9-BALL: EFREN REYES vs Shane VAN BOENING - 2016 DERBY CITY CLASSIC 9-BALL DIVISION 

Any other APA players here? I’m a fairly new Apa player but have been playing in pool halls for years and years. This is may of 2024 and my second session of 9 ball and will be playing in my first tri cups this coming weekend and will be playing in singles in October to go to Vegas. And I wil admit, I wish I would’ve started playing Apa years ago. It’s fun, meet lots of new players and gives you a reason to keep your game sharp and continue striving to improve your game. And I still play in money tournaments bc, well, there’s nothing better than playing in a tourism d moving up bracket by bracket until you take the cash home. Great feeling

Man I remember watching Reyes in the early 90's play 1.000 pool for a few different matches. I think these guys have at least 1 or 2 of his perfect matches? Anyway, it crazy to think he's still competitive at his age??👏👏👏👏

just watched Accu States Premiere with Efren/CJ Wiley. 1994. (9/12/2023) Now this loads next, 2016. 20 years later, and still Accu-Stats and Still Efren. AMAZING!

Efren will forever be considered the greatest, due to his creativity, his smooth stroke and knowledge of angles and caroms, and fantastic pocketing.... But SVB is really putting his name on the game with all the results he's gone on to have.

Reyes being competitive for 30 plus years is an accomplishment. Don't really know of anyone else that's done it that long still making it high up in the field

What a great match !

I remember I always watch efren because my father watching him No Pacquiao yet, no fb and youtube yet. No crime reported when Efren has tournament. I end up playing billiards too. Today Efren still amazing!

Efren not complaining about a fan is no surprise. Yes Efren has as much class as any man but it probably didn't bother him as much as most guys. In the Philippines these guys play high level pool matches in rooms with a hundred guys hanging around the table. They play with humidity so bad they have piles of chalk on the actual rails and those people around the table may only be 3 feet away to the point players have to work around them to shoot so a little camera flash is nothing for a Filipino player.

Man Shane's break! Cue ball jumping straight up every time, so solid!

both are true legend.... both played incredible..

Great pool and great commentary. Super interesting.

Love Danny DiLiberto commentary.

Thank You for the videos

adorable commentary duo

Oooh, that's a fun one to watch. Both players much respect, hard to beat SVB

My 2 favourite players 🤩🤩

Efren last last balls on the 3rd and 4th seems intentional placing it awkward but hen made it. He is just making it more exciting. Things he does to entertain not top platers does.

Van Boening "the Kid" vs Efren "Bata" Reyes. In Filipino "Bata" also means Kid.

Me recuerda tanto a la película Cars, con el legendario Hudson Hornet vs el rayo Mc Queen, y al ver el taco clásico de efren reyes que hasta parece un "the master" vs la tecnología que usa van boening con su "cuetec" que el mismo diseño y aun asi el mago sigue dando clases en algunos tiros... Sin duda reyes fue y siempre será el mejor 🥺

Shane is the Efren of this generation and will probably be widely acknowledged as the GOAT next to Efren.

So good

Wow. That was near perfect pool.

Great games from Missouri City, Texas

@16:42 that should be two 40 secs against SVB. That should be ball in hand for Efren.

two of my idol billiard players🎉

Honestly im being confused of the colors of the modern balls from 3 4 5 6 7. I still prefer the classic brunswick balls which the 4 was pink.

Hello pool players around the world

without a doubt Efren is the GOAT . Both are my favourite players. if i had to choose one i'd go with Van Boening .

I want to see more of these 2 facing each other if you guys can upload more that would be great

GOAT::: Efren Reyes;!!!

Efren Reyes is the GOAT IMO

6:27 big long fluid powerful stroke, you can tell they both laughed at that one lol

1:13:14 guy says ggod game to svb, but svb touches his hearing aid to put it on so he can hear the guy. svb keeps hearing aide off while playing. intense concentration

2 of the best players in the world!!!!!

At 44:18, pardon any redundancy, announcers discuss Shane manipulating racks. Efren won't speak up. But that rack was slanted to camera right. Very clear.

20:16 the goat speaks 🫡🫡🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫💯💯💯💯💯

You're very right. Back in the day the good players were pretty tight-lipped about their game. Novices and blow-hards were always eager to tell you all about it.

Efren the GOAT 👍🏼

no one talkin bout the real goat 🐐 old geezer commentator🐐🐐🐐🐐💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🚮🗽🚯

These commentators are gold. "you don't buy green bananas" "oh I don't like green bananas" 😂 "I got that stat from my guy at acustats" "well let's jump him and kick him" "oh no he's too big"

I used to play with Shane when he was like 18. Hi Shane! CONGRATS!

Thith wath a fun match to watch. And yeth i agree about thethe guyth thpeed control. Itth exthellent.

Great win by SVB awesomeness ❤

I played Efren about 7 years ago ..... of course as expected he beat me, but I had a blast!!!!!!!! What a rush!!!!!!

Parabéns

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I'm just a casual pool watcher, but I do love the commentary as well as the game. I'm too ignorant so I don't know both commentators, but one is Danny Diliberto right? When I got interested in pool, I started watching tons of games with Danny and Billy Incardona commentating and loved it. The "other guy" I do recognize but can't remember his name. Both are very knowledgeable and calm, perfect for the game. Great upload!

R.I.P to my pop , who in my opinion was a damn good pool player. Oh yeah , I play now too.

