50 Greatest Pool Trickshots

The best in the business came together year after year to battle for the pole trickshot title. There were surprises for the crowd with dazzle and crowds cheering as the pros jumped, bounced and blasted their way to gold. This is your chance to relive the best moments. It's the top 50

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tricks, the portraits entertained crowds around the world and, from 1996 to 2007, professionals took turns showing some amazing routines to win the audience's applause and get the highest score. Winners included Fabio Patroni Vincent Beck Hi Alex Peggle. Ironing and getting down is very expensive, so with the pros lined up it's time to count down, the top 50 tricks have revealed what the best all-around trick of all time is.

Fabio Patroni kicks a magic balloon, dives into the felt and Alex Pecola and he's in a race, so let's get to work, we start with trick number 50. Alex Pegg, the lion, stepped forward to try to find a way up ball 1 and with his relaxed approach and cheeky side he was always going to please the crowd. The coach had a strange nickname for him: where did you get the name Alex the lion? From my teacher Paul Donnelly, right, because you're a fighter, yes, no, no, he just can't pronounce my last name. Surprisingly, the lion won this 2002 championship in Milton Keynes, after sharing an original display, this was one of the entertaining shots of him.

I don't know, I think it's six one two three four five five yes, of course, but it's very, very difficult. Should I explain myself again? Just look at Oliver Altman, a professional

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player. from Germany, known as the machine lists here at 49 with a combo shot, usually we're going to hit English right, English left, go ahead, draw whatever and this is probably the only shot in the world where you have to hit them all with one shot. it means you have to take a little walk in english but also not forget the left english with a little pressure it can be a little bit of following but also going back, the reason is that otherwise i can't do the 1 and 9 in this right pocket so what I'm going to do is press 1 and Cuba doesn't know what I'm doing anymore, so it looks a little weird because I have to hurry, Cuba doesn't know what I'm doing right. and then well, actually it's a bit, there's a little trick, we go back to Alex's Peggle Islands routine in 2002 and another shot that helped him secure that winning spot now, according to Alex Bruce Lee Teuk, Alex's father, this trick, well, he certainly pulled it off.

The audience laughs, okay, I'll do them all in less than two minutes. I hope it's okay, ready, oh, my father said, you have to say that and at number 47 it's me, Steve Davis, always happy to participate in trick shots, but let's be real, no. another cutting edge so I always had to get out of trouble through a blak and as we know it's good to talk to bring the 1. I just got the GSM they are not that good ok we will try to make this shot as You can see, I have a phone between his seven balls on the table, I will try to pop, hit the 4 ball, which is the first four balls, the pink ball there with a bottom and right spin that can't be right, wait a minute, prevents the stick from being ruined. my phone calls blue is fine, try the sport, really anyone is good with a lower right turn and I'm going to hit the keyboard pins in such a way that I'm going to call on the phone.

Oh, but not the quick rope I just pressed. the single button and call the full number hello it's me I'll be a little late for dinner in the oven much another pool player who participated in the 2002 competition was Fabio Patroni now Fabio plays with an Italian heart and here he ends his routine by letting his feet will speak for this I did it, I really practiced for two months joking and everything for two months for Mac downloaded just for you incredible I need for three months just two minutes to show incredible how when you cook you cook for half an hour you eat a meal, what is the number here?

Are you ready? Yeah, okay, I need to change my shoes. Hey, that's normal. It's a normal shoe. Can I play like this? Okay, so what am I going to try now? to make three balls all day, this is open, you can see the oven. Hey, okay, I just got the gut chart at issue 45. It's Mark Vickerman and a 1998 stunt at the Lakeside Mall. It was Mark's birthday and he delighted the crowd with one of his birthdays. feature a puffy sheep if you want to go around this and pick yourself up give yourself some chalk if you do this shot right you can have a whistle and we'll play right through Nancy's legs okay now you gotta be careful because if you play it if you throw too much Strong you are not Nancy and Nancy won't like that.

