Best display of cueing you've ever seen

I wasn't there to see it in person, but I will always marvel at Sigel's 150-and-out against Mike Zuglan in the 1992 U.S. Open 14.1 Championship.
 
Memory fails me at the moment but I know of a few times entire sets at fairly important events were ran from the opening break. Certainly worth mention here and links to the video's if they are still up anywhere.

Can anyone provide more information or links?

Thanks,
Hu
 
jay helfert said:
I will only add this personal note. I was never a top player (seven ball under them in 9-Ball, five ball from the champions) but I was still dangerous when I was in stroke. But that’s not what is important here.

To this day the best feeling I’ve ever had in my life was the feeling of being in dead stroke, when I felt like I could make anything and I had the cue ball on a string. It must be akin to what a surfer feels when riding the perfect wave. I felt like I could fly, all those years of hitting balls were worth it. I had mastered the game of pool. I didn’t have to think, instantly knowing how to hit the next shot. To this day the greatest achievement of my life.
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Jay here is something I posted a few months ago, you can see we have similar feeling about surfing and being in dead stroke.

"I've always equated pool (or getting better at pool) like an amateur surfer always paddling like hell to catch that ever elusive wave and frustratingly never quite being able to catch it. Then one day when he least expects it happens he's caught that wave and riding it to its fullest. He finally knows what it feels like to be what he considers to be in 'dead stroke'. This doesn't happen often almost never but he's felt it and finally knows what a joy it is. This is the addiction of pool. It's been said that pool is like a cruel mistress, just when you think you're finally done with her she raises her skirt up a couple more inches and you're right back in."
 
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middleofnowhere said:
Funny how you remember things. I was in Joe burns office with him at that tournament and he pointed a gun at me. I also beat Omaha fats for like a hundred and got stiffed. I'm almost 80 and I think a lot of that stuff was not the good old days as we sometimes remember it.
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Janscos is where I first saw Slim Omaha.... :) in my beginning college yrs, professed/barked to us all.... I'm ''the worlds greatest one handed player''.
Omaha would bark and try to duplicate Fatty.
But this was Fat's country, no one NO one could get the barking going like Rudolph in his youth, Pahleese.
No Chance. His barking was cheap....
Then, AMAZINGLY Denver in the 80's I walk into the Family Fun Center, corner of 38th and Sheridan, Great Pool room. Couple Snooker tables too.
And there he is Omaha Fats/sittin' at the front door inside bench. A mile high and showin' off his recent work out with, ketchup/mustard stains on his white tee shirt.
 
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u12armresl said:
We all know Efren's Z shot, or Melling's incredible rack.

What is your top shelf game or match you've seen (gambling or tourney) that you will never forget?

Could it be the fastest 147 from Ronnie or a big package on a bar box playing 8 or 9 ball?

Maybe a 3 cushion run, or that one out of Chohan's in one pocket where he needed them all.
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Got a be the dcp. Jacked up off the rail, straight in on the 1 and going hard way to the two.
 
That would be me.
I have performed the most remarkable displays of cueing ever seen.
And once in a while I made 2 in a row.
 
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High up on the list for me is watching any top pro practicing. It’s amazing what I see out of them when there is no pressure. They seem to never miss and execute outrageous shots you don’t see in regular matchups. That’s my two cents into this great topic.
 
For me it was Rommie asking what they where paying for a 147.He didn't like what he heard so he shot the pink when he had a clear shot on the black for a 146.
 
Island Drive said:
think it was the second round Winners side they called my match. Meacham/Matlock.
I get set up
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jay helfert said:
I will only add this personal note. I was never a top player (seven ball under them in 9-Ball, five ball from the champions) but I was still dangerous when I was in stroke. But that’s not what is important here.

To this day the best feeling I’ve ever had in my life was the feeling of being in dead stroke, when I felt like I could make anything and I had the cue ball on a string. It must be akin to what a surfer feels when riding the perfect wave. I felt like I could fly, all those years of hitting balls were worth it. I had mastered the game of pool. I didn’t have to think, instantly knowing how to hit the next shot. To this day the greatest achievement of my life.
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This is exactly why we all play (and love) the game.
Well said.

Will Prout
 
sjm said:
For me, one great shot or one great rack is very impressive, but great cueing must last for a full match, and the bigger the moment in which a player rises to the highest level of cueing, the more impressive the cueing.

When I think of truly great cueing, I always come back to the final of the 2014 US Open 9ball. Dennis Orcullo shot a TPA 1.000 for nearly half the match to put Shane Van Boening, who sought his third consecutive US Open 9ball title, to what may have been the toughest test he had ever faced at the pool table.

The pool played by Shane to rally from behind against an elite player who was in dead stroke for the 13-10 win, thereby securing his third consecutive US Open 9ball title, is the greatest cueing I have ever seen.
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When Orcollo is in stroke he has one of the highest gears I've ever seen, just a pleasure to watch. SJM, this is certainly a great example of superb cueing on Shane's part.
 
Frosty said:
Leonardo Andam. A pair of stakehorses brought him into a hall in Northern Virginia looking for action before most knew who he was. Danny Green had carved out a spot there doing cue repair and selling cues. He matched up with Andam playing 10 ahead for $1000. Andam broke and ran 10 racks, it took 28 minutes. Danny looked at me as he was putting his cue in his case. He shrugged and said “I dogged the coin toss”.
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Leonardo came through the Metro DC area several times over the course of a decade. Parica, too. I lived there back then and was friendly with Mel (Meoww). Andam would be in the back of Champion's in Shirlington, napping, looking like someone who couldn't run 2 balls...and he spotted and beat every champion I saw him play. He was just "on tour" looking to make some money for back home. I saw him spot Deska and beat him pretty easy at Fast Eddie's. Mega talent.
 
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I was playing a friend who used to play good shortstop speed. 2 young guys were watching us and knowing we were gambling as we were moving the coin. One gets to talking to my friend and says he would like to play some sets. So they start playing 9 ball i think race to 5 for 50. The other plays me a set race to 4 for 20 which he loses badly. He says I can't play so let's watch them.

My buddy is up 2 sets and the guy asked for the 8 which was granted. Guy watching with me wants to bet each game on the side. Well I knew how good my buddy plays so yes. After that set player asks for the 7 and gets it. We are still betting on the side but guy wants to stop so I said tell you what give you the 6 out on their game.

My buddy basically white washed his opponent the next 2 sets. My buddy normally plays very cautious but he was playing like a possessed Earl. The guy he was beating on quits and tells us he just signed a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers and if he comes back to Arlington as a pro he would be looking to play more.

That was the most impressive display of pool I have ever seen. No breakout was too difficult. Balls were banked,combos all went , billiards and caroms all were on. Only a couple safes were played and they were the kind that would kill knee high corn.
 
Wu closing out his world 9 ball title with a 5 pack has stayed with me

more recently, Justin Bergman's 19 pack

at any given time nowadays I can watch just about any 800 fargo match today and appreciate some really high level pool
 
it has to be efrin as he had so many racks of very complicated run outs and shots that no one else would even have seen the way they were played.
 
Matt_24 said:
When Orcollo is in stroke he has one of the highest gears I've ever seen, just a pleasure to watch. SJM, this is certainly a great example of superb cueing on Shane's part.
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I ref'd that match and it was one of the most amazing tournament matches I ever saw. Both guys played brilliantly! Dennis took this loss hard. They repeated it in the finals of the Open the next year too. Not quite the same level of excellence but still damn good.
 
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