Luc Salvas

{{short description|Canadian professional pool player (born 1962)}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1962|11|21}}

| birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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| nickname = Machine Gun

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Luc Salvas (born November 21, 1962) is a Canadian professional pool player. His quick-paced speed pool play has earned him the nickname "Machine Gun".

Born in Yamaska, Quebec, in 1962, he won the first International Speed Pool Challenge and the US$50,000 winner-take-all purse by defeating Great Britain's Dave Pearson.{{cite web

|url=http://www.azbilliards.com/2000storya.php?id=3825

|title=Luc Salvas Int'l Speed Pool Champion and Mike Massey Wins Trick Shot Magic Title

|publisher=AZ Billiards

|date=October 9, 2006

|accessdate=2008-08-07

|url-status=dead

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100714183656/http://www.azbilliards.com/2000storya.php?id=3825

|archivedate=July 14, 2010

}} He returned the next year to defend his title but was defeated in the semi-finals by Bobby McGrath of the United States, the eventual winner of the tournament.{{cite web

|url=http://www.azbilliards.com/2000storya.php?id=4735

|title=Bobby McGrath Wins 2007 International Speed Pool Championship

|publisher=AZ Billiards

|accessdate=2008-08-09

|url-status=dead

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613202341/http://www.azbilliards.com/2000storya.php?id=4735

|archivedate=2011-06-13

}} In 2009, Salvas returned to play in the same tournament and won it for the second time, defeating Pearson again in the finals.{{cite web

|url=http://www.azbilliards.com/2000storya.php?storynum=6981

|title=Luc Salvas Wins 2009 International Speed Pool Championship

|date=September 21, 2009

|accessdate=2009-09-21