Santos Sambajon

Santos Sambajon, nicknamed the Little Giant and the Saint, is a Filipino professional pool player, born on September 10, 1960, in Macalelon, Quezon, who started playing pool at seven and moved to Manila at eleven; he now lives in the United States. In 1988 he won the Asian Open International Nine-ball Championship, and in 2004 he dominated the ESPN-televised World Summit of Pool by defeating Mike Davis in the final. His greatest win was the 2005 Skins Billiards Championship, where he beat Danny Basavich in sudden death for 73,500 dollars. He made his WPA World Nine-ball Championship debut in 2006 after passport problems kept him out in 2004, and was Efren Reyes's corner man at the 2006 IPT World Open Eight-ball final.