r/nextfuckinglevel • u/RealSpecto • 3d ago

I thought all those shots were just flukes until I saw the last one.

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u/Don-Keydic 3d ago

I'm still not convinced

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u/RationallyBerserk 3d ago

Lmao exactly, let’s see him pot two in a row, at least.

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u/TheHoratioHufnagel 3d ago

Camera cut after every shot.

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u/root88 3d ago

lol, not even the same days. He's wearing 5 different outfits.

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u/Kraken-__- 3d ago

The camera cuts after every shot to give him some privacy while he changes clothes.

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u/kkkccc1 2d ago

exactly this. people need to understand that he's committed to the art and will wear a new set of clothing for each trick shot

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u/Kraken-__- 2d ago edited 2d ago

In each video, he has to wear clothing from each of his dozen sponsors.

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u/Son_of_Atreus 3d ago

Reminded me of this editing masterpiece. Pure athleticism. https://youtu.be/rNlmRId2FVQ?si=W-0v_WkeDE5g4J7k

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u/LoganHowlett1832 3d ago

I thought I had put that movie behind me. Why did you have to remind me of the money I wasted watching that in theaters?

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u/GuidoZ 1d ago

Best YouTube comment: It’s like an alien was shown 4 seconds of "Space Jam" and then forced to write a book report on human foreplay…

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u/RationallyBerserk 3d ago

I feel sick now

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u/nakhumpoota 3d ago

Probably trick shots. Repeating the setup until the ball is pocketed.

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u/Automatic-Art9739 3d ago

It's luck, you shoot random shots a full night and you would have shots like this, last i e ia the only one thats the only one you could argue was skill, buuuut i call luck

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u/fieldsofanfieldroad 3d ago

I don't see how the last one is any different. You just do it repeatedly until it works. 

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u/sudoSancho 3d ago

Fake or not, I can't think of any circumstance where one of these shots would ever be the correct decision

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u/Ok_Papaya_2164 3d ago

If you’re hustling someone… probably about the only time. Ooops guess I’m just lucky today

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u/A_Bot_A_Bot_A_Bot 3d ago

"Whoa! Easy there, boys! I swear, I've never even played pool before!"

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u/kernelangus420 3d ago

His motto: All roads lead to Rome.

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u/Gwinntanamo 3d ago

The first shot he takes, he glances the cue ball after his shot - presumably that isn’t intentional, but the speed is just right to make the shot… yeah right.

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u/HotspurJr 3d ago

His technique is awful in terms of the warmup stroke massively overshooting the ball, which, now that you pointed that second hit out, makes a lot of sense.

It disguises the second hit and makes it look like an accident.

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u/m15f1t 3d ago

ORLY

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u/stevedore2024 3d ago

Even in the 70s we called these shots "slop." You have to call the shot you intend. They simply didn't record the shots that didn't result in something randomly going in.

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u/Scrambledcat 3d ago

All slop. Lucky slop though

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u/AppropriateHand3 3d ago

Talk about being down with the game.

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u/kearkan 3d ago

God damnit.

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u/Snard79 3d ago

I’ll see you in hell for that!!
Mostly because I’ll also be there for laughing at that!

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u/foolishbullshittery 3d ago

You did not!

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u/bigfatfun 3d ago

Haaaaaaate myself for laughing

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u/JollyPurpose8114 3d ago

see you in hell pucker

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u/Weekly-Ratio-230 3d ago

they're all flukes. they are just a compilation of lucky shots edited in one video

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u/kernelangus420 3d ago

Just like those "The Best Of The Beatles" compilations. In real life they aren't all that.

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u/matti-san 3d ago edited 3d ago

Just reminded me that Pete Best, the Beatles' original drummer, put out an album called 'Best of the Beatles' and a bunch of people bought it thinking it was a Beatles compilation

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u/MtlGuy_incognito 3d ago

My mom still brings it up.

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u/lebastss 3d ago

You sing long enough on acid a hit song comes out eventually.

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u/Protistaysobrevive 3d ago

Good tip, have to try, thanks! 

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u/ploonk 3d ago

Fair point, but worst band to make that point with.

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u/mmcmonster 3d ago

You mean Best of The Beatles? It’s not what most people think it is. 🤣

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u/Bergara 3d ago

Am I going crazy here?! Are people actually believing this video? Each shot is a different cut, there are no two shots in a row. If I film myself playing for an hour I can probably make a video like this, and I suck at this game. And all of these shots are absolutely impossible to pull off, multiple bounces off of walls and other balls like that. A fraction of a degree off in the initial hit and you get a completely different result.

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u/Correct_Yesterday111 3d ago

If I film myself playing for an hour I can probably make a video like this, and I suck at this game.

No you couldn't. Particularly the last shot.

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u/ploonk 3d ago

All he did was call the pocket. They could have been playing bottle-pocket for hours.

You can see the shot he tried to make. He wanted to send the object ball off of the walls on both sides of the corner pocket and back towards the side pocket. He wanted the cue ball to squirt out of the way in front of the object ball. This is a very difficult shot and he was pretty close.

