Title: Efren Reyes
Content:  Efren "Bata" Manalang Reyes (born August 26, 1954) is a Filipino professional pool player. A winner of over 70 international titles, Reyes was the first player to win the WPA World Championships in two different pool disciplines. Among his numerous titles, Reyes is a four-time World Eight-ball champion, the Matchroom Sport 1999 World Professional Pool Championship winner, a three-time U.S. Open winner, a two-time World Pool League winner, and a 14-time Derby City Classic winner. Reyes also represented the Philippines at the World Cup of Pool, winning the event with his partner Francisco Bustamante in 2006 and 2009. By defeating American player Earl Strickland in the inaugural Color of Money event in 1997, Reyes took home the largest single match purse in pool history of $100,000. Many analysts, fans, and players consider Reyes to be the greatest pool player of all time. Reyes is nicknamed "The Magician"—for his ability on the pool table—and "Bata", to distinguish from a fellow pool player by the same name. In addition to pool, Reyes has played international billiards, specifically one-cushion and three-cushion.
Title: World Pool Masters
Content: Ralf Souquet holds the record for winning the World Pool Masters the most times: six. 1994, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2011. ; Shane Van Boening holds the record for the most consecutive wins: two. (2014, 2015). ; The oldest pool player to ever win the tournament to date is Ralf Souquet of Germany, at 42 years old at the time of his victory, The youngest is Daryl Peach of United Kingdom, aged 23 years old at the time of his victory. 
Title: Jean Balukas
Content:  Jean Balukas (born June 28, 1959) is an American pool player from Brooklyn, New York, and ranks among the stellar players in the history of the sport. At least through the 1990s, when Allison Fisher began her ascendancy, Balukas was widely acknowledged as the sole candidate for greatest female player ever. Described as a "trailblazer, a child prodigy, a loner who rebelled against dress codes for women—the pool equivalent of Billie Jean King", she is a five-time Billiards Congress of America (BCA) Player of the Year, was the youngest inductee into the BCA Hall of Fame and the second woman given the honor, and was ranked fifteenth on Billiard Digest's Fifty Greatest Players of the &#91;20th&#93; Century. Balukas was considered a prodigy, coming to the public's attention first at 6 years of age at a pool exhibition held at New York City's Grand Central Terminal and thereafter appearing on 
Title: Efren Reyes
Content:  Numerous fellow professional players have credited Reyes with being the greatest living player in the world. During ESPN television commentary on a semi-finals match between Reyes and Mika Immonen at the 2000 Billiard Congress of America Open Nine-ball Championship, veteran professional Billy Incardona stated that Reyes was "indisputably the best player in the world—especially when you consider all games—he can play any game as well as anyone, maybe better than anyone.... In my opinion we're watching probably the greatest player in my lifetime and I've been watching pool for the better part of forty years." In 1995, Billiards Digest Magazine named Reyes the Player of the Year. The following 
Title: Mike Sigel
Content:  Michael Sigel (born July 11, 1953) is an American professional pool player nicknamed "Captain Hook." He earned the nickname from his ability to hook his opponents with safety plays. Sigel has the ability to shoot pool both left-handed and right-handed and has a high run of 339 balls in Straight Pool. Mike Sigel is widley considered one of the greatest pool players of all time. In the year 2000, Sigel was voted "Greatest Living Player of the Century" by Billiards Digest Magazine.
Title: Luther Lassiter
Content:  Luther Clement Lassiter, Jr. (November 5, 1918 &ndash; October 25, 1988),, nicknamed Wimpy, was an American pool player from Elizabeth City, North Carolina. The winner of 12 world championships and numerous other titles, Lassiter is most well known for his wizardry in the game of nine-ball at which he is widely considered one of the greatest players in history, if not the greatest. He was inducted into the Billiards Congress of America's Hall of Fame in 1983. That same year, he was also inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame. He was ranked number 9 on the Billiards Digest 50 Greatest Players of the Century.
Title: A Game of Pool (The Twilight Zone, 1959)
Content:  this advice and sinks the ball. He revels in his victory, now secure in his status as the best pool player of all time. Fats thanks Jesse for beating him, leading Jesse to angrily call him a sore loser. While he is ranting at Fats, the now-former champion disappears. Some time later, long after his own death, Jesse is summoned from the afterlife to travel to Mason's Pool Hall in Sandusky, Ohio, to play against a challenger. Known even in death as the greatest pool player ever, he must now do as Fats did and spend eternity defending his title against an endless series of opponents, unable to stop until a challenger defeats him. Meanwhile, Fats has gone fishing, relieved of his obligation.
Title: Willie Mosconi
Content:  William Joseph Mosconi (June 27, 1913 – September 17, 1993) was an American professional pool player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Between the years of 1941 and 1957, he won the World Straight Pool Championship nineteen times. For most of the 20th century, his name was essentially synonymous with pool in North America – he was nicknamed "Mr. Pocket Billiards" – and he was among the first Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame inductees. Mosconi pioneered and regularly employed numerous trick shots, set many records, and helped to popularize pool as a national recreation activity. During the 1940s and 1950s, the pocket billiards game most often played in competition was called straight pool, or 14.1 continuous, a form of pool considered by most top players to be more difficult than today's fast tournament game nine-ball. Mosconi set the officially-recognized straight pool high world record of 526 consecutive balls in 1954.
Title: World Championship Pool 2004
Content: Johnny Archer 🇺🇸 USA ; Francisco Bustamante 🇵🇭 Philippines ; Marcus Chamat 🇸🇪 Sweden ; Steve Davis Great Britain ; Tony Drago 🇲🇹 Malta ; Thorsten Hohmann 🇩🇪 Germany ; Mika Immonen 🇫🇮 Finland ; Efren Reyes 🇵🇭 Philippines ; Ralf Souquet 🇩🇪 Germany ; Earl Strickland 🇺🇸 USA ; Nick van den Berg 🇳🇱 Netherlands Eleven simulations of real-life, world-class (but exclusively male) professional pool players appear, and are playable characters in the game:
Title: World Pool Masters
Content:  Throughout much of its history, the tournament has been featuring sixteen world-class pool players, competing in single-elimination format. In 2010, the number of players was doubled to 32. The first round of the event was played in double elimination with the second round in single-elimination. In 2011, the tournament reverted to the original 16-player single-elimination format, with each match a race-to-8, winner breaks. The 2011 edition was held in SM North EDSA Mall in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. Ralf Souquet of Germany won the said tournament for the record-setting sixth time, beating defending champion Dennis Orcollo of the Philippines, 8–5. For the 2019 World Pool Masters, the field was changed to accompany 24 players, with seeded players being given a bye through the first round.

Question: who was the greatest pool player of all time?
Answer: Efren Manalang Reyes.