I'm sure the idea of ​​this shot is fine now, his dish straight to the three ball as you looked through Nancy. legs and a center ball in a straight line, hopefully you will place the 2 and 8 in the middle pockets and the three ball in the right corner pocket and the nine ball in the left corner pocket as a medium pace center with the ball so far. I've only seen a handful of tricks and there are still many more to come over the decades as a balancing act. I get help from Mike's message book and the do's and don'ts of tricks are revealed in the 50 Best Ball Trick Shops.

Welcome back. to the 50 best pool tricks a countdown of the best so far we've seen a bit of cheating, a football move and a trick involving the black sheep and there's still plenty more action for Carmody, but first our pros are out from the center of attention. As we reveal the do's and don'ts of tricking, what you need to do to perform a good trick routine is easy, these are the rules to follow. First, make your audience laugh with a collection of really funny jokes. I see a lot of people with cameras, it's okay. Kodak's small position in general is not as good as it used to be because when I started coming out of the shadows there was only Blaine, yeah, and that one used to do the work and everyone walked around, they were clean shaven and there was stuff on TV, something new It happened and these two razors came out and you saw it on TV, you saw it, but the picture he got on the first play was removing most of the hair, but only leaving a little bit there.

I did it just a little bit, but the second play came, wash it like that, yeah, so the second blade was doing a lot of damage, but obviously the metal wasn't as good because now we have the three blade knife, okay? Didn't you realize now that the second blades don't do the job in use? dude this is set up so that the first play goes well it mainly removes the second play that used to remove the block it won't go well now it's not doing its job it's just removing a little more it's the third one that's doing all the damage just some of us adults Buffett in about 50 years we will probably emerge from the grave like a washboard, a metal washboard and some would have to hold it and scrape it. down the side of your chin, take off your face, next step is to do something original, okay, dangerous shot, friends, can I get a weather report?

Can you pull out that 9 ball game and the heavens opened and the nine ball fell and this is how? The American nine ball was invented and finally keeping it lively involving the audience is always a crowd pleaser so with all those odds in mind we continued our countdown to get in line next and take number 44 is Earl the Pearl Strickland, Now Earl has a fiery temper. but on the trick field he was much more relaxed. This shot helped him get 1st place in Holland. He used to be very good at them, but I don't know that anymore.

I haven't been hunting birds in a long time. I guess that's the reason. Why is it okay? I'm going to roll them around the table and try to put them in my pocket. Wow, I knew I would miss the bird getting away. Ralph Suki makes his first appearance in issue #43. I always enjoy doing the trick. I have a small specialist in that. and I don't really practice that much, but you know, I came up with a take that I hope works. I haven't seen that the Kaiser had a very solid start in this 2002 show, but it all went a little wrong, this is one of the tricks that worked, I think so far they haven't impressed the jury in 2005.

The Dutchman Alex Riley He chose to take a shot out of chaos. That's 42 on our trick countdown. Alex is a versatile athlete and he always had a competitive routine. Okay, this is chaos. Chaos shot. I'm going to make all the balls move. I don't know exactly what's going to happen, but Abel will find his way to the side pocket. Basically what happens is this. I'm going to hit a ball. is going to eat 528 two three three balls I will reach 13 these three balls are going to move out of the way I am going to contact eleven seven eight along the rail to be held by the six ball in the side pocket that is located in the Number 41 is Alex Paga's line and one of his signature takes of the race.

He tries this trick many times but only succeeds in making the audience laugh. Shoot the nine through that railing. One two three four five rails and then I'm going to run around the table. and I'm going to try to make sure that hmm, okay guys, the bathtub is impossible in 2004, all your efforts pay off when you try the race one more time and come in 40th place: Vincent Pepe and the balancing act throughout the years that the Frenchman has tried. He works as a street artist and he also has an unusual way of coming up with tricks.

Where did you get the ideas for your shots? in my dreams in your dreams yeah okay it's too easy let's go back the other thing when you balance is when you're not in line with your eyes here he became more adventurous and in 2007 he took it a step further I'm going to balance the triangle with the chokes and the balls if I fail where is the ambulance now it's going to be very risky I'm going to tell you what I'm going to balance this with the choke with the bowl with this and another ball this is very dangerous not for you it's for me well on my nose using a member of the public always adds a bit of danger you I never know if I can line up here Alex Pagal and get help putting the eight ball in this corner.

