Ismael Páez

Ismael Páez is a Mexican professional pool and card player, born on September 19, 1950, best known as the runner-up at the 2000 WPA World Nine-ball Championship, where he beat Earl Strickland in the semi-final and lost the final 6-17 to Chao Fong-pang. In September 1998 he won the Spanish 9-ball Open by defeating Germany's Bernd Jahnke, becoming the second non-European after Francisco Bustamante to win a Euro Tour tournament. He finished seventeenth at the 1998 world nine-ball championship and ninth at the 2002 IBC Nanki Classic, and his titles list runs from the 1988 Huebler Cup Open to the 2001 Jay Swanson Memorial 9-Ball.