Speed Pool Record Breaking Attempt Failed

Dave Pearson, who holds the Guinness Book of World Records on clearing 150 billiard balls using two pool tables in less than 9 minutes, failed in breaking his own record last Thursday in Lava Lanes, Oregon. Pearson had managed to pocket only 9 sets of 15 at an equivalent period of time.

Dave Pearson, a speed pool player of an English origin who currently resides in Las Vegas, holds 4 Guinness Book of World Records (on top of 20 more appearances in the book). On Thursday night, June 19, he tried to break his own record of pocketing 10 full sets of billiard balls in 8 minutes and 51.1 seconds. However, Pearson mission was not complete and only 9 of the racks have been pocketed.

Visitors of the Lava Lane pool room, Donnelly's Sports Bar and Grill on Thursday night faced an amazing spectacle. In his attempt to break his own record, Dave Pearson, the world's speediest pool player, played two tables simultaneously: clearing one and then clearing the next, racking and shooting on the former and up to the next, and so on, until the short window of time closes. Blinked and you missed it.

Pool exhibitions are not foreign to Dave Pearson, who had also amused Donnelly's crowed with pool trick shots. The speed pool player/trick shot artist, who is mostly familiar due to his ESPN appearances, exhibits his pool skills in about 40 different countries every year. The secret to speed pool achievements, he says, lays in the beginning, in the ability to pocket as many balls as possible on the break.