Day Three of the Petrina’s Mini Pool Festival began at 11:00 am sharp as tournament director Barry Hetherington herded the pool players into the calcutta corral and began Event 6 of the Pool Sharks Pool Series. This was a $450.00 added event and many players were now playing their third tournament in thirty six hours. Endurance now became as significant a tool as potting and shape making for the...
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Starting Sunday, March 30, we will be having a Sunday Afternoon No Skill Limit 8 Ball League at the Edge in Ajax, Ontario. The league will start at 2pm. No skill limit means that although the matches will be handicapped, teams will not have a limit on the skill levels they can play. This type of league let's the handicap system do it's job. The League will run until July 6 for the regular sess...
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The weekend of March 15th/March 16th was a mini pool festival at Petrina’s in Ajax. Following up on the weekly Friday night tournament the venue hosted two events for its eight-ball series on Saturday and Sunday.
Saturday Event 5: $400 Added 20 Players
The usual collection of pool hall junkies gathered for the Saturday event. Many had participated on Friday night’s round robin and were well prac...
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2014 PartyPoker Mosconi Cup
Wilson names USA Squad
FOLLOWING ON from his appointment in January, 2014 USA PartyPoker Mosconi Cup captain MARK WILSON today names his squad of eight players who will be tasked with winning pool’s most prestigious team trophy for the first time since 2009.
Wilson has opted for a blend of experience and youth and his eight-man squad will be reduced down to the five who...
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Golf is considered by many as the one of the most frustrating sporting activities. When you combine golf scoring and pool shooting you have an incredibly amusing, albeit torturous game. The game of Pool Table Golf has been around for years but this was the first tournament held in memory in Ontario. It involves balls being racked in certain patterns and players having to sink the balls in as few s...
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Kevin Trudeau
There was a time in the not too distant past, when many believed the savior of pool had arrived. He was a smooth talking T.V pitchman named Kevin Trudeau who was seemingly stacked with cash from his success with "The Weight Lose Cure 'They' Don't Want You To Know About" and promised record breaking pay outs with...
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Sylver Ochoa captured his ninth open division title while young gun Joey Torres took home his first-ever title in the amateur division at the Lone Star Spring 9-ball event held March 8th-9th, 2014, at Bogies Billiards and Sports Bar in Houston, Texas. Ochoa defeated the renowned Rafael Martinez, 9-7, in the final while Joey Torres came from behind to defeat hot seat winner Erik Renteria two sets,...
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CueSports International, Henderson, Nevada (March 18, 2014) – Francisco Bustamante (PHI) and Pin-Yi Ko (TPE) have officially confirmed as two (2) of only sixteen (16) players that will compete in the inaugural CSI Invitational 10-Ball and CSI Invitational 8-Ball Championships which will take place July 18-25, 2014 during the BCAPL & USAPL National Championships at the beautiful Rio All-Suite H...
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Winners of the Pro Events Chip Compton Karen Corr Shane Van BoeningPhoto from NYC Grind
The New Jersey Convention Center was swarmed with pool players and fans alike this past week as it played host to the Super Billiard Expo. I have been lucky enough to attend this event twice in the past four years, it really is paradise for...
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CueSports International, Henderson, Nevada (March 17, 2014) – CSI has just released all recorded matches from the 9-Ball Division of the US Bar Table Championships on its newly created YouTube channel. Over eight (8) hours of action featuring some of the world’s best players such as Shane Van Boening, Dennis Orcollo, Thorsten Hohmann, Corey Deuel, Carlo Biado, Oscar Dominguez, and many more are n...
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Dear CBSA Provincial Associations / Supporters / Friends;
Due to unforeseen circumstances the venue for Stage 1 of the Open Pool Championships have had to be moved to Shooters Snooker & Sports Club, the host of our Championships for the last number of years. The host hotel for Stage 1 will remain the same, & the reservation deadline has been extended to March 21, 2014. This information wil...
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CueSports International, Henderson, Nevada (March 13, 2014) – CSI has just released all recorded matches from the 10-Ball Division of the US Bar Table Championships on its newly created YouTube channel. Fifteen (15) matches, featuring some of the best players in the world such as Shane Van Boening, Darren Appleton, Thorsten Hohmann, Carlo Biado, Mika Immonen, Jayson Shaw, Oscar Dominguez, and man...
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A strong field of 55 players were in attendance for the 9th stop of the 404 9-Ball tour at BigWigs Billiards in Newmarket, Ontario. It was a special treat for spectators to have touring professional John "Mr Smooth" Morra displaying his world class skills. Other notable top players in attendance were Eric Hildebrand, Andy Aupin, Erik Hjorleifson, Mario Morra and Mike Patrowicz.
Leading the top hal...
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Eight-ball on a bar-box is game of fleeting chances played by cueists for its quick outcome. The choice of seven balls allows for more options while choosing which balls to shoot at what time. Last weekend on March 1st, Petrina’s Billiards in Ajax held two of their Shoot for the Loot tournaments which were eight-ball tournaments executed on the bar-box tables. In this format competitors play a rou...
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The 18th Annual Jay Swanson Memorial was held on February 15-16, 2014 at Hard Times Billiards in Bellflower, CA. Over the years, the “Swanee” has experienced tremendous growth. The first year was a modest 64 players, the next three they limited the field to 96, but the continued demand required them to increase future fields to 128. One year the field actually reached 213, the largest tournament a...
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CueSports International, Henderson, Nevada (March 6, 2014) – CSI is proud to announce that it will begin live streaming its own events, Podcasts, challenge matches, instructional content, and much more.
Previously, live streaming and video recording of CSI content was done by The Action Report (TAR) as a collaborative effort with CSI. Moving forward, this will be an internal capability. CSI tour...
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Hotel and Resort Acapulco in Kyrenia, North CyprusFrom March 30th until April 9th, 2014, this year's Dynamic European Championships for Men, Women and Wheelchair Athletes will be played in Hotel Acapulco in Kyrenia, North Cyprus.
The flagship event of the EPBF with numerous participants from countries all over Europe is alread...
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CueSports International, Henderson, Nevada (March 5, 2014) – Darren Appleton (GBR) and Mike Dechaine (USA) have officially confirmed as two of only sixteen (16) players that will compete in the inaugural CSI Invitational 10-Ball and CSI Invitational 8-Ball Championships 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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Myself like millions of other Canadians this past Sunday woke up in the wee hours of the morning to cheer on our Men's hockey team in the Gold medal game against Sweden. As a patriot you could not keep me away from watching this game even though its a tournament filled with professionals when the the theme of the Olympics is Amateur sport. The combined pay roll for our Gold medal champs is around...
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The third Qualifier was held at Monte Carlo Billiards for the $20,000 Richler Cup to be held in Montreal.
A crowd of highly skilled Snooker Players attended this qualifier. Players include Canadian Snooker Champion Floyd Ziegler, Joe Puliz of Mississauga, Ontario and Jason Williams of Burlington, Ontario. After a hard fought tournament Jason Williams emerged victorious with a 2-0 score over Joe P...
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