Nobody in the regular season scores like Juan Lopez. His 27.27 points a tournament is the highest average any player has posted on that through-line, and his $76 of prize money a night is the best return per start as well. He does it without a trophy on the shelf, which tells you how thin the margin between a good season and a title can be.

He has 5 wins from 54 events. The first was Canterberry #117 in January 2020 — twenty-two players, seven knockouts, $245 for first. Since then it has been Eight Deuce: #20 in October 2022, #25 in May 2023, #32 in February 2024 for $480, and #57 in July 2026 against eighteen runners.

Two of those are in the record books for how they ended. At #25 he closed it out in one minute and forty-two seconds of heads-up play, the shortest heads-up match in Eight Deuce history. His heads-up wins average just 7:29, the quickest of any player in Eight Deuce play. Juan does not negotiate at the end.

He also plays longer than anyone else in the room. His average night runs 3:46:42 in Eight Deuce, the longest of any player — he is nearly always still there when the field is down to a handful.

The Annual has been kind: three appearances, three cashes, $1,060 in prize money. He was runner-up at the 2022 Tournament of Champions. $5,095 in career prize money from those fifty-four starts, and 22 cashes. Eight years in, and Juan is the most efficient player in the league who has yet to win a season.