Everything about Johnny Archer totally explained
Johnny Archer (born
12 November 1968 in
Spring Hill,
Florida) is an
American professional
pool player. He is nicknamed "the Scorpion" (his
zodiac sign is
Scorpio, and one of his sponsors is Scorpion Cues).
Career
He is one of the most successful
nine-ball players of the past fifteen years, having won the majority of the game's major tournaments at least once, culminating in him being named
Billiards Digest Player of the Decade at the end of the 1990s.
Archer is a two-time
WPA World Nine-ball Champion, winning in both
1992 when he defeated
Bobby Hunter, and later again in
1997 after beating
Lee Kun-fang of
Chinese Taipei (
Taiwan). He was also a runner-up the following year, losing in the final to
Takahashi Kunihiko of
Japan. He was the 1999 US Open champion, and has won over 60 professional tournament throughout his career.
He has also been a regular on the successful US
Mosconi Cup team, having joined them eleven times, winning on nine of those occasions. The US's only losses with Archer in the roster came in 2002, when they were beaten 9-12 by
Europe, and 2007, when Team USA lost 9–12. He has captained the American side since 2004, retaining the Cup on each occasion until
the 2007 upset (
the 2006 event was a 12–12 draw in
Rotterdam,
Netherlands with the US retaining the trophy on account of being the current holders of it).
Archer also won the 2006
US$50,000 winner-take-all
International Challenge of Champions by defeating
Thorsten Hohmann in the finals.
In 2007, he won the
Texas Hold 'Em Billiards Championship. While in the 2005 event, the entire purse was awarded to the winner, in the 2007 event, the purse has been split.
The
Ripley's Believe It or Not! television show, on
September 3,
2003, pitted Archer and
Jeremy Jones against each other in an
challenge match in
speed pool. The show had them timed against each other, to try to beat the record, which at that time stood at 1 minute 30 seconds to a full of balls and then pocket all fifteen balls, and then move to another table and do it again. Archer was the victor. The event was recorded in a warehouse in
Los Angeles where other challenge matches were also taking place to beat records.
Archer has recently rejoined the staff of
Inside Pool Magazine, where he writes a monthly instruction column.
For 2007, he was ranked #3 in
Pool & Billiard Magazine's "Fans' Top 20 Favorite Players" poll.
Titles and achievements
Personal life
Archer lives in
Acworth, Georgia, and is also an avid
golfer. Archer ascribes his strong pool break to playing a lot of
golf, noting similarities in having the timing right and using one's whole body in the stroke. Archer also has had two children with his wife Melanie.
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