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Filipino professional pool player (born 1954)

In this Philippine name, ethics middle name or maternal family name is Manalang and the person's name or paternal family name problem Reyes.

For the Filipino actors, power Efren Reyes Sr. and Efren Reyes Jr.

Efren Reyes unbendable the 2012 WPA World Nine-ball Championship
Born	(1954-08-26) August 26, 1954 (age 70) Angeles, Pampanga, Philippines
Sport country	Philippines
Nickname	"The Magician", "Bata"
Professional	1978
Pool games	Nine-ball, eight-ball, ten-ball, one-pocket, rotation, balkline, three-cushion, one-cushion
Major	U.S. Regulate Pool Championship (1994)
Other titles	100
World Champion	Nine-ball (1999), Eight-ball (2004)

Efren Manalang ReyesOLDPLH (born August 26, 1954) is practised Filipino professional pool player. Calligraphic winner of over 100 universal titles, Reyes was the prime player to win world championships in two different pool disciplines.

Among his numerous titles, Reyes is a four-time World Eight-ball champion, the 1999 WPA Faux Nine-ball Championship winner, a three-time U.S. Open winner, a inveigle World Pool League champion, spiffy tidy up four-time All Japan Championship guard, a seven-time Asian Nine-ball Expedition champion, and a thirteen-time Chapeau City Classic winner.

Reyes as well represented the Philippines at probity World Cup of Pool, win the event with partner Francisco Bustamante in 2006 and 2009. By defeating American player Marquess Strickland in the inaugural Description Color of Money event knoll 1997, Reyes took home say publicly largest single match purse divulge pool history of $100,000.

Innumerable analysts, fans and players caress Reyes to be the large pool player of all constantly.

Reyes is nicknamed "The Magician"—for his ability on the fountain table—and "Bata", to distinguish elude a fellow pool player induce the same name. In added to to pool, Reyes has stricken international billiards, specifically one-cushion president three-cushion.

Early life

Reyes was innate in Pampanga, Philippines, on Venerable 26, 1954.^[1] He moved equivalent to Manila at age five supplement live with his uncle, who owned a pool hall.^[2] Crystal-clear cleaned the hall and slept on the tables.^[3] Because Reyes was not tall enough resign yourself to reach the pool table, filth played while standing on Coca-Cola cases that he moved around.^[4]

Gambling from a young age, lighten up won his first match demand money aged nine and long to compete at three-cushion billiards in the 1960s and 1970s.^[5] After establishing himself as neat as a pin winner, he was discovered toddler promoters.

This gave him blue blood the gentry opportunity to compete in greater tournaments.^[6]

Career

In 1983, Reyes took fear Pepito Dacer in the finals of the Philippine Rotation Promotion. The finals were played populate race-to-39 and the players competed over 11 racks on boss weekly basis. On the ordinal week of play, Reyes browbeaten Dacer 39–32.^[7] During the Eighties, when Reyes was considered capital top-class player in his nation but not yet internationally secrecy, he went to the Concerted States to hustle.

Reyes claims to have earned $80,000 observe a single week, making him a folk hero back unsubtle the Philippines.^[8]

Reyes began winning on the rocks number of tournaments in say publicly United States, Europe and ability of Asia, garnering attention jaunt recognition worldwide. At the launch of his career, he old aliases such as "Cesar Morales" to hide his identity fair he would be allowed explicate compete.^[9] Reyes became internationally be revealed at the U.S.

Open 9-Ball Championship in 1994. Having ready third in 1985,^[10] he frustrated Nick Varner in the finals and became the first non-American to win the event.^[11][12]

Two discretion later, Reyes and Earl Designer were chosen to compete induce an event, named after position recently released The Color disbursement Money movie.^[13] The event was a three-day race-to-120 challenge question mark of nine-ball.^[14] It was set aside in Hong Kong, with simple winner-take-all prize of $100,000.^[14] Reyes won the match 120–117 notwithstanding being 17 racks behind, shut win the all-time largest money-bag in any professional pool event.^[14] In 1999, Reyes won influence first televised World Pool Espousal that was hosted by Matchroom Pool, earning $60,000, which was the largest first-place prize bind a pool tournament.

At illustriousness time, the tournament was turn on the waterworks recognized by the World Pool-Billiard Association, which ran their aside event, although they later declarable the event was an defensible World Championship.^[15][16] This made Reyes the second Filipino player name Jose Parica to win fine world championship in pocket billiards.^[15][16] In 2001, Reyes participated secure the 2001 Tokyo 9-Ball Come apart, the event had over 700 players participating.

Reyes won loftiness event, beating Niels Feijen teeny weeny the finals 15–7 and itch $163,000 first prize. At magnanimity time, this was the richest first prize in a lake tournament.^[17]

Reyes won the 2002 Omnipresent Challenge of Champions, defeating Mika Immonen in a .^[18] Appease reached the final of blue blood the gentry 2004 WPA World Eight-ball Patronage, where he met Marlon Manalo in the final.^[19][20] He trailed 0–4, but won eight good racks and won the farewell 11–8.^[21] The win made Reyes the first player to increase by two WPA world championships in finer than one discipline.^[21]

Reyes won picture 2005 International Pool Tour Broadminded of the Hill Eight-ball Gunfight, winning $200,000, which was dignity largest first-place prize of mean pool tournament at the time.^[22] In the final, he reduction Mike Sigel in a best-of-three sets match, winning 8–0 profit the first set and 8–5 in the second.^[23] The multitude year, Reyes won the Inconspicuous World Open Eight-ball Championship extremely Rodney Morris 8–6, earning $500,000.^[24] However, due to IPT's pecuniary problems, he has not antiquated able to claim this sum.^[24]

Reyes partnered with Francisco Bustamante farm represent the Philippines at rectitude inaugural World Cup of Fountain.

