| Efren Reyes is a Filipino dual world champion, widely | | | | he won all his single matches, collecting the "Most |
| considered one of the all-time greats in 9-ball and | | | | Valuable Player" award. In 2008, Drago won the |
| one-pocket pool. Reyes has won numerous worldwide | | | | Predator International 10-ball Championship, beating |
| tournaments, setting a record by earning $646,000 in | | | | Francisco Bustamante. His total career earnings |
| 2006. His total career earnings are in the region of $1.7 | | | | amount to £1 million from snooker and 133,000 |
| million. Greatly vexing wife Susan, Reyes habitually | | | | from pool. Drago is heavily involved in charity |
| gives his money away to good causes and it was she | | | | exhibitions, raising money for "Hearing Dogs for Deaf |
| who encouraged him to open his first bank account, | | | | People." |
| with a deposit of 40,000 Philippine pesos (less than | | | | German Oliver Ortmann has been Europe's most |
| £600). | | | | successful pool player since the early 1990s, with 250+ |
| Johnny "The Scorpion" Archer is a Billiard Congress of | | | | tournament wins. Having turned professional in 1989, he |
| America Hall of Fame inductee. One of the most | | | | won his first US Open later the same year and again |
| successful 9-ball competitors of the past 2 decades, | | | | in 1993. He became the first European World 9-Ball |
| he has won most major tournaments at least once. | | | | Champion in 1995 and collected the WPA Straight Pool |
| 2003 was prosperous, with Archer collecting the | | | | title in 2007. |
| Sudden Death 7-Ball tournament and Inaugural World | | | | Another multiple- winning German is Ralf "The Kaiser" |
| Summit of Pool. He was also successful in the | | | | Souquet, including the 1996 WPA World 9-Ball |
| winner-takes-all 2006 International Challenge of | | | | Championship (runner-up in 2001 and 2006), 2002 US |
| Champions, pocketing $50,000 for his efforts and also | | | | Open 9-Ball Championship and a particularly lucrative |
| won the Texas Hold 'Em Billiards Championship in | | | | 2008 WPA World 8-Ball Championship worth $60,000. |
| 2007. | | | | Finn Mika "Ice Man" Immonen is the current, dual (2008 |
| Amongst the ladies, Allison "Duchess of Doom" Fisher | | | | & 2009) US Open 9-Ball Champion, collecting $40,000 |
| an English professional pool (and former professional | | | | on each occasion. Runner-up in the 2009 World |
| snooker) player, has been extremely successful since | | | | Straight Pool Championship, Immonen was successful |
| her transition, with 50 WPBA titles, including 4 wins in | | | | in the International Challenge of Champions and the |
| the World 9-Ball Championships, 8 consecutive major | | | | World 10-Ball Championship. |
| tournament victories in 2000-01 and prize money of | | | | Daryl "The Dazzler" Peach from Castleford, West |
| £110,000 in 2005, with earning to date in excess of | | | | Yorkshire became the first British male to succeed in |
| $600,000. | | | | the WPA World 9-Ball Championship when defeating |
| Tony "The Maltese Whippet" Drago is a professional | | | | Filipino Roberto Gomez in 2007, landing a prize of |
| pool and former snooker player, renowned for his | | | | $100,000. |
| quick play. He won the 2003 World Pool Masters | | | | The weekend of 24th-25th April 2010 sees the |
| Tournament and reached the quarter finals of the | | | | second GB 9-Ball Paul Medati Trophy, with UK and |
| World Snooker Championship in the same year. Drago | | | | European players seeking to raise funds for MacMillan |
| was a member of the victorious European team at | | | | Cancer Care, at the request of Medati's widow, Cheryl. |
| the 2007 and 2008 Mosconi Cups. In the former event | | | | |