My opinion on all of this is as follows. First of all it was a great match, one of the best I've ever had the pleasure of watching. Second, he may have lucked the nine, maybe not, as pointed out he pointed at a point near the corner pocket that in my opinion he was trying to either make the nine in the side or use it to redirect the 4 so he could hide the cue ball and be safe. Which he accomplished.
Now as for the celebration. Good for Efren! He's a 58 yr old man that still has the passion to show his excitement over beating the 2 time defending champ hill-hill. I didn't see anything unsportsmanlike, if you feel different too bad for you. Golf is considered the most gentlemanly sport and I've seen golfers celebrate way more then that after sinking a difficult putt or lucking in a hole in one, and alot of those didn't win anything. Nobody calls them bad sports. Efren won, take your panties off ladies and put on your big boy undies. What do you guys want? Robots who show no emotion? That's why pool has no mass appeal it's boring to the casual fan. What Efren did was exciting. I watched it live and I jumped around screaming and celebrating.
Lastly, the arguement about luck, slop, whatever you want to call it. That areguement is lame. Everyone plays by the same rules. Darren, on the shot that hooked Efren was luck, he wasn't trying to do that. You complaining about that? People complain, "Oh I don't like 9 ball it's a slop game" if you lose in a race to 11 the "slop" had little to do with it. The guy outplayed you throughout the match. Period.