8-BALL: Francisco BUSTAMANTE vs Earl STRICKLAND - 2014 MAKE IT HAPPEN 8-BALL INVITATIONAL

8-BALL: Francisco “Django” Bustamante, 50, a superstar at all pocket billiard games and Earl “The Pearl” Strickland, 53, arguably the best 9-Ball player of all time met at the 2014 Make-It-Happen 8-Ball Invitational. It was the last match to determine the finalists in the round robin event.
Bill Incardona and Danny DiLiberto worked the commentary booth.
• 8-BALL: Francisco BUST...
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[@pessimisticpuma]

I’ve watched Earl shoot a lot and he always reminds me of a savant with ADHD. He shoots very quickly with almost a sense of impatience, like he thinks so quickly that his body is fighting to keep up. He doesn’t take many pre-strokes, shoots fast but always so accurate with great position, and he doesn’t seem to rethink his original approach once he’s committed. It’s both amazingly entertaining and slightly stressful to watch him work around the table.

[@thainguyengvietnam1981]

I like his playstyle a lot, he's my favorite player of all time.

[@jordanachee9133]

He’s made every possible shot on that table 10,000 times he knows precisely how to hit it

[@anon2414]

I like watching him for that reason. Earl Strickland has said many times he is a proponent of shooting fast because it's more entertaining to watch. He said pool can be boring and that's why it's not mainstream. He gave Ralph souquet as a boring example 😂😂. That's why another one of my favorites to watch is Joshua Filler cuz he shoots fast like Strickland

[@matthewg9205]

Well put

[@-Keyboard-Warrior.]

beautifully said! 👍🏼

[@tiresource11]

"How about if he doesn't make the ball" I literally spit out my beer laughing 😂🤣

[@alvaromunoz5410]

What is the table size?

[@5000rgb]

@@alvaromunoz5410 looks to be 9'.

[@parahype]

Old is gold. Amazing match! thanks for the reupload

[@AccuStats]

You bet

[@Mikebauero]

That was one of the greatest jokes ever that Danny said about Earl talking two guys , one was deaf and the other one didn't understand english 🤭

[@ismaelquezada6139]

😂😂deaf and d UNDERSTAND english 🤣

[@omarmatin1052]

Beautiful match and two of my all time favourites. Thank you Pat and the Accustats team. This channel is a pool lovers dream. Also love the commentary.

[@AccuStats]

Much appreciated

[@Mrphilharmonic]

Love the Abbot and Costello commentary. These two bounce off each other with the most inane comments. Makes you wonder if they are watching what we are.

[@chadhutsell8847]

Great match! Real cool to see them interacting and enjoying themselves

[@asmaraputra206]

Earl strickland, the villain of pool, i love it 🤣

[@tonyleisure1258]

He is to pool what McEnroe is to tennis

[@mikea5205]

I just love watching Earl in stroke....nothing better!!

[@larrychurch375]

The Magician the best ever

[@catherinesantiago9693]

Until you've seen Efren "The Magician" Reyes. Enough said!

[@dexterpagurayan4881]

There it is So relieving to watch/know Bustie beating Earl for the first time☺️like I've never seen this before

[@fredsavage4925]

Fine wine, these two. Fantastic match.

[@James-ri4dp]

A very entertaining match to watch between two of the best.

[@Poolguppy101]

The older announcer had me laughing so hard. Got to love him! Great play by both parties.

[@backgammonful]

Thanks for upload

[@wombra8314]

boosteeeemz uses so much side it wicked ... amazing match and commentary captured ty for sharing mr. flemming! dd is killin me! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣❤️💚❤️

[@Mrphilharmonic]

Amazing match. Just the way these guys think leaves me speechless.

[@AccuStats]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@nancydedeo4121]

Wondering if the old man announcing is watching the same match as everybody else

[@kerrmoney]

Thanks so much for this amazing upload Pat! I missed you guys earlier, I was shooting a set after getting whooped at a tournament. I needed this to relax to afterwards 😜

[@wombra8314]

cheeers kerrmoney next time u get heeeemz ✊☺️👉🎱

[@ligidobastian9245]

Love watching Earl play. Very quick

[@coldpressedbrickrep]

Holy crap pat that was awesome !

