greatest & most memorable accu-stats matches & moments

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Hi,

If you're anything like me you love a great pool match, and when it's captured on video it's all the more sweeter ...

Now our good friend Pat Fleming has done a helluva job filming matches for several years now . Hell, i remember when i first learned of Accu-Stats it was on a Camel Pro Tour stop ( remember those, i'm sure some players would like to forget them ) There was a Accu-Stats booth on display amongst the several cue vendors and the like. I felt like a kid in a candy store looking at all of those VHS tapes of whose who in pool . I've seen pool on video before but it was either bootleg or very poor quality cam corder stuff ya know ...

So this thread is about the greatest matches that you've seen, as well as highlights and moments and even commentary ( Grady and Diliberto were the best IMO )

Now, that being said I may be contradicting myself but the best pool match i've ever seen on video was not an Accu-Stats production; It was actually done by our very own Jay Helfert. The match was Ronnie Allen v/s Danny Diliberto, 1P. I won't get into the outcome of the match but I will say it was very entertaining, and the cast of sweaters were priceless!

From the Accu-Stats vaults, I think the Tokyo (?) Challenge between Efren Reyes and Earl Strickland was my favorite. The odds were stacked against Efren on the last day and he delivered in heroic fashion! 5 stars

The funniest vid must be the X-rated commentary of Grady Mathews and others, everyone was having fun and cutting loose like it was not being recorded. I forget the combatants, I do remember Gary "Bushwacker" Nolan was one of the guys. Talk about funny, Keith's backer joins in on the fun and tells a side splitting story about life on the road with Keither with the Ether, I'm telling you AZ if you can get a chance call Pat and see if that video is still available ( he'll know which one i'm talking about )
 
The Reyes/Strickland "Color of Money" event was in Hong Kong if I recall.

My personal faves are:

Reyes/Strickland in the finals of the Sands event where at 12-12 Reyes safes himself and then makes an unbelievable kick to make the ball and get out. Strickland was clapping for Efren. That's how great it was. This was also the first match that Jim Rempe did commentary on.

Rempe/Ortmann - US Open 14.1 2000. The commentary here was fantastic! :grin: The match was also exceptional with runs of 96 and 129.

Sigel/Zuglan - 1992 US Open 14.1. Sigel runs 150 and out. This is memorable for me as this was the first tournament I ever went to and I saw this match live. Stellar run.

Archer/Hall - Sands final (9-ball). This was really, really great. It was not only Archer's first pro tour win which was really exciting but it was a 3 set format race to 9. A lot of great play.

There are many more but these are the ones that pop into my head right now.
 
Efren playing 14.1 against Sigel, that incredible break shot he pulls off to continue his run. It was a cross-bank with tons of english to go multiple rails into the pack. Also his run of 140-something (dont remember the exact number) against Dallas West that same tournament.

Danny Medina's 9-pack against Billy Incardona was pretty spectacular also. Clips from it are in one of Accustat's highlight videos.
 
For me it has to be DCC 06, one pocket semi-finals and finals where Efren played some unbelievable shots and was in total control.. Commentary was brilliant and Billy Incardona's interview with Efren was funny too.. :thumbup:
 
There was a 9-ball match between Varner and Sigel from the early 90's (i think) that saw both players in the high .900's. IIRC they both broke and ran 6-8 racks in the set as they were playing on a table where the break was "grooved" in. Neither missed a ball and only a couple of position errors occured. I won't spoil it, but the end was a BIG surprise.

Grady was in the booth. Not sure about Cardone. Great match.
 
J. Learned Hand said:
There was a 9-ball match between Varner and Sigel from the early 90's (i think) that saw both players in the high .900's. IIRC they both broke and ran 6-8 racks in the set as they were playing on a table where the break was "grooved" in. Neither missed a ball and only a couple of position errors occured. I won't spoil it, but the end was a BIG surprise.

Grady was in the booth. Not sure about Cardone. Great match.
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This is one of my favorites too and one of the reasons Nick became one of my mental role models.
 
J. Learned Hand said:
There was a 9-ball match between Varner and Sigel from the early 90's (i think) that saw both players in the high .900's. IIRC they both broke and ran 6-8 racks in the set as they were playing on a table where the break was "grooved" in. Neither missed a ball and only a couple of position errors occured. I won't spoil it, but the end was a BIG surprise.

Grady was in the booth. Not sure about Cardone. Great match.
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It was the 1990 US Open. Amazing ending.
 
My favorites are

1992 14.1 US Open final Sigel VS Zuglan - 150 & out by Mike Sigel

Beautiful run -150 & out - Grady and Weenie Beenie in the booth - how good is that?

