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Mike Sigel at the World 14.1 Tournament

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Published on Sep 6, 2011

Mike Sigel vs Jose Parica at the World 14.1 Tournament in New Brunswick, NJ. The $35,000 added event was hosted by the Hyatt Regency Hotel and took place August 29 through September 2, 2011.

Dragon Promotions produced the World 14.1 Tournament and the Straight Pool Hall of Fame banquet which inducted Jerome Keough and Ray "Cool Cat" Martin.

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Mike Sigel (born July 11, 1952) is an American professional pool player^[1]^[2] nicknamed "Captain Hook." He earned the nickname from his ability to hook his opponents with safety plays.^[3]

Sigel has won over 102 major pool tournaments, including 3 US Open Nine-ball Championship tournaments and 5 world pocket billiard championship titles.

Sigel was named "Player of the Year" three times by Billiards Digest and Pool and Billiards, pool industry trade magazines, and in 1989, at the age of 35, was the youngest ever to be inducted into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame.^[4]

He was ranked number 5 on the Billiards Digest 50 Greatest Players of the Century.

Mike Sigel at 2003 U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships in Chesapeake Beach, Virginia

Early life

Sigel is Jewish, and was born in Rochester, New York.^[1]^[2]^[2]^[6]

His mother Ruth was aggravated with him at times, because as she said "he wouldn't go to Hebrew school because he was too tired from playing pool nights."^[7]

Professional career

Sigel became pro in the early 1970s at the Johnson City, Illinois, All-Around Tournament, under the auspices of pool players like Joe Balsis, Steve Mizerak, Ray Martin, and Irving Crane.^[8]

Sigel has the ability to shoot pool both left-handed and right-handed.

In 2005, Sigel won the IPT World Eight-ball Championship, a challenge match between him and Loree Jon Jones.

The victory earned him $150,000.^[9] That same year, he was seeded in the final of the King of the Hill Eight-ball Shootout, the next event of the IPT.

There he met Efren Reyes, who played his way through the tournament.

In the match, Reyes bested him with little trouble. Reyes took home $200,000 and Sigel got $100,000 for second.^[10]

He played himself in the movie Baltimore Bullet.

He was also the technical advisor, instructor, and sports choreographer for the shots made by Paul Newman and Tom Cruise in the Academy Award-winning film The Color of Money.^[11]

Today, he lives in Frederick, Maryland, and his focus is to play pool, and instruct.

Sigel was a dominant player in the 1980s and has been on the cover of numerous trade magazines such as Billiards Digest, Pool and Billiards, InsidePOOL, Billiard News, and Bike Week.

He has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Life, People, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Playboy, Parade, Baltimore Magazine, Orlando Sentinel, Silver Screen, and Cigar Aficionado.^[12]

In December 2010, Sigel launched his official web site dedicated to giving lessons and offering Mike Sigel Cues and Cases to the public.^[11]

Halls of Fame

Sigel was inducted into the Rochester Jewish Sports Hall of Fame,^[6] and in 2011 was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.^[2]

Sporting positions
Preceded by Inaugural champion	US Open Nine-ball Champion 1976	Succeeded by Allen Hopkins
Preceded by Louie Roberts	US Open Nine-ball Champion 1980	Succeeded by Allen Hopkins
Preceded by David Howard	US Open Nine-ball Champion 1983	Succeeded by Earl Strickland

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Efren Manalang Reyes, OLD, PLH (born August 26, 1954) is a Filipino professional pool player and a two-time world champion.

Efren Reyes

Born	August 26, 1954 (age 58) Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines
Sport country	Philippines
Nickname	Bata (Kid) The Magician

Biography

Early life

Reyes was born in Pampanga in 1954.

He moved to Manila 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.^{[citation needed]}

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.

During the 1980s, when Reyes was considered a top-class player in his homeland but not yet internationally recognized, he went to the U.S. to hustle.

