Mike Sigel
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Mike Sigel is a famous American pool player.
Sigel has won over 102 major pool tournaments, including six US Opens and five World Championships. Sigel was named "Player of the Year" three times, and is an inductee into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame.
In 2005, Sigel won the IPT World 8-ball Championship, a challenge match between him and Loree Jon Jones.
During the IPT King of the Hill event which Efren Reyes won in 2005, Sigel ran 8 racks of eight ball in a row at a practice session.
He played himself in the movie Baltimore Bullet, and was the technical advisor, instructor and sports choreographer for the shots made by Paul Newman (who won the Academy Award for Best Actor), and Tom Cruise in the movie The Color of Money.[1]
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| Preceded by Inaugural champion |
US Open Nine-ball Champion 1976 |
Succeeded by Allen Hopkins |
| Preceded by Louie Roberts |
US Open Nine-ball Champion 1980 |
Succeeded by Allen Hopkins |
| Preceded by David Howard |
US Open Nine-ball Champion 1983 |
Succeeded by Earl Strickland |
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