Who is the greatest pool player?

Question

Who is the greatest pool player?

Answer 1

willie musconie

Answer 2

The greatest pool player of all time is Minnesota Fats!!!

Answer 3

Efren Reyes, "The Magician" has to be the greatest pool player to have ever played the game. He can hit shots that other players cannot even imagine, yet alone attempt to hit.

It is true that in the modern game he can't quite match up in terms of the consistency of the break with the current professionals, but at his prime, Reyes was untouchable.

Other contenders would have to be Earl "The Pearl" Stickland - a prickly character but someone who has been at the pinnacle of pool for a very long time. Fransisco Bustamante is also a really good player.

Answer 4

not me, but i'd have to say William Joseph Mosconi (June 27, 1913–September 12, 1993), an American billiards player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is considered by most who knew him to be one of the best players in the history of the game. Between the years of 1941 and 1956, he won the United States states pool championship eighteen times. He pioneered and regularly employed numerous trickshots, set innumerable records, and helped to popularize the game of billiards as a national recreation activity.

During the 1940s and 1950s, the billiards game most often played in competition was called straight pool, or 14.1 continuous, a form of pocket billiards considered by most top players to be more difficult than today's championship pool game 9-ball. Willie Mosconi once ran 526 balls in a row in an exhibition of straight pool, a record that may never be beaten. He was the technical consultant for the movie The Hustler, in which had a cameo role as a "stakes holder". The documentary The Hustler: The Inside Story, featured on the DVD of the movie, revealed that whenver the camera cut to Fast Eddie's hands it was really Mosconi taking the shot. (However, IMDb claims that the only shot Mosconi took was the masse shot during Fast Eddie's rematch with Fats [1]) The movie resulted in a boom in the popularity of pool.

His father owned a pool hall and originally tried to keep him away from the game by taking the pool balls away, but Willie carved his own balls from potatoes and practiced with a broomstick[2]. He was a prodigy as a small child, then disappeared from the game for a while until the age of 19, when he had a good showing in a national event in Minneapolis. Because of this, he was invited to play with the best players in the world, and finished in the upper half.

He was hired by Brunswick which had touring professionals and promoted their products throughout the thirties.

From 1940 to 1941 a league was sponsored by billiard halls with 8 players, and a full round robin took place. Mosconi was sponsored by a hall in New York called McGirr's. He dominated this series, and ran 125 balls from the break five times when only two other players in history had ever done the same.

He continued to dominate pool into the mid 1950s in a manner few have equaled.

The Mosconi Cup, an annual pool competition between American and European players, is named in his honor.

Answer 5

me

Answer 6

Willie Mosconi, without a doubt!

Answer 7

Minnesota Fats was one of the greatest or not the best.He could do trick shots and won all kinds of tournaments.

Answer 8

not sure

Answer 9

Although Joe Davis was world snooker champion from 1927-1947, I would have to say the best has to be Stephen Hendry (Scotland)

Answer 10

I AGREE THAT WILLIE MASCONNIE,IS/WAS THE GREATEST PLAYER TO TO HAVE EVER PLAYED THE GAME.CAN ANYONE NAME A TROPHY NAMED AFTER ANOTHER PLAYER,THAT HAS A TROPHY TOURNAMENT NAMED ATER THEM,(THE MASCONNIE CUP).

Answer 11

A filipino Pool Player of course "The Magician" Efren Bata Reyes"

Answer 12

Efren Reyes

Answer 13

of course.....the magician efren "bata" reyes....

anybody knows why he is called "bata"?? if u know the answer ill giv u 10 points.....

Answer 14

Minnesota Fats