Mateusz Śniegocki (born 3 January 1985 in
Poznan) is a Polish professional
pool
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* Tide pool, a rocky pool ...
player. Śniegocki is a former
10-Ball European champion and three-time winner of events at the
Euro Tour
The Euro Tour is a series of professional pool events set around Europe, founded in 1992, and created by the European Pocket Billiard Federation. The Tour's first event was the ''Belgium Open'', held on May 29 – 31, 1992. The event was won by M ...
.
Career
Śniegocki started playing billiards in a club called "Hades" in 1999,
winning 5 national junior titles before 2005.
Śniegocki won his first
Euro Tour
The Euro Tour is a series of professional pool events set around Europe, founded in 1992, and created by the European Pocket Billiard Federation. The Tour's first event was the ''Belgium Open'', held on May 29 – 31, 1992. The event was won by M ...
event in 2013 at the Bosnia & Herzegovina Open,
before winning the
10-Ball event at the
European Pool Championships European Pool Championship (also called Dynamic European Championships) is a pool competition organized by the European Pocket Billiard Federation (EPBF). The tournament is held annually since 1980. It should not be confused with the series of small ...
later that year.
In following years, Śniegocki won two more Euro Tour events, the 2015 Portugal Open,
and the 2016 Albanian Open.
Achievements
*
Kremlin Cup
The Kremlin Cup (russian: Кубок Кремля) is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts, which was suspended in 2022. It was part of the ATP Tour 250 series of the ATP Tour and was a Premier Tournament on the WTA ...
(2012)
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Euro Tour
The Euro Tour is a series of professional pool events set around Europe, founded in 1992, and created by the European Pocket Billiard Federation. The Tour's first event was the ''Belgium Open'', held on May 29 – 31, 1992. The event was won by M ...
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Bosnia & Herzegovina Open (2013)
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Portugal Open
The Portugal Open (formerly named Estoril Open) was an ATP and WTA clay court tennis tournament in Portugal. The event took place at the sports complex of Jamor in Oeiras, of which Estoril Court Central is the most prominent show court. In 20 ...
(2015)
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Albanian Open (2016)
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European Pool Championship European Pool Championship (also called Dynamic European Championships) is a pool competition organized by the European Pocket Billiard Federation (EPBF). The tournament is held annually since 1980. It should not be confused with the series of small ...
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Ten-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 ...
(2013, 2019, 2021)
* Polish Pool Championship
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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 (a ...
(2006)
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Nine-ball
Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with at each of the four corners and in the middle of e ...
(2005, 2006, 2009)
References
External links
Polish pool players
Living people
Sportspeople from Poznań
1985 births
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