Best pool match of all time!

Sands Regency 21 Reyes vs Strickland. The whole match was awesome pool and it finished with one of the greatest hill-hill racks ever.
 
Most exciting match I ever saw was Keith Mccready beating Jose Parica in the US Open on the A-side deep in the 2003 event. Keith had a flashback and was making absolutely insane shots and outs from everywhere.
 
JusticeNJ said:
Given that the context was coming back from a 17 game deficit against Strickland in his prime, I obviously meant he played poorly.
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Of course you did. Just seems like a peculiar word to use in that context. I'm an old guy. Must be something unbelievably cool to say. Sorry!

--Jeff
 
thelmstetter said:
It was in Toledo, Ohio, right after the Glass City Open Tournament, either 1992 or 1993.

Francisco Bustamante had just started coming over to America and playing the tournaments. Johnny Archer, on the other hand, was on top of the World at this point in his career.

Johnny and Francisco discussed gambling and finally decided on a game: race to 13 for $2,500.

Bustamante beat Johnny Archer the first set, 13-8. Johnny is down $2,500 and decides to play Bustamante again. They lag, and Johnny wins the lag. Johnny breaks and runs the first rack. Then, he broke and ran the next rack and then the next rack! Before you know it, the score is 5-0 and Francisco has been able to do nothing but watch. Johnny continues to break and run racks until he has won the set by running 13 racks in a row! Bustamante never made it to the table! Johnny was exhilarated after such a great run and the railbirds were going nuts. Amidst all of the excitement of this 13 rack run, Bustamante slides out of his chair and walks over to the pool table. Certainly he is coming to congratulate Johnny and call it quits after watching Johnny run so many racks.

Instead, Francisco calmly asks Johnny if he wants to double the bet! Double the bet? After watching his opponent run 13 racks, Bustamante wanted to double the bet!

Johnny thought about it but decided to keep the bet at $2,500 for the next set. Johnny lost the next set 13-11 and quit.
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You forgot to mention when they signed the table with Johnny writing, "13 and out!" or something like that, Django countered with, "The winner!" :D
 
Lock N Load said:
Hello Richie,
The best match I can think of is when Buddy Hall stopped Efren Reyes in Texas in a match for 10K. Efren had won the tournament and all kinds of money from all of the good players. Buddy came down from his room and drink coffee for an hour to sober up. They played 10 ball for 10K. Buddy Hall was the only man to beat Efren when he came to the USA for the first time. He was using another name at the time. But it was in fact Efren.
Many Regards,
Lock N Load.
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PoolBum said:
I agree, that's the greatest match I've ever seen as well. The ending is simply unbelievable. Mike was up 9-2 I believe.
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I agree also and of the hundreds of matches I've seen that match stands out as my favorite. Mike was up 9-2 plus Nick was corner hooked and Nick kicked in two balls and ran out. The corner ball went in on the break every time during the whole match. Mike offered Nick 3 games on the wire if he would give him the break near the end of the match and Nick said no! That's how strong the break was on that table.

James
 
Kuroky said:
what the heck? is that Dennis Orcullo on the left of Efren wearing a jacket? :eek:
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You mean Efren's right, right? That's Rolly Vicente, Efren long time buddy, traveling companion, interpreter, manager and man Friday...
 
Late 80" at the New England State Championships Steve Mizarak ran a perfect 150 and out on Pete Margo to win the Championship. I refereed the match and can attest Steve never got more than a ball width out of shape. Gold Grown Billiards in New London Ct. Needless to say, Pete was not pleased!!
 
SCCues said:
I agree also and of the hundreds of matches I've seen that match stands out as my favorite. Mike was up 9-2 plus Nick was corner hooked and Nick kicked in two balls and ran out. The corner ball went in on the break every time during the whole match. Mike offered Nick 3 games on the wire if he would give him the break near the end of the match and Nick said no! That's how strong the break was on that table.

James
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And Nick still needed a leeeeetle bit of good fortune at the end to take it down.
 
This may not

qualify as the best, but a friend of mine was telling me about a $30,000 game of One Pocket that Gabe played that took 10 hours to play. And Gabe got the cheese in the end. He watched the game himself.
 
JusticeNJ said:
Given that the context was coming back from a 17 game deficit against Strickland in his prime, I obviously meant he played poorly.
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Keep in mind, Varner went to the Phillipines and played efren three sets and beat em in his prime, with phillipine conditions, little did they know, playing in Kentucky and playing on an island have similar humidity factors, that's strong.
 
PoolBum said:
And Nick still needed a leeeeetle bit of good fortune at the end to take it down.
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He sure did after he missed the 9 ball straight in the side pocket to win the match and then froze the cue ball to the 9 ball leaving Mike without a shot. Mike got mad and shot the 9 ball onto the floor in frustration and Nick won the match after being down 9-2 and corner hooked against Mike Sigel!

James
 
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