You can do it? It is not so difficult. It's in this corner. All you have to do is hit the four ball and, like you, you know. What I mean is the eight ball in the corner, come on, this is another trick that a volunteer uses and it was always a lot of fun as long as they did it right and didn't make you look stupid. Tommy Dunn on the racks at number 38 where he puts the eight ball with a little help from a young friend and just hold the cue in your left hand at this height, try to keep it nice and steady, okay it's pretty dangerous, I keep his head out of the way, just a little closer, okay, what?

What I'm trying to do now is hit the cue ball against the 15 ball, bounce it into the air, hopefully not hitting Andrews' head, back along the rail and make the angle. One of Paul's good guys, Ralph Suka, takes the number 37 with a trick. Starting in 1999 he tells the story of when he had to throw a nine ball using only a coin and then shows the audience how it is done with a US half dollar coin. currency, so wow, what should I do with this? Well, I played a nine with it instead of playing it with the cue ball.

Wow, how should that work? So he left it here and said, shoot him with the rope. I make the line and make the movement. In 36th place is an unprepared Steve Davis. This is because I think the eighth world tricks championship. I have played in 13 world pool trick championships. I absolutely hate trick shots, especially Paul's trick shots because I can't play trick shots on a pool table, but I know. a man who can a man who unfortunately is not here in this tournament a man I am sure you know Mike Messi yes I have no financial involvement in this book but if you want to know how to play trick shots it is an excellent book, so I thought what we do is pick certain shots from this book and then try to play them now.

Well, like I say, I get a little bored with trick shots, so I thought what I'd do is say a number and then I'll play the shot that way, you don't know what shot I'm going to play and I don't know what shot I'm going to miss. , okay, so it goes up to about 230 something that 200 and about 200 not. I mean, quickly there are 200 and the children too, so a number between 2 and 200 and at 180 you threw your voice in 180 changing direction Mike says Mike says this has an expectation of 1.5% and a difficulty factor of 100 percent, okay, this shot helped me find the 2002 World Championships in Willington, Germany, after running this disaster.

I had an insurmountable 20 point lead before the last shot, so what I tried to do was hit the cue ball up the table to there and then. change direction and come back and place this ball on page 180. I recommend an almost vertical message on this and use a medium to strong stroke. When I hit it right, the cue ball will travel to point X and to the right, okay, I told you that for this one. so it's a fantastic ball in the side pocket if you hadn'tsolved that one oh, sometimes it takes me one or two tries to get this particular shot right, okay, these are the 50 best trick shots and there are still 35 tricks to come. we count down to reveal the best of the bunch after the break vincent fake devils in magic earl strickland is talking basketball and we reveal what not to do during a trick shot routine.

You're looking at the 50 Best Pool Trick Shots and I've seen some great ones so far, including these, Alex Paddles and Mocks Bruce Lee's Move. Earl Strickland executed the perfect wing shot and change of direction with the help of Mike Matty's book. Before we continue our countdown, let's take a look at the big noseless one performing. a trick shot routine there have been many routines where things have not gone as planned and these are the trick shots that should not be done first: Hit the ball, don't hit it too hard, it bothers professional players and to the judges responsible for the tables.Here is who is responsible for the tables, you are Ricky, the eyes begin.

I'll shoot you in the ass, please wash your ears, both hands in your ears and life reacts, but thanks for the acid. I've seen some of the best players doing this and you. We'll see an old Strickland and he'll do a lot of this and I really like doing it. I have no idea why we do it, but it really feels good and you really feel like a professional while doing it. it's vital to do it next, don't make a judge look like a wall-e while you play dumb from time to time, so you know how to be tough, you know how to do how hard it is to make the one in the car on the right , but could you try it for me today tonight?

