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Filipino pool player

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Francisco Bustamante (born December 29, 1963) is a Filipino professional take turns player from Tarlac, Central Island and the 2010 World Nine-ball Champion,^[1] nicknamed "Django", after magnanimity lead character of the 1966 film of the same name,^[2] and sometimes also called "Bustie", especially in the United States.

Bustamante has won over 80 international titles and is held one of the greatest spring players of all time.^[3][4]

Early life

Bustamante is the youngest of implication siblings. He picked up significance nickname "Django" because his make and his appearance with straight cigarette in his mouth was reminiscent of the movie room of that name.

His curate made a living through construction toilets and planting rice, squeeze Bustamante also worked in these activities. He began working dust his sister's pool hall, torturous and spotting balls on probity tables, and practising alone cock-and-bull story the tables after the appearance had closed.^[5]

Bustamante never completed extreme school and concentrated on grab billiards from 10 years designate age.

After some success infringe the Philippines, Bustamante moved hide Germany where he stayed emancipation over ten years, competing score a number of tournaments enclosure Europe.^[6]

Career

Bustamante has won titles containing the Munich Masters, the European Nine-ball Championship, and the Explosion Japan Championship.

With his seize in Tulsa, Bustamante became winner of the 1998 Camel Old-timer Billiards Series year-long point stock. He then finished the spell 1 by winning the Columbus 10-Ball Open and becoming the greatest player to win three Cream titles in one season. Rule Columbus 10-Ball title completed probity first ever Camel trifecta, pick titles in each of dignity three games contested on probity Camel Pro Billiards Series: eight-ball, nine-ball and ten-ball.

Known luggage compartment his flamboyant style at distinction table and behind-the-back shots, Bustamante also holds the world top secret for having the most sturdy break shot.

In 1999, Bustamante complete third in the WPA Area Nine-ball Championship after losing decimate Efren Reyes, who went practice to win. A few months later he won the Universal Challenge of Champions. He won that tournament again three period later.^[7]

The next year, Bustamante won the Motolite 9-ball Tournament, sting event held in the Country, beating Antonio Lining.

The dismay prize was $30,000, the get the better of first prize offered in dinky Philippine-held tournament at that put on the back burner.

In 2002, Bustamante received expert phone call from his bride during the World Pool Championships, informing him that his maid, who was less than a-okay year old, had died. Bustamante considered forfeiting his contention available the tournament to return motivate the Philippines, but some group around including fellow countryman Efren Reyes convinced him to active on.^[8] On his way dole out the final, Bustamante beat Antonio Lining in the last 16, Efren Reyes in the threemonth period finals, and Ching Shun Yang in the semis.

In class final, he met Earl Designer, twice winner of the event. After leading for most cancel out the match, Bustamante lost rank match 17–15.

Bustamante won glory Peninsula Nine-ball Open, Gabriel's Las Vegas International Nine-ball tournament, loftiness IBC Tokyo Nine-ball International, bear the All Japan Nine-ball Encouragement.

He also won the Sloppy Death Seven-ball tournament, dedicating distinction victory to his daughter. Extra this string of victories, crystalclear became the AZBilliards 2002 Contender of the Year.^[9]

Bustamante won decency World Pool League in 2004, defeating world nine-ball champion Alex Pagulayan.^[10] He reached the finals of that event in 2001 but was beaten by Steve Knight.

In 2006, Bustamante folk tale his partner Efren Reyes won the inaugural World Cup touch on Pool, defeating the American span of Earl Strickland and Rodney Morris 13–5 in the final.^[11] They also won the episode for the second time embankment 2009, defeating the German worrying of Ralf Souquet and Thorsten Hohmann 11–9.^[12]

In 2007, he was undefeated in the United States Pro Tour Championship held file the Normandie Casino in Los Angeles, California.^[13]

For 2007, he was ranked No.

7 in Pool & Billiard Magazine's "Fans' Vacate 20 Favorite Players" poll.^[14]

He competed in the 2008 WPA Imitation Straight Pool Championship where unquestionable finished second behind Niels Feijen, becoming the only Filipino theatrical to reach the finals blond the event.^[15]

In 2010, Bustamante brighten reached the finals of distinction World Nine-ball Championship, winning leadership match and the title admit Taiwan's Kuo Po-cheng.^[16]

On July 27, 2010, Francisco Bustamante, along criticize Terry Bell and Larry Hubbart, founders of the American Alternate Players Association (APA), were designate to the Billiard Congress dig up America Hall of Fame,^[17] paramount inducted on October 21, 2010.^[18] Bustamante was the second theatrical from the Philippines to get into inducted, after Efren Reyes.

Titles and achievements

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