Pool Legends

Alex The Killer Pixie Pagulayan is a Filipino Canadian professional famous for fearless attacking play and one of the best one pocket games…

Allison The Duchess of Doom Fisher dominated women's pool more completely than any player of the modern era. After winning eleven world sno…

Arthur Babe Cranfield was an American straight pool professional who won the World Straight Pool Championship in 1964. Cranfield was a Juni…

Buddy The Rifleman Hall was one of the most accurate ball pocketers of the 1980s and 1990s nine ball circuit. Born in Metropolis, Illinois,…

Carmen DiPlacido was a Pennsylvania based one pocket and straight pool specialist active from the late 1960s through the 2000s. He was one…

Charlie Hillbilly Bryant was a Tennessee based road action and trick shot artist who became one of the most beloved figures of the Derby Ci…

Charlie Williams is a Korean American touring pro best known as the founder and promoter of the World Pool Series and the Dragon Promotions…

Cisero Murphy was the first African American world pocket billiards champion. Born in Brooklyn, he overcame open racial exclusion from many…

Cliff Joyner was one of the strongest American one pocket players of the 1980s and 1990s and a perennial threat on the southern action room…

Corey The Prince of Pool Deuel emerged from Pennsylvania in the late 1990s as one of the most innovative players of his generation. He pion…

Danny Kid Delicious Diliberto was an American road action and tournament player active from the 1950s through the 1990s, equally accomplish…

Dennis Robocop Orcollo is the most prolific tournament winner in modern cue sports — a Filipino professional whose career win total now exc…

Earl The Pearl Strickland was the most feared American nine ball player of the 1980s and 1990s — a streak shooter with a confrontational on…

Efren Reyes — universally called The Magician — is widely regarded as the greatest all around pool player who ever lived. Born in Pampanga,…

Ewa The Striking Viking Mataya Laurance is a Swedish American professional who was the dominant women's player of the 1980s and one of the…

Francisco Django Bustamante was Efren Reyes's most successful contemporary among the Philippine first wave of internationally touring pros,…

Gail Eaton is a longtime American women's professional who was a fixture on the early WPBA / WPA women's tour through the 1980s. Eaton was…

Gerda Hofstatter is an Austrian professional who was a fixture in the WPBA top 10 through the 1990s and 2000s. Hofstatter won the WPA World…

Helena Thornfeldt is a Swedish professional who was one of Europe's strongest women's players through the 1990s and 2000s. Thornfeldt won t…

Irving The Deacon Crane was Willie Mosconi's most consistent rival through the 1940s and 1950s and one of the greatest straight pool player…

Jeanette The Black Widow Lee was the most recognisable face of women's pool through the 1990s and 2000s, combining tournament success with…

Jim King James Rempe was one of the dominant American touring pros of the 1970s and 1980s, accomplished across every major pocket billiards…

Johnny The Scorpion Archer was the most decorated American nine ball player of the 1990s after Earl Strickland, and continued to win into t…

Jose Toro Mendoza is a Mexican American tournament player who emerged from the Texas action room scene in the 1980s and competed on the Cam…

Jose Amang Parica was the first Filipino professional to relocate full time to the United States and is widely credited with opening the Am…

Karen The Irish Invader Corr followed the same UK snooker to US pool path as her contemporary Allison Fisher, and quickly established herse…

Kelly Kwikfire Fisher is a British professional who followed Allison Fisher's snooker to pool path and emerged as one of the dominant WPBA…

Kim Davenport was one of the strongest American nine ball players of the late 1980s and early 1990s, a top ranked tournament finisher and M…

Kim Shaw (née Pierce) is an American professional who emerged as one of the top young WPBA players of the late 2010s. Shaw won the WPBA Pla…

Larry Hubbart is a Tennessee based banks pool and one pocket specialist who has won more major bank pool titles than any other contemporary…

Larry Nevel is a Wisconsin born nine ball and banks specialist who emerged on the American tournament circuit in the 1990s as one of the mo…

Loree Jon Hasson (née Jon) became the youngest world cue sports champion of any discipline in 1979 at age 14, winning the World Open Pocket…

Luther Wimpy Lassiter, born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, was one of the greatest all discipline players of the post WWII era and a de…

Mark Wilson is an American professional, instructor, and head coach of the Lindenwood University Belleville cue sports program — the first…

Max Eberle is an American tournament player and artistic pool specialist who has won multiple WPA World Artistic Pool Championship titles.…

Mika Immonen — The Iceman — is Finland's most decorated cue sports player. Known for an unflappable, deliberate game, he was a fixture on t…

Mike Massey is the most famous trick shot artist in the modern history of pool — a Tennessee born performer who has been the public face of…

Mike Captain Hook Sigel was the most consistent American tournament champion of the late 1970s and 1980s, winning more than 100 major profe…

Monica Webb is an American professional who was one of the top WPBA ranked players of the late 2000s and 2010s. Webb won multiple WPBA Clas…

Nick Varner is one of the most decorated American pool professionals of all time, with more than 100 major tournament titles spanning strai…

Niels The Terminator Feijen is the Netherlands' most successful cue sports player and one of the few moderns equally dangerous in straight…

Onofrio Lauri was a Brooklyn born professional and one of the great straight pool players of the 1930s and 1940s — a contemporary and rival…

Ralf Kaiser Souquet has been Germany's most successful cue sports export — a fixture in the world top 10 for more than 25 years and the Eur…

Robin Bell Dodson is a long tenured American WPBA professional and instructor active from the 1980s onward. Bell won multiple WPBA Classic…

Shane Van Boening — universally known as SVB — has been America's top nine ball player for the better part of the 2010s and 2020s. Born in…

Steve The Miz Mizerak was the bridge between the post Mosconi straight pool era and the modern nine ball game. A four time US Open Straight…

Thorsten Hohmann broke into international competition as a teenager and quickly demonstrated that he was one of the most complete multi dis…

Tony The Silent Assassin Robles is a New York based touring pro and one of the longest serving figures of the East Coast competitive scene.…

Vivian The Texas Tornado Villarreal is a San Antonio born American professional who was one of the WPBA's top three players through much of…

Willie Mosconi, known as Mr. Pocket Billiards , was the dominant straight pool player of the twentieth century. Born in Philadelphia, he wo…