mr3cushion
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Efren playing Vietnamese Champion.
Thanks for posting this. Prompted me to search YouTube and found a bunch more videos of Efren playing both 3-Cushion and Cushion Caroms at SEA, but what really blew me away way was finding this video posted just three days ago ...Efren playing Vietnamese Champion.
Do U have a link to the interview? If he indeed did that, He's been playing the wrong game his entire life!Thanks for posting this. Prompted me to search YouTube and found a bunch more videos of Efren playing both 3-Cushion and Cushion Caroms at SEA, but what really blew me away way was finding this video posted just three days ago ...
EFREN "BATA" REYES MOBBED LIKE A ROCKSTAR BY VIETNAMESE FANS AT SEA GAMES VENUE
What I'd really like to see is video from when Efren played snooker at the SEA. He said in an interview that he made a break in the 130's despite never playing it before.
Snooker is discussed in this interview with Mark Wilson around the 22 minute mark.Do U have a link to the interview? If he indeed did that, He's been playing the wrong game his entire life!
Efren playing Vietnamese Champion.
I think Efren is a pool machine, but snooker is an entirely different animal, I would have lost my money if he did beat Ronnie with only a 25 point spot.Efren says in the second interview that his high break was 132 and that he beat Ronnie O'Sullivan for the money getting a 25-point spot.
O'Sullivan has confirmed it happened in interviews. They matched-up during the 1991 World Amateur Championships in Thailand. Ronnie won eight straight matches in the tournament before being eliminated in the Final 16 while Efren lost three matches and won four before withdrawing. That tournament and the 1987 SEA games are apparently the only times Efren ever officially competed at snooker.I think Efren is a pool machine, but snooker is an entirely different animal, I would have lost my money if he did beat Ronnie with only a 25 point spot.
Only watched about 30 minutes, but Bata ran into a buzz saw...Efren playing Vietnamese Champion.
No buzz saw, the Best player in Vietnam! Number 12 in the World.Only watched about 30 minutes, but Bata ran into a buzz saw...
I wondered about that. Most of the Vietnam guy's points hit the second ball square in the face, whereas some of his misses almost seemed intentional. Hard to say why ER played him, except that he may have gotten some nice appearance money. Dunno.No buzz saw, the Best player in Vietnam! Number 12 in the World.
The score was in line. The guy stalled for the last few innings trying to give ER a little slack.
Efren was representing his country in a kind of mini-Olympics, the Southeast Asia Games, which he has done many times since 1987. Athletes from multiple sports are chosen by their governments to be on the national team. Efren might have received some financial incentive from the government or possibly indirectly from one of his sponsors, but I wouldn't completely rule out the element of national pride.I wondered about that. Most of the Vietnam guy's points hit the second ball square in the face, whereas some of his misses almost seemed intentional. Hard to say why ER played him, except that he may have gotten some nice appearance money. Dunno.
This is a video of 15 year old Ronnie playing in Junior Championship when it's been alleged he spotted ER 25 points.O'Sullivan has confirmed it happened in interviews. They matched-up during the 1991 World Amateur Championships in Thailand. Ronnie won eight straight matches in the tournament before being eliminated in the Final 16 while Efren lost three matches and won four before withdrawing. That tournament and the 1987 SEA games are apparently the only times Efren ever officially competed at snooker.
Ronnie was only 15 at the time, but was already a formidable player with a 147 maximum break in the English Amateur Championships that year before turning pro the next season. The excellent CueTracker stats site (wish pool had something similar) doesn't show Efren making any century breaks in '91 and doesn't have data for the '87 SEA games, so I'm not certain whether Efren's 132 break happened then or some other time in a less formal setting.
CueTracker shows some other pool players from the Philippines who've tried their hand at snooker as well. Marlon Manalo has made a 136 and Alex Pagulayan (under Canada) a 134.
I think Efren made the 132 break at the 1987 SEA games in Jakarta, but I can't say that for sure because CueTracker doesn't have any data for that tournament. What is known for certain, though, is that Efren won the gold medal for snooker at the 1987 SEA games. He had never played snooker before but practiced for three days to get ready.This is a video of 15 year old Ronnie playing in Junior Championship when it's been alleged he spotted ER 25 points.
What year did ER allegedly score a 132 Break and never played snooker before?
This is interesting for me. At 16 in '67, I started stopping in Brighman's Pool Hall in Long Beach, ca. as I walked home from school. It had two snooker tables, one being very old from France 1700's I heard, a real snooker table that no one 'ever' played on, the pockets were two tight, a 5x10 pool table (later to be my table) and an old 4-1/2 x 9. I liked the other snooker table and the 5x10 pool table. It had a card table, old guys 60 -70 playing cards, and they played golf once in awhile.This is a video of 15 year old Ronnie playing in Junior Championship when it's been alleged he spotted ER 25 points.
What year did ER allegedly score a 132 Break and never played snooker before?