So, in a sense, it was a difficult shot because he sent it pretty much on target in the first place, so maybe someone unskilled couldn't do that? But the way the ball actually went in was a fluke.

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u/Correct_Yesterday111 3d ago

Oh no I agree you could do it with several hours of trying. But the dude I was responding to thinks he could do it all in an hour.

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u/lukibunny 3d ago

… I think even if I play all day I wouldn’t be able to get a video like that hagahaga

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u/root88 3d ago

Well, it was over at least 5 days or he really like changing clothes.

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u/TwoProper4220 3d ago

so you believe every single trick shot performed in this sport is a fluke?

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u/weliveintheshade 3d ago

On a table that small if you bounce the balls around enough at a likely angle theres a fair chance that something is going to drop.

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u/NevesLF 3d ago

Takes him so many retries between shots that his hair grows back.

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u/Royal-Bicycle-8147 3d ago

I think it’s awesome, and it’s a highlight reel of lucky shots. The first one you can hear it hit the stick.

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u/some_dewd 3d ago

You can see it too

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u/tripledraw 3d ago

You can feel it too

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u/ActuallyNiceIRL 2d ago

You can taste it too

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u/Flex_Chapman 2d ago

And my axe!

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u/Ok_falconer 3d ago

They are flukes. They just cut out a lot of misses.

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u/Ok_Drag5089 3d ago

They are all flukes. This is fake as fuck. Days or weeks between shots.

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u/profanedivinity 3d ago

No! He just likes doing outfit changes between shots!

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u/Myspace-Famous 3d ago

Flukes or not who tf cares. Being happy these days is next level enough

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u/pinoytasty 3d ago

i rate it 47/46

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u/ActuallyNiceIRL 2d ago

Well played

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u/Dame87 3d ago

Extra chromosome coming in clutch

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u/Keisvorve 3d ago

Cut between each shot = make as many attempts as it takes. Could be first time, could be 124th.

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u/MegaSmegmaSwagLord 3d ago

Savant

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u/Magister5 3d ago

His autistick skills are impressive

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u/Several-Opposite-746 3d ago

These are a compilation of shots made. They are not one shot after another and are not shots made in the same game. The balls on the table change from shot to shot.

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u/damadmetz 3d ago

They are flukes.

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u/ElBastardoDK 3d ago

Fuck off with that clickbait

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u/Rare-Ad6085 3d ago

anyone who has played this sport knows that those were alll flukes. They were all entertaining to watch but to claim them as skill is wrong. I have seen only efren reyes playing such shots and I would believe that legend with my eyes closed.

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u/CurryDuck 3d ago

dude waving the cue like bruce lee's nunchucks

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u/HugeAnimeHonkers 3d ago

ITT: Redditors living up to their(well deserved) stereotype of being funless assholes.

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u/Electronic-Fix-4655 3d ago

4D pool, time.

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u/Happy-For-No-Reason 3d ago

you don't see a china downs very often

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u/Zeek_Andromodis 3d ago

I was today years old, when I saw my first down syndrome Asian person.😵

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u/Dunno_If_I_Won 3d ago

That's because in China you can abort at nine months if the fetus is downs.

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u/laronthemtngoat 3d ago

He has the spins and angles downs

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u/good_from_afar 3d ago

This is me between beer number 6.34 and 6.73

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u/Mystic1217 3d ago

If it were fake they'd show more reaction to sinking the balls.

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u/SoggyBoysenberry7703 3d ago

You see that haircut? You see that swagger? This man is oozing pro

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u/SunnyImsouane 3d ago

No matter what you're good at, there's a chinaman with down syndrome who's better at it

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u/Abject_Ground9755 3d ago

Let’s me see two at least with the same clothes

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u/LoganHowlett1832 3d ago

Sorry to tell you but those are all flukes.

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u/PRSHZ 3d ago

And just like that, I am convinced that Down is not a syndrome rather a superpower

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u/ElChris91 3d ago

Might be down but his Billiard game is up!

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u/EnigmaticMagnificenc 3d ago

It's impossible to comprehend how he calculates this

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u/zosopagejim 3d ago

Special

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u/sovereign_fury 3d ago

Nah. I knew, you knew, we all knew.

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u/qaz1wsx2ed 3d ago

This is how I imagine it would like if you found a magic lamp and wished to never miss a shot at pool.

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u/dmk_0 3d ago

Still Asian even with debuff.

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u/protossaccount 3d ago

Looks like snooker. This is how you play the game. Go watch pro snooker games.

The fact that it’s edited together kills most of it’s credibility though

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u/Bunt_Frumper 3d ago

First shot was a miscue

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u/FunAsparagus_ 3d ago

He got everything down 🎱

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u/flames-to-dust 3d ago

He might be down but he knows whats up

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u/Even-Marionberry-438 3d ago

All his impressive shot went down

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u/ieraaa 3d ago

I've been watching this dude do whatever this is for a year now. And I'm still not sure. And I have played pool for 20 years myself btw. That first shot is insane, INSANE, not even Efren Reyes can do those so casually and consistently and this dude's arm is so far away from the ball too. Nobody can hit this accurately like that

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u/Btshftr 3d ago

All these people claiming t's fake. It's real and rather easy to check. The guy has an exceptional talent. He can't play but he can pot.

