Rubilen "Bingkay" Amit (born October 3, 1981) is a

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female professional

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(pool) player. Amit is the first Filipino woman to become a world pool champion.

Biography

Rubilen Amit was born in

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. Amit began playing during her teens, often tagging along with her father Bobby at the Super Bowl in Makati. In college, she studied

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at the

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. She participated in and won the 2000 and 2001 College of Commerce and Business Administration's billiards tournaments. After graduating in 2004, Amit worked as a call center agent for a year. In 2005, she was accepted to the Philippine pool national team. However, in early 2013, Amit, along with other top Filipino pool players, was removed from the national team due to a controversial reorganization of the national team by the Billiards and Snooker Congress of the Philippines.

Titles

* 2005 Southeast Asian Games Eight-ball Singles * 2005 Southeast Asian Games Nine-ball Singles * 2007 Southeast Asian Games Nine-ball Singles * 2009 World Mixed Doubles Classic (with

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) * 2009 Southeast Asian Games Nine-ball Singles * 2009 Southeast Asian Games Eight-ball Singles * 2009 WPA Women's World Ten-ball Championship * 2009 Philippine Sportsman of the Year * 2011 World Mixed Doubles Classic (with

) * 2013 WPA Women's World Ten-ball Championship * 2013 Southeast Asian Games Ten-ball Singles * 2019 Southeast Asian Games Nine-ball Singles * 2019 Southeast Asian Games Nine-ball Doubles * 2021 Southeast Asian Games Ten-ball Singles * 2021 Southeast Asian Games Nine-ball Singles * 2022 WPA World Mixed Teams 10-Ball Championship

Recognitions

In 2019, Amit was recognized as one of the Top 100 Cebuano personalities by

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, Cebu's longest-running newspaper. She was recognized alongside

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, and

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as part of the centennial anniversary of the local newspaper.

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