Szaszor defeated Filler in hill-hill thriller
Sarajevo, Bosnia & Hercegovina: With the closest result possible, Kamil Szaszor (POL) defeated favored Joshua Filler (GER) 6:5 in the semi-final of the 10-ball competition.
Kamil Szaszor (POL)
It was an entertaining match with a surprising but deserved result. When unheralded Sz...
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Maksim Dudanets with strong performance
Sarajevo, Bosnia & Hercegovina: Today, the 8-ball competition started at the Dynamic Billard EPBF European Youth Championships 2013 in Radon Plaza Hotel in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Hercegovina. In the first winner's round of the pupil's division, Maksim Dudanets (RUS) defeated Andreas Madsen (DEN) with 6:3. Madsen, last year's 9-ball Champion and runner-up...
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Turkish North Cyprus loses to Bulgaria
Sarajevo, Bosnia & Hercegovina: The Polish junior team has defeated team Finland with 2:0.
The Polish were the favored team and they lived up to their expectations. Of course, Sebastian Batkowski (POL) was playing straight pool. The newly crowned European Champion hammered Aargo Virrankoski (FIN) with 100:27. At about the same time, Pawel Kaczmarek (POL)...
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Two opening victories for host nation
Sarajevo, Bosnia & Hercegovina: The start of the team competition brought two nice victories to the host nation Bosnia & Hercegovina.
The junior's team had to deal with team Denmark. Normally, a team consists of three players and 8-ball, 9-ball and straight pool are played. If a team does only consist of two players, one match is an automatic win for t...
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Clear victory in clash of World Champions
Sarajevo, Bosnia & Hercegovina: In the girl's 10-ball competition, Kamila Khodjaeva (BEL) clearly overcame Oliwia Czuprynska (POL) with 5:3.
It was the clash of two Word Champions. Czuprynska, World 9-Ball Champion girl's division in 2011, took on Kamila Khodjaeva, the current and reigning World 9-Ball Champion in the girl's division. They also still h...
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Gold for Filler and Batkowski
Sarajevo, Bosnia & Hercegovina: The new European Straight Pool Champions are Joshua Filler (GER) in the pupil's division and Sebastian Batkowski (POL) in the junior's division.
Filler started out nervous in his match with Krystian Cwikla (POL). Cwikla went ahead and took an early 31:4 lead. He played much calmer and seemed to be more focussed than Filler. But Fill...
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Close matches and high quality pool in both divisions
Sarajevo, Bosnia & Hercegovina: Both, pupil's and junior's division, are down to the final matches here in Radon Plaza Hotel at the Dynamic Billard EPBF European Championships Youth 2013.
In the pupil's division, defending Champion Joshua Filler (GER) delivered and outstanding performance. He outplayed Maksim Dudanets (RUS) in the quarter-f...
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Khodjaeva too strong for Winkler
Sarajevo, Bosnia & Hercegovina: With a clear 5:1 victory, reigning World 9-Ball Champion and defending European 10-ball Champion Kamila Khodjaeva (BEL) sent Marion Winkler (AUT) to the one-loss side of the 10-ball competition.
Kamila Khodjaeva (BEL)
This morning, the 10-ball individuals have...
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Bongers wins having one foot in the grave already
Sarajevo, Bosnia & Hercegovina: In an exciting and thrilling encounter, Tobias Bongers (GER) came from behind and vanquished Tian Zhang (SWE) with 100:95.
In short: Zhang was the better player over a long period in the match. He committed less mistakes than Bongers and played rock solid while Bongers missed some important and easy shots. But hi...
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Oliver Ormann
New York City, New York- One of the most decorated European players in the history of pocket billiards will finally be inducted into a Hall of Fame this year. Germany's Oliver Ortmann will be inducted to the Straight Pool Hall of Fame along with New York City's legendary Gene Nagy. The banquet will be held at St...
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Muratovic outplays Huttunen
Close match in the early 14/1 rounds Sarajevo, Bosnia & Hercegovina: With a close 100:90 victory in the first straight pool round, Alen Muratovic (BIH) outplayed his opponent Jesse Waltteri Huttunen (FIN).
The match between the two juniors started quite leveled. Huttunen cleared the first rack, then missed the break shot and gave the table to Muratovic. The local he...
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WITH THE 2013 World Cup of Pool set for 17-22 September at the York Hall, London, the draw for first round matches as well as the schedule of play has been made. Defending champions and No.1 seeds Finland – Mika Immonen and Petri Makkonen – get proceedings underway on the Tuesday afternoon with an enticing match against Austrian siblings – Albin and Jasmin Ouschan.
There are plenty of intri...
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The tentative schedule for the 2014 Open Pool divisions are as follows:
Open Events - Stage 1:
Tuesday, April 8 - Wednesday, April 9: 8-Ball
Thursday, April 10 - Friday, April 11: 9-Ball
Saturday, April 12 - Sunday, April 13: 10-Ball
Women's Events (Stage 1):
Saturday, April 12: 9-Ball
Sunday, April 13: 10-Ball
These events will be played in a Pool Room in the Greater Toronto Area.
Stage 2 - Delta...
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Youth Championships will open a month of pool festivity
Sarajevo, Bosnia & Hercegovina: With the Dynamic Billiard European Youth Championships 2013 to start on Friday this week, a month of pool action will unfold in Radon Plaza Hotel in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Hercegovina. The venue will be divided into two sections with a total of 20 tables in use. The tables are Dynamic III, the cloth is Simo...
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First Time Ever
Combined 2014 CBSA / CCS Canadian Championships!
April 14th-19th
Delta Meadowvale Hotel
Mississauga ON
Every year, there are two National Pool Championships in Canada:
CBSA ‘Canadians’ - to select and crown the very best Open players who will represent Canada in the WPA World Singles Championships in 8ball, 9Ball and 10 Ball..
CCS ‘Canadians’ - to recognize and honour the ve...
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WITH THE 20th anniversary of the PartyPoker.net Mosconi Cup set to take place at the Mirage Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas from Monday to Thursday 2nd – 5th December, Matchroom Sport can announce that the hottest tickets in pool are now on sale.
With two five-man teams set to do battle in a series of singles and doubles matches over four days, the Mosconi Cup delivers the kind of excitement and fervo...
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Ga Young Kim
Chicago, Illinois - South Korea’s Ga Young Kim has been selected as the Captain of Team Asia at the inaugural Queens Cup. The East vs West team showdown between the world’s greatest lady professional billiards players will take place November 5th-7th,2013. The event is produced by Dragon Promotions which has signe...
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WITH THE World Cup of Pool taking place in England for the first time in the eight year history of the event, established international stars Darren Appleton and Karl Boyes will be making up the England A team for their assault on the most prestigious title in team pool. World No.1 Appleton, who represented England in the World Cup in 2009, ‘11 and ’12, is the reigning World 9 Ball champion as we...
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China's Can Wang is a young, fearless threat that could make some noise at the World Tournament. FURY takes over as Official Cue
Charlotte, North Carolina- China, Vietnam, and FURY Cues have joined support of the world's oldest pool tournament as the Official Cue of the Olhausen 73rd World Tournament of 14.1. Dragon Promotions...
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Are champion players like Willie Mosconi, Ralph Greenleaf, Johnny Archer, and Earl Stickland "made" or "born"? I believe it's possibly a set of skills that a person's born with, however.....
Becoming "pro level" is another story, and many players could reach that level if they are willing to "empty their cup". They must be willing to replace "old information" for new concepts or they will probably...
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