Mary Avina
Professional Billiard Player
The Princess of Billiards
Meet Mary Avina. A Texan girl born in California. Her vibrant billiard journey across the USA led to her true nature and Texan heart. At just 14, she stumbled upon her passion for billiards during her modeling days in Los Angeles. What started as an overwhelming, all-consuming obsession quickly transformed into a thrilling and dynamic career.
Now, Mary dazzles audiences with exciting exhibitions and shares her expertise by teaching and coaching players of all skill levels. Despite her worldwide travels and audience, Texas is her home base, where she has cultivated an incredible community of billiards enthusiasts who are passionate about the game and rally around her.
Mary Avina’s story is not just about billiards; it’s a celebration of following your heart and making dreams come true, particularly in the Lone Star State. Here’s to the joy, inspiration, and perfect shots Texas brings into her life!
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Mary Avina performs an Unforgettable 9-Ball Exhibition
Watch how this out-of-town 9-Ball practice session turns into a 9-Ball performance. Mary Avina performs an undeniable 9-Ball Exhibition.
Epic 8-Ball Shots with Professional Mary Avina
Watch in awe as Professional Pool Player Mary Avina takes on the challenge of 8-Ball on a full-sized 9-foot table. With precision, finesse, and an unshakable focus, Mary delivers jaw-dropping shots that showcase her elite skills.
Get ready to witness Mary Avina take on the electrifying “One-Handed 3-Ball Pool Challenge” with unmatched flair and finesse!.
My Career
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FAQ
In the exact same way most professional athletes do. Endorsements, doing appearances, corporate exhibitions, lessons, and also products, there are over three hundred products that carry my name. DVD’s Posters, billiard cues and so on, basically every billiard product you can think of, ranging from $5 bridge to an $1,100 billiard cue.
I am from California, however, I currently reside in Texas.
Practice, practice, and more practice.
Yes. I am a certified Black Belt Instructor
Yes. When I was young and much thinner. I quit modeling after I fell in love with Billiards. I like eating too much.
I was 14 years old.
Yes. But anything worth having takes hard work and sacrifice.
Yes. Around the time that I played Snooker for money my art was being sold in art galleries.
The short answer is everything, or European. Yes I sunburn. Long answer is English, Scandinavian, French, Spanish, Italian, and so on. Pretty much name any European ethnicity.
Snooker
Gambling and playing for money are two different things. Yes, I have played many, many, money games. That said it was nothing like gambling since I knew I was going to win most the time. I knew the odds well, in other words, I was more like a casino.
Hustling and sharking means cheating people or misleading people. So, no… I never did that. I believe in beating people the old fashion way, by just playing better than them. I believe in hard work and practice, no false shortcuts. Also if I had to cheat people to do my job I would change profession.
No, I was fairly un-athletic when I was little. I grew out-out of it slowly, first with martial arts then later with billiards.
Yes, I teach many one-on-one lessons weekly, I also do several group clinics all over the country per year.
I just breathe, bear down and let years of practice take over, again it comes down to practice and them more practice. So by the time, it comes up is a natural set of actions and movements.
You practice endlessly very hard and when opportunity calls, you answer. Unfortunately, opportunity comes disguised as hard work. You have to work on it, till the time comes, then you jump on the opportunity when it finally comes.
Directing is way more fun and easier than editing. Sadly editing is harder but gets only a small fraction of the credit.
Chicken adobo
3 things hard work, second mindset and third people skills. As a general rule once you have acquired the skills to play well the differences come down to the mindset. The game becomes a lot more mental as you get better and better. Then the best of the best also tend to have to have good people skills. If you don’t learn to deal with people well you will never reach full potential since people won’t help you, and worse they may even go out of there way to impede your success, in favor of someone they do favor.
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