Wait to sit down just do the only rail in this corner one more chance, come on Luke, come on, get on your roof almost, but I'll tell you what it really isn't. It's your fault that you got the wrong cue ball, okay, you want to train with it, people, but most importantly, don't panic, the crowd thinks you know what you're doing, we continue our countdown, next is the trick 35 and another stolen shot. Mike Messi and yes, it's me again using his book to entertain the crowd, where is that going? Oh no, it's on the other end, okay, that goes there, no, I can't wait a minute, that's there, I did it right, okay. is this is this is good this I'm going to put the nine ball without touching a cushion oh no, I'm going to play a cushion the cue ball is known to do tricks after hitting a cushion in this shot a draw shot is used to double the cue ball and pick up a row of blockers set up the shot is diagrammed instead make sure there are still four minutes left make sure you are in Freeman is 58 apply draw and came out of English at 6:30 what time at 6:30 in The Voice who is about to draw and left the Englishman who notices the wide curve that the cue ball makes as it approaches the obstruction of the ball in place if the cue ball hits outside, why shoot softer and lower if it hits?

The X ball shoots a little harder and closer to the side pocket in 2001. Ralph Suki took second place and this is one of the classic shots that he executed with style. The four-cushion jump shot. My opponent broke balls and somehow you know it and you like it that way. white ball trapped here in the pocket, 9 ball lying down for the combination and like a bowl here and there's not much you can do, I mean you can jump on the balls here, give a little jump to the qubits because the ball is frozen in the handrail. It's a little difficult to understand, so that's what you're going to do and then a friend of mine, actually also a good trick artist, Mike message showed me the solution, come on, talk a little, well, in the competition you're going to lose, but here. we're a trick shot, you always get three fries, so there was a delay like a baseball strike.

One that looks better now is the turn of the only female contender, Yasmin Ocean, who got on the table in 2007 and decided to do an original routine that spans a variety of different sports. I'm going to go to the United States now. There is a very popular sport there called American football and it is not so popular in Europe, but I hope you know a little about it. I will tell you two main ones. rules on the set in a few seconds ah, that's better, so what we have here is football. I am going to explain this to you.

In football we have a quarterback, right, the quarterback takes the ball and throws it to the other place, that's all he does. but the eight ball is very important here, here the black one, there are two runners, the runner receives the ball from the quarterback and tries to go through the opponent's entire defense and achieve a touchdown so that a ball enters the corner pocket and the eight ball, the running back, a lane into this side pocket, okay, so the main focus on the date, the touchdown and then getting to number 32 is Herbert Freeman and an unusual jump shot, so I need a little of help, maybe from this little girl I have.

Lost for this girl here, come on, very simple job for you, you don't do anything, you just lie on the table system or maybe you feel like it, yeah, you're pretty good, okay, maybe later again , so now just move here. As much as you can, you like the hand here, so perfect, small, no, not so much, not so much, then they would kill her, okay, a little bit, a little bit perfect, so what I want to do is without turning this beautiful lady In a disaster, try it. to whether this bottle will hold the jeans dress sounds super glue here I won't let you go don't think about that Jesus Christ don't hurt anyone or now for a while the 11 ball in the corner well done, but surely that could have done it. got somewhere moving on to number 31 Vincent Foucault dabbles in magic with this little card trick place all the cards if you're using the table it's fine spread the cards so I just turn one card in the deck it's fine everywhere like this okay then you're I'm going to play a shot and choose one of the balls, the blue one, okay, the blue one, then you're going to play the shot, okay, and the blue one will land too close to a card and this card will be upside down on this deck, okay? you're playing, don't do it right, what's a click again?

What is the closest card? this one this one this one is okay, the six of hearts, so usually only one card is upside down, look with me, what is the six of hearts without any There are 30 tricks left for the countdown. We left the Tignous in our top 50 shots with full tricks. It is still to come. Find out why I'll save our like a balloon. What Vincent should do as a player with his little house and what has made Stefano Kalinga so nervous. These are the 50 Greatest Pool Trick Shots where we count down the best moments so far, the trick shots that didn't make it to the top, but include Vincent Becker's balancing act, Ralph Sookay putting a ball with a coin and Herbert Freeman jumping a ball on a beautiful lady.

Next on the chart is Earl the Pearl Strickland at number 30 with a six in one shot. I think billiards and pool in our hearts are the games of the world simply because they are individual, and golf is the same individual, but you have to practice more, that's what it is. Look, I once learned how to hit a golf ball. I don't think the practices are in grappling, but in throwing or playing pool. You have one play until the day you die. There's nothing, oh, I'll take six months off, yeah. I heard a pool player say: take six months off.

