Luc Salvas

Luc Salvas is a Canadian professional pool player, born on November 21, 1962, in Yamaska, Quebec, whose quick-paced speed pool play has earned him the nickname Machine Gun. He won the first International Speed Pool Challenge and its 50,000 dollar winner-take-all purse by defeating Great Britain's Dave Pearson, lost the semi-finals the next year to Bobby McGrath, won the event for a second time in 2009 by defeating Pearson in the final, and defended the title in 2010 by defeating McGrath. Despite his fast performance, he has yet to dominate any of the major nine-ball or eight-ball tournaments.