Pagulayan Defends Title at Jay Swanson Memorial

Feb 7, 2012

This event was held at the legendary Hard Times Billiards in Bellflower, California on February 4-5th. The event celebrates legendary Californian player Jay Swanson, who passed away June 1996. He was known as 'the Gentle Giant' who demonstrated all that the Swanee event still stands for today. With $4,000 added, the tournament drew 192 fierce competitors. In the end, it was Pagulayan who defeated Oscar Dominguez 11-9 to take the title for the second consecutive year.
Here are the complete payouts:
1st Alex Pagulayan (CANADA) $3,000
2nd Oscar Dominguez (USA) $1,500
3rd Max Eberle (USA) $1,000
4th Rodney Morris (USA) $750
5th Fach Garcia (USA) $535
5th Amar Kang (USA) $535
7th Morro Paez (USA) $400
7th Santos Sambajon (USA) $400
9th Francisco Bustamante $300
9th Danny Petralba (USA) $300
9th Efren Reyes $300
9th John Schmidt (USA) $300
13th King Kong Chavez (USA) $200
13th Steve Eakins (USA) $200
13th Beau Runningen (USA) $200
13th Nick Spano (USA) $200
17th Brendan Crockett (USA) $175
17th Arthur Garcia (USA) $175
17th Jerry Lin (USA) $175
17th Jerry Matchin (USA) $175
17th Arturo Rivera (USA) $175
17th Louis Ulrich (USA) $175
17th Marcus Wronski (USA) $175
17th Doug Wu (USA) $175
25th Jun Almoite (USA) $150
25th Butch Barba (USA) $150
25th Larry Bohn (USA) $150
25th Richard Burns $150
25th Mitch Ellerman (USA) $150
25th Corey Harper (USA) $150
25th Tang Hoa (USA) $150
25th Scott White (USA) $150
33rd Frank Almanza (USA) $100
33rd Deo Alpajora (USA) $100
33rd Ramin Bakhtiari (USA) $100
33rd Michael Barry (USA) $100
33rd Manny Chau (USA) $100
33rd Terry Clary (USA) $100
33rd Jimmy De Sousa (USA) $100
33rd Christopher Fangre (USA)$100
33rd James Hennessy (USA) $100
33rd Ken Johnson (USA) $100
33rd Gus Luna (USA) $100
33rd Sidney Messiah (USA) $100
33rd Brock Noteboom (USA) $100
33rd Chris Pursley (USA) $100
33rd Josh Ulrich (USA) $100
33rd Masashi Vemura (USA) $100
49th Jason Batin (USA) $75
49th Pete Berardi (USA) $75
49th Taka Fujiwara (USA) $75
49th David Hemmah (USA) $75
49th Robert Howell (USA) $75
49th Victor Ignacio (USA) $75
49th Patrick Kim (USA) $75
49th Hiroko Makiyama (USA) $75
49th Shaun Murphy (USA) $75
49th Jose Parica (USA) $75
49th Billy Pence (USA) $75
49th Brian Reich (USA) $75
49th Bill Stock (USA) $75
49th Branch Talley (USA) $75
49th Chris Tate (USA) $75
49th Josh Winkelman (USA) $75