:Corey Deuel
{{Short description|American professional pool player}}
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| caption = Corey Deuel at the 2003 Big Apple Championship
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1977|11|20|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
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| sport country = {{USA}}
| nickname = "Prince of Pool"
| professional = 1995
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| best finish = Quarter finals 2018 WPA World Nine-ball Championship
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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.{{Cite magazine|title=UPA Men's Pro Rankings|magazine=Pool & Billiard Magazine|date=February 2008|volume=26|issue=2|issn=1049-2852|publisher=Sports Publications|location=Summerville, South Carolina|page=57}} 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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20110714050335/http://www.matchroompool.com/page/MosconiCup/Results/0%2C%2C12660%2C00.html 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. His worst professional year was 2003, in which he did not win a single major event.{{Cite web |year=2003 |title=2003 Player Profiles: Corey Deuel |url=http://www.azbilliards.com/thepros/2000showplayer2003.cfm?playernum=45 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070407073415/http://www.azbilliards.com/thepros/2000showplayer2003.cfm?playernum=45 |archive-date=April 7, 2007 |access-date=February 14, 2008 |work=AZBilliards}}
"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.{{cite web |author=Dave Alciatore |date=October 2017 |title=VENT–Part I: Corey’s 9-ball Soft Break |url=https://billiards.colostate.edu/bd_articles/2017/oct17.pdf |accessdate=May 3, 2020 |work=Billiards Digest}}
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.{{Cite web|title=Corey Shows His Deuel Talent|work=World Snooker|url=http://www.worldsnooker.com/page/NewsArticles/0,,13165~3194252,00.html|year=2013|access-date=May 29, 2013|archive-date=December 10, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141210013112/http://www.worldsnooker.com/page/NewsArticles/0,,13165~3194252,00.html|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|title=IBSF Snooker Championships Men - Daugavpils / Latvia 2013|work=E Snooker|url=http://esnooker.pl/turnieje/2013/ms/en/show_group_details.php?id_t=23&group=14|year=2013|access-date=November 29, 2013}}
Early life
At the age of 14, Deuel began playing pool at Drexeline Billiards in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania,[http://www.onthebreaknews.com/Deuel.htm "Deuel Dueling for #1"], by Don "Cheese" Akerlow, On TheBreak News. Retrieved August 5, 2007. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929213441/http://www.onthebreaknews.com/Deuel.htm |date=September 29, 2007 }} before taking to the road in his teen years.
Snooker career
In 2013, Deuel decided to cross over to snooker. He entered in the United States National Snooker Championship and went on to win the event. His victory meant he automatically qualified as the United States entrant for the 2013 IBSF World Snooker Championship where he was eliminated in the round-robin stage after finishing 5th in his group.
Deuel entered the World Snooker 2014 Q School qualification tournament in an attempt to win himself a 2-year tour card to play on the professional World Snooker Tour. He lost in the second round to the former world number 70 Daniel Wells in the first event and lost 2–4 to Martin Ball in the second event.
Deuel later competed in the 2015 Xuzhou Open in China, but was eliminated in the first round after losing 2–4 to the world number 81 Zhou Yuelong.
Deuel re-entered the 2015 Q School qualification tournament in May 2015. Despite at one stage leading 3–1 and only needed one more frame to advance Deuel, lost 3–4 to Jamie Barrett in the second round of the first event.
He again entered Q School 2018{{Cite news|url=http://www.wpbsa.com/snooker-q-school-receives-190-entries/|title=Snooker Q School Receives 190 Entries|publisher=WPBSA|date=April 5, 2018}} and lost in the first round of the first event to Haydon Pinhey.{{Cite news|url=http://www.worldsnooker.com/cope-progresses-in-burton/|title=Cope Progresses In Burton|date=May 15, 2018|publisher=World Snooker}}
Pool career
Deuel has been competing professionally since 1995. He was a member of the International Pool Tour.{{cite web|url=http://www.internationalpooltour.com/ipt_content/ipt_players/bio/Deuel_Corey.asp|title=Player Profile|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070822055045/http://www.internationalpooltour.com/ipt_content/ipt_players/bio/Deuel_Corey.asp |archivedate=August 22, 2007|publisher=International Pool Tour|url-status=usurped|accessdate=August 5, 2007}}
He was selected again for Team USA in the 2007 Mosconi Cup,{{Cite journal|title=Long Live the Cup!|last=Panozzo|first=Mike|journal=Billiards Digest|date=February 2008|volume=30|issue=3|issn=0164-761X|publisher=Luby Publishing|location=Chicago, Illinois|pages=56–61}} after being on the team in the four previous years. He was not selected in 2008, but again represented his country during the 2009 tournament.{{Cite news |title=Deuel hoping Europeans crack under weight of expectation |work=Matchroom Pool |url=http://www.matchroompool.com/page/MosconiCup/NewsDetail/0,,12660~1900459,00.html |date=December 9, 2009 |access-date=December 13, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091215150938/http://www.matchroompool.com/page/MosconiCup/NewsDetail/0,,12660~1900459,00.html |archive-date=December 15, 2009|url-status=dead }}
For 2007, he was ranked #9 in Pool & Billiard Magazine
Personal life
Deuel lived in West Jefferson, Ohio, in early 2008. He now resides in New Port Richey, Florida.{{Cite web|title=2008 Player Profiles: Corey Deuel|work=AZBilliards|url=http://www.azbilliards.com/thepros/2000showplayer2008.cfm?playernum=45|year=2008|access-date=February 14, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080126113621/http://www.azbilliards.com/thepros/2000showplayer2008.cfm?playernum=45|archive-date=January 26, 2008}}
Career titles
References
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Category:American pool players
Category:American snooker players