Your Favorite Players to Watch?

sciarco

AzB Silver Member
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Chohan my favorite especially one pocket,for all around player the lion of course the greatest of them all Efren.
 

john noe

Registered
3 out of your 4 picks hold true for me as well. Only difference is, (and I respect his game tremendously) I do not watch Archer play unless he happens to be in the finals of some tournament or he is playing Strickland, Reyes, or SVB.
 

onepocketron

AzB Silver Member
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Efren, Tony Chohan, Alex, Denis O. These would be the top 4. Of course they play good one hole, which is what I prefer to watch.
 

highkarate

AzB Silver Member
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Jeff Ignacio is a pool wizard. Smoothest and most naturally talented player I've ever seen. And he can manufacture some ridiculous exhibition shots. Played with him once a couple years ago and he showed me some shots afterwards that blew me away. Stroke shots, cut shots, real super-human stuff. Watch some of these shots starting at about 35 seconds in...
https://youtu.be/zTWxz6wFC7E?t=36
 

pt109

WO double hemlock
Silver Member
Sorry, I guess I’m a pool enthusiast, I can’t limit my answer to just a few.
....I could probably list a couple hundred players I like to watch play.
So I’ll just mention a few over the years that haven’t showed in this thread.

Cowboy Jimmy Moore....what he could d with a cue ball was fascinating.

George Chenier, undefeated North American snooker champion...a master...
...at one time he held the high run in the world snooker and 14.1 championships.

The White Hope, Vern Elliot, you needed some experience to see that a great player
was concealing a world class skill.

A young man in some small town in Arkansas, stroked as sweet as the Miz...1985
...I wanted to take him on the road but he’d gotten married and had just become a father.

If pool produced the financial security that golf does, I’ve seen a bunch of players that
had the potential to become household names...but they went on to other things.
 

grindz

AzB Silver Member
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Earl in his prime..when his mind was calm was top of my list...
Rodney.. the definition of 'fast and loose' ...so fun to watch!
Francisco...I am ALWAYS mesmerized by how he puts all those
moving parts together, and could watch it all day
Parica...teaches me every time I watch his game..esp. when he draws
the picture on the table before his shots :smile:

On the ladies side....
Allison....what a great ambassador for the game
Siming chen...what the new womens game will become, has become!
Both of them (not to be sexist) seem like such sweet personalities, and
such killers on the table.

Soooo many others.....

td
 

cuesblues

cue accumulator
Silver Member
My top ten
Not in any particular order

Minnesota Fats
Efren Reyes
Keith McCready
Janette Lee
Chris Mehling
Mike Sigel
Earl Strickland
SVB
Francisco Bustamante
Danny Medina
 

Mich

AzB Silver Member
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I started watching pool in the early '90s when I lived in NYC. Once I saw Sigel at the Roosevelt in NYC there was no one else. Buddy was my second favorite player because he made 9-ball look so easy and this is also why I loved watching Ginky -- his cue ball was so sweet. Of today's players I love watching SVB and Chang Jun Lin. But if the game is 14.1, Thorsten is my favorite. One pocket there are too many players to name, but I always loved watching the Cookie Man and Efren. Now it would be Alex and maybe Buste.
 

JC

Coos Cues
I enjoy watching any skilled player who gets their ass moving and doesn't study routine layouts.
 
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