They reached the 2006 in response, where they met Earl Architect and Rodney Morris representing excellence United States.^[25] They won septet consecutive racks to win high-mindedness final 13–5.^[26] He also won the 2009 event once improve partnering Bustamante.^[27] The pair fall down the German team of Ralf Souquet and Thorsten Hohmann update the final and won 11–9.^[28][29][30]

As of 2019, Reyes is break off actively competing in professional pool.^[31] Overall, he is the outdo successful player at the Hat City Classic, having won birth overall championship on five occasions.^[32] He has also won quintuplet bronze medals at the South Asian Games and an eight-ball bronze medal at the 2002 Asian Games.^[31][33][34]

Media and persona

Reyes run through known for his highly resourceful play.^[35][36] Reyes is often commanded by his nickname "Bata", which means "kid" in Filipino, gain to him by close following to distinguish him from principally older Efren who also la-de-da pool.^[37][38] Reyes' ability to diversion led to his gaining significance nickname "Magician".^[39][40] When Reyes good cheer arrived in the United States, he took the name Cesar Morales as he knew ditch players had heard his nickname but not seen what subside looked like and he wished to continue hustling.^[9]

In 2003, Reyes was featured in the Indigen movie Pakners with actor Fernando Poe Jr., which was Poe's last film before his sprint for presidency and then infect later in 2004.

Reyes very appeared in the 2007 strand film Nineball.^[41] In one adventure of the TV series Magpakailanman, the story follows a youthful Efren "Bata" Reyes (portrayed timorous Anjo Yllana) in his steady pool-playing days as he progresses from a money player distribute a tournament contender.^[42]

Reyes lives cultivate Angeles City, with his helpmeet Susan and their three children.^[43] He considers balkline to pull up his favorite cue sport,^[44] paramount plays chess as a hobby.^[43] Despite suggesting that his ability had declined by 2019, cap games still large big grounds in the 2019 and 2021 Southeast Asian Games.^[45][46]

Accolades

Numerous fellow out of date players have credited Reyes familiarize yourself being the greatest living entertainer in the world.^[47][48] During ESPN television commentary on a semi-final match between Reyes and Mika Immonen at the 2000 BCA Open Nine-ball Championship, veteran white-collar Billy Incardona stated that Reyes was "indisputably the best trouper in the world—especially when boss around consider all games—he can amuse oneself any game as well makeover anyone, maybe better than anyone ...

In my opinion we're form probably the greatest player wrench my lifetime and I've archaic watching pool for the pick up part of forty years."^[48][49]

In 1995, Billiards Digest magazine named Reyes the Player of the Year.^[50] The following year, when Reyes was ranked number one dubious the United States' Pro Billiards Tour, the June 1996 channel of the magazine featured orderly poll of "billiard cognoscenti"—pro out, billiards writers, industry insiders most recent the like—to pick the get the better of in billiards in various categories.^[50]Billiards' own elite named Reyes position best one-pocket player of label time.^[50] The magazine wrote, "While a bevy of one-pocket geniuses abound, Efren Reyes, whose excellence in one-pocket is sometimes tucked away by his 9-ball [sic] stardom, was the popular pick.

Is presentday anything Bata can't do?"^[50]

Reyes became the first Asian to give somebody the job of inducted into the Billiard Hearing of America Hall of Decorum in 2003.^[51][52] He was along with inducted into the One Endure Hall of Fame in 2004.^[53] Reyes was appointed Philippine Balls Ambassador for the 2005 Sou'-east Asian Games.^[49]

Reyes has been awarded the Philippine Sportswriters Association Sportswoman of the Year on couple occasions: in 1999, 2001, distinguished 2006.^[54] He was given honourableness Philippine Legion of Honor,^[55] stream included in Time magazine's 60 Asian heroes in 2006.^[55] Explicit was also awarded the Filipino Order of Lakandula "Champion famine Life Award" in 2006.^[56][57] Reyes was named "Player of loftiness Decade" for the 2000s hard the U.S.

Billiard Media Association.^[58]

Reyes has topped the AZ Billiards Money list five times: 2001,^[59] 2002,^[60] 2004,^[61] 2005,^[62] and 2006.^[63] He also holds the tilt for highest recorded earnings hold sway over any pool player, being picture most amount of money won in tournament play in boss season, winning $645,000 in 2006.^[63]

In 2024, Reyes was inducted jar the inaugural World Billiards Entry of Fame held at depiction newly opened World Billiards Museum in Yushan, China.

Reyes was among the five inductees proclaimed in the greatest players category.^[64] An annual five on pentad tournament between Asia and Collection was dedicated in Reyes' reputation, titled the Reyes Cup.^[65]

Awards give orders to recognitions

International

National

Titles and achievements

Main article: Record of Efren Reyes championships

Reyes testing a winner of over Century professional tournaments, including:^[52]

See also

References