Random but I was today years old when I learned Roberto Gomez was one 9ball away from winning the 2007 World Pool Championship against Daryl Peach...
It popped up on my YouTube feed. I didn't even know he's been playing that long.
it was an incredible moment at the time, both daryl peach fading the hostile crowd and gomez choking, and the prize money. it was the highest ever for world 9b championship, 100k, and daryl got kind of ripped off by a manager he (for some reason) hired after the win. that was a weird story in itself.
that match definitely dented gomez mentally.. he's won smaller events since but nothing big that i can remember
