18th September - MATCHROOM SPORT can today announced that the 2014 BETWAY WORLD CUP OF POOL will be delivered in its entirety in the US on ESPN3, ESPN’s live multi-screen sports network. Running from Tuesday to Sunday 23rd to 28th September, the World Cup of Pool is played out in the vibrant maritime city of Portsmouth on England’s south coast.
Now in its ninth year, the World Cup of Pool features...
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Betway to sponsor World Cup of Pool
BETWAY AND MATCHROOM SPORT can announce that Betway has become the title sponsor of the forthcoming World Cup of Pool - the prestigious international team event which determines the world pairs champions.
The Betway World Cup of Pool takes place from Tuesday 23rd to Sunday 28th September a...
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A couple of week ago I was competing in the Spokane Open in Spokane Washington. I lost my second match to Rafael Martinez. I fought back strongly and won many matches on Sunday, and Monday to make the final 4 players in the tournament. My last match was against my good friend Brady Gollan from Kelowna, BC. I was up 5-3 but failed to make a ball on my next break. Brady won that game to trail 5-4. W...
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Plano, Texas – Hall of Fame player Allison Fisher and cutting edge Texas based billiard manufacturer OB Cues proudly announce the signing of Allison to the OB Pro Team of Players.
“As a fan of pool, I have always admired Allison’s game but how she conducts herself away from the table is equally as impressive” said Royce Bunnell, President of OB.
“I am proud to have accomplished what I have so far...
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ARTICLE BY LITO DELOS REYES
Photos courtesy of Rolly Baron
GENERAL SANTOS CITY -- The pair of Filipino rising billiard stars Jeffrey de “The Bull” Luna and Jeffrey “The Street Fighter” Ignacio defeated the early-favorite duo of 3-time world champion Thorsten Hohmann of Germany and John Morra of Canada, 11-6 to bag the doubles title in the MP Cup Gensan Tuna Festival International Open 10 Ball tour...
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Ernesto Bayaua & Andy Jethwa
Former U.S. Amateur National Champion Ernesto Bayaua decimated the 55 player field at the Poison by Predator 8-Ball Tour Event (PxP Tour) held this past Saturday, September 6th, 2014, at the brand new Bogies Billiards West located in northwest Houston. Players hailed from Austin, Victoria, and...
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Snooker Canada is pleased to announce the beginning of a new snooker season that is sure to get players excited about playing more snooker in this country.
Over $50,000 will be paid out during this season with several different events taking place in different parts of the country.
Some of the major events coming through this season include an inaugural Snooker Canada Junior Championships in Ontar...
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GENERAL SANTOS CITY (LITO DELOS REYES) -- The pair of 8-time world boxing champion and sponsor Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao and former world pool king Ronnie Alcano was finally booted out in the on-going MP Cup Gensan Tuna Festival International Open 10 Ball Tournament Sept. 11 (Thursday night) at the SM Mall of GenSan here.
Pacquiao and Alcano lost from a come-from-behind victory by the dynamic duo of...
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The week of billiard festivities at the Long Tuna festival in General Santos Philippines is into full swing now with the pick your own partner down to the final eight teams. The week kicked off with a 90 player singles tournament which featured virtually every notable Filipino player. Thorsten Hohmann (Germany) made an epic comeback in the singles event winning no less than 11 matches straight and...
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Hello again everybody, pool season is right around the corner and its time to put away the golf clubs and dust off the cues for another action packed year on the felt. Today I am going to discuss something that I believe is the most important aspect of fundamentals, it is one of the first things I look at when I am assessing a new student. This aspect of fundamentals is backstroke pace.
This funda...
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Mezz West State Tour to be Aired, Live!
As the first season of The Mezz West State Tour approaches its 3rd event of 12 total, Oscar Dominguez and Desiree Rivera have signed a deal with Point Of View Pool Media and also welcome two new sponsors, Virtual Pool 4 and Marty Carey's Jump Q to provide the majority of live streamed coverage and programming at 7 of the upcoming 10 remaining stops. Additio...
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This past weekend at Shooters Billiards in North York, Ontario the historic room played host to a $1000 added 6 red snooker tournament. The added money was generated from money put aside from the Thursday night weekly snooker tournaments. These tournaments have been popular enough, that they could be able to hold three to four $1000 added tournaments a year if the participation rate stays the sa...
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CueSports International, Henderson, Nevada (September 5, 2014) – CSI has just released its “Ten Questions” video series on the CSI YouTube channel. During the 2014 CSI Invitational Championships, all sixteen of the invited professional players were asked the same ten questions. The first eight videos have been posted and the final eight will be posted soon.
The series was created by CSI Media M...
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2014 World Cup of Pool
WITH THE ANNUAL World Cup of Pool set to get under-way on the 23rd September, the full line-up of players can now be confirmed and it is arguably the strongest set of players ever assembled in the nine year history of the event.
There are 12 World Champions competing as well as six US Open Champions an...
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2014 PartyPoker Mosconi Cup
Grabe closing in on Mosconi Cup spot
Denis Grabe heads Team Europe’s Euro Tour rankings with one event to play as the Estonian bids to earn a first appearance in the PartyPoker Mosconi Cup in Blackpool, England this December.
There are three automatic spots available on Team Europe draw...
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Everyone,
I am extremely proud to announce my Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour's 2014-2015 season schedule. This will be our 18th consecutive season of events here in the Northeast. There are currently 13 regular season events plus the $25,000 Added "Turning Stone Classic XXIII 9-Ball Open", to be held January 8-11, 2015. Another Turning Stone event is pending for the summer of 2015. Our first event of...
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History
Our English Billiards league was formed in 1921 and consisted of just a few teams. The teams’ players were mainly members of the Fort Osborne Army Barracks in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Originally, each team rated their players as #1, #2, #3, etc. and each player played against the opposing team’s same rated player (for example, player #1 on one team would play player #1 on the opposing...
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12 players from around the country qualified for the Series III Finals which was held in conjunction with this year’s BCAPL Nationals at the Rio in Las Vegas. Two round robin groups of 6 players each had everyone playing five 120 point matches on the first two days of the event. Two players from each group would emerge to make the final four single elimination stage. All 12 players were in the mo...
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The inaugural Canadian University Championships came to a close last week and it proved to be the first step towards the next generation carrying the torch for cue sports in this country. Many disciplines were played including 8 Ball, 9 Ball and snooker.
Competitors came from different universities to compete including the University of Toronto (the Host University), University of Waterloo, York,...
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This weekend saw another installment in a very familiar trend of new tournament format which seeks to raise the traditional lower entry fees and narrow the field down to a prestigious group of players. The site for this weekends tournament was Smoketown, Pennsylvania at Cross Corner Billiards where the Mezz 9 ball and 10 ball shootouts were held.
Both tournaments were 1 day events, each with a 16...
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