[@alfredmontoya107]

Hello I’ve been listening to a builder in Cardona and Danny Diliberto for quite a while and their commentary and their back-and-forth is just awesome I thoroughly enjoy it I just wanted to let you guys know take care. Alfred Montoya aka Handsome Al

[@5000rgb]

I really liked their commentary on this match. Great analysis without beating it to death.

[@ruskyhrahsel7723]

Great match

[@alwaysright429]

Commentators were thrilled at the result 🤣🤣

[@ziddi2603]

No one loves earl, more than earl!

[@shenlongcobap3823]

Bustamante still perfect

[@vebnew]

8-BALL: Francisco BUSTAMANTE vs Earl STRICKLAND --- EXCELLENT

[@invictus9976]

Earl is definitely a great player and he's also someone very difficult to like and wish he wins.

[@davidmckibben2122]

These two guys 👌

[@josealejandrotorrejon6586]

great match

[@brianshishnia3278]

great match to watch, always good to see close competition. I enjoyed it even more after muting the sound. Not tasteful or professional for the anti Earl commentator cut a player down. I suppose his negativity might be because Strickland could smoke him even shooting left handed.

[@Blessed.2.Teach.4God]

1:17:50 ...are you f-ing kidding me!??! Outrageous!!!!

[@homerchavez7109]

I hate to say this but Efren is simply the best - Earl Strickland

[@parksyist]

8 ball on us table is pretty boring no tactics and they never miss. That said two legends are always worth watching 😃

[@gabrielc.774]

I've never seen these 2 players so relaxed n chatting to each other during a competitive game. Seems like a friendly game with nothing at stake

[@5000rgb]

When you've accomplished as much as those two have you can relax. They've both proven themselves countless times and are still among the best playing.

[@jonmarkparing6375]

Wow the Very Great match

[@lllllsp1d3rlllll]

I don't realize I do it but when I get in my rhythm I do the teeter totter stroke boosti does people are like how do you do that.its actually an odd thing to b able to change your stroke.i mainly like playing with a snooker style stroke short and compact.

[@bosleyr.santos3726]

Great players like efren eyes will always be classics.

[@alfredosagastegui7342]

The pearl el más grande!!!!!

[@MH-bn7di]

هذا اللعب.. لعب الاساطير.. تحية لايرل من دبي دار الحين..

[@MrJdsenior]

I usually write good match, forget that crap, this was a GREAT match. I haven't had so much fun watching a match with the older Strickland in it in a long time. He would do himself a service to adopt more this attitude. They both played like gods, basically, a coupled of bobbles and some dry breaks, and some shots that were out of this world, very high level pool. Man, I am clueless as to why Earl picked stripes on that game ending 46:00. Even the commentators were back and forth, for me it was instantly pick solids, no comparison, even negating the problem stripe they looked better to me. And except for Earl's killer clearance shot on his LAST shot (he IS good at coming with those) before the eight ball, which could have gone bad pretty easily, he had a serious problem because of it. Like I said, I do not get it. People pick on Danny all the time. For my two cents I think these two are always hilarious. When they're not arguing like an old married couple, they are breaking each other up. And Danny always has at least one excellent quip.

[@5000rgb]

I love when the commenters are ribbing each other and telling stories. Pool often doesn't need a lot of commentary and I like trying to figure out what the players will do without the announcers spoiling it for me.

[@tonynguyen4147]

I think you pick your poison at the end of the day the 3 and the 13 ball are the obvious problem balls. I would have chose stripes too if you can make 14 in the corner its not too too bad to get position on the 13 to shoot it in the same corner

[@martinparker9249]

@9:55 is there any reason for hitting the 9 ball half ball , he nearly screwed up? i would just played it striaght on ? u can pot 2 balls that way too ?