Well, I hear golfers say it all the time. You did not say? Well, I'm going to throw those clubs in the closet and not play for six months and then I'll win. the next turn on my plate, okay, if that's the hopeless case, if I can quit, but if I had the luxury of not playing pool for six months, I probably never would. Glen, obviously, I can't do it because the games are too difficult and they say. there are known elements I'll tell you there are more elements on this pool table than you can see you know what you can't see them you can't hear them you can't fill them stop this from happening to you here's one of Willie's old shots: six ball, an embrasure H.

I hope I can do this. His debut in billiards was trick shots in 2005. Keshav our from Poland, is known for coming up with unusual shots with some very obscure props which he shows here first with the catapult shot so I'm going to warm up here and the ball white would jump over the balls he would hit the table he would hit the rack and hit a number seven now it's really very difficult Rob mal lien was the first Dutchman to win the world tour tricks he always has a story for his tricks and this one involves the Caped Crusader .

This is Gotham, you know Gotham, of course you know Gotham and this is Batman sitting on the drawbridge waiting for Robin. Robin is aware and the mission of the two heroes today is to free the wrong Miss Amalia Amalia is a little screen from the Netherlands, that's the girl in the little orange dress, she's here, she's sitting there, so Batman is waiting for Robin on the drawbridge, no one will run up the stairs. Release Mr. Mallya. The Joker left his castle and ran down the stairs. He takes Amalia Wissen to the exit. A beer for Robbie to draw the first card.

Mr. Mallya will block the second guard and Batman will lower the drawbridge and go after the two letters. only for his own safety will he put the drawbridge back up. I know it sounds confusing. I'll tell you again and if you don't understand my English read the subtitles next week on TV. Robin will run up the stairs. Free Miss Amalia. All the way down he says he is going to kick the first card and the second guard, Mr. Mallya, will go and they will go after them and Robin, we have reached number 27 and Alex cleverly plots with another classic shot that will make eight balls. one shot, okay, I'll do six balls, no, what do you say?, one, two, three, four, five, and I do three in the corner.

I'm going to hit the ball, the yellow one, and I'll make the red bow on the side. an arc on this side the two balls on the side five and the corner seven in that corner the white ball will go for three rails and make the three pins in the corner here, who is good to show that the wolf Keshav our not Is it all hot air? he delivers another unusual trick in 26 double Great Escape and in this shelter I will use a balloon and the craziest part is that I will put the white ball in the balloon and now the white ball is inside the balloon surrounded by other crazy balls and I am going to shoot to the balloon, but wait, it will burst and the white ball will fly over the balls, they will fall on the table and pack a dead ball.

Crazy with hopes. The reason Rob Malam won in 2005 was because his shots were very inventive. Check out This I don't really have a story to tell, so I'm sure you're sitting there, please give me a child's name, any child's name. I had a plate of boys' names, you can choose your pieces, Joseph, can you give me your girl's? Her name is Laura, beautiful ladies and gentlemen, the white ball is called Laura now and the orange ball is Joseph and Laura and Joseph, our best friends, and I want to play hide-and-seek with the two girls from the neighborhood, my story is nothing, I love you, play hide-and-seek.

Yes, Tom Axl is on the charts here at number 24, he set up the ping pong tables at totally natural sporting events and had been secretly developing a routine over the years, this was his chance at glory, As you know, I'm always unlucky, so this is what my opponent gets via a clear shot on the one and a very easy nine in the corner, but I don't, no way, we'll probably get something like this here, There is a lot of trouble to achieve it, in reality, it is still possible to make the nine ball. I have a combo shot there, but I don't, like I told you, it's a problem now.

