Van Van Corteza

JAM said:
Great win! I was pulling for him at the end. The check says $40,000. Is that right? That's a good number! :wink:
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and the best part is, it's all his. His backers wouldn't send him to play so he did it on his own and so he gets the whole amount.

40k goes a long way in the Philippines.

He broke and ran over 7 racks in that set I think. I thought the tables were easy by how well he was running out. Turns out they were less than 4.5" and not that easy. He was just that good.
 
Here's my post to rec.sport.billiard in 2000. While visiting Dau, Philippines, Cesar Morales told me that Corteza was going to be their next world champion.



Newsgroups: rec.sport.billiard
From: Yukon Ed
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 05:12:10 GMT
Local: Tues, Nov 21 2000 12:12 am
Subject: Here's the next Efren Reyes!


You'll see the next Filipino world champion. He's a class act just
like Efren. Ask any top Filipino player about Lee Van Corteza; they
all know he's the next great player ready to be unleashed on the rest
of the pool world. Many players and backers will soon be looking for a
picture of this guy; you better bookmark that page now. Do a search on
the net and you'll see he won the Southeast Asian Games 9-ball event
last year.


Yukon Ed
 
JoeyA said:
Yes, Lee Van will be playing in the Ultimate 10 Ball Championship, June 17-20th.
unless that $40,000.00 is weighing him down too much.
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That's in Mississippi, correct?

I was referring to the 1 pocket, 10 ball, and 8 ball events in late July in Vegas
 
Now he's coming.................................















































to the Ultimate 10 Ball Championships.
 
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