Corey Deuel

Corey Deuel
Corey Deuel at the 2003 Big Apple Championship
Born (1977-11-20) 20 November 1977 (age 46)
Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
Sport country United States
Nickname"Prince of Pool"
Professional1995
Best finishQuarter finals 2018 WPA World Nine-ball Championship

Corey Deuel (born November 20, 1977, in Santa Barbara, California) is an American professional pool player from West Jefferson, Ohio. Nicknamed "Prince of Pool", he won the US Open Nine-ball Championship in 2001, and has won many other major titles. In January 2008, he was ranked the second highest US pool player by the United States Professional Poolplayers Association.[1] He regularly represents the US in the Mosconi Cup. In 2010, he again was selected for the US team in the Mosconi Cup and was responsible for winning 2 of the US team's 8 points in the event. His tournament walk-on music is "Disco Inferno" by the Trammps.

His reported career earnings to February 2008 were approximately $562,000.[2] His worst professional year was 2003, in which he did not win a single major event.[3]

"Soft breaking" and "pattern racking" are techniques that have been used by Deuel and others as a strategy to gain an advantage in tournament competitions. Pattern racking refers to purposefully racking the balls in strategic positions to take advantage of where those balls typically head. Pattern racking is illegal and unethical unless tournament rules specifically allow it.[4]

In 2013, he made a successful crossover to snooker by capturing the United States Amateur Championship title in Houston, Texas, and went on to represent the United States in the 2013 IBSF World Snooker Championship.[5][6]

  1. ^ "UPA Men's Pro Rankings". Pool & Billiard Magazine. Vol. 26, no. 2. Summerville, South Carolina: Sports Publications. February 2008. p. 57. ISSN 1049-2852.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference AZB 2008 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "2003 Player Profiles: Corey Deuel". AZBilliards. 2003. Archived from the original on April 7, 2007. Retrieved February 14, 2008.
  4. ^ Dave Alciatore (October 2017). "VENT–Part I: Corey's 9-ball Soft Break" (PDF). Billiards Digest. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
  5. ^ "Corey Shows His Deuel Talent". World Snooker. 2013. Archived from the original on December 10, 2014. Retrieved May 29, 2013.
  6. ^ "IBSF Snooker Championships Men - Daugavpils / Latvia 2013". E Snooker. 2013. Retrieved November 29, 2013.