Jayson Shaw (born 13 September 1990 in

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) is a Scottish pool player. In 2010, Shaw was a WPA World Blackball Champion. In 2016, Shaw won the 25th International Challenge of Champions event. Shaw also appeared representing Europe at the

Mosconi Cup The Mosconi Cup is an annual nine-ball pool tournament contested since 1994 between teams representing Europe and the United States. Named after American pool player Willie Mosconi, the event is comparable to the Ryder Cup in golf and the Weber ...

, winning the event in 2016, 2017, 2020, and 2021. On January 18, 2022, Shaw set and new world high run record in 14.1 straight pool with a score of 669.

Career titles and achievements

* U.S. Open 9-Ball Championship (2017) * International 9-Ball Open (2019, 2022) *

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Open 9-Ball Championship (2016) *

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Derby City Classic The Derby City Classic is an annual pool convention and tournament held every January at the Caesars Southern Indiana casino in Elizabeth, Indiana, near Louisville, Kentucky. It is eight days long and offers various disciplines of competition fo ...

Bigfoot 10-Ball Challenge (2016, 2017, 2020) * Turning Stone Classic (2014, 2015, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022) * Super Billiards Expo Championship (2022) * Breaks the record for the highest run made in 14.1, 669 balls consecutively (2022) * Accu-Stats Make It Happen Invitational **

Eight-ball Eight-ball (also spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes or rarely highs and lows) is a discipline of pool played on a billiard table with six pockets, cue sticks, and sixteen billiard balls ...

Invitational (2016, 2017) **

Straight pool Straight pool, which is also called 14.1 continuous and 14.1 rack, is a cue sport in which two competing players attempt to as many billiard balls as possible without playing a . The game was the primary version of pool played in profession ...

Invitational (2017) * Euro Tour ** Treviso Open (2020) * International Challenge of Champions (2016) * Ginky Memorial Open 9-Ball (2017) * West Coast 10 Ball Pro Challenge (2017) * Steinway Classic

10-ball Ten-ball is a rotation pool game similar to nine-ball, but using ten balls instead of nine, and with the 10 ball instead of the 9 as the "" Although the game has existed for since the early 1960s, its popularity has risen since the early 2000s a ...

(2016) * Deurne City Classic 9-Ball (2016) * Great Dismal Swamp 9-Ball Classic (2016, 2019) * Ocean State 9-Ball Championship (2014, 2018) *

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10-Ball Championship (2013, 2019) * WPA World Blackball Championship (2010) * Accolades & Awards ** Billiards Digest Player of the Year (2016) ** AZBilliards Player of the Year (2016)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shaw, Jayson 1988 births Scottish pool players Living people Blackball players Sportspeople from Glasgow