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Greatest comback(s) in pool history?
I'm looking for some examples of professional matches where one player is way, way behind the other and miraculously overcomes a huge deficit and manages to win. I'm talking like someone being down 10-2 in a race to 11 and managing to win, or a straight pool match to 200 points with a guy down 195 to -2 or something. If by any chance you have a Youtube link to any of these matches, feel free to provide it.
I think Eric is closer to what I'm referring to. I've seen the Color of Money Strickland/Reyes match and it's crazy how much Earl self-destructs and how brilliantly Efren plays on that last day. Although Earl's 11 consecutive racks is incredible (the only other player I know to have done that in competition is Jose Parica), I don't know if it was really a comeback or not. Was Earl down 10-0 when he started out? That's really the difference here. Keep 'em coming. Good answers.
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- Jay9ballLv 69 years agoFavorite Answer
Many times the greatest comebacks are not Professional matches.
You mention the Color of Money. I have watched that match twice and still can't figure out how Earl "really" lost it.
All the credit in the world has to be given to Efren for hanging in and not giving up.
Along those same lines I offer these three.
On Youtube I found a match between Efren and Fransisco Bustamonte. It was a race to 11. Efren was down 1-3, got to the table and put a 9-pack together for a 10-3 lead. He won it two games later, 11-4 or 11-5.
This one I heard about and believe it because I know Farmington Joe. In a race to 21 for $3,000, Joe had Boston Shorty down 20-8. Boston Shorty came back with 13 wins to take the match 21-20.
This one I witnessed from a Midwest '9' Ball tour at Starlite Billiards about 15-18 years ago. In a race to 15, $100 by in, there were eight players. Wade Crane (a.k.a. Billy Johnson) drew Javier Franco. Mr. Franco began with the most amazing shooting I had ever seen. He was up13-1, in this race to 15.
Wade got on a roll by winning the next 13 games and took the lead, 14-13.
Franco won the next game for a double-hill situation. Crane won the last game for a great come-from-behind 15-14 finish.
By the way I heard that for awhile Javier had a stroke but overcame his medical problems and, last I heard, doing fine.
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- 9 years ago
"The Color of Money" match from 1996 between Efren Reyes and Earl Strickland would get my vote. Earl is playing lights out, running 4-packs and gets to a 17 game lead in a race to 120 for $100,000. Efren comes back with some brilliant pool playing and wins 120-117.
- 9 years ago
In 1996, at the Dallas Million Dollar Challenge tournament put on by the "PCA", Earl Strickland ran 11 consecutive racks on Nick Mannino and won a million dollar prize for his efforts. I don't know of any video from the event though.
In terms of payouts, that has to be the biggest I know of.
