Efren Reyes, the world's greatest pool player ever dazzles with his skill and humility

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club network your source or louisville championship group are you ready for a night out? thank you, good evening ladies and gentlemen, and a special welcome to those who watch on the largest club network, this is day number nine of the classic derby city we are in the nine ball division, we had 345 of the best

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s in the

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starting, we are in the final format for the final four, the tournament format is a seven game single elimination race with one buyback allowed to each

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and in this particular situation, our four players have bought back, so that this will be a single elimination tournament for this point in our first semi-final, which will feature semi-final number two of James Barracks and Rob Sayez, which you'll see correctly. now it's between mika eminent and effort kings the rules of the game are the pro express version of nine ball if there is a scratch on the break it is a foul bow in the hand anywhere on the table there are no ball points except the nine any ball off the table is a foul ball in hand a push out is allowed immediately after a legal pause three consecutive fouls by the same player is a loss of the game forty-three thousand dollars in total purse in the nine-ball division eleven thousand dollars for the winner twenty thousand dollars for

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yone - around the champion who has the most points at the end of the nine days after the three tournaments are registered and ladies and gentlemen at this time we would like to introduce you to our two players for this semi-final number two, our first player is sponsored in tour by mezz q's also pure coffee former winner of the taipei peace cup the european billiards championship former wpa

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nine ball champion also former winner here at the classic derby city ladies and gentlemen, welcome from helsinki finland known as the iceman mika m monae thank you your opponent is sponsored on the tour by puyat sports player representative of the beer cases san miguel and jack justice two time eight ball world champion former espn ultimate nine ball challenge winner three time world champion our defending international champion superstar known as the magician welcome from the republic of the philippines sir

efren

reyes

thank you gentlemen you may be late for the first break please visit chalkoff.com Or call your local dealer and ask for it by name, which is Eminem Complete Pool Table Cleaner. lag wins this time we would like to give the floor to the guys in the booth mr. billyann cardona and danny d liberto it's all yours boys the blue club network presents the west executive hotel in louisville kentucky the 7th annual derby city classic along with danny delibero this is bill in cardona and louisville hosts a standing room only crowd danny this is the third division of this tournament there was a bank

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division in a pocket division and now this is the nine ball division there are only four players left in a field of 345 people to see who is crowned champion of the nine ball division balls, tonight's main matchup is between mika eminent and

efren

reyes

danny, well, you know we're televising this particular match, but we have the other semi-final going on. the other table rob syaz and jamie uh uh what was barracks jamie barracks and the reason I didn't know the name that well is because he's a new player, I'd n

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really heard of him, but he's in the final four, so that is the winner of that table. play the winner of this table, keep in mind that this is a very short race to seven and the difference in playability is actually the difference in quality of play between these two players is very small when you play nine ball, particularly in a short career to seven now kings is considered the best player in the world today, but mika imminent is not far behind, well, he was ranked number one one year in particular, but the important thing about this short career is that the balls They break on this table. and when you brake on the left side, the ball from the left corner goes to this left pocket and vice versa, so I hope that whoever breaks will have the opportunity to run away.

It was very important for Nikki to jump out the door quickly. a good chance at rack number one as you just saw but you couldn't score the combination 1-5 now walk up to the table all the balls are in the open air and then you will know as well as anyone when all the balls are in the open air and the Mr. Ray is at the table, he takes care of business. Yes, you should have the rack in your hand ready to play the next game, especially the way they are sitting. You know this is a pretty easy layout to have if you want to call out a problem spot.

Right now, the one for both of us might be the only chance to go straight and that's easy. We follow the white ball two cushions out of the corner to find the position of both. The three ball is placed on the same rail as the two, so you may have to end up taking a slightly longer shot on the three than you wanted, but it shouldn't be too much of a problem. Note that you have very small pockets, now the angle from which you should shoot freely is a difficult angle. so you have to make this shot cleanly yeah this seems to be the only problem and I guess to do this you took a little more time to prepare and shoot that shot now that that shot is over and I'm sure you're glad that has finished. because that was the tough shot in this accident, i don't see any problem here, especially damn reyes, sometimes look at this guy, he hit him a little harder, he could have been sneaked, but he still would have kicked him somehow , now there's a bit of a problem here because you're placing quite awkwardly on the six, you may have to go around the nine because trying to control the cue ball where the sixth is right now may be a problem, that's what is going to do, he will go around the nine traveling a little further. with the cubic ball but a fair compensation it has a better shot on the eight yes it's pretty good here I just have to make the ball and back off the shot a little from the good point it moved forward I had a little angle I wanted to get as close as possible to nine, which you always try to do, the first shot to nine in this match is not considered easy, but it should handle it well, I mean, one take one, nothing lately, I'm curious to see where it is.

