Van Boening also carries weight on tour with JJ’s Billiards to promote their brand of table timepieces for use by players during matches.Įarl “The Pearl” Stickland was born in the small town of Hubbard, Texas on June 27th, 1944. He has won thirteen major championships in his career and earned over USD 350,000 as a prize money earner. His game break and run with a long ball are best known. He is one of only two best players in the world to have been inducted into both PPA (Professional Pool Players Association) and BCAPL (Billiard Congress of America Player’s Hall of Fame). Shane is currently ranked number one player in the world, according to the prestigious The Billiards Congress of America (BCA). His game break and run with a long ball is best known. He is s best known for his game break and run with a long ball. Van Boening also carries weight on tour with JJ’s Billiards to promote their brand of table timepieces for use by players during matches. He has won thirteen major championships in his career and earned over $350,000 (USD) as a prize money earner.
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Nicknamed the “Van Goon”, is an American professional pool player from Las Vegas, Nevada. He also holds various world records such as 100 consecutive breaks from the break made without fouls or misses. In 2007, he was awarded by Guinness World Records for having racked up more than 20 international titles over his lifetime!
In 2005 Efren’s peers voted him “Player of the Year,” making him only the second person (after Johnny Archer) to be unanimously named Player of the Year twice by members of APA (American Poolplayers Association). In his career, he won the Derby City Classic 14 times and the World Pool League twice.īata won this event with an undefeated record that included defeating American legend Irving Crane among others during the final match before retiring from competitive play less than three years later at age 27 due to diabetes which had caused blindness in one eye. He was one of only six people who competed at what many consider pool’s first international tournament: 1974’s International Nine-ball Tournament held in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The “Philippine Tornado”, nicknamed for his speed, is a legendary player from the Philippines, and he is one of the best pool player ever.
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