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Jayson Shaw

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Jayson Shaw is a Scottish professional pool player born on 13 September 1988 and the 2010 WPA World Blackball Champion. He has won the Mosconi Cup eight times with Team Europe, in 2016, 2017 and every year from 2020 to 2025, and was its most valuable player in 2020, 2021 and 2024, when he became the first player-captain to win the award. He won the International Challenge of Champions in 2016 by beating Shane Van Boening and the U.S. Open Pool Championship in nine-ball in 2017. He set a world high run record in straight pool of 714 balls in 2022 and broke it himself in 2025 with 832. He and his wife own a pool room in West Haven, Connecticut.

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