Efren
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"I just get lucky"
Male
55 years old
Manila
Philippines
Last Login: 2/5/2009
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Career titles
- WPA World Nine-ball Championship (1999)
- WPA World Eight-ball Championship (2004)
- Derby City Classic Master of the Table (2004, 2005, 2007)
- Derby City Classic One-pocket Event (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
- World Pool League (2001, 2002)
- AZ Billiards Money List Leader (2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006)
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- 2006 Asian 9-ball Tour, Jakarta Leg
- 2006 IPT World 8-ball Open Championship
- 2006 World Cup of Pool
- 2006 Asian 9-ball Tour, Vietnam Leg
- 2005 IPT King of the Hill 8-ball Shootout
- 2005 Derby City Nine-ball Championship
- 2005 IPT King of the Hill Eight-ball Championship
- 2005 Asian 9-ball Jakarta Leg
- 2005 Japan Open
- 2004 On Cue Intercontinental Conquest
- 2004 Asian 9-ball Tour, Singapore Leg
- 2004 Asian 9-ball Tour, Vietnam Leg
- 2004 Asian 9-ball Tour, Taiwan Leg
- 2003 Mid-Atlantic Nine-ball Championship
- 2003 All Japan Championship
- 2003 Asian 9-ball Tour, Manila Leg
- 2003 Las Vegas Nine-ball Open
- 2002 Asian Eight-ball Tournament
- 2002 Cafe Puro Challenge of the Masters
- 2002 International Challenge of Champions
- 2001 International Billiard Tournament
- 2001 Accu-Stats 8-ball Invitational
- 2001 Color of Money II Challenge Match (vs. Earl Strickland)
- 2001 Masters Nine-ball Championship
- 2000 US Open One-Pocket Championship
- 1999 ESPN Ultimate Nine-ball Challenge
- 1999 ESPN Ultimate Shootout
- 1999 Sands Regency Open 29 Nine-ball Championship
- 1998 World 8-Ball Championship
- 1998 Camel South Jersey 10-Ball Open
- 1997 PCA Shooters Challenge
- 1997 PCA Treasure Island Resort Event
- 1996 The Color of Money Nine-ball Champion (Reyes vs Earl Strickland)
- 1996 PBT World Eight-ball Championship
- 1996 PBT Legends of Nine-ball Championship
- 1996 PBT Western Open
- 1996 PBT Florida Flare Up III
- 1995 Sands Regency Open 21 Nine-ball Championship
- 1995 PBT World 8 Ball Championship
- 1995 Pro Tour Nine-ball Championship
- 1995 Maine 14.1 Event
- 1994 US Open 9-ball Championship
- 1994 PBT Bicycle Club Invitational
- 1992 International Nine-ball Classic
- 1992 World Nine-ball Open (Tokyo)
- 1990 World Cup (Taipei)
- 1988 PBA McDermott Masters Nine-ball
- 1986 Sands Regency Nine-ball Championship
- 1985 Sands Regency Nine-ball Championship
- 1985 Red's Nine-ball Open
- 1985 Tar Heel Open
- 1985 Willard's Open
[] Awards
2004 Tournament Results:
- 4th place UPA Pro Tour Championship
- 1st place Derby City Classic Overall Champion Bonus
- 2nd place Derby City Classic 9-Ball Division
- 1st place Derby City Classic One Pocket Division
- 62nd place Derby City Classic Bank Pool Division
- 1st place San Miguel Asian 9-Ball Tour Stop
- 1st place San Miguel Asian 9-Ball Tour Stop
- 4th place San Miguel Asian 9-Ball Tour Stop
- 1st place San Miguel Asian 9-Ball Tour Stop
- 9th place BCA Open 9-Ball Championships Mens Division
- 5th place San Miguel Asian 9-Ball Tour Stop
- 9th place World Pool Championship
- 1st place On Cue 3: Continental Conquest
- 9th place World Pool Masters
- 13th place US Open 9-Ball Championships
- 1st place World 8-Ball Championships
2003 Tournament Results:
- 1st place Mid Atlantic 9-Ball Championship
- 2nd place Joss NE 9-Ball Tour Stop ..17
- 7th place Ten Ball Challenge at Trump Marina
- 17th place San Miguel Asian 9-Ball Tour Stop 1
- 1st place San Miguel Asian 9-Ball Tour Stop 2
- 9th place World Pool Championship
- 2nd place Pechauer Cues 9-Ball West Coast Tour Finale
- 2nd place Big Apple 9-Ball Challenge
- 1st place Las Vegas 9-Ball Open
- 7th place World Pool Masters
- 7th place 2003 US Open
- 1st place World Classic Billiards Tournament
- 3rd place World Pool League
- 2nd place WPA World Tour Championship
- 2nd place 1st Cafe Puro Philippine 9-ball Open
2002 Tournament Results:
- 2nd place IBC Tour Stop 1
- 9th place BCA Open 9-Ball Championship Men's Division
- 3rd place Motolite World 9 ball Challenge
- 5th place World Pool Championship
- 5th place Peninsula 9-Ball Open
- 1st place 2002 Challenge of Champions
- 5th place Gabriels Las Vegas Invitational
- 1st place Shooters Labor Day Weekend Open 9-Ball Tournament
- 1st place Cafe Puro Challenge of the Masters
- 2nd place World Pool Masters
- 1st place World Pool League
- 3rd place IBC Tokyo 9-Ball International
- 2nd place LG Flatron Billiard Challenge 2
2001 Tournament Results:
- Winner Color of Money II Challenge Match
- 1st place 2001 Masters 9-Ball Championships
- 2nd place Turning Stone Casino Classic II
- 9th place BCA Open 9-Ball Championship Men's Division
- 17th place Admiral World Pool Championship
- 3rd place World Pool Masters
- 1st place Tokyo 9-Ball Event
- 1st place 2001 World Pool League
2000 Tournament Results:
- 5th place 1st Motolite International 9-Ball Championship
- 3rd place U.S. Open 14.1 Straight-Pool Championship Men's Division
- 1st place USA Billiards Challenger Event 2
- 1st place Pennsylvania State 9-Ball Championship
- 4th place BCA Open 9-Ball Championship Men's Division
- 2nd place International Invitational Billiards Challenge
- 33rd place Victor Chandler World Pool Championship
- 3rd place World Pool Masters
- 1st place Camel Pro 8-Ball Championship
- 1st place US Open One Pocket Championship