Popular legend claims that Reyes earned US$80,000 in a week; this feat made him a folk hero back home.^[1]

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 and Francisco Bustamante.

Reyes' fame began when he won the US Open Nine Ball Championship in 1994 by defeating Nick Varner in the finals. He was the first non-American to win the event.

Two years later, Efren Reyes and Earl Strickland were chosen to face each other in an event called the Color of Money, named after the movie.

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$100,000. Reyes won the match 120-117.

This was the largest single-winning purse in a pool event.^{[citation needed]}

Although 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.

Efren Reyes posing with fan after he won a historic US$200,000 at the 2005 IPT King of the Hill Shootout

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-organised event in Cardiff, Wales, 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, with over 700 players and a total purse of ¥100M ($850K).

Reyes dominated the event and beat Niels Feijen in the finals 15-7 and earned the ¥20M^[2] ($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, defeating Mika Immonen in a deciding rack after both players split sets.^[3]

Near the end of 2004, Reyes beat Marlon Manalo 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 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 two sets to none (8-0 and 8-5).

In 2006, Reyes and Francisco Bustamante represented their country as Team Philippines in the inaugural World Cup of Pool.

They defeated Team USA, Earl Strickland and Rodney Morris, to capture the title.

That same year, Reyes won the IPT World Open Eight-ball Championship 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.^{[citation needed]}

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 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,^[4] 2002,^[5] 2004,^[6] 2005^[7] and 2006.^[8]

In 2006, he set a record by earning $646K in a single year.

Nicknames and aliases

Reyes is often called by his nickname "Bata" (Filipino for "Kid"), given to him by friends at his regular pool hall 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.^[14]

"[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^[15]

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World's Most Amazing Trick Shot!

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A trick shot (also trickshot or trick-shot) is a shot played on a billiards table (most often a pool table, though snooker tables are also used), which seems unlikely or impossible or requires significant skill.

They frequently organize the balls in ways that are unlikely or impossible to appear in normal play, such as balls being in a straight line, or use props such as extra cues or a triangle that would not be allowed on the table during a game.

As an organized cue sports discipline, trick shot competition is known as artistic pool.

World Champion professional trick shot artist Mike Massey setting up a trick shot.

Competition formats

Billiards trick shots are the subject of increasing international competition, both amateur and professional.

There are world championships, such as the WPA Artistic Pool World Championships and the World Snooker Trickshot Championship (which has not been held since 2006), and made-for-TV events, such as Trick Shot Magic and the World Cup of Trick Shots, often televised in both the US and the UK and providing enough prize money that some professional players specialize in the discipline.

The formats vary depending on the competition. Some, such as the World Snooker Trickshot Championship are purely exhibitions, with a panel of judges scoring subjectively to determine the winner.

Events such as Trick Shot Magic and the World Cup feature head-to-head competition where the players select shots that have strictly outlined requirements specified in a playbook.

Each year, players are allowed to submit their own shot inventions, however, they are disclosed prior to the event to give all players an equal chance to practice them.

Players or teams are given two attempts to complete a selected shot within the given parameters, and earn one point for each successful shot.

Each player or team gets to select a given number of shots, generally eight or ten, and a winner is declared when one side is mathematically eliminated.

Trick Shot Magic, ESPN's annual artistic pool pro tournament, has been widely considered the televised version of the World Artistic Pool Championship, and it has held the highest ratings in televised cue sports competitions in the United States between 2000 and 2009.

Artistic pool similarly (see below) has a program of shots (three attempts each, in a sliding-scale point system), with precisely outlined parameters requirements.

The Ultimate Trick Shot Tour ^[1] features head-to-head competition between two players with no pre-defined shots.

Players challenge each other with shots outlining the parameters of the shots just before shooting.

Each player gets three attempts per shot, scoring one point per shot made.

Each player gets to select a given number of shots, generally six to ten, and the winner is declared when one player is mathematically eliminated.