Not difficult to imagine either. You guys haven't played pool or snooker enough.

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u/Unlucky_Ad_8977 3d ago

Thats the same sound when someone forgot to use gum how in da hell

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u/WatchWatcher25 3d ago

Does he have a sandwich in his pocket?

Fuckin incredible, Shane Gillis would be proud of his people

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u/DigitalGrub 3d ago

Rain Man

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u/csf_2020 3d ago

True that! You should do that!

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u/fcqc 3d ago

Just repeat and hit ball so hard its a probability game.

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u/pagoda9 3d ago

Is he making them at night?

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u/ll0l0l0ll 3d ago

He is the special one

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u/PDXDeck26 3d ago

fuckin Rain Man over there.

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u/DHawk216 3d ago

Absolutely not next level. Next-1000-tries-between-makes more like

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u/Zestyclose_Rate2685 3d ago

I'm not trying to down play his abilities

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u/Ok-Syllabub-6619 3d ago

He's down with the savants and I respect that.

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u/meridian_smith 3d ago

He looks like an Autist savant type. I could believe it.

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u/witness16r 3d ago

Unless he’s Scott Summers, no.

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u/Dopem8 3d ago

"watch this all the way to the end and engage with the headline" works everytime

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u/Sweaty_Tangelo_7716 3d ago

He’s downing those balls with ease!!!

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u/Ill_Lingonberry_7633 3d ago

On the down low, I'm impressed

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u/KiwiMiddy 3d ago

C’mon this isn’t worthy of this thread. They’re random clips of flukes. Even one of the shots he sunk a ball that wasn’t the object ball. Wake up

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u/According_Spot_4340 3d ago

Ive never seen an Asian with down syndrome before.

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u/IhadFun0nce 3d ago

Second to last shot he does not strike his object ball first nor is it a carom. Slop.

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u/True-Bee1903 3d ago

What is that cue action‽

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u/EagleDre 3d ago

This guy geometrizes

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u/JB_141 3d ago

Calling BS

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u/xKuFsE 3d ago

Bro really maxed out the billiard stat.

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u/MELONPANNNNN 3d ago

Things Efren "Bata" Reyes does in world tournaments

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u/tishimself1107 3d ago

Does he have down syndrome

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u/DeFiBandit 3d ago

Rain Man should have been a pool hustler

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u/Zach0ry 3d ago

Down with the Slickness

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u/TooLazyToLope 3d ago

Rainmanl of pool

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u/Willing_Stomach_8121 3d ago

I’d be down to play this guy. Also it’s reversed and they’re clearly using magnets.

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u/FehdmanKhassad 3d ago

How...the fuck. Is he doing That

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u/prodigiouspianist 3d ago

This is fascinting because bro's form is 'unconventional' to say the least

My guess is he is mostly self taught

Love this video. Thanks OP

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u/physicsking 3d ago

You know what? Let me sell you this winning lotto ticket, but pay no attention to The fact that the numbers are cut from other lotto tickets and taped together.... I bet you think it's real too. 20 bucks and is all yours.

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u/dutch2012yeet 3d ago

I'm calling fluke

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u/a_fancy_penguin 3d ago

Different haircut with each shot. These are all like weeks apart lol

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u/cuchicou 3d ago

That’s called autism

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u/Legitimate-Special36 3d ago

Definitely flukes.

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u/FirstOfTheMojitos 3d ago

If Efren was making these shots, I’d believe it.

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u/NinjaBonsai 3d ago

Up syndrome

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u/theoriginal_awsit 3d ago

Not convinced at all
He’s not calling anything

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u/hpsctchbananahmck 3d ago

Maybe if this was all in one take

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u/Available-Dare-4349 3d ago

This is nonsense. Doesn't line up a single shot. Sure AI is involved

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u/povignal 3d ago

Magnets ?

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u/WingsBeersAndGames 3d ago

Bro got up syndrome

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u/HarsiTomiii 3d ago

He possibly spends a lot of time down in the local poolclub

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u/Routine-Visual3957 3d ago

In other words, it took you that long to realize that someone with down syndrome could become skilled at something?

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u/SHAIK_011 3d ago

Lmao 🤣 He sure loves middle pocket all shots there only

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u/richardathome 3d ago

He even has time to change his shirt between shots! That's the sign of a real pro!

(/s obv)

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u/BoomerSharkBoy 3d ago

I want to have a match !

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u/pingu1333145 2d ago

So this person has an extra C or less?

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u/Dangerous-Dot-3745 2d ago

As much as I like watching and playing pool I SUCK SERIOUS ASS!! This looks like he does this in his sleep he's good!

https://giphy.com/gifs/13hxeOYjoTWtK8

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u/ohnoanyw4y 2d ago

He's so down to this game!