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Efren was/is the best that ever lived.
1 posted on 01/22/2025 5:06:13 PM PST by FLNittany
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Exellent. Efren was/is an excellent player. I used to travel the pool halls in FLA and the bars playing. My favorite sport


2 posted on 01/22/2025 5:15:55 PM PST by spacejunkie2001
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Nice shot!


3 posted on 01/22/2025 5:17:55 PM PST by plain talk
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For some arcane reason Youtube’s wacky algorithm has been offering me snooker and Efren Reyes videos. He really is good.


4 posted on 01/22/2025 5:22:55 PM PST by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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I had a friend from Chicago long ago. She moved into her moms house in Sun City (AZ) and we went to college together. She was beautiful, very social with great personality, could be so funny and talked all about her boyfriend in Chicago all the time and all the fun times she had with him.

She told me once she when she first met him she told him and all his friends who played pool, she could ‘run the table’.

Didn’t go well.

Anyway, she talked so much about her bf she left behind in Chicago she sounded like she wished they never broke up.

She went back to Chicago that week. I always wondered if she went back to him.

Bur I bet she doesn’t say she can run the table anymore.


5 posted on 01/22/2025 5:22:56 PM PST by Beowulf9 ( )
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Played a lot myself. Reyes is the best I’ve ever seen. Absolutely amazing.


6 posted on 01/22/2025 5:28:14 PM PST by deweyfrank (Nobody's Perfect )
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Reyes played it just the way I would have. :)


7 posted on 01/22/2025 5:33:35 PM PST by muglywump (Seven days without laughter makes one weak.)
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his mastery of the table verged on the supernatural- it’;s almost like he had an inbuilt gps system that laid out the lines for him on the table- it was spooky how he could pre-visualize not just one bank, or 2, but several- a very enviable trait- like how a chess player SEES the board in their mind and sees several plays ahead, knowing all the countermoves etc

one of Reye’s talents was banking and leaving the cueball unplayable if he couldn’t make his shot- and he had a great personality too- fun to watch-


8 posted on 01/22/2025 5:33:50 PM PST by Bob434
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Efren Reyes may have been the best, but Stefano Pelinga was a talented, colorful character who came across my TV screen late at night on ESPN years ago:

Trick Shot Highlights

9 posted on 01/22/2025 5:56:27 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Well, maybe I'm a little rough around the edges; inside a little hollow.” -- Tom Petty, “Rebels”)
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check this corner bank shot

https://youtu.be/4L0cORiUmpk?t=748


10 posted on 01/22/2025 5:59:05 PM PST by Bob434
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Amazing!


12 posted on 01/22/2025 6:11:00 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
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Like zee mark of Zorro!


14 posted on 01/22/2025 6:14:54 PM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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That bank-shot combination just prior to Reyes’ two-railer was lovely, also.

Very sporting gesture by Sigel in conceding the final shot.


15 posted on 01/22/2025 6:22:50 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“…all who were appointed for eternal life believed.” Acts 13:48)
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Efren was/is the best that ever lived.


Not even close!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2iFulbtlIA


19 posted on 01/22/2025 6:30:50 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Thought this was about Laura Petry ... who made THIS shot, in one take (it was supposed to be subbed by an actual pool shark!) ...


20 posted on 01/22/2025 7:13:16 PM PST by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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Willie Mosconi was a legend of the 50’s

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AQZHGjvhnCM&pp=ygUMV2lsbCBtb3Njb25p


21 posted on 01/22/2025 8:10:14 PM PST by Stonewall1
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Best ever. I could watch his videos all night.


22 posted on 01/23/2025 12:11:58 AM PST by stylin19a (1 year i saw that 4,153,237 people got wed. not to stir up trouble but that should be an even number)
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He’s been showing up on my Youtube feeds. Amazing player.....


27 posted on 01/23/2025 4:09:24 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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