Artistic pool

Artistic pool trick shot competitions, inspired by the related discipline of artistic billiards, began in the 1970's with international pros and coordinated by world champion Paul Gerni, with the World Trick Shot Artists Association, and in 2000, in Las Vegas, formed a new group, again with an international cast.^[2]

They feature a program of 160 tricks to attempt, many of which were used in the previous formats by the WTSAA,^[3] and include the BCA North American Championship, EPBF European Championship, and WPA World Championship, among others.^[2]

The tricks are now divided into eight "disciplines", including trick/fancy, prop/novelty/special arts, and disciplines for extremes in each of the core cueing techniques.^[3]^[4]

The current world governing body for this sport is the WPA Artistic Pool Division, while the current largest league and player organization is the US-based Artistic Pool & Trick Shot Association (APTSA).^[2]^[5]

The greatest contemporary champions of artistic pool include 22-time World Champion Paul Gerni, and more recently, Mike Massey, Andy Segal, and Tom Rossman. />

In WTSAA and APTSA competitions, competitors would have three chances to successfully perform each trick, earning full points if they are successful on their first attempts and incrementally reduced points for subsequent attempts.

Each shot has an associated difficulty rating (also the point value) with a higher rating being more difficult.

A preliminary round of 40 shots is performed, and the top players (the number varies depending on the number of competitors, but usually the top 12) proceed into a head-to-head playoff format to determine the winner.

Proper and official artistic pool competitions feature equipment limitations, (one cue, one stroke per trick shot, one approved universal prop per shot per diagram if necessary, all shots on the bed of the table, etc.), and shot requirements (e.g., preclusion of any off-the-table tricks, such as are popular in events like Trick Shot Magic and World Cup of Trick Shots).^[6]

Objects used

As with other pool and billiards games, trick shots usually utilize a cue ball, one or more object balls, and a cue stick.

However, many props can be used in trick shots including bottles, drinking glasses, baskets, coins, ball racks, cue tip chalk, and other billiards- and non-billiards-related equipment.

Props are used to change the difficulty of the shot or add aesthetic value.

As with artistic billiards pros, trick shot artists often have specialized cue sticks for performing particular types of shots, particularly jump shots and massés.^[7]

