Santos Sambajon
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Filipino people
The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....
professional pool
Pocket billiards
Pool, also more formally known as pocket billiards or pool billiards , is the family of cue sports and games played on a pool table having six receptacles called pockets along the , into which balls are deposited as the main goal of play. Popular versions include eight-ball and nine-ball...
player. His nicknames are "The Little Giant" and "The Saint." Originally from the Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
, he now resides in the United States
United States
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Professional career
In 2004, Sambajon was first seen on television playing at the finals of the BCA Open Nine-ball Championship. While he did not win that event, Sambajon dominated the World Summit of Pool, a tournament featured on ESPN several months later, by defeating Mike Davis in the finals.In 2005, He won the Skins Billiards Championship
Skins Billiards Championship
The Skins Billiards Championship was an annual nine-ball tournament held in the US. It was promoted by Allen Hopkins Productions and Billiards International, and was broadcast on ESPN. While most pool tournaments pit pairs of players against each other in , this unusual event pits four...
, another tournament televised on ESPN, by besting Danny Basavich
Danny Basavich
Daniel Basavich is an American professional pool player from New Jersey. He is fondly called "Kid Delicious", a nickname he acquired after defeating a player monickered "Kid Vicious"....
in sudden death. This was Sambajon's greatest win, earning him $
United States dollar
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73,500, the most he has earned from a single event.
He nearly had the chance to compete in the WPA World Nine-ball Championship
WPA World Nine-ball Championship
The WPA World Nine-ball Championship is an annual, international, professional nine-ball pool tournament, founded in 1990, sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association , and principally sponsored and organised by Matchroom Sport...
in 2004 but could not, due to passport problems. He made his debut at that tournament in 2006.
He served as Efren Reyes
Efren Reyes
Efren Manalang Reyes is a Filipino professional pool player and a two-time world champion. Reyes is considered by many to be the greatest all-around pool player in the history of the game. He is affectionately nicknamed "Bata" and "the Magician".-Early life:Reyes was born in Pampanga in 1954...
's corner man (players who reached the finals of an IPT event get to have someone who would instruct or give them advise during the match) at the final of the 2006 IPT World Open Eight-ball Championship
IPT World Open Eight-ball Championship
The IPT World Open Eight-ball Championship was an eight-ball tournament held in Reno, Nevada by the International Pool Tour. It was the fourth and last event of the tour as of 2007. It was richest event in the history of cuesports. The total purse was $3M where $500K was offered to the winner.The...
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Titles
- 2007 Blaze Tour Stop
- 2007 Blaze 9-Ball Tour Stop
- 2005 Skins Billiards ChampionshipSkins Billiards ChampionshipThe Skins Billiards Championship was an annual nine-ball tournament held in the US. It was promoted by Allen Hopkins Productions and Billiards International, and was broadcast on ESPN. While most pool tournaments pit pairs of players against each other in , this unusual event pits four...
- 2005 Joss NE 9-Ball Tour Stop
- 2004 World Summit of Pool
- 2004 Joss NE 9-Ball Tour Stop
- 2004 Joss NE 9-Ball Tour Stop
- 2004 Jay Swanson Memorial
- 2003 New England 9-Ball Championship
- 2003 Joss NE 9-Ball Tour Stop 1
- 2003 Hard Times 4th Annual Summer Jamboree One Pocket
- 2003 Joss NE 9-Ball Tour Stop #25
- 2003 Joss NE 9-Ball Tour Stop #24
- 2003 Joss NE 9-Ball Tour Stop #20
- 2003 Joss Northeast Tour Stop 7
- 2003 Joss Northeast Tour Stop 5
- 2002 Joss Northeast Tour Stop 16
- 2002 Joss Northeast Tour Stop 14
- 2002 Joss Northeast Tour Stop 13
- 2000 Joss Northeast Tour Stop 13
- 2000 California Billiard Club Open One Pocket
- 2000 Planet-Pool.com Tour Stop 3 Men's Division
- 2000 Joss Northeast Tour Stop 12
- 2000 Joss Northeast Tour Stop 8