Who Is The Best 8 Ball Player?

[CJ Wiley]

Earl is virtually unbeatable playing 8 Ball when he's on his game.

My last post should have included.. "In before 'Earl Strickland!!!!!11'"

I agree, Earl is virtually unbeatable playing 8 Ball when he's on his game. His stroke shots come up playing 8 Ball and he isn't afraid to use them.

 

[robsnotes4u]

Talking about barboxes let's add a couple more names in the mix that deserve to be there. Glenn Atwell, Tony Piazza, Mark Haddad, Jesse Bowman, Stan Tourengeou(sp) and a few others. Or basically take the top 10 from 4 bears and those could all make a play at being in this list. Speaking of women, it would be extremely hard not to put Bonnie Plowman at the top of any list of best women barbox players. Multi time Canadian womens champion and has taken home 1st in 8 ball and 9 ball in Vegas VNEA championships more times than I can count. Nicole Keeney would be right there also, defending champion at the music city open and seems to always be right there around the top notches at any tournament.

Watched Tony play in Fargo a little over a week ago. And last years field at 4 Bears was tremendous. One person who has played in both places that I believe is better than Tony is Justin Bergman. He plays some awesome barbox. Another tremendous player who doesn't play much is Lee Heuwagon. I played him last year in Fargo before going to New Town, and I can count the number of times at the table on one hand in over two hours, then he did the same to a friend of mine.

 

[robsnotes4u]

Right now it has to be Shane. keep in mind big difference between BB 8ball, and Big table 8 ball. To be perfectly honest, 8 ball in general is a equalizer game. A good to average player will win at 8 ball over a great player more often than any other game.

Still would have to vote Shane. That was his bread and butter for A LOT of years, and no body wants that action.

Watched Shane demolish this guy in Fargo on the 9 footer in 9 ball, then the guy says enough I will play you 8 ball. The guy never shot. Big table 8 ball gives him options, and with his break it is amazing. As great as he is on a barbox, I think he is even better on a big table because of it.

 

[Jude Rosenstock]

Talking about barboxes let's add a couple more names in the mix that deserve to be there. Glenn Atwell, Tony Piazza, Mark Haddad, Jesse Bowman, Stan Tourengeou(sp) and a few others. Or basically take the top 10 from 4 bears and those could all make a play at being in this list. Speaking of women, it would be extremely hard not to put Bonnie Plowman at the top of any list of best women barbox players. Multi time Canadian womens champion and has taken home 1st in 8 ball and 9 ball in Vegas VNEA championships more times than I can count. Nicole Keeney would be right there also, defending champion at the music city open and seems to always be right there around the top notches at any tournament.

I'll add Jason Kirkwood into the mix. I think he's as strong a barbox player as there can be.

 

[StraightPoolIU]

We don't really have a big sample size to go from (and I'd like to see pros play more 8 ball), but given Thorsten Hohmann's straight pool ability and his big break I like his 8ball game a lot. He also won one of the IPT events, and even though that was one tournament (again small sample size) that tournament was round robin and you had to play and win a ton of 8 ball matches against a lot of players to make the finals.

 

[Donny Lutz]

Good choices

Shane, Appleton, Souquet, Hohmann, Peach, Boyes, Feijen.

And i am very very sure about these names.
Each of em are amazing 8ball players.

I like your choices.
As far as the greatest 8-ball players ever, I'd go with Nick and Efren.

 

[Tramp Steamer]

Who's the best 8 ball player. Well, it damn sure isn't me, I can tell you that.
I would say Shane, is the best, for obvious reasons. :smile:

 

[poolguy4u]

I'll add Jason Kirkwood into the mix. I think he's as strong a barbox player as there can be.

:yes:

This was the first person to come into my mind.

Some days...I feel like the best.:smile:

 

[master_cueist]

I'll add Jason Kirkwood into the mix. I think he's as strong a barbox player as there can be.

I was trying to think of his name and was drawing a blank for some reason, there is one more guy too that for the life of me I just can't think of his name. As far as saying Justin Bergman is better than Tony, I won't say yes I won't say no for a fact, but I am leaning towards Tony being better. If Tony could get his mind in the right place all the time, he could be even better than he is now but he let's his head beat him.

 

[cuesblues]

I'm pretty good at 8-ball, but the best players would probably be Efren & Shane.
Alan Hopkins was known as a great 8B player a few years ago.

 

[Rico]

8 ball

any of the great 14-1 players play the patterns so well and break the balls out the correct way. when the bca let the pros play in the first 8ball nat. i remember varner beat reed neither missed a ball .

 

[CreeDo]

Lots of these guys move the cue ball oh-so-pretty and can make even the ugliest cuts look easy. But it won't matter if you dry break or lose the cue ball. It seems to me that the game's a breaking contest at the highest levels, because everyone runs out.

Because of that, I'm gonna pick the player with the best hard break in the business... Shane. It helps that he likes the game and considers it his strongest.

 

[scratchs]

Thats a hard one to answer..until theres more tournaments with higher pay outs..meaning twenty grand or better for first..you may never truely know.
Thats my guess..