Lee Vann Corteza

Lee Vann Corteza, also spelled Lee Van Corteza and nicknamed the Slayer, is a Filipino professional pool player born on March 1, 1979, in Davao City, who started playing in 1993. The oldest of five brothers, he was named after the American actor Lee Van Cleef and first took up pool at thirteen after a friend brought him to a pool parlor, from which he was later blacklisted for accidentally damaging a table. He has won four gold medals and one silver medal at the Southeast Asian Games and won the 2004 WPA Asian Nine-ball Tour event in the Philippines by beating Francisco Bustamante 13 to 11. In 2009 he was runner-up at the WPA World Ten-ball Championship, losing to Mika Immonen.