Classic is an annual pocket billiard convention held every January in Louisville, Kentucky. It is eight days long and offers various disciplines of pocket billiard competitions for pool players of all caliber. It is often referred to as the DCC.hui- History :The annual convention...

     One-Pocket
  • 2005 IPT
    International Pool Tour
    The International Pool Tour is a professional sports tour created in 2005 by Kevin Trudeau and hosted by Rebecca Grant. It aims to elevate pool to the level of other modern sports. Closely modeled on the PGA Tour, the IPT offered the largest prize funds in pool history in its first year. The tour...

     King of the Hill Eight-ball Shootout
  • 2005 Derby City Nine-ball Championship
  • 2005 WPA Asian Nine-ball Tour (Jakarta Leg)
  • 2005 Japan Open
  • 2005 Derby City Classic
    Derby City Classic
    The Derby City Classic is an annual pocket billiard convention held every January in Louisville, Kentucky. It is eight days long and offers various disciplines of pocket billiard competitions for pool players of all caliber. It is often referred to as the DCC.hui- History :The annual convention...

     Master of the Table
  • 2005 Derby City Classic
    Derby City Classic
    The Derby City Classic is an annual pocket billiard convention held every January in Louisville, Kentucky. It is eight days long and offers various disciplines of pocket billiard competitions for pool players of all caliber. It is often referred to as the DCC.hui- History :The annual convention...

     Nine-ball
  • 2005 Derby City Classic
    Derby City Classic
    The Derby City Classic is an annual pocket billiard convention held every January in Louisville, Kentucky. It is eight days long and offers various disciplines of pocket billiard competitions for pool players of all caliber. It is often referred to as the DCC.hui- History :The annual convention...

     One-Pocket
  • 2004 WPA
    World Pool-Billiard Association
    The World Pool-Billiard Association is the international governing body for pocket billiards . The group was formed in 1987, and was initially headed by a provisional board of directors consisting of representatives from Japan, the United States, Sweden, and Germany...

     World Eight-ball Championship
  • 2004 On Cue 3: Intercontinental Conquest
  • 2004 WPA Asian Nine-ball Tour (Singapore Leg)
  • 2004 WPA Asian Nine-ball Tour (Vietnam Leg)
  • 2004 WPA Asian Nine-ball Tour (Taiwan Leg)
  • 2004 Derby City Classic
    Derby City Classic
    The Derby City Classic is an annual pocket billiard convention held every January in Louisville, Kentucky. It is eight days long and offers various disciplines of pocket billiard competitions for pool players of all caliber. It is often referred to as the DCC.hui- History :The annual convention...

     Master of the Table
  • 2004 Derby City Classic
    Derby City Classic
    The Derby City Classic is an annual pocket billiard convention held every January in Louisville, Kentucky. It is eight days long and offers various disciplines of pocket billiard competitions for pool players of all caliber. It is often referred to as the DCC.hui- History :The annual convention...

     One-Pocket
  • 2003 Billiard Congress of America
    Billiard Congress of America
    Billiard Congress of America is a governing body for cue sports in North America , the regional member organization of the World Pool-Billiard Association...

     Hall of Fame
  • 2003 World Classic Billiards Tournament
  • 2003 Las Vegas Nine-ball Open
  • 2003 WPA Asian Nine-ball Tour (Manila Leg)
  • 2003 Mid-Atlantic Nine-ball Championship
  • 2003 All Japan Championship
  • 2002
    2002 Asian Games
    The 2002 Asian Games, also known as XIV Asiad is a multi-sport event held in Busan, South Korea from September 29 to October 14, 2002. Busan is the second city, after Seoul in 1986 to host the Games. A total of 419 events in 38 sports were contested by 7,711 athletes from 44 countries...

     Asian Games
    Asian Games
    The Asian Games, officially known as Asiad, is a multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. The Games were regulated by the Asian Games Federation from the first Games in New Delhi, India, until the 1978 Games. Since the 1982 Games they have been organised by the...

     Eight-ball singles (bronze)
    Cue sports at the 2002 Asian Games
    The cue sports was one of the many sports which was held at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea between 1 and 8 October 2002. The competition took place at Dongju College Gymnasium...

