Pool Player Archive

  • Wu Chia-ching-01

    Wu Chia-ching

    Wu Chia-ching is a professional pool player. He is nicknamed the “Taisun” (“Little Genius”).

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  • Johnny Archer-01

    Johnny Archer

    Johnny Archer (born 12 November 1968 in Waycross, Georgia) is an American professional pool player. He is nicknamed “the Scorpion” (his zodiac sign is Scorpio, and one of his sponsors is Scorpion Cues). On June 8, 2009, Johnny Archer was nominated to be inducted into...

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  • Takeshi Okumura-01

    Takeshi Okumura

    Takeshi Okumura is a Japanese professional pool player. He started playing pool at 16 and turned professional ten years later.

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  • Niels Feijen-01

    Niels Feijen

    Niels Feijen (born 3 February 1977) is a professional pool player, from in the Hague, Netherlands. His nickname is “the Terminator”.

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  • Ralf Souquet-01

    Ralf Souquet

    Ralf Souquet (born 29 November 1968 in Eschweiler, Germany) is a German professional pool player. His nicknames are “The Kaiser” and “The Surgeon.” Since 1981, he has won more than 250 tournament titles, including 41 German Championship titles and 34 European Championship titles.

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  • Oliver Ortmann-01

    Oliver Ortmann

    Oliver Ortmann (born 11 June 1967) is a German top professional pool player whose nickname is “The Machine”. He is renowned not only as a World Champion in Nine-Ball but also in the resurgent discipline of 14.1 or straight pool.

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  • Thorsten Hohmann-01

    Thorsten Hohmann

    Thorsten Hohmann (born 14 July 1979 in Fulda, Germany) is a German professional pool player, nicknamed “the Hitman.” He has been described as having a steely demeanor, and being a very precise player.

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  • Darren Appleton-01

    Darren Appleton

    Darren Appleton (born 8 February 1978 in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England) is a British pool (pocket billiards) player, nicknamed “Dynamite”. He won the first WPA World Ten-ball Championship in 2008 against Wu Chia-ching, the former world champion in both nine-ball and eight-ball from Taiwan. With...

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  • Shane Van Boening-01

    Shane Van Boening

    Shane Van Boening (born 14 July 1983) is an American professional pocket billiards (pool) player from Rapid City, South Dakota, currently ranked No.1 in the U.S. Rankings published by the UPA Tour. Van Boening is hearing-impaired and uses a hearing aid, but it has not...

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  • Mika Immonen-01

    Mika Immonen

    Mika Immonen (born 17 December 1972 in London, United Kingdom) is a Finnish professional pool player, especially of nine-ball, and nicknamed “the Ice Man.”

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