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Co-Founding Member..Pro Billiards Tour..Hall of Famer..Mike Sigel The Pro Billiards Tour would like to Spotlight and introduce one of our co-founding partners.. Hall of Famer Mike Sigel. Mike will play an instrumental role in our content development and strategic partnerships. He will also be one of the hosts of our POdcast that will make its debut next week. #billiardsmetaverse #probilliardstour Mike Sigel is widley considered one of the greatest pool players of all time. In the year 2000, Sigel was voted "Greatest Living Player of the Century" by Billiards Digest Magazine. Sigel has won over 100 professional pool tournaments in his career as well as over 40 major titles, making him one of the most successful players of all time winning 10 world pocket billiard championship titles, in divisions including Nine-ball, Eight-ball and Straight pool. Including 3 U.S. Open Nine-ball Championship tournaments, as well as the U.S. Open Straight Pool Championship and U.S. Open One-Pocket Championship as well as a 4 time winner of the Sands Regency Open. He played himself in the movie Baltimore Bullet in 1980. 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 in 1986.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, and Bike Week. He has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Life, People, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Playboy, Parade, Baltimore Magazine, Orlando Sentinel, Silver Screen, and Cigar Aficionado. Sigel was named "Player of the Year" three times in 1981, 1983 and 1986 by Billiards Digest and Pool and Billiards Magazine. In 2005, Sigel won the IPT World Eight-ball Championship, a challenge match between him and Loree Jon Jones. The victory earned him $150,000.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 match, Reyes bested him with little trouble. Reyes took home $200,000 and Sigel got $100,000 for second place.