Sigel VS Zuglan 150 & Out - clip

1992 US Open 9 Ball Championship Finals -Tommy Kennedy Vs Johnny Archer

The shortest US Open Champion in history also shot the shortest US Open Final in history. The look Johnny gave when he missed that 7 ball towards the end said it all. Johnny's one-loss side final match against Jose Parica (the match he played just before this one) is also one of my favorites - Parica's miss on that 8 ball was caused by gremlins or something. I still believe that if Jose had made that ball and ran out the set against Archer, he would have gone on to win against TK, and it would have been the first US Open final featuring two guys under 5 feet tall.

:D

1992 World 9 Ball Final
Bobby Hunter Vs Johnny Archer - CLASSIC BATTLE.
Possibly the most mentally draining match I have ever seen.

1989 World 9 Ball

Final - Nick Varner Vs Grady Mathews
Grady did absolutely everything in this tournament - except beat Nick in the final. He manhandled everybody and was on the hill to win it all - but Nick was allowed back to the table. One of the greatest matches you will ever see.

Semi-Final - Earl VS Keith
Great match as always!

Semi -Nick Vs Earl
Nick was on a mission!

Just by looking at most of my favorites, I can see that 1992 was a very good year- and that Grady Mathews is a big part of the history of this game... and he deserves to be inducted into the Hall of Fame!
 
Danny D vs Wade Crane is my Favorite One Pocket video any Danny D commentary video because he see everything on the table.
 
Specific shots stick out for me:

Cook v Hopkins in LO1P finals where Hopkins has 5 or 6 balls by his hole and in one shot Cookie monster moves all the furniture out of Hopkins house.

Daulton v Mizerak LO1P finals. Miz has his match ball sitting near his hole and Daulton shoots a long rail bank at warp speed to draw back and up for position to run out. He wins that game and the next two to win the match. Incredible heart was on display in this match.


Grady v Efren gambling match race to 4 1p. Shot after hrs at the first Willards tournament, Efren wins 4-3. Amazing match with so many interesting moments. This isnt available through accustats but those who collect accustats probably have heard of it or have it.


Kim Davenport dancing around the table right before he wins the Sands Event at Reno vs Strickland.

The x rated commentary of Grady that was mentioned by another poster in a match with Keith. At one point Keith's stakehorse comes to the mike and the things he says are truly hilarious. The last time I remember laughing so hard on a pool related video was The hitler video Disco did after he went off to Jay Helfert on the Corey/Shane match. That still ranks imo as the funniest pool stuff I have ever seen.

TAR is picking up the legacy of pool moments where accustats has pulled back on alot in the last few years. The comeback by Alex against shane in their last race to 100 is currently the greatest display of heart I have ever witnessed in pool. If you havent watched it, you have to see this video. I know its not accustats, but its as good as any accustats I have ever seen.
 
Cannonball55 said:
Now, that being said I may be contradicting myself but the best pool match i've ever seen on video was not an Accu-Stats production; It was actually done by our very own Jay Helfert. The match was Ronnie Allen v/s Danny Diliberto, 1P. I won't get into the outcome of the match but I will say it was very entertaining, and the cast of sweaters were priceless!
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I only have a very few Accu-Stats tapes, but I do have this, if you're referring to the One Pocket match. Priceless for One Pocket lovers!!!
I just remembered, this was an Accu-Stats when I bought it at the US Open. Several tapes, can't remember exactly how many, maybe 8?? We may not be talking about the same thing. Mine is the match that took place in Arizona or New Mexico, I think and took several days to play out.
 
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The 1989 match with Sigel/Rempe in the US Open is pretty cool too. No commentary, but Sigel runs 150 and out. I wish they would put that on DVD and have a player commentary. Maybe Rempe can tell about his time in the chair.
 
funny commentary

If anyone can remember which match this was, because I can't remember, but one of the funniest commentaries was when B.Incardona was talking about a 9-ball match when Grady beat Buddy Hall 11-0, after which he said Grady proclaimed himself the "greatest 9-ball player in the world", and then proceeded to lose his next match (hilarious laughing by Incardona), with Grady protesting his telling of the story.....
 
Cannonball55 said:
Hi,
So this thread is about the greatest [Accu-stats] matches that you've seen, as well as highlights and moments and even commentary ( Grady and Diliberto were the best IMO )
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Efren Reyes in the 2006 Derby City One Pocket Tournament was the most amazing display of pool skill I've ever seen. Efren made several of the most spectacular shots I've ever seen. Some of the shots he came up with are shots that nobody on earth would have seen.

Probablly every accu-stats Efren Reyes match that I've would qualify as one of the greatest matches I've ever seen.

