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Reyes took home $200,000 and Sigel got $100,000 for second place. In the match, Reyes bested him with little trouble. There he met Efren Reyes, who played his way through the tournament. That same year, he was seeded in the final of the King of the Hill Eight-ball Shootout, the next event of the IPT. In 2005, Sigel won the IPT World Eight-ball Championship, a challenge match between him and Loree Jon Jones.
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Open Straight Pool Championship were he lost in the early stages to John Schmidt. In 1994, at the age of 41, Until returning in 2000 to compete in the U.S. Sigel was named "Player of the Year" three times in 1981, 19 by Billiards Digest and Pool and Billiards Magazine. 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 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 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.
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He played himself in the movie Baltimore Bullet in 1980. Within a year Sigel established himself as one of the best players in the world.
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Sigel turned pro in 1973 at the age of 20 years old, were he started playing at the Johnston City, Illinois, All-Around Tournament, under the auspices of pool players like Joe Balsis, Steve Mizerak, Ray Martin, and Irving Crane. Open One-Pocket Championship as well as a 4 time winner of the Sands Regency Open. Open Nine-ball Championship tournaments, as well as the U.S. 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 9 world pocket billiard championship titles, in all divisions, including Nine-ball, Eight-ball and Straight pool (14.1). His mother Ruth was aggravated with him at times, because as she said "he wouldn't go to Hebrew school because he was too tired from playing pool nights." Professional career Sigel is Jewish, and was born in Rochester, New York.