I'm going to break because all the breakers have been breaking from the right side and doing the right corner, but some of them play very well from that side if the corner ball goes, but not as consistently as from the right side, let's see what's happening here. and where it's going to break it from, well Danny, you've had the benefit of doing a lot of matching on this feature table and commenting on a lot of magic on this table, so if anyone knows the features of this table in terms. of breaking the balls you do it how about your breakfast the six goes here we go the six is ​​the ball of the wing in the left hand I tell you I will put your two breakfasts to one I will tell you that that is approximately the percentage that is I have been going eight out of ten times and maybe the one on the side too oh we did the one on the side anyway all six missed by a hair but I was wrong but look at the way they stopped okay very fast you can see that . the three is out in the open near the lower right corner the four is on top of the table adjacent to the cue ball the five ball is to the right of the foot point the six is ​​near the left rail near the side pocket the seven is below the black eight so six to seven is a little bit of a problem and also five to six so you're going to have to find a good angle on the five now you're looking to see if the five passes the seven because that's the pocket in which you would like to play position four for five.

Yes, if you play position for that corner pocket, then you will be able to move freely around the table without having to get into the potential interfering seven ball, so you will play position. this stops the five in the bottom left corner and in fact once it moves the five lands on the seven, it's an easier shot because you don't have that to deal with, but you have to make a pretty good shot towards the six. that has a good landing angle for the right seven, so he's got some work on this rack, but that's what he gets paid for and he's been paid pretty well lately, he's one of the most successful pool players in all times, financially well.

This is kind of interesting, he's pretty flat at the five, he'll end up shooting the clubs into the top left corner, but he has to find an angle now as he goes under the cue ball, which indicates or at least tells. I say no, he is not going to play the position with the six in the upper left corner. He is looking to play a six position in the bottom left corner. That could be a problem. He really doesn't feel comfortable with this Danny, no. it got funny, it would be cool here if you can do this and sit on that side rail, you'll have an angle to get to the seven if you go in that direction, which you did now, okay, that's right where I first thought there should be gone, he didn't feel very comfortable with that, so he took a look at the other possibility and ended up shooting this one here, which I think he made a straight decision, particularly now the way he placed the six very well. executed very well, sold out, it was a good performance until this particular shelf performed very well, yeah, there's no problem here and you know, and Mika might start thinking about the last shelf when it failed, you know, that's all that You have to do with someone like Efrén. make a mistake and you'll be deep in the hole, especially after he's holed the side one because he's playing that ball, so if he has the good feeling to hole the side one, Mickey may not have too many appearances in the table considering that if kings is pocketing the one on the side he will have that opportunity who wants to run the balls that is rack number two he also goes after his path takes the nut that run cuts the seconds and again you will have to Sit there, Mika, and wait Don't make a ball on the brake.

That's a big hope because they're balling up the brakes and keep in mind that Nikki had a shot at the number one rack when she balled up a break. had to make a combination, it wasn't an easy combination but it wasn't very difficult either, so if he had made it, we might have seen it on the table now instead of kings, which doesn't lead to anything right, but kings is the man at the table and with the break on shelf number three he will get that break because as you say he has played some games here and I have seen some and it is the corner, I say the eight goes in the pack from the right corner.

Directly on notice, the one on the side that they are both have been going, but that is the ball that they are going to pay for the one on the side, fortunately for the imminent situation, the two balls found the position, but behind the five oranges they did not allow to the kings on the table with an offensive shot, he has to look elsewhere, I think he will try to fan the two and put it behind a nine, he has a good safe there and he has such good cue ball control, that That's what you're doing, an excellent observation and you got it right. in my head when he said he has great ball control and I've been talking for days about how when you go play snooker with a guy, it's a lot bigger if you freeze the guy with the ball you're sniffing with because he it takes away a lot of kicks, that's the strength of being able to pocket balls on the brake and I said a little before that if you pocket the one on the side regularly, then you have control of the table when you make an effort and go up to control the table, no It matters a lot if the ball is put right or not, he will find a way to win the game, you know what he has here Billy, I don't know if he knows it himself, he has that trick where you shoot. on the railing and jumps on the knife, you see it, the side railing, I don't know if it's going to hit it somehow, you know the shine I'm talking about, I mean, it's going to rise, hit, raise a little bit, hit the side. the rail goes straight to nine and you have the opportunity to do both, you know you are a very, very creative man and a very creative player and the more I look at this situation, the more I tend to agree with that yes, if rises over the nine by shooting the cue ball towards the right sideline, the cue ball then jumps over the nine and hits the two with a very very low shooting percentage, but it may not have anything else, no, no, it's a percentage low, but it's There's going to be a lower percentage to do more than that and hit the two and you know in this place if I had any chance when I say there's an impossible kick or an almost impossible kick, tie the balls if you can, but he does not.