Notable trick shots

"Machine gun" (1): A line of object balls are placed in a row about a ball width away from a cushion, and the cue ball is shot into the space between the balls and the cushion so as to reverberate between them while traveling and hit each one of the object balls in series, issuing a machine gun-like sound.
"Machine gun" (2): A line of object balls are placed in a row along but not against a cushion, and are then shot directly with the cue, one after another, around the table, each contacting three cushions, and into the same pocket. The trick requires carefully timing the shots, so that newly-shot balls travel between balls already in motion.^[8]
"Machine gun" (3): A line of object balls are placed on the table. The cue ball is shot into a pocket with deadweight and the object balls are all potted into the same pocket directly one after the other with the cue, while the cue ball is still traveling. Done right, the cue ball is the first ball hit and the last ball falling.
"The dollar bill shot": Introduced into competition by Paul Gerni, this shot uses a banknote, typically a US$100 bill, placed on the short rail near the corner pocket as a target landing zone. The cue ball is banked off of eight or nine cushions and should land with the ball's edge over the banknote. This shot is used as a tiebreaker on Trick Shot Magic with the competitor landing closest to the bill winning the match.
"Up and in": Mistakenly thought to be originated by World Champion Mike Massey, this shot has much earlier origins, and was done in 1980 in Sweden by European champion Bengt Jonasson of Stockholm. He showed it to the gentleman of the American team (Paul Gerni, Jim Rempe, and Mike Sigel) in an exhibition prior to the 1980 Swedish Open in Gothenberg, using a wooden shoe instead of a floppy cowboy boot, and prompting both Gerni and Rempe to stop at the gift shop at the Amsterdam airport on the way back to pick up some wooden shoes. In this shot, the cue ball is jumped off the table into a wooden shoe (a cowboy boot for Massey, 25 years later) on the floor, which made a nice "klack" sound in the case of the wooden shoe. In the U.S., the wooden shoe shot is sometimes referred to as "the boot shot".
"The bottle shot": Two balls are balanced on top of a glass soda bottle. The cue ball pockets a ball in the side and gets propelled in the air, knocking the bottom ball from the top of the bottle, letting the top ball drop to rest on top of the bottle. This shot was conceived by Japanese player Yoshikazu Kimuraj, from Kyoto, and popularized by Polish champion Bogdan Wolkowski.
"The butterfly": For this popular exhibition shot from the days of pool greats Willie Mosconi and Jimmy Caras, six object balls are grouped in the middle of the table^[9] in a butterfly shape; in a single shot, each ball drops into a different pocket in the billiards table.^[10]^[11]
"Just showing off":^[12] Five object balls are clustered near the left side pocket and a hanging object ball in the lower right corner.^[13] The cue ball is sent in to the cluster pocketing all five balls and then travels 3 rails to pocket the hanging object ball. This shot was originally designed in the '60s by Paul Gerni, combining two previously popular trick shots, and made famous by Steve Mizerak in a Miller Lite beer commercial in 1978. This shot and the subsequent commercial boosted Mizerak's name recognition and vaulted him into the Hall of Fame. Gerni still showcases this shot in his present-day exhibitions, and it has now become a standard for most all pool exhibitions.^[14]
"The snake shot": Fifteen object balls are placed across the table. The 15 ball is the first and it is placed 6 inches away from the corner pocket. Each successive ball is placed 3 inches behind the previous one in a winding chain. Each combination of balls beginning with the 1 and the 2 should be aligned so they aim toward the next ball in the chain. The cue ball must be set up in position to make a straight line with the first two-ball combination. When the 1 ball is hit it should cause a chain reaction as each two-ball set hits each other.^[15]
"The Swing Shot": A rack hangs from above and swings back and forth. The player proceeds to jump balls through the moving rack and into the corner pockets.^[16]

Notable professional players

Bruce Barthelette ("The Big Guy")
Lou Butera ("Machine Gun")
Eddie Charlton
Tim Chin ("the Dragon")
Sal Conti ("Cool Cat")
Charles Darling (pool player) ("Spitball Charlie")
Steve Davis ("the Ginger Magician")
Mike Dechaine ("the Fireball")
Ralph Eckert
Paul Gerni ("the Ambassador of Pool")
Sebastian Giumelli ("the Matador", "el Rey del Pool")
Jamey Gray ("Sharpshooter")
Ralph Greenleaf
Terry Griffiths
Florian Kohler ("Venom")
Ewa Laurance ("the Striking Viking")
Jeanette Lee ("the Black Widow")
Mike Massey ("Tennessee Tarzan")
François Mingaud
Steve Mizerak ("the Miz")
Willie Mosconi ("Mr. Pocket Billiards")
Nick Nikolaidis ("Quick Nick")
Alex Pagulayan ("the Lion")
Dave Pearson^{[citation needed]}
Stefano Pelinga ("Mr. Trick Shots")
Lars Riiber
Alain Robidoux^{[citation needed]}
Tom Rossman ("Dr. Cue")
Jason Lynch ("The Michigan Kid")
Semih Saygıner ("Mr. Magic")^{[citation needed]}
Andy Segal ("The Magic Man")
Bill Staton ("Weenie Beenie")
Luke Szywala ("Cool Hand Luke")
Dennis Taylor
John Virgo ("Mr Perfection")
Gabi Visoiu ("Mr Perfect")
Rudolf Wanderone ("Minnesota Fats")
Bogdan Wołkowski ("the Wizard")

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Trick shot World Champion Steve Davis potting a ball under a cloth.

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