  • 2002 World Pool League
    World Pool League
    The World Pool League was a nine ball pool tournament promoted by Matchroom Sport and PartyGaming, and sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association . All of the events were held in Warsaw, Poland, annually from 1999 to 2006. Six notable players were selected to participate in each event,...

  • 2002 Asian Eight-ball Tournament
  • 2002 Cafe Puro Challenge of the Masters
  • 2002 Shooters Labor Day Weekend Open Nine-ball
  • 2002 International Challenge of Champions
    International Challenge of Champions
    The International Challenge of Champions is an annual nine-ball pool tournament held at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut. It has always been broadcast on ESPN and is sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association...

  • 2001 World Pool League
    World Pool League
    The World Pool League was a nine ball pool tournament promoted by Matchroom Sport and PartyGaming, and sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association . All of the events were held in Warsaw, Poland, annually from 1999 to 2006. Six notable players were selected to participate in each event,...

  • 2001 Tokyo Nine-ball Event
  • 2001 US Masters Nine-ball
  • 2001 International Billiard Tournament
  • 2001 Accu-Stats Eight-ball Invitational
  • 2001 The Color of Money II Challenge Match (vs Earl Strickland)
  • 2000 U.S. Open One-Pocket Championship
  • 2000 PBT World Eight-ball Championship
  • 2000 Camel Pro Eight-ball Championship
  • 2000 Pennsylvania State Nine-ball Championship
  • 2000 USA Billards Challenger Event 2
  • 1999 ESPN
    ESPN
    Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....

     Ultimate Nine-ball Challenge
  • 1999 ESPN
    ESPN
    Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....

     Ultimate Shootout
  • 1999 Sands Regency Open 29 Nine-ball Championship
  • 1999 WPA
    World Pool-Billiard Association
    The World Pool-Billiard Association is the international governing body for pocket billiards . The group was formed in 1987, and was initially headed by a provisional board of directors consisting of representatives from Japan, the United States, Sweden, and Germany...

     World Nine-ball Championship
    (Cardiff, Wales)
  • 1999 Derby City Classic
    Derby City Classic
    The Derby City Classic is an annual pocket billiard convention held every January in Louisville, Kentucky. It is eight days long and offers various disciplines of pocket billiard competitions for pool players of all caliber. It is often referred to as the DCC.hui- History :The annual convention...

     Master of the Table
  • 1999 Derby City Classic
    Derby City Classic
    The Derby City Classic is an annual pocket billiard convention held every January in Louisville, Kentucky. It is eight days long and offers various disciplines of pocket billiard competitions for pool players of all caliber. It is often referred to as the DCC.hui- History :The annual convention...

     One-Pocket
  • 1998 World Eight-Ball Championship
  • 1998 Camel South Jersey Ten-Ball Open
  • 1997 PCA Shooters Challenge
  • 1997 PCA Treasure Island Resort Event
  • 1996 The Color of Money (vs Earl Strickland)
  • 1996 PBT World Eight-ball Championship
  • 1996 PBT Legends of Nine-ball Championship
  • 1996 Camel World Nine-ball Championship
  • 1996 PBT Western Open
  • 1996 PBT Florida Flare Up III
  • 1995 Sands Regency Open 21 Nine-ball Championship
  • 1995 PBT World Eight-ball Championship
  • 1995 Pro Tour Nine-ball Championship
  • 1995 Maine 14.1 Event
  • 1995 Bicycle Club VII
  • 1994 U.S. Open Nine-Ball Championships
  • 1994 PBT Bicycle Club Invitational
  • 1992 International Nine-ball Classic
  • 1992 World Nine-ball Open (Tokyo)
  • 1990 World Cup (Taipei)
  • 1988 PBA McDermott Masters Nine-ball
  • 1986 Sands Regency Nine-ball Championship
  • 1985 Sands Regency Nine-ball Championship
  • 1985 Red's Nine-ball Open
  • 1985 Tar Heel Open
  • 1985 Willard's Open
  • 1985 Chicago Billiard Cafe Open

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