40 players participated in the 1st stop of 404 9-Ball Tour on October 4-5th at Shooters in Toronto. The tour introduced the new "Minus 1" handicap system. In a match versus a professional, an amateur is required to win one game less to win the match after adjusting for the maximum number of 18 games per match. For example, if the match is a standard 11-7 race, then the 404 race becomes an 11-6 r...
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By: Wanda Stiles, Curator, Museum of the Albemarle
The Museum of the Albemarle is proud to introduce an exhibit featuring local legends who were inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame. As the Hall celebrates its 50th anniversary, the Museum of the Albemarle has highlighted twelve inductees with ties to northeastern North Carolina including Jim “Catfish” Hunter, Luther “Wimpy” Lassit...
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2014 PartyPoker Mosconi Cup
Gray: ‘It’s one of my biggest achievements.’
ENGLAND’S MARK GRAY gets a chance to win his second PartyPoker Mosconi Cup as he took the first of the automatic qualifying spots at the weekend. Gray, 41, completed a superb run at the Dutch Open in Leende, beating Nik Ekonomopoulus in the final to top the five event Euro Tour series.
Gray, who was on the winn...
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The last 12 months has seen a lot of new things happening within the Canadian snooker world.
The inaugural Richler Cup with the largest prize pool in a long time.
The inaugural Canadian University Championships, seeing more young people playing snooker was great!
The creation of a tutorial for how to play the game of snooker, for the newbies.
A full page article in the Globe and Mail about snooke...
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2014 Betway World Cup of Pool
Germany by a whisker as China and England A coast
Round 2
Germany 7-6 Canada
England A 7-1 Greece
China 7-0 England B
England A set up a quarter-final clash with old rivals USA by dispatching Greece 7-1 on an evening which also saw China give England B no chances in a 7-0 win. Earlier Canada had gifted Germany victory as the final round two fixtures played out at the...
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Players & Fans,
Congratulations to our Turning Stone Classic XXII 9-Ball Open Champion, Jayson Shaw ($8,000)
The Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour will kick off it's 18th season October 4 & 5 at TJ's Classic Billiards in beautiful Waterville Maine. "The Maine Event VIII" will once again be generously hosted by Steve and Tammy Reynolds, owners of TJ's and home of the current Junior National Champion Taylo...
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2014 Betway World Cup of Pool
It’s England v Holland for the Betway crown
Semi-Finals
England A 9-6 Finland
Holland 9-1 Austria
LAST YEAR’S runners-up Holland will get a shot at redemption on Sunday evening when they face England A in the final of the 2014 Betway World Cup of Pool at the Mountbatten Centre, Portsmouth after both teams came through their semi-final matches against European oppositi...
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By Sylvia Lee & Joonas Ohtonen
Jyväskylä (Finland) - Newest BCA Hall of Famer Mika "Iceman" Immonen went to his home country of Finland for the Taom Tips 3rd Annual Iceman Open, and naturally took down the event. This was a great warm-up for his upcoming World Cup of Pool competition and the US Open 9-Ball, which he has been a winner in both events. The Iceman Open drew 54 of the finest Finns....
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2014 Betway World Cup of Pool
England steals it in final rack!
The Final
England A 10-9 Holland
ENGLAND are the 2014 Betway World Cup of Pool champions after they broke Dutch hearts in a thrilling final rack shoot out where both sides had chances to take one of cue sport’s most prestigious titles. It was England’s first win in the storied history of the event and gives the two players a $60,000...
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In 1998 I was co-teaching Pool School in Paradise with Allison Fisher, Mike Massey, and Gerda Hofstatter. It was our second year of a wonderful 11 years of PSIP, but the first year that we held it in Vancouver. On the last day of PSIP 1998 I asked Mike Massey to show us a drill to help our students understand the tangent line. He showed us The Wagon Wheel Drill. I loved the drill so much that I ha...
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CueSports International, Henderson, Nevada (September 30, 2014) – The USA Pool League (USAPL) is proud to announce that it is sponsoring Karen Corr as the coach of the USA team at the upcoming WPA Junior World Championships. This esteemed event will be held in Shanghai, China November 14-19, 2014.
Nine of the USA’s most talented junior players qualified for the prestigious world event with high f...
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2014 Betway World Cup of Pool
Philippines hold off battling Chile
Russia 7 – 6 Japan
Finland 7 – 0 Korea
Philippines 7 – 5 Chile
DEFENDING CHAMPIONS the Philippines got their 2014 Betway World Cup of Pool campaign underway successfully as they edged past a gutsy Chile side that had started out as huge underdogs but almo...
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Erik Hjorleifson
The 2014-2015 Ontario pool season kicked off with a surprising turn of events this weekend at Big Wigs billiards in Newmarket, Ontario. Before the tournament began tour directors John White and Ken Botham announced that this was no longer a 404 tour event, but instead the first ever stop for the newly formed...
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Betway to sponsor World Cup of Pool
2014 Betway World Cup of Pool
Day one wins for Greece, France and Austria
Greece 7 – 6 Indonesia
France 7 – 4 Italy
Austria 7 – 2 Portugal
THE NINTH ANNUAL Betway World Cup of Pool got underway this afternoon at the Mountbatten Centre, Portsmouth and there were wins for Greece, F...
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Complete results with prize money amounts for the Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour's "Turning Stone Classic XXII 9-Ball Open". Total prize fund $41,400.
September 18-21, 2014. All players were paid cash immediately upon their elimination from the events.
1st $8,000 Jayson Shaw
2nd $5,000 Mika Immonen
3rd $3,600 Rodney Morris
4th $2,60...
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File Photo from Classique Du Applache by Mario ParadisThe Turning Stone Classic had a triumphant return after taking a year off due to renovations. It was a full field as always, the only difference was with the World Cup of Pool a few days away some of the top players chose to sit this one out. However with names like Boenin...
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The new Four Points Tour (FPT) consists of open tour events and amateur events (amateur events may have different handicap restrictions) all using the same handicap system. Also new with this tour is an event for each skill level division at the end of the season. Each of the handicap divisions 4/5, 6/7, 8/9, 10-12 will have an event for their skill level, they will have an opportunity to test th...
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Saturday was moving day at the Turning Stone Classic in Verona, New York. The day began with 64 players and the field was narrowed down to 8 by midnight. There are 4 remaining on the winners side to face off in the winners side semi finals and 4 on the losers side who will play in the 7th/8th place elimination matches.
Earl Strickland is back in the spotlight again as he won his round of sixteen m...
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Day 1 at the Turning Stone Classic is in the books. Yesterday featured 64 first round matches which were played on the 16 diamond tables set up at the event center in the Turning Stone casino in Verona, New York. Most of the favourites advanced, although this tournament is not seeded there weren't to many match ups of tournament favourites. [caption id="attachment_14527" align="alignright" width...
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Today will be day one of the four day Turning Stone Classic, held in Verona New York at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino.This is a semi-annual event for the which kicks off and ends the Joss Northeast 9 ball tour, the tournament has become very popular with players that compete on the regular tour as well as for North American and International pros from around the world.
For me this is one of...
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