Europe 11 – 9 USA
Nikos Ekonomopoulos 3-5 Dennis Hatch
Niels Feijen 1-5 Johnny Archer
Darren Appleton 1-5 Shane Van Boening
Chris Melling 5-2 Brandon Shuff
Nick Van Den Berg 5-2 Mike Dechaine
EUROPE HAVE retained the PartyPoker.com Mosconi Cup, defeating the USA 11-9 in front of a packed York Hall to make it three wins in row in the annual transatlantic team tussle. It was Holland’s Nick van den B...
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Europe 9 – 6 USA
Van Den Berg & Ekonomopoulos 5-4 Dechaine & Shuff
Nick Van Den Berg 4-5 Johnny Archer
Ekonomopoulos & Feijen 5-4 Hatch & Dechaine
Chris Melling 5-2 Brandon Shuff
Darren Appleton 5-0 Shane Van Boening
TEAM EUROPE needs just two more points to make it three PartyPoker.com Mosconi Cups in a row after a blistering night at the York Hall that saw them win four of the fi...
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CueSports International, Henderson, Nevada (December 11, 2012) - CueSports International (CSI) is proud to announce the 2013 WPA World Artistic Pool Championship will be held at the Rio-All Suite Hotel & Casino on July 18-21.
The prestigious world artistic event will be held in conjunction with the 37th BCAPL National Championships (July 17-27, 2013). CSI and Diamond are donating the use of 9...
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Europe 5 – 5 USA
Appleton/Melling 4-5 Archer/Dechaine
Nick Ekonomopoulos 5-3 Shane Van Boening
Feijen/Van Den Berg 5-2 Hatch/Shuff
Chris Melling 5-3 Dennis Hatch
Appleton/Feijen 4-5 Van Boening/Archer
TEAM EUROPE won the second session of the 2012 Mosconi Cup by three points to two to leave the annual Europe v America match dead level at the halfway stage. There were wins for American pairs in the...
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WITH THE 2012 PartyPoker.com Mosconi Cup set to break off at 14.00 Eastern time on Monday 10th December, pool fans across America will be able to follow all the action live on ESPN 3 as Team USA goes in search of Team Europe’s crown.
Taking place at the legendary York Hall in East London between Monday 10th and Thursday 13th December, this is the 19th annual running of pool’s biggest event as two...
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"Uncle Leo"The 404 9-Ball Tour had another full field of 64 players in Toronto on December 8-9th.
For those of you that have not yet played in this tour, make note that the tournament is usually full by 11 AM. Carlin Sanderson was quick to get the player auction started and did a great job generating an additional $2,310 in pri...
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Lars Kuckherm will be a Euro-Tour regular next year
Lars Kuckherm (GER) just won the EPBF Bridge to Career event with a 9:6 victory over fellow countryman Tobias Hoiss.
Lars Kuckherm (GER)
It was a start to finish victory for Kuckherm. He took a nice and comfortable 5:1 lead over Hoiss whose energy seemed to have been gone. Aft...
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No big deal for Hoiss
Tobias Hoiss (GER)
Tobias Hoiss (GER) just defeated Danny van Oosterhout (NED) with 9:4 in the quarter-finals of the EPBF Bridge to Career. The quarter-final matches had a special significance today. The contestants knew that the winners of the quarter-finals would be in the prize pool of the event. That i...
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Long Island, New York - Dragon Promotions is very proud to announce that they are supporting the Hurricane Sandy relief efforts by coordinating donations from the billiard industry for the Hurricane Sandy Recovery Benefit Concert on Long Island. The concert, a brainchild of Dr. Louis Pannullo, is already set to raise $10,000 and will feature Phantom of the Opera stars Jeremy Stolle and Elizabeth W...
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Tough match in the loser’s qualification round
In a heartbreaker, Christoph Kugel (GER) eliminates Marc Bijsterbosch (NED) with 9:8 from the event.
Christoph Kugel (GER)
Both players seemed to be quite nervous in the beginning of the match. Probably they were aware of the fact that the winner of this match only needs one more v...
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Cheng-Chieh Liu takes the final medal
This week's winners
With a fantastic performance, Cheng-Chieh Liu (TPE) won the Gold Medal in the juniors division by defeating Tobias Bongers (GER). The match did not start very well for Bongers. He was meant to take the lead but miscued on the third last ball of the first rack. Instead of...
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Strong performance in girls final
Kamila Khodjaeva (BEL) just won the WPA World 9-Ball Champion title in the girls division by smashing defending Champion Oliwia Czuprynska (POL) 7:0.
Kamila Khodjaeva (BEL)
The polish delegation just scored an own goal. Since they tried to force her top player Czuprynska to wear a Polish shirt...
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Revenge accomplished for last year’s final
In a very high class match, Henrik Larsson (SWE) defeated Jouni Tahti (FIN) with 7:3 and became the new World Champion in the wheelchair division.
Larsson had the easier way into the final of the wheelchair competition. He defeated Fred Dinsmore (IRE) with 7:5 in the semi-final. Jouni Tahti had to deal with Roy Kimberley (GBR) he was already 6:1 ahead in...
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Mehmetcik made it to the semis
Berk Mehmetcik (TNC)
With a fantastic performance, Berk Mehmetcik (TNC) made it to the semi-final of the WPA World 9-Ball Championships. He defeated Joshua Filler (GER) with 9:5. Filler was undefeated in the competition so far. He was actually the favourite player to win the match. But Mehmetcik s...
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Drama between Kuo and Khodjaeva
In a real thriller match, Szu-Ting Kuo (TPE) remained the upper hand over Kamila Khodjaeva (BEL) with a close 7:6 victory. Both girls met in the winner’s qualification round. Both of them had already two victories under their belt. It promised to be an exciting match. Kuo had some advantages from the very beginning. She seemed more secure in what she was doing. She...
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Favourites make their way in wheelchair division
Wednesday, 05 December 2012 7:5 was the end result in favour of Henrik Larsson (SWE) when he finished his match with Tankred Volkmer (GER).
Henrik Larsson (SWE)
Larsson, who came in second last year, was definitely considered to be the clearly favoured player for this match. But...
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Losers bracket claims first victims
Wednesday, 05 December 2012 In the first losers round, Berk Mehmetcik (TNC) eliminated Charles Guimond (CAN) from the World Championships with 9:3.
Berk Mehmetcik (TNC)Mehmetcik dominated the match from the very beginning. He seemed to be more hungry and aggressive than his opponent. Probably...
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WITH THE 2012 PartyPoker.com Mosconi Cup just a week away, Matchroom Sport have been canvassing the great and the good in the world of pool to find out just who the likely winners will be of the 19th annual running of the Europe v USA team match. Despite being beaten in four of the last five Mosconi Cups