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Fisher is an English professional pool player who was also a previous professional snooker player. She was only 17 when she first won her very first World title. And for the record, she has won about 80 national titles and 11 world titles as total.

With her incomparable record, Fisher has always earned the impression of being a consummate pool athlete. For a good number of times, she was also considered the highest earning player, that including both male and female players.

She was just 7 when she first picked a cue. She recalls that she used to watch snooker games on TV with her dad and always liked the look of the game. She asked her very first small table for Christmas, and right then and there, everyone knew she would come to where she is now.

It was on March 18, 2009, when she endorsed the Delta-13 billiard rack product and even has her own collaborative series of it. Then on June 8 of the same year, she was nominated to become a part of the Billiard Congress of America Hall Of Fame.

Photo via womensworld10ball.com

Francisco “Django” Bustamante is just one of the favorites among the professional pool players in the world. Known for his strong and powerful cue break and his signature behind-the-back shot, this Asian cue artist has won a number of titles like The German 9 Ball Championship, The Munich Masters and Japan’s 9-Ball Championship. He almost beat Earl Strickland in the 2002 World Pool Championships, if it wasn’t for his series of unlucky scratch that led him to the 2^nd place.

Bustamante, has started playing pool since the age of 10. And his early training and passion for pocket billiards led him to become one of cue sports greatest International stars.

Django holds the record for winning three Camel Pro Billiards titles in one season. His Columbus 10-Ball title also concluded the first ever Camel trifecta, with titles in each of the three games competed on the Camel Pro Billiards Series: 8-Ball, 9-Ball and 10-Ball. Together with the rest of the best Filipino pool players, Francisco “Django” Bustamante gives honor and glory to their country.

(Photo via insidepoolmag.com)

Billiards and Pool are generally grouped as one and referred to as cue sports, although, technically, there are vast differences between the two games.

Cue Players consider “billiards” to be “carom’ games only, it is hitting two balls with one stroke of a pool cue, and three balls are used; white, yellow and red. Both the white and the yellow ball can act as the strikers. Billiards is basically pool without pockets; while on the other hand, Pool is hitting the ball into a pocket. It all depends on what style of the game you would like to play.

Pocket billiards takes on many forms, each differentiated largely by the number and size of balls used in play. Most traditional pool games are “8-ball pool” played with 16 balls: 15 colored and one white “cue ball.” And the “9-ball pool” using 9 colored balls and one white cue ball.

Today, Billiards and Pool can be exchanged and mean the same thing. When people refer to one, it is assumed the other is also being included.

Playing the games of professional pool, snooker and billiards is not for an average joe, it takes talent, skills, knowledge and a good cue stick.

Most pool players believed that if they have the right cue stick, they would shoot better and that gives them an ace up in their sleeve. Every cue artist is in search of a perfect cue and they can tell whether it feels right by weight, balance, leather and shaft characteristics. An experienced billiard player can determine by the stick’s vibration if the stick flexes too much or not. The way the stick feels is important and the sound of the hit is likewise essential. Some players play for keeps that will pay more just to find the cue that feels superior, it’s an investment of high yield for a competition. For them it’s like a wand that gives magic to every game. And if this is the case, Efren “BATA” Reyes one of the world’s best pool players must have found the right wand for it makes him the magician.  But every player should know that it’s always the skill and mastery of the sport that means a lot and the cue stick will be as much use as a chocolate teapot.