Rudolph Wanderone Jr. is also known as Minnesota Fats. He is considered to be the most popular pool player in the entire world for not being able to win any serious pool competition.

He started pool hustling during his early years. It was with the help of Willie Mosconi, another billiard hall of famer inductee, that Minnesota Fats turned out to be the lead star of a tv show aired weekly where two pool players show competing against each other. Minnesota Fats may have always lost the battles to Mosconi during these tv matches but it surely did not stop him from becoming a legend in his own right in the world of pool. He became a billiard hall of famer inductee himself in 1984.

Fats was able to make lots of money out of his pool skills during that time. He is known for being capable of shooting pool with just one hand and became popular for wearing hundred dollar bills in his suit’s handkerchief pocket.

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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.

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Karen is a former pro snooker player and is now a professional pool player. She started her snooker career by the age of 14 in UK where she and her parents moved. It was after her 21^st birthday in 1990 when she won her first World Snooker Championship and never ceased to win other World titles in 1991, 1995 and 1997.

It took Karen only less than two years to be recognized as the world’s number two best player in the WPBA pro events. Before the year 2001 came to an end, Karen was on the top, ranked as the #1 female player in the world and remained on that spot for two more years.

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Known to be the Black Widow of the women’s billiard scene since this Korean-American professional pool player usually wears black during every game. She mentioned in her website that it is pretty important for her to not eat so much before the game. According to her, the mind won’t be able to think so much if it is full and slow.

She also believes in the strategy of chalking up before taking every shot. Lee began playing in 1989 and became no. 1 in the female pool playing scene. She received the accolade of the Women’s Professional Billiard Association Sportsperson of the Year Award by year 1988. She also brought home the bacon for the USA during the 2001 World Games in Japan. She is also the author of The Black Widow’s Guide to Killer Pool.

During ordinary days, she spends time doing art, reading, swimming, fashion, and spend time with her kids. She loves hot sake and sushi.

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Johnny was known for using different strategy to win his every game. He is even considered the most scientific billiard player in the history of the sport. He was able to win the World Three-Cushion Championship for 12 times and he became famous for his popularized diamond system approach.

He uses table marks to know the direction of where the ball will rebound and perfected this method by using his mind which is an expert in mathematics.

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Being the son of the legend Jake Schaefer, Sr. also known as the Wizard, Jake was also known to be a legend on his own. Many say that he is even far more talented than his own father. He earned his credibility by being one of the greatest American Balkline players of all time and has maintained four records that have always been incomparable.

His best game average is 400 from the break; a grand tournament average of 57.14; a grand match average of 93.25; and a high run match of 432.

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This billiard hall of famer is not just a pool player but also a player, an inventor, and a manufacturer. He was the very first who won the 1859 billiard stakes match. He was also the creator of many patented designs and cushions for various billiard tables. He was even hailed to be the very first billiard table designer to integrate diamonds on it. He was the author of the book Billiards Without A Master which is also known to be the first ever American book about billiards.

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This legend pool player became utterly popular for being the first ever showman in the world of billiards. He is the only billiard player capable of performing numerous trick shots that never fail to awe-struck everyone in the audience.

He had his first world title in 1919 and by 1937, he was able to win 14 more world titles. He continued to entertain audiences during his every match until his last days when he suffered from a heart attack in 1950.

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Straight from the Trondheim town of Norway, this Norwegian beauty started playing pool when she was 14 years old. She was coined to be always one of the boys – being the only girl in the group who would play at a 7 foot table in front of her. Tracking from her early pool days, she was already known for beating most of the boys, all the time.

Line Kjorsvik has been the five-time European Champion and was once hailed to be the number one woman billiard player in Europe. The rest of her titles include the following:

• 22-time Norway Champion
• Bronze medalist at the 2005 World Games
• 2-time Ladies’ Eurotour winner
• Nordic champion

In her personal website, she expresses her gratitude to the sport for with the opportunity it posed in her life made her travel different parts of the world and meet amazing and incredible people.

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More than 250 pool pros considered the best from each nation will converge and compete during the tournament in Hanover. Many have already signified their intention to join and participate and these include Ralf Souquet (GER – World Games winner), Mika Immonen (FIN – World-10-Ball Champion) and the complete winning team of the MOSCONI CUP (USA – Johnny Archer, Shane Van Boening, Corey Deuel, Oscar Dominquez).

Teams of four to six players will compete in 8-Ball, 9-Ball and 10-Ball matches to around 4,000 spectators in Exhibition Hall13 with 32 pool-billiard tables set up for said event. TVN Group will cover and broadcast the championship competition over the radio, television and internet. Simultaneously, the biggest Harley Davidson Oldtimer Collection “Myth Harley Davidson” will have an exhibit of 40 world machines showing latest trends and innovations in the world of pool and billiards, making this 9 day event an affair to remember.