In that position, well, unfortunately, Reyes has frozen the cue ball solidly against the nine, which prevents him from tying any balls because the only two balls he can see are the nine and the three, and I don't think you can tie either ball. two. one of those two, then he has to do something, now he looks, he is going to shoot well, I hope so, because he is supposed to know the shot well, you must have it in your repertoire, you know that"Come on, be good." There's nothing to do, okay, he's going to kick the inside of this one and he looks at the nine ball, he may end up kicking the one behind the five, well, it looks like he's hitting it, I'm telling you the truth, yes, he did.

Oh, you were wrong. "Yes, he was cutting it, he cut it too much, he did it badly, but in the meantime he hasn't done anything that bad. I don't think he has a pocket for that one, yes, and if he plays pool he can do it." Not controlling the one, it will be difficult from controlling the one if he plays pool, so you know nothing has been easy for anything imminent, nothing at all, he needs an easy start and look where the three of them are sitting, nothing is sitting, no . and sometimes the balls just don't cooperate and in this case the balls and so onSo far in this match the balls haven't cooperated imminently, well you know what it is, you know, I firmly believe in this, the balls are telling them no you should have missed that first attack and now they will punish you and that's it.

What's that? Well, you can afford to make a mistake or two against uh, yeah, you're just a human, just a top-level player, humans, but when you're playing someone from Mars, you better not do it right, okay? , now he played. all five, I think he shot that shot as well as you could, trust me, that shot was a great shot, he got it off the top shelf and got the best shot possible, so you know he's taking it, but I don't know how get to the two very easily, I think if you save the one you can brush the pink four and send them towards the two, okay we'll see this is tricky anyway and that's what you expect when a guy losing six , not at all good, he was able to avoid it before landing nicely for two and finding a decent angle on two to drop the cross table for three.

Now, this shot keep in mind that it is a difficult shot because you will have to hit it with speed and when you hit this type of shot with speed that pocket becomes very small, also you have to go directly into the three or you have no chance of position, you gotta go right into the three, well it's like you're saying billy, he's just had too rough a start here, you know it wasn't a Mickey Mouse design, a lot of work to do and he didn't lose six anything to Efrén, he just didn't do it handled, you know, you have to admit it was a tough jump-off, absolutely, absolutely.

He thought that when he got on the two the way he did, he had a legitimate chance to go that route. Now that's not going to work either, so that's not going to work. For power, he will have a really difficult shot with this rod unless he crosses. Yes, he could, he could go back the other way, but I don't think the angle he has is conducive to hitting a shot at four in terms of the speed of the cue ball. It looks like the bank will take the shot. the cue ball is going too fast now here we go he is going to put maximum forehands in english on this shot he cuts the three in the corner and floats the cue ball across the table this shot if he shoots this shot this certainly demands the most precise of shots that he puts his fingers where he would like to be when the three are done, let's see if he can get there and it was a little bit south of the second diamond and if he can execute this shot, this is something we will come back to. because it's going to be a beautiful execution, he played it safe and that's what Elsie, I guess she had going for her, oh yeah, it was like oh anyway, but what you said, was that she played it safe, you know there was some merit in what yes.

I mean, he knew he had a chance to catch Mika if he fired that shot because of all those interfering balls. If he failed, he had the chance to do this, of course, it turned out better than that. He has a two-way kick. a big ball, i think i would hit it anyway no, i don't do it well, it's another effort to pack your bag here, i mean, mika has no rebuy, this is the semi-finals, the final tournament of our three tournament package and can really pack. his bags if he loses this game and megan eminem before this match started, imagine him getting the trophy winning the inaudible event, you know, he sure did and to see this, you know, if you're doing something imminent, you really have to be pretty frustrated , You know?

He's playing well, but there's a lot of pressure playing against Reyes, especially if you fall behind for three, four or five games and you see something that you know is doubly difficult, that's what he's done. He looked at Iraq, it was very difficult. my favorite design we are not going to do an interview we are going to wait until the final match is over because they are going to play shortly and we don't want to take their brains out of their work seven nothing good I'm going to tell you something, you will have to have come to come with a special effort and have a little luck to beat reggae 952.

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