Efren Reyes Billiards Highlights

Magician "BaTa" Efren “Bata” Reyes is more popularly known in the world of pool as “The Magician.” He is the first non-American winner of the US Open Nine Ball Championship and named by the United States Billiards Media Association’s (USBMA) the best player of the decade. Efren is the first player in WPA history to win world championships in two different disciplines. The AZ Billiards Money List named him as the top earning pool player five times. He is also the recipient of the Philippine Legion of Honor and was bestowed the Philippine Order of Lakandula "Champion for Life Award." Why Efren Bata Reyes is Extraordinary? Known as “The Magician,” Efren “Bata” Reyes is one of the world’s most famous pool player alive today. He holds the record of being the first non-American winner of the US Open Nine Ball Championship and the first player in WPA history to win world championships in two different disciplines. Efren was propelled to international fame after ...

THE MAGICIAN And so, the legend goes something like this… A man rushed in and shouted, “He’s got a game!” And before he could barely get those words out, chaos and madness ensued. In a scene that looked something like a bell being tolled before an impending biblical plague, the congregation made a manic dash towards the door. Tournament players watched, at first in bemusement, and later in a dispiriting sense of abandonment, as the crowd rushed away from their tables, like miners to Mokelumne River during the Gold Rush. People stood four and five rows deep around Table 25 in the far corner, with those in the back standing on chairs, boxes or anything else they could find. They were a discordant bunch. College kids with University of Tennessee hoodies. Gun-slinging cowboy types with curled moustaches and pointy-toed boots. Punk kids with earrings and spiky hair. Skinny slackers with goatees and Pink Floyd T-shirts. Professorial types with their sweater vests, blacks with comb...