Cannonball55 said:
The funniest vid must be the X-rated commentary of Grady Mathews and others, everyone was having fun and cutting loose like it was not being recorded. I forget the combatants, I do remember Gary "Bushwacker" Nolan was one of the guys. Talk about funny, Keith's backer joins in on the fun and tells a side splitting story about life on the road with Keither with the Ether, I'm telling you AZ if you can get a chance call Pat and see if that video is still available ( he'll know which one i'm talking about )
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I have this video too. Grady's XXX commentary was so obscene and disgusting that I couldn't listen after about 30 minutes, and I have a pretty high tolerance level for that sort of thing.

My favorite commentators are Danny Diloberto and Billy Incardona. Danny's an awesome storyteller and Billy's is usually dead on accurate with his game analysis.
 
92 or 93 sands
Archer versus Rempe
Proclaimed by many to be the greatest pound for pound match caught on tape.
Race to 13 hill hill and both ran a 4 or 5 pack at one time and both missed 2 balls during the match.

The commentary is even better ..........Keith and Buddy
Keith has some great lines and Buddy chuckles:thumbup: its priceless

Anybody seen this????

I have it somewhere
 
My favorites from matches I own or have seen:

- Mentioned earlier, the 150 and out by Sigel and the Ortmann straight pool match from 2000 I think. Classic. And any straight pool match with the Miz, he and Sigel and a few others were just the sh!t during this era playing straight pool, made it look effortless.

- Strickland/Reyes hill-hill where Reyes makes the now world famous Z-kick to kick in the 5 ball after playing a lock up safe on Earl and accidentally making a ball. Great ending and great sportsmanship by Earl.

- There was a Varner/Sigel match, don't remember the year, where Varner is down 10 - 0 or 10 - 1 in a race to 11, Sigel misses and somehow Varner comes back to tie it up hill-hill. Then while running out the last rack he inexplicably misses a relatively easy shot, then Sigel misses, then Varner misses again, then Sigel, then Varner puts it away. A lot of heart to come back from that deficit, and then the comical ending, classic match

- Grady Mathews slaughtering Buddy Hall 11-0, I think this was 1990 or so. Not only does he completely dominate the match, and you never really saw Buddy get beat much at all much less like that, but the reparte between he and Incardona (Billy missed the match live, had to hear about it from Grady and then commentate with him on the match after). I never tried to model my stroke after Grady, with his short and abrupt stroke, but man when that guy was on he was a force to be reckoned with. Just slamming balls in center pocket and making it look all too easy. He did this same thing I saw on an ESPN match in the 90's against someone, just killed them 9 - 1 like in 25 or 30 minutes, it was brutal. Agree with earlier poster, between playing accomplishments (both 9 ball and 1 pocket), knowledge, and insightful commentary throughout the years a clear inductee into the Hall of Fame!

- Several matches with Efren stand out - well, most of his and Busty's matches do - but he had one or two where he shot a perfect 1.000 rating, and others (I think from a few years ago against Mika and Jamie Baraks?) where he played near flawless pool

- Let's not forget the 3-cushion matches. I love this game, can't play it anymore, no tables anywhere where I live. But I was a .6 - .7 player when I played frequently, and I attribute that not only to several books and a lot of practice but the high quality matches put out by Accustats. I must have 50 or more at home, and they are all good, especially anything after the mid-90's where they upgraded camera equipment. The Sayginer/Sang Lee final from 1999 with Torbjorn commentating was excellent, really anything with Torbjorn or other pros commentating was fantastic, and Robert Byrne and Mike Shamos did a fine job as well. Have many great matches with Sang Lee, what a great player, a shame he wasn't alive to accept his induction into the hall of fame. And the artistic exhibition by Sayginer is great! And I have to mention the Balkline Exhibition from the early 90's was great, to see the control those guys have and see a game played that you can only read about now was a great tribute...
 
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metallicane said:
The 1989 match with Sigel/Rempe in the US Open is pretty cool too. No commentary, but Sigel runs 150 and out. I wish they would put that on DVD and have a player commentary. Maybe Rempe can tell about his time in the chair.
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One of the remarkable things about this match is that the safety that Rempe played right before Sigel ran 150 and out was about a half-inch short of completely locking Sigel up.
 
scottjen26 said:
- There was a Varner/Sigel match, don't remember the year, where Varner is down 10 - 0 or 10 - 1 in a race to 11, Sigel misses and somehow Varner comes back to tie it up hill-hill. Then while running out the last rack he inexplicably misses a relatively easy shot, then Sigel misses, then Varner misses again, then Sigel, then Varner puts it away. A lot of heart to come back from that deficit, and then the comical ending, classic match
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Varner was down 9-2, and Varner only missed one shot in the last rack.
 
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