SVB's world titles
- Thread starter Slasher
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SVB has these three titles containing the word "World".
2008 World Cup of Pool (With Rodney "the Rocket" Morris)
2014 World Pool Masters
2015 World Pool Masters
The only "title" that matters:
Best Player in the World.
Best Player in the World.
Still has to get a legitimate world title under his belt. He won a scotch doubles tournament and two 16 player invitationals...whooptie doo
His best finish in a World 9-Ball or World Ten Ball with a full field of players is second, although winning all those U.S. Opens is the equivalent imo.
Still has to get a legitimate world title under his belt. He won a scotch doubles tournament and two 16 player invitationals...whooptie doo
Oh yeah, I'm sure he hangs his head in shame every time he enters a pool room or a tournament arena...
Yes, it's also an invitational with a field of sixteen and a single elimination format. Four wins gets you the title. Not exactly a world championship.
Passive aggressive post of the year?
Still has to get a legitimate world title under his belt. He won a scotch doubles tournament and two 16 player invitationals...whooptie doo
Agreed. Has some great titles and he's a legend of the game, but he hasn't prevailed over the game's most difficult internationally balanced fields and it's a significant hole in his career resume.
Anyone who thinks that the US Open fields of the last twenty years are, on average, as tough as the World Championships fields is just plain uninformed.
If you look as the game's biggest ever paydays, Efren won the All Japan Championships when the first prize was about $180,000 and he won two of the huge purse IPT events including the one that carried a first prize of $500,000. And yes, Efren has won a World 9-ball championship. In the very biggest spots, SVB's record pales compared to Efren's.
At least someone recognized the trolling.uttahere:
I haven't watched much US pool for years and I don't follow his career, but I did watch the last few matches of the Turning Stone event and during the intros they kept referring to him as multiple world champion so I searched and found little on this but given the state of "organized" pool I thought maybe I was missing something.
I wasn't claiming it is a world
Championship. Only that it's a singles event. In my opinion the World Championship is the most prestigious title there is. Second is probably the US Open. For sure there is no comparison in prestige between those two and the world pool masters. I would really like to see Shane win the WPC. He's really all the US has at this point to win it.
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The 2007 Predator World 10-Ball Championship was neither scotch doubles nor just 16 players (it was 96). While it wasn't an official WPA world championship event, it had quite a good field. The 24 in the money are shown here: http://www.azbilliards.com/tours_an...ator-world-10-ball-championship-2007/results/
[Note that it was about 5 months prior to Shane's 1st US Open 9-Ball win.]
We know how Charlie likes to name his events....