2 of the best POOL PLAYER love SHANE

What a great kiss ❤

this was thrilling. Both make mistakes and then use tremendous skills to get away with it. A fine match

How about A SCORE BOARD - on that informs an audience of all matches involved in a tournament and more than just the score a score board the same level as a baseball or football game

Well let's see the score is two to two and if Efren shoots this one out he'll be one rock ahead. Now that's some pretty good math there

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48:04 also. Shane is angling the rack.

ang layo ng stroke ni idol sa mga magagaling tlaga kulang na kulang

How can Van Boening shoot the 4 ball when the 3 ball is still at the table? 41:27

Uncle Efren Reyes & Uncle Shane Van Boening sama-sama hebat main nya

*EFREN PROBABLY COULD HAVE HAD ANY SPONSORSHIP HE WANTED. YET THERE SEEMS TO BE NONE. NEVER PLAYED WITH SPONSORED CUES/ NO SPONSOR PATCHES ALL OVER HIS SHIRT. A CLASS ACT THAT COULDNT BE BOUGHT. UNLIKE PLAYERS TODAY WITH HALF DOZEN PATCHES AND SPONSORED CUES, ETC.*

The South Dakota kid versus the Magician.

if you watch it closely especially rack 15 - boening is setting the rack high above the setting point that the 3 ball always goes straight to the corner. The ref should be checking it if the players are the one setting the rack.

Good

The one thing that gets all athletes, getting older.

ken and scott are the best annoncers for all pool events

What do the numbers .906 and .931 mean? Is it accuracy?

Watching these two at pool, it's like watching Messi vs Ronaldo on football

Lol 375 players for one pocket, legend has it they're still waiting for that one to finish

These announcers are being real hard on Efren.

Watching this in 2024 and Efren is still proving these commentators wrong about not being as good as he once was. Efren is like anybody else and does have his food days and bad days but efrens bad days are still magnitudes better than most players’ good days.

Efren remains a legendary

q ball: u are so confident .... efren: Lets put a little bit of show! q ball: good shoot!

45:09 - Not even a small clap. Tough crowd.

52:39 again. Efren is a passive legend. He refuses to stand up and challenge a rack. Shane knows this. Again, the one ball to the two ball is an inch of center. Shane is desperate to win and take some legacy. This goes hill hill if there is a neutral racker. And I haven't even finished watching these shenanigans...

Is this speed upped?

“Is he playing himself?!” in regards of the goat.

Brasil 🇧🇷

Watching this event from several years ago, you can see how much weight Shane has put on. I hope that he can get back to that earlier weight and level of physical fitness.

Da hora

Whatever happened to Scott Smith? Love that guy, best referee EVER

It's interesting to me that Shane seems to have more movement in his stroke than many of the other pros. For instance, it seems like he always aims a little lower than where he intends to hit and comes up with his stroke a bit. It certainly doesn't hurt him though, that's for sure.

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That older sounding commentator sounded confused 90%+ of the time lol 😝

3:10 why 😂 Did anyone notice the kiss in the background?

they need to get 95 year old buddy off the mic. He ruining the whole situation had to watch this on mute 💀

At 7:18….Hey Danny….he POSITIVELY PLAYED THAT SHOT….THE CAROM FOR the 2

As my experience,you don’t play the man,you play the table.

13:40 💯💯💯

The rare white guy with cornrows in the audience.

Shane has a very unique stroke in the way he has a long fluid wind up with a dip in it, but after all of that movement, believe it or not he actually "jabs" the the stick or poke strokes it, you gotta watch the final stroke and where the tip ends up on the follow thru or in his case the lack of it, some of his strokes the stick actually comes "back" that's why I say "jab", never the less, like no other jab stroke I've ever seen, he controls the the cue ball as good as anybody, which is not a skill that usually comes with a jab stroke, normally those kind of strokes are known for pocketing balls, particularly long hard shots, Efren on the other hand has a more classic pendulum swing with a good follow through although not a "power" stroke, but a finesse stroke, that's why he plays one pocket so good, among other skills, for another great stroke I look at Earl, long fluid "power" stroke, but not quite the control as Efrens finesse stroke, as for Fedor it's a what I call a" phony" stroke, it's a very contrived mechanical stroke, as in one step after another, most important with that kind of stroke is the timing, and it forces you to follow through the cue ball because of the long deliberate final back stroke, it's not a natural stroke, but it's works and works good!

Ok lng kung natalo c idol Efren but his sports man god 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 bless idol Efren

Efren is really good sorry to see him lose .😎

Who’s the old guy in the commentary?

1:00:00 his Carl Childers impersonation

4:16 " not the same Efren Reyes". There is only one and always will be Goat efren. He can miss all his next shots and still be the best.

The Legend

@ 8:02 Jayson Shaw is only 5 years younger than Shane not 7 or 8.

1:08:30 Pool is not a harder game that golf. That's why the best pool players are more consistent. Golf has an exponentially higher number of variabilities: the course, specific course conditions, weather, club choice, grass type, altitude, air saturation, ball lie, the list goes on. As a pool fanatic, these guys are the best at what they do, but I wouldn't go as far to say that pool is more difficult than golf. And thus, you cannot say that top pool players have mastered the game more than top golfers have mastered their own game; which, in my opinion, is a harder game based on the number of variables and unpredictability.

This man just said pool is harder than golf

I don't know 9ball great but is there a certain point that the top ball cant pass when setting up the rack? Looks like boening will rack, tighten with hands, push rack foward a little and then push the ball foward again to tighten again. Might be setting up the right angle to make those "wing balls" in. Might be a cheat move but Idk.