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| Name:
Mike Sigel |
| Alias:
The Mouth |
| Residence:
United States |
| D.O.B.:
7/11/1953 Age:
54 |
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About Mike Sigel
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| Voted the Greatest Living Player of the 20th century and at age 35 is the youngest member to be inducted into the Billiard Hall Of Fame. Mike Sigel began playing at the age of 13 and turned Pro when he was 20, winning the first US Open. He has won 105 Professional Pool & Pocket Billiard tournaments. Including 6 US Opens and 10 World Championships. Mike also holds the World record for the quickest 150-and-out in the 14th Annual US Open Championship. Named Player of the Year 4 times, Sigel has appeared on ABC,CBS,NBC,ABC Wide World OF Sports, CBS Sports Cable, Fox Sports, ESPN, Good Morning America, Night Watch, PM Magazine, The Bert Sugars Show, Charlie Rose, The Best Damn Sports Show Period, FSN, and many others.
In addition he appeared as himself in the movie Baltimore Bullet and performed many of the trick shots for the opening sequence in that film. Mike was the technical advisor, choreographer, instructor for the movie "The Color of Money" staring Paul Newman (who won an Academy Award for Best Actor) and Tom Cruise. Sigel coached both Newman and Cruise to play like a pro.
Mike has been on the cover of magazines such as Billiards Digest, Pool & Billiards, Inside Pool, Billiard News, Bike Week, and many others numerous times. He has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Life, People, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Playboy, Parade, Baltimore Magazine, Orlando Sentinel, Silver Screen, Cigar Aficionado, Japan, and many Newspapers around the World!
He had retired in 1994 after having the most successful tour victories of any player and continued to do special appearances, charity events, exhibitions for major corporations, ESPN guest commentator and lessons. In 1998 he won an Invitational 9 ball event in Paris, France, his first tournament since retiring and went on to come out of retirement again in 2004 to play and WIN the Steve Mizerak 9 Ball tournament. The last 11 years he has been personally handcrafting the best hitting pool cue on the market. August of 2005 has brought Sigel out of full retirement to Play Professionally for the International Pool Tour; at the World Championship in Las Vegas to win the tournament and take home $150,000.00 . His focus today is to play and promote the new tour. |
| Statistics: |
| 2006 North American Open - Las Vegas, NV |
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| Matches |
Games |
Winning Method |
Prize
Money Won |
| Total |
Won |
Lost |
Win% |
Total |
Won |
Lost |
Win % |
B&R |
B&R%* |
B&R%+ |
8 on B |
| 9 | 6 | 3 | 66.67 | 103 | 61 | 42 | 59.22 | 17 | 27.87 | 16.5 | 0 | $5,000.00 |
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| 2006 World Open - Reno, NV |
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| Matches |
Games |
Winning Method |
Prize
Money Won |
| Total |
Won |
Lost |
Win% |
Total |
Won |
Lost |
Win % |
B&R |
B&R%* |
B&R%+ |
8 on B |
| 9 | 5 | 4 | 55.56 | 111 | 55 | 56 | 49.55 | 20 | 36.36 | 18.02 | 0 | $7,693.00 |
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| Cumilative Statistics |
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| Prize Money Won |
Total Matches Won |
Game Winning % |
Break and Runouts |
8 Balls on the Break |
| $12,693.00 | 11 | 54.21 | 37 | 0 |
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| * Denotes percentage of B&Rs out of total games won |
+ Denotes percentage of B&Rs out of games played |
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| Gerda Hofstatter vs. Earl Strickland |
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| Mike Sigel's Perfect Pool - Disk 1 |
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| King of the Hill Episode 5 |
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