From 1991 to 2000, the Professional Billiards Tour accomplished a long list of achievements that brought positive change, benefited players, and set the stage for a second revolution today. What remains from the nineties is an extraordinary and unique legacy, which paves the way to disrupt the status quo, create new opportunities, produce entertaining and innovative content and events, and position the Pro Billiards Tour as the home of pool.
He's the master . It's the genius holding the stick, of course! If I played Efren and he used my cue, I can't say it's the cue's fault that i got beat 😂😂 !!
Effen living rent free in these losers head. Meanwhile they keep on discrediting Effren of his accomplishments and how he beats all of them in A FASHION WAY.
You can actually hit the ball with either English if you hit the rail at the same time so it just depends on where you want the cue ball to go. With running English you can hit rail first but that may cause the cue ball to not do exactly what you expect so practicing and testing each method is best. You can also use a touch of bottom English to ensure that you won't come off the rail but again practice this so you know where the cue ball will go after the shot.
On the RU-vid mobile app you can zoom into the video in full screen mode by pinching and dragging your fingers away from each other. Just a tip for easier watching! Enjoy people 😁
Mike, is it true that you put a quarter tip of outside spin on every shot? Is it a parallel shift over? And what is the purpose, is it to prevent skids? Thanks!
Kim Davenport mentions at about 15:15 that he hopes that he could see a day when pocket billiards players can make a living playing the game. Of course, he helped call quite a number of the final matches Prime Sports/FOX Sports telecast in 1996, when Johnny Archer won something like $167,000 when he was at the peak of his abilities. That was the closest professional billiards ever came to a fully televised tour, which if I remember right, was a stated goal of the PBT back then. I recorded almost all of those matches in 1995-'96 on old VHS tapes (I recorded one or both of the semi-final matches ESPN did from the 1994 PBT championship, but not the championship match), with the last of those being the one event of the Senior Tour Steve Mizerak came up with that was televised, which was from Biloxi, MS in early 1997 (Mizerak won it). Unfortunately, the whole thing fell apart right after that, just at the point when pocket billiards, and particularly 9-ball, was about to take off (the same thing would happen when they tried to bring 8-ball to the masses a number of years later).
I quit comp play 31 years ago at 23. I last saw you in person was in Modesto in a small tourney at feroni’s like 1989. I just started playing again 9 months ago. I can’t believe how much and what all has changed in these last 30 years. I never ever lauded attention to anything after I quit. Been watching some old matches and RU-vid clips of all the oldies. Cheers
Right about that the game changed. I quit competition in 30 years ago and just started again last year at 53. I could’ve believe all the tips now all the carbon shafts, so many more safety plays and tight 4” pockets compared to the 5” pockets. 9 on spot, alternate break etc. all these newly designed break cues with hard ass tips sound like metal hitting the ball now days. 30 years ago we jumped with a wood jump cue with La Pro tip or jumped with our playing cue which also had a la pro tip. Ha. And the days of running 6+ racks to make a comeback are gone with the alternate break, 9 on spot, break from the box and tight pockets. And ya the clubs, balls, course conditions, greens etc have made a huge difference in current golf.
In short, he said he has no money to buy expensive stick. So whatever morales gave him, he brought with him to america and used to play with it. Such a humble guy...
Mike you can also react how Efren's beaten you many times in diff. diciplines, In one pocket, 9 balls or 10 balls, especially when he beaten you way back 2005 8 ball championship. How he made you as just a part of the crowd. 😅😂🤣 You remember that? You keep on talking at the beginning of the game, until Efren's show you a true talent in pool that made your mouth shuts up.. 🤣😂 have shame on yourself, until now you can't accept it.
I've been playing billiard all my life and came up with a wonderful game to get away from the traditional 8 & 9 ball I named it Mississippi Shoot out I think it will be a great competitive new game for pool players and change the outlook for players
Don’t care what anyone says ,,, you can debate who’s the greatest and all that but what you can’t debate is this.. Earl Strickland is the star of pool. To this day .. nobody has the draw The Pearl has.
Mike Sigel thinks The Hustler hurt pool, lol Without the Hustler , only 15 people in Rochester New York, would know who Mike Sigel was . Not that he is a household name. I was sitting in a little pool room in Springfield Ohio, in the late 1990s or early 2000s I think, and Reed Pierce walked in , he wasn't there 5 minutes and somebody asked him to play for money, I never paid any attention to him, because I knew if I did , they would get suspicious. He beat that guy, another guy got up, he beat 5 people before they put the best player in town on him, that guy he could have spotted the 7, he beat him and they calmed down for the day, but he came back about 3 months later I think and they played him again. He never spotted anybody that I remember, lol, In that pool room I saw Tony Watson Marshall Carpenter, Grady Matthews many times, Reed Pierce Jaffar Basheer "Patcheye", Paul Jones Jack Hines, Strongarm John , Dippy Dave, Corey Duell, Leil Gay , Cliff Joyner and everybody got played lol. One guy sidled up to me and he said , that old man only has one eye , but he plays real good, it was Patcheye , and yes ,he played pretty good until he was about 75.
My favorite time of pool was the 1970s and early 80s. Earl, Buddy Hall Nick Varner Jimmy Reid Mike Sigel Nick Varner, Jimmy Marino, Jimmy Mataya, The pool world has knockers, those are the people that want you to lose, the rest of the world wants to embrace you, but you need to reach out and let them know you won't bite them , lol. We have talked many times at tournaments for short periods, but I was always respectful, if you had a bad match I left you alone for awhile to let it go. I wish only good things for you Earl,
If Mike Sigel played Efren Reyes in '82,MIKE WOULD DEFINITELY LOOSE, Efren was his best in his 20's and ,Mike would've lost ,even in his 50's,though Efren was not his really best, but has been beating top players 10 yrs younger than him.Mike has retired in his 40s,but Efren was still the top player in his 40s,its just that he started to get exposure in the US in his late 30's,so Mike WOULD'VE NEVER BEATEN EFREN IN HIS 20'S,JUST SAYIN...When Efren beat Mike in the IPT,Mike was just a couple years older than Efren,and Efren was so hot in his 50's,Mike was retired... EFREN IS THE GOAT, maybe it went into Mike's head every time Efren would choose Mike as his greatest adversary...not even close....Humble as he is,Efren admired Mike's Bravado😂Sorry Mike ,but compared to Efren,you are just the MOUTH😅