- 17th place 25th Annual US Open
- 2nd place United States-Philippines 9-Ball Challenge
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Efren's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Pampanga | | Body type: | 5' 9" / Average | | Ethnicity: | Pacific Islander | | Religion: | Catholic | | Zodiac Sign: | Virgo | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | High school | | Occupation: | Professional Pool Player | | Income: | $250,000 and Higher |
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Puyat Sports
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San Miguel Beer
Manila, PH
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About me:
EFREN REYES WAS born Aug. 26, 1954, in Mexico, Pampanga. He is the middle son of nine children - five boys and four girls.
His family was poor and his father worked as a barber. When Efren was five years old, his family sent him to stay with his uncle, who owned the Lucky 13 pool hall in Avenida, Manila. Efren was put to work as a billiard attendant. This is where he picked up the nickname "Bata" (The Kid).
Efren did not actually pick up a pool cue until he was eight years old, but for the first three years at the Lucky 13, he still learned a lot about the game. Not only from watching the hustlers, the movie stars, and the celebrities that frequented his uncle's place, but also from his dreams. Efren's bed was the pool table.
"When I slept on the table, I dreamt about pool," he said. "I learned about pool from my dreams."
Then at eight years old, he began living out the dreams.
"Just to be able to shoot," he said, "I stacked cases of Coke three high so I could play pool." After a shot, he would move the cases around the table so he could take another shot. Even though his uncle did not want him to play pool, Efren would play two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening, when nobody was around. "I liked sleeping on the table because when I woke up I could play pool."
He started gambling at nine years old. At 12, several of his rich Chinese friends, whom Efren met at the Lucky 13, tagged him along to different places like Bulacan, Olongapo, and Angeles for vacations. While there, they would pick up games. The friends would finance Efren against some of the best players in the Philippines. Once he beat the number two guy in the country.
"I watched all the good players and the weak players, too," he said. He practiced every shot. He had no teacher. "I learned the simple shots from the good players. English, draw, follow, how to put the cue ball in position. But what about the other shots? The good players don't know the invisible shots. A lot of times the weak players make these impossible shots. I learned a lot of trick shots from watching bad players."
He said that at 16 he was the best player in the Philippines.
"At 18, 19, 20 years old," Efren said confidently, "nobody could beat me around the world. Even if you could run the table everytime, still, you could not beat me. When I was 20, I was strong."
Interestingly, he said this having never even been abroad at the time. He realized that he had been the best all along, when in 1985, he first went to America and finally watched all the best players.
Efren dropped out of high school after two years in order to support his family by playing pool. He had financiers and he would play for maybe P100. Another source of income was the American GIs on nearby Clark Air Base. But he had developed a reputation and nobody would bet high with him.
Because he had trouble finding competition, he stopped playing pocket billiards in 1976 to take up carom (three cushion billiards), which used to be popular in the Philippines. But he became so good at carom that, like pool, nobody wanted to play him. So he returned to pocket billiards.
He found a sponsor in 1979 and made his first trip abroad to Japan, where he won $3,000 hustling and playing in tournaments. Six years later he made his first trip to America.
His sponsor then was a local Filipino with connections in the States. He wanted Efren to hustle. By then, however, the word about Efren Reyes had reached the pool halls of America. But nobody in America knew what Efren looked like. So while in the States, Efren used the name of his friend, Cezar Morales.
He played in and won the Red 9-Ball Open in Houston, Texas, which netted him a few thousand dollars. Then over the next three weeks, playing big money against all comers, Efren won $81,000. But he never saw his promised 50% share. His financier stole the money.
In 1986, he returned to America at the invitation of another financier, a Filipino from Chicago. This man also cheated Efren. In 1987, he had another financier, but they did not get along. In 1988, Efren was financed by an American named Archibald Mitchell. This time Efren finally made money. And the rest is history, Efren Reyes, for the past 5 years has been at the top of the money list in tournament prize winning, not to mention endorsement deals and gambling. Efren is considered by the majority of the pool world to be the best player in the history of pool. His knowledge of all games, shots, safetys, and pattern play is unparalleled. He is also considered to be most fan's and professional player's favorite because of his humble ways and amicable personality. Efren Reyes is the true definition of the word "champion"
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