List of left-handed pro players?

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Hi,

I have searched this newsgroup as well as google and yahoo and few other search engines. Have not been able to find a list anywhere of left-handed pro pool players. Being a southpaw myself I like watch other lefties play since they use slightly different patterns than a right handed player so they can reach their shots easily.

Here are lefties that I know of:
Mike Sigel
Steve Mizerak
Rodney Morris
Steve Frost
Thomas Engert

Can anyone add to this list of pro lefties?

Thanks.

David
 
Gremlin,

Thanks for the quick and comprehensive response. Now I will be able to target the Accu-Stats matches featuring lefties. :) Wish some of the additional players you mentioned were featured in some 14.1 matches.

David



Gremlin said:
Hello,

It's Scott Frost and a photo added so you will know him.

Sarah Ellerby
Rude Dog
Megan Minerich
Robin Dodson
Dennis Hatch
Shannon Dalton
Sue Yen Rhee
Lisa Brannen
Shawn Putnam
Pauline Mattes
Luc Salvas
Frank Alverez
Julia Gabriel
Barbara Day
Crystal Nelson
Mo Seto
Kevin West
Mario Morra
Melinda Bailey
Steve Lipsky
Tina Larsen

"Gremlin"
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A few lefties that can shoot:

Rodney Morris
Hui-Kai Hsia
Chris Orme
Gandy Valle

A lefty that wished he could shoot:

me
 
Antonio Lining is a lefty as well. :)
 

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I was reminded on another thread about Cecil Tugwell. He's a leftie all right, although he learned how to play pool right-handed and switched to playing left-handed later on in life.

Gremlin, that's a mighty impressive list you came up with! :)

JAM
 
climbtrad said:
....Being a southpaw myself I like watch other lefties play since they use slightly different patterns than a right handed player so they can reach their shots easily......
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I, too, am a lefty, but, though I understand the reach issue, I really wonder whether the difference in pattern play is anything but neglible. I think I'd have to dispute the claim that a lefty learns more from watching a lefty pro than a righty pro. Still, if you want to study the play of lefties, the two guys you need to watch as often as possible are Mike Sigel and ....... more Mike Sigel. Plenty of great accu-stats with Mike out there.
 
I played on the WPBA part time as a semi-pro from 1994-2000. Although I never attained "touring pro" status, I am a leftie. I am right-handed at everything else I do, including using the bridge. Mike Sigel is the only other player that I've witnessed using the crutch right-handed. My husband used to tell me I was wired wrong, UNTIL he saw Mr. Sigel doing the same thing!
 
christyd said:
I am a leftie. I am right-handed at everything else I do, including using the bridge. Mike Sigel is the only other player that I've witnessed using the crutch right-handed.
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I do the same thing christy, thought I was the only one that did that.
 
Rude Dog said:
I do the same thing christy, thought I was the only one that did that.
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Everyone at my pool hall thought i was crazy when they seen me shooting then pick the birdge up and stroke it with my right hand, i guess it is just the way i shoot, but at this young stage i kind of can play both ways, for soem of those tight situations i can switch over and play decent, and its might come in handy someday when someone says play with your wrong hand hehe
 

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ronnie o'sullivan is not a left handed player but his left-handed game is easily better than many pro snooker players. check it out sometime. stephen hendry said something about how ronnie can always fall back on his left-handed game if his right handed game is not performing.
 
telkwa said:
ronnie o'sullivan is not a left handed player but his left-handed game is easily better than many pro snooker players. check it out sometime. stephen hendry said something about how ronnie can always fall back on his left-handed game if his right handed game is not performing.
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I've heard that Ronnie has run centuries left-handed,
in fact one of the top snooker pro's, I forget who,
estimated that Ronnie would probably be in the top
16 left-handed! When asked to comment on this Ronnie
said he thinks it would be more like top 10.
 
Bobby said:
I've heard that Ronnie has run centuries left-handed,
in fact one of the top snooker pro's, I forget who,
estimated that Ronnie would probably be in the top
16 left-handed! When asked to comment on this Ronnie
said he thinks it would be more like top 10.
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i wouldnt have much trouble believing those ranking numbers. he has definitely run centuries with his left.

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sniper said:
A few lefties that can shoot:

Rodney Morris
Hui-Kai Hsia
Chris Orme
Gandy Valle

A lefty that wished he could shoot:

me
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Hui Kai Hsia is right handed, well, he was when I was watching him play in the WPC Qualifiers at Cardiff one year.
 
Buckster_uk said:
Hui Kai Hsia is right handed, well, he was when I was watching him play in the WPC Qualifiers at Cardiff one year.
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He is. Sniper might be thinking about Kang Chin-Shin, who is a top 20 Taiwanese pro with a silky-smooth lefty stroke.

Hmm...did that rhyme? Almost...

-Roger
 
Has Sugaya been mentioned? He is a very good Japanese player that I have seen play a few times. Shintaro I think is his first name.
 
christyd said:
I played on the WPBA part time as a semi-pro from 1994-2000. Although I never attained "touring pro" status, I am a leftie. I am right-handed at everything else I do, including using the bridge. Mike Sigel is the only other player that I've witnessed using the crutch right-handed. My husband used to tell me I was wired wrong, UNTIL he saw Mr. Sigel doing the same thing!
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I started playing pool left handed, but naturally used the crutch right handed (nobody told me I wasn't doing it left handed and it felt right...LOL). I actually kind of took to playing right handed as well on shots that required it. I never thought NOT too...and it didn't seem to hard (if the shot didn't require a huge stroke or anything.

My lefty favs are Sigel, Sigel, and Sigel.....and for the most beautiful stroke I've ever seen, the MIZ - the Master! Buy some straight pool matches with these gents and you will learn a lot...then watch them play 9 ball.
 
sjm said:
I, too, am a lefty, but, though I understand the reach issue, I really wonder whether the difference in pattern play is anything but neglible. I think I'd have to dispute the claim that a lefty learns more from watching a lefty pro than a righty pro. Still, if you want to study the play of lefties, the two guys you need to watch as often as possible are Mike Sigel and ....... more Mike Sigel. Plenty of great accu-stats with Mike out there.
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I agree. I loved watching them play but never studies their patterns. I studied their "techniques" more than anything...picking up what I liked for my own stroke/game.

I learned how to make the LONG TOUGH shots more consistently by watching Sigel's technique. Sigel (in his hay day) was the best maker of PRESSURE shots in the world. He seemed to ALWAYS come with the brutally tough shots when it counted. What can you really say about Sigel though that hasn't been said?
 
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