[@louisbuzzi869]

At least Francisco Bustamonte didn't jump up on the table to celebrate.

[@lllllsp1d3rlllll]

Earl is my hero I so wish I could meet him

[@2869may]

6th rack was tough, Busty worked it pretty good but came up just short with the 2 not falling....

[@KingLeonidas_300]

What a match

[@26maffew]

The dentures-commentator cracks me up …. Great match

[@anon2414]

Man I love earl's pace

[@GregRearranger]

What's the story on the rack used here? I notice some of the newer videos are back using the standard rack. Was this a trend or was it found to be inconsistent? Just curious :)

[@robertdenson3375]

Mandatory viewing for all levels of players. Maybe some of the best 8 ball ever. Earl missed less but lost anyway.....

[@5000rgb]

This was one of those games that is not a decisive victory, just who happened to be ahead at the end. I think Earl should have gone for the 4 at 1:37:30. Both guys played brilliantly.

[@TitoAlvarado16]

Never doubt django

[@southerndandy4910]

The dude with the shit stained dockers behind Bustamante (13:00) is the real MVP.

[@AccuStats]

😆

[@edwrd1990]

The only thing that would make this better is audio of the players talking.

[@christopherwelsh7008]

At 1:1755 Earl makes one of the best shots you will ever see. After winning the game, he goes off on a celebratory rant engaging with the crowd. I wish the commentators had recognized the moment and let us hear what Earl had to say rather than talk over him.

[@self-preservationsociety7057]

Agreed , the commentary was not needed at all IMO

[@mattweeks9570]

That whole 15th rack is just awesome improvising from earl.

[@scottisitoro3953]

At 41:50, while seating, is Earl using sandpaper on his cue? Maybe some sort of rosin on a paper? Anybody?

[@wombra8314]

this is a riot! ✊🤣😂🤣😃

[@whetedge]

Rack 15...damn Earl!

[@sergeykhachaturov9397]

Most shafts are already smooth especially when wearing a glove

[@edwrd1990]

Great match AND commentary

[@macbiete7596]

Great match janggo and Earl S.

[@gino2033]

Earl pulled his pants down lol killed that tourney.

[@jggrskate94]

Hello Accu-stats, I gotta couple quick questions that roam my mind! First, the people with earphones on the crowd, are they listening to the comment by Bill and Danny? And second, where is Bill!? In my opinion he's the best commentator Accu-stats had, and with Danny they make such a good duo, I miss him commentating more recent games! Cheers from Andalusia!

[@AccuStats]

Yes, earphones are available at the tournaments for fans in attendance to listen to the commentary. Bill is still around. He just doesn't do much commentary now that Danny has retired from commentary.

[@johnsmall9]

My man's pinky game is unreal

[@hatesitrick]

Can't believe Earl just threw the match like that lol

[@gino2033]

Can't join live chat but listening to bully ear crow as Earl "G.O.A.T" spanks mister 2nd place Bustamante LoL 😂🤣😆

[@alecmcjarison999]

Combined age of 6000 of the people in the seats

[@DAVENATCHSTOCKS]

Th Cue ball might be covered in skitt ✍🏾📈

[@Johnfromrussia00]

Две легенды

[@RichardsWorld]

I'd sure like to hear what Earl was saying. How about stop talking when the players talk?

[@rickvassell8349]

First time I saw a supple wrist like Busti was Petey Fusco from Philly.

[@freedomforthebrave]

There's not of players he's so chilled with 2 or 3 if you push it

[@neuvocastezero1838]

"He probably exaggerates about... 40%." You can tell that Danny's a man who has been hanging around pool halls his whole life.

[@gino2033]

Does Billy even watch the matches or just run his jaw against American players?

[@wombra8314]

both ;)

[@jamespatrick5930]

Why don’t they use the rack?

[@fraserwing8744]

What's up at 1:17:50 , Earl is shooting stripes, makes his shot, and has a solid go in too; did he call that? I can't hear him say anything about it, I didn't even know that was a legal option but it'd be excellent to know if that's an actual play.

