MIKE SIGEL - 150 and out: 1992 14.1 U.S. OPEN 

Grady and Bill incardona are the most colorful, entertaining and informative commentary team in billiards history. I learned all I know about the game from Bill and Grady. Rip Grady

The late (Weenie Beanie) Bill Staton was no slouch either! He was an Elite Commentator as well.

I don’t know, i just find that funny. Tell people watching the video to watch the video that they came to see. I’m glad these exist as i was not able to see these guys play in their prime much less (almost) at all

@@400fps lololololol im dead lolol

Everyon3 who knowd pool knows sigel was a beast, i guess new comerz know him ad that annoying complaining guy

Poolbum, is that you? Absolutely true!

@@MrKinghuman l

Wow that’s awesome. A good treasure to have!

RU-vid came out years ago. Didnt need the feel to share it? Greedy prick. LOL Just kidding. But if you do have matches that arent uploaded, put them up man, these need sharing

@@FIVE-0-APOCALYPTO Siegel always edged Zuglan out in tournament after tournament, Zuglan, if he took 2nd place, it was to Siegel. I once asked Mike Siegel why he always seemed to beat Mike Zuglan and his reply shocked me, because he thinks the world of himself. Anyway he said "I think it may have been rolls that determined the winner." The humble reply shocked me, because he is known as "Mike the Mouth" and that's why he can't do commentary at pool. He keeps switching the subject back to 'me." Believe me, he had his ass handed to him many times by Earl. Not at 14.1, but 9 ball. He also told me he mastered pool using a 12.5mm tip and always stuck with it. Players at his level are way at the top for knowledge and can execute anything difficult.

I saw Matlock make 50 billiards in 25 innings.. Did your guy play that well?..

But if Buddy Hall came up to him and asked him to play nine ball for the cash he would say I want the eight in some weight

Jeremy Jones is another

At the current time I think the best commentator doing it now is Earl Strickland. He's utterly amazing at that

Will do!

or maybe even "snooker" style.

Its just that straight isnt common anymore. If they were to play a few back to back straight tournaments, amd they pradticed and learned more, they would develop the pattern play. They seem to be more shotmakers. Sigel for example has three or four ways to play a break shot, little tricks he learned growimg up in an era when starihht was srill going strong in poolhalls, guys today just try and smack into the pack, i do it myself, thats why my high run is 20. Lol

Glad you enjoyed it

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Better shot makers than sigel or strickland? In their prime i dont think so. Shaw is a freaky shotmaker, but overall i dont think todays players are better shot makers. Maybe, i dont knkw if theres stats, but sigel made long shots like they were hangers like the opening shot of this match. I dont need much more proof than thag

How can you shoot better than not missing?

@@larryleecarr It's questionable on the equipment they played on. They're probably playing with 5" pockets. Anything smaller than 4.5" pockets was considered a tight pocket table back in the day, but on Diamond Tables now, it's standard size.

The table he's playing on in that video, has pretty tight pockets... I'd say 4.5" perhaps slightly smaller...@@yodaman5017

Yes, for sure, it's 1992.

If i'm not mistaken Sigel went on to win the tournament

Actually we do have him running 150 at a U.S. Open. It's on a vhs tape. Maybe we'll get it online some day.

@@AccuStats That would be awesome. I think people forget how good Johnny was. 1990s Player of the Decade, after all.

yeah they had it on VHS

14.1 Continuous, aka Straight Pool.

I dont know about that. Reyes is still number one when it comes to all around best. Reyes was world class at 3 cushion, best rotation player ever (15 balls rotation). Sigel cant say the same, but hes upthere for sure. Sigel is also the second best crybaby behind strickland. Lol

enter a name here Sigel has won major straight pool events many and Reyes only one and it wasn’t major. Reyes is washed up he loses to kids now. Old news. Shane Van Boening is much better

@@charlieb308 no shit moron. Hes 65 years old. No point arguimg, didnt realize youre not all there

paul couto not every short stop can play live TV with crowd watching like Mosconi cup pressure or live TV playing for 50 grand. I’ve seen Efren get run over in finals by Earl Strickland many times.

Gold Crown 3

@@travis02gt Agreed, these were GC3's as the GC4's didn't come out until late 90's I think, and alot of the older players have said that the GC3 is still the best version of the Gold Crown tables.

Really?.. that surprises me, because the blueprints for the gold crown were destroyed in a huge fire before the threes came out, and they were basically designed from memory.. And I think time has proven they were not as well made as the ones and twos..

Watch it again. You'll figure it out.

I met him a few times. If you want to see some of what he had in his bag of tricks, there are videos by him on youtube. I once saw him walk into a tournament room and announce "If I don't know you, I'll give you 11-7 in One Pocket, but we're going to bet it up too." Grady had numerous runs over 100 in straight pool.

Funny little fact that is bill aka weenie the beenie there’s another video with mike Sigel vs Dallas west and the commentators for that one is nick Varner and bill and trust me you’ll think there’s two nick Varner 😂

Sigel beat reyes in 14.1 Where, when? I cannot find that Btw sigel is best for me too

He certainly has a way better argument than someone like Reyes.. Who, I’m sorry, was nowhere close to the best 9-ball player of his era.. The best pool player to ever pick up a cue was Ralph Greenleaf.. He tortured Mosconi on a regular basis, when Mosconi was in his 20’s and Greenleaf was in his 40’s... And drunk every waking moment.. lol..

Sigel also won many one pocket and 8 ball titles

He had it all.. His shot making was fucking legendary, and his safety play gave him the name Capt Hook.. When he was comfortable, you weren’t winning.. I don’t care who you are..

Sigel, Varner, Reyes, Pagulayan are probably the smartest players ever

Must be nice being a loser, all your life…

Yea, maybe it's you.

@@AccuStats excuse me for having an opinion

I said "Maybe". I say that about myself sometimes. No offense.

The best 14 1 runout was Jason Shaw record 714. He knew how to use insurance balls and always kept the cueball near the center of the table.