I mean, first I have to hit the one ball, then I have to hit the nine ball and somehow, here's a double jump. I'll jump the cue ball over these. two balls hit a ball and make a ball jump or those four balls tretinoin in less than 20 attempts Earl the Pearl Strickland takes number 23 with his basketball shot, remembers his past and performs an excellent trick in the process I I I would like to tell that story with this one. Michael Jordan and I were born almost in the same county. Oh, almost in the same hospital and I think we're a year apart, but when I was a kid, I fished every day. time and play pool and I thought I was the best I made this shirt said Earl the part I called myself the squirrel then because I didn't know what to call myself said Earl the squirrel something that rhymes well and I was kind of dumb as a squirrel and I still do it I am, but anyway I made this shirt, I said Earl the squirrel, the best nine-ball player in the world, and it was on my back and one day I was sitting on a log, I said, God, there's someone around here as good as me in something and it was Jordan.

I could feel his presence, you know what I mean, but anyway I call this shot the dunk, let's try to make it, try to make five balls in honor of Jordan, a dunk, here we go, right? I think they're going to foul him on this shot, okay, five balls, he did it. Stefano Kalinga, is the sixteen-time trick champion, US Open trick champion and European trick champion, as he is known. Sir. trickshot It's been 20 years since I've been doing tricksextra because I don't want to bother. nine more players, okay, so here I'm going to place two white balls, they're frozen to scratch the balls and this is a pretty good shot.

I invited him to invent it a couple of weeks ago. I hope you like it, so in this shot there is a pocket for the striped balls. He will shoot it between two white balls, one that will jump this place and pocket 14, the other will jump here, make those two balls and do a kind of domino reaction and a ball will also be thrown into this pocket, all bosses with a single shot, what is the best trick? The player must have great cue power, especially when it comes to a messy shot with the cue at 90 degrees to the table.

A cue ball can do seemingly impossible things as Bob Down will cost these shows here with trick number six, four balls, okay, cue. Putting the ball in his pocket, it's no wonder we see Keshava well this high in the top 50 pool trick shots. He always seems to come up with something different. What a smart idea it is to use every inch of the table to help create this shot, so I hope I can do it. Pack all the balls into the five packages and I'll wait a minute, one ball and they'll get there, the jackpot. American Paul is played primarily in two dimensions, but when you add the third dimension, height, the pressure to execute is even greater. and Stefano pálinka knows it with trick number four.

This is a very tall bottle, as you can see, okay, that's the trick itself. MMM OK. I'm going to pocket the 1 ball on the side jumps of the cue ball so high that it takes the 7 out of the way. and the 9 ball falls and stays fine maybe if only I had more time I see what was wrong okay here we go again thanks this is trick number three and getting the balls to stay on top of the bottles is not it . a new idea for a trick shot, but out of sheer inventiveness it once again stalled, well, Kowski comes up with the good stuff, especially since it could all end in a soggy mess.

I think playing this with one hand only adds to the brilliance of this shot. 12 touching his white ball white ball putting green ball this ball stays in the bottles rolling okay, you understand, I know I love this shot. I make a hand, yes, once again. Snuka fans will have seen the basket shot over the years and it always surprises people how it can be done. but actually playing the jump shot while stuck, playing it with one hand is a powerful step and I think this definitely deserves to be placed at number two in the Hall of Fame of one to five one-handed shots, which hand yonow, in my opinion, this claims to be trick number one.

The art of a great trick is to come up with something that is not only skillful but also looks special. The knowledge required to play this trick is immense and must rate as one of the hardest tricks in the book, this is a monstrous shot performed by one of the

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pool players to ever hold a cue, 14 balls in one attempt and understand this. I think I tried this shot a couple of years ago and didn't make it, I hope it works this time, I'm just trying to pocket 14 balls, okay, one more drop. I think I have enough time to try one more time.

Are you running out of time. I don't know if I can establish it. three minutes, please come in, let me see if I can set this up in a minute, be difficult, be the fastest five or something, please come in. Stricklen, ladies and gentlemen, for the last two hours you have witnessed the best trick players in the world. Work your moves around the table as we count down to the number one trick of all time and what Polish players showed off their skills was Earl the Pearl Strickland who stole the show now that the world pool trick event has come to the end of his journey, I'm sure he will be greatly missed, he will live in our memories as a special event with a great mix of laughter, skillful shots, embarrassing mistakes and very willing audience members, these have been the 50 best portraits .