Durham Region Poolplayers
Ajax, Ontario - 8 Ball - We have an 8 ball summer league for Thursdays starting on May 29, 2014. This will be a travel league between The Edge and Petrinas. Pool will start at 7:30pm. Teams are 4 to 6 players with there being 4 matches per night. The league will run until about the middle of August. This will be a skill limit league. We already have 6 teams, so it i...
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The brand new and very upscale Bata Bar & Billiards will be the hottest spot to be in Berlin.Berlin, Germany - Good news for Europeans! For the first time ever, Germany will host a qualifier for the World Tournament of 14.1 by new Bata Bar & Billiards in Berlin. Now the straight pool lovers in Europe will get their chance to...
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Players & Fans,
Congratulations to stop 12 winner at Raxx, Mike Dechaine ($1,000).
Our final regular season stop of the Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour will take place on May 31 & June 1 at Snookers Billiards Bar & Grill in Providence RI. This will once again be our third event at Snookers this season and we all owe owners Regina & Steve Goulding many thanks for their continued generous support. With t...
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Beginning May 20th, Shooters Snooker and Sports Club will be hosting weekly 10-Ball tournaments every Tuesday.
Check out the weekly Calendar for other local events.
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APA Signs Florian “Venom” Kohler
World’s Largest Pool League Signs Internet Trickshot Sensation to Sponsorship Agreement
LAKE SAINT LOUIS, MO (May 8, 2014) — The American Poolplayers Association (APA) is proud to announce a sponsorship agreement with Florian “Venom” Kohler. The APA made the announcement Monday, April 28 at their Annual League Operator Convention in Las Vegas.
“We’ve very exci...
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This past weekend at Kenetic Park in Swift Current, the Saskatchewan Provincial Championships took place. There was a full field of 16 with spots reserved for the top shooters in the province. New to the mix this year was Jared Amyot who hails from my home room of Rack-M-Up Billiards in Cornwall, Ontario. Just under a year ago Amyot, who recently became a professionally ranked pool player, moved t...
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Mark Selby stunned the World and himself by coming back from as far down as 5-10 to win 18-14, as he admitted he dreaded coming to this event because of previous poor play. His competitor, Ronnie O'Sullivan, is widely known to be the best outright shooter in the game, often running centuries in minutes; dazzling anyone who has played this game before. O'Sullivan, who was the two time defending ch...
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During the weekend of May 17-19, Thetford Mines Quebec will be the place to be for pool fans and players alike. This will be the fifth addition of this event, dubbed the Classique Du Billard Appalaches, which has multiple divisions for B players right through to Professional. This event boasts a $62,000 dollar prize field if all divisions fill up, which looks to be likely as the 8 and 9 ball divi...
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Long before "The Color of Money" became the vanguard of a new "Pool is Cool" (or conventionally acceptable) era, there was a man with vision and unshakable conviction named Gene Lew. He was the fearless knight who, single-handily slayed many a political dragon to push the Canadian billiard industry into the 20th century. He was a trendsetter, the brilliant architect who drafted the blueprint for a...
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New York City, NY - For the eighth year in a row, qualifiers will be held nationwide for the 74th edition of The World Tournament of 14.1. Players all over the United States will be able to take their chance with a low entry to win a spot to play against the world's most extraordinary straight pool players! Each qualifier winner will be guaranteed a minimal of 5 round robin matches in the finale...
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CueSports International, Henderson, Nevada (May 3, 2014) – CSI is proud to present the OB Challenge: Mike Dechaine / Corey Deuel vs. Francisco Bustamante / Efren Reyes. This exciting match will take place July 21, 2014 during the BCAPL & USAPL National Championships at the beautiful Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NV. Those in participating in the BCAPL or USAPL National Cham...
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CueSports International, Henderson, Nevada (May 2, 2014) – John Morra (CAN), Jayson Shaw (GBR), Dennis Orcollo (PHI), and Ping-Chung Ko (TPE) have officially confirmed as the final four (4) of only sixteen (16) players that will compete in the inaugural CSI Invitationals which will take place July 18-25, 2014 during the BCAPL & USAPL National Championships at the beautiful Rio All-Suite Hotel...
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LAKE SAINT LOUIS, MO (April 29, 2014) —The American Poolplayers Association (APA) announced yesterday that the U.S. Amateur Championship trophy will now be known as The Larry Hubbart Trophy in honor of Co-Founder and Billiard Hall of Famer Larry Hubbart who passed away last August. Fellow Co-Founder Terry Bell made the announcement during the Annual APA League Operator Convention in Las Vegas.
“La...
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The Idea Behind the Richler Cup
Literary giant Mordecai Richler left us 13 years ago, however his work has lived on and it continues to impact his readers to this day. Patrick Guigui, President of Snooker Canada, was moved to such an extent by Richler's book On Snooker when he read it two years ago, that it triggered a whirlwind of events that concluded in this weeks inaugural Richler Cup April 2...
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Alain Robidoux
After two days of battling at the 147 Snooker Club, the Richler Cup changed venues to Le Skratch West Island for the remainder of the tournament. In the back corner of this pool hall there is a large room with 3 Shender tables set up to seat 100 plus, a perfect area to watch the ending of a big $20,000 added eve...
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CueSports International, Henderson, Nevada (April 23, 2014) – Corey Deuel (USA), Thorsten Hohmann (GER), Warren Kiamco (PHI), and Jung-Lin Chang (TPE) have officially confirmed as four (4) of only sixteen (16) players that will compete in the inaugural CSI Invitationals which will take place July 18-25, 2014 during the BCAPL & USAPL National Championships at the beautiful Rio All-Suite Hotel &...
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On an annual basis, the Canadian Billiard & Snooker Association (CBSA) sanctions and conducts our national professional billiard championships for top level players. The Canadian Cue Sport Association (CCS) is responsible for conducting the national amateur billiard championships.
In July of 2013, the CBSA and CCS announced a 'combined' Canadian Championships. With this alliance now formed, we...
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Neil Ayotte and Karl Periard Finalist in the Open.
For the last time this season shooters from the ABO Ottawa/Gatineau Circuit gathered at Terminus Billiards in Gatineau to play the Grand Finale April 12-13. In order to qualify for this event each player had to have participated in at least 4 out of the 8 tournaments held in their respective division. On day one each division played down...
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New York City, NY - The World Tournament of 14.1 will take place once more in New York City for the third year straight. Dragon Promotions and Dr. Michael Fedak are pleased to announce the 74th production of the oldest billiard event in the world on August 4th-9th, 2014. An even bigger star studded field is expected this year with Steinway Billiards Cafe once more hosting the world's grandest stra...
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The first stage of the 2014 CBSA Canadian Open Pool Championships has come to an end at Shooters Snooker & Sports Club in Toronto. Although the attendance in each event was less than anticipated, the level of play was exceptional. The top players from each division will move on to Stage II of the Championship to be held at the Delta Meadowvale in Mississauga, Ontario. This year marks the fir...
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