Mike Sigel Totally Explained

Everything about Mike Sigel totally explained

Mike Sigel (born 1952 in Rochester, New York) is a notable American professional pool player. Sigel has won over 102 major pool tournaments, including three US Opens and five World Championships. Sigel was named "Player of the Year" three times, and in 1989, at the age of 35, he was the youngest ever to be inducted into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame.

Professional Career

Sigel became pro in the early 1970s at the Johnson City, Illinois, All-Around Tournament, under the auspices of famous pool greats like Joe Balsis, Steve Mizerak, Ray Martin, and Irving Crane.
   In 2005, Sigel won the IPT World Eight-ball Championship, a challenge match between him and Loree Jon Jones. The victory earned him $150K. That same year, he was seeded in the final of the King of the Hill Eight-ball Shootout, the next event of the IPT. There he met Efren Reyes who played his way through the tournament. In the finals match, Reyes bested him with little trouble. Reyes took home $200K and Sigel got $100K for second.
   He played himself in the movie Baltimore Bullet. He was also the technical advisor, instructor and sports choreographer for the shots made by Paul Newman and Tom Cruise in the Academy Award-winning film The Color of Money.
   Today, he lives in Orlando, Florida, and his focus today is to play pool and promote the International Pool Tour. Sigel was a dominant player in the 1980s and has been on the cover of numerous trade magazines such as Billiards Digest, Pool and Billiards, InsidePOOL, Billiard News, Bike Week. Because of his notoriety, he's been featured in Sports Illustrated, Life, People, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Playboy, Parade, Baltimore Magazine, Orlando Sentinel, Silver Screen, Cigar Aficionado.

Filmography

Mike Sigel's Winning Edge on Pocket Billiards (1987)

Further Information

Get more info on 'Mike Sigel'.

External Link Exchanges

Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:

<a href="http://mike_sigel.totallyexplained.com">Mike Sigel Totally Explained</a>

Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned.