Sergio Vargas

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After reading everyone talk about "Little Sergio" I wasn't sure if this was the same Sergio that I would run into at different tournaments around this area until Jay posted his last name. I used to hear stories that Sergio Vargas was the best one-handed player in the world but never witnessed his play. I haven't seen him around here in well over a year and someone told me that he had to go back to Mexico to lay low for a while. Anyway...does anybody have any good stories about Sergio in action?? I used to really admire his game and he even showed me a few different things, so I was just kinda curious of any war stories about him.
 
9Ball_JJ said:
After reading everyone talk about "Little Sergio" I wasn't sure if this was the same Sergio that I would run into at different tournaments around this area until Jay posted his last name. I used to hear stories that Sergio Vargas was the best one-handed player in the world but never witnessed his play. I haven't seen him around here in well over a year and someone told me that he had to go back to Mexico to lay low for a while. Anyway...does anybody have any good stories about Sergio in action?? I used to really admire his game and he even showed me a few different things, so I was just kinda curious of any war stories about him.
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I'll tell you one story. He beat every one who tried to play him one handed for about 20 years. Freddie says Artie beat him playing 8-Ball one handed, so that's the first loss I've heard of.

Back in the 80's in LA, Ronnie offered to play him some One Pocket up-in-the-air and Sergio declined. Sergio asked Ronnie to play 9-Ball and he declined.
 
jay helfert said:
Back in the 80's in LA, Ronnie offered to play him some One Pocket up-in-the-air and Sergio declined. Sergio asked Ronnie to play 9-Ball and he declined.
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That is one hell of a statement, Jay. Because most people don't have a clue that Ronnie Allen played jam up 9 ball at one time too. He won quite a few 9 ball tournaments. I never saw Sergio play jacked up but if Ronnie wouldn't play him 9 ball that way he had to be, "The" monster.
 
In the mid 80's he played Efren Reyes 2 sets of nine ball going to 11. I think they played for $3000 or maybe it was $5000 a set. He won the first set like maybe 11 to 3. In the second set Sergio was up 10 to 3 when Efren brought it to hill hill. In the last game Sergio drew the rock back about 4 feet after pocketing the 7 ball to get perfect on the 8. All this jacked up. I saw him play many times. I believe he could execute some shots better one handed up in the air then if he used both hands.
 
dabarbr said:
In the mid 80's he played Efren Reyes 2 sets of nine ball going to 11. I think they played for $3000 or maybe it was $5000 a set. He won the first set like maybe 11 to 3. In the second set Sergio was up 10 to 3 when Efren brought it to hill hill. In the last game Sergio drew the rock back about 4 feet after pocketing the 7 ball to get perfect on the 8. All this jacked up. I saw him play many times. I believe he could execute some shots better one handed up in the air then if he used both hands.
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Wow!! I had no idea he was that good. This makes me want to play him some jacked up 9 ball just to see him play.
Thanks for the stories guys....any others??
 
hemicudas said:
That is one hell of a statement, Jay. Because most people don't have a clue that Ronnie Allen played jam up 9 ball at one time too. He won quite a few 9 ball tournaments. I never saw Sergio play jacked up but if Ronnie wouldn't play him 9 ball that way he had to be, "The" monster.
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Actually, they did play "for a while" and Ronnie quit him. That's when he asked him to play One Pocket one handed. Nothing doing.
 
jay helfert said:
Actually, they did play "for a while" and Ronnie quit him. That's when he asked him to play One Pocket one handed. Nothing doing.
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That's pretty darn strong!!

Hey Jay, did you ever see him get into serious games not playing 1-handed?? From what it seems, he faced and conquered the best playing 1-handed.
 
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