On Saturday December 10th, Stroker’s Billiards in London Ontario hosted their first of 4 Lucasi Amateur Shootout events. This is a series of “Amateurs ONLY, 8-Ball” tournaments for players who are 5’s or less on the very successful 404 Tour.

20 eager players turned out this weekend, including 4 juniors and 2 women. The format is a modified round robin where the contestants are guaranteed to play 25 games minimum. Upon the completion of the round robin, 8 players with the best win-loss record move on to the play off rounds, which are race to 3, single elimination.

Normally we would host separate divisions for the women and juniors however the numbers this weekend did not allow us to do so, and all were placed in one group. Having said that, Stuart MacTaggart one of out upcoming juniors made the cut along with Kayla Jones, one of Ontario’s top female amateurs.

The final match came down to Kayla Jones vs. Mike Dymus. The play went back and forth with Kayla coming through in the end as the winner of Stroker’s first event.

A special thank you to Stroker’s for becoming part of the Lucasi Amateur Shootout Tour, and our sponsors (in alphabetical order) Atlas Billiard Supplies, Lucasi Cues and Simonis cloth.

Our next event is next weekend, December 17th at Big Wig’s in Newmarket, Ontario. Hope to see you all there!

1st Kayla Jones $200
2nd Mike Dymus $100
3rd/4th Malcolm MacTaggart/Mitch Ambrose $50 each
5th/8th Ronda Clement, Stuart MacTaggart, Tyler Terashita, Scott Young $25 each

There is also a 10-Ball break contest for the participants and Stroker’s pot is at $225.

Grace Nakamura: gracenakamura@gmail.com