[@AccuStats]

As long as he pocketed the stripe, it doesn't matter if any other balls are pocketed.

[@fraserwing8744]

@@AccuStats do you know what rule framework they were playing by in this match?

[@alucardx1234]

Hoping future matches get Mark and Jeremy Jones back commentating. This is painful

[@johnpoccia4981]

Wow earl the pearl @1:18 😲😲😲😲😲😲😮😮😮😮😯😯😯😯

[@ZEUSDAZ]

I don't get that stupid triangle plastic thing being left on the table after the break off, surly it can cause the ball to run-off differently and get stuck under the balls?!

[@oscarbarreno6811]

exelente vidio bueno

[@jimjames5247]

Earl the Pearl Strickland , what's left to say

[@perun4649]

francisco django bustamante, what a fucking stroke

[@rogerscottcathey]

Over Wych and Waddell I'll take Danny and Billy any day of the week. Their commentary makes a match a pleasure instead of torture, lol. European matches are just hard to take.

[@skyant3030]

❤️❤️❤️

[@lazarosification]

👉DJANGO🌟DJANGO👈

[@user-pt5nx1np5t]

What a shot 1:17:55 😮!!

[@wombra8314]

DD doesn't sound drunk at all why everyone sayin that??? lol

[@mgunseres]

Earl good player bad ridicoles show man

[@words911]

Is the old guy drunk? lol

[@kevinbruce7916]

Fr tho, why does bustamante get 2 extensions in the last rack? He used an extension after the break, then another extension with ball in hand....

[@AccuStats]

Ref and opponent must have missed it.

[@Downecker]

Why is it that every announcer calls the balls solid and stripes. We said that when we were 12! It always was high or low ball ! Who says "stripes" ? Nobody in any pool hall in my Newark, NJ talks like that! 😂😅

[@AccuStats]

I have been playing pool for 35 years, and writing about it for the last 20, and I have NEVER heard them referred to as high or low ball. It was always "the big ones" or the "the little ones" when I was growing up. Now it's "solids" or "stripes" everywhere.

[@jaroslavcech225]

Can anyone tell me what the numbers next to their names mean?

[@AccuStats]

This was a "Round Robin" tournament. The numbers are the won-lost session record for that player.

[@FreeYourBrains]

With Earl playing/talking who needs commentators ???

[@wombra8314]

1:17:53 f yussssssss! proper reaction weeeeeeeeee! 🔥🙌🔥👏👏👏😛

[@martinparker9249]

@1:37:50 I would bank the 6 ball into the side pocket ?

[@jamalojienda7839]

Are the commentators competing too?😂😊

[@DireDepiction]

Commentators are like an old married couple. Better watched on mute. Great filming. Great match.

[@leocuevas2661]

Please remove the letters on the screen so that we can see clearly

[@edhartgrove7552]

●●● Does anyone know? What would happen if the referee dropped the bridge (and scrambled balls) while handing it to, or taking it from, a player?

[@wombra8314]

mr. flemming puts him in the accu-dungeon and heeemz dies a tedious miserable death listening to JJ commentary and mike sigel looping at 250db :(

[@AccuStats]

How did you know?

[@edhartgrove7552]

@@wombra8314 ●●● LOL

[@larryleadman3356]

When Earl made two you didn't mention it you bias show well

[@wombra8314]

1:18:56 i wish i could read boostiez mind 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@MrPezdispencer]

21:40 I feel like he just covered up for a senior moment.

[@timgaumer5015]

Who is the gentleman sitting behind the Simonis banner beside the guy in the black hat? He seems to be at everyone of these big tournaments.

[@AccuStats]

Stu Mattana

[@timgaumer5015]

@@AccuStats is he just a huge Pocket billiards fan or does he have a part in organizing and promoting the events? I want his life!

[@AccuStats]

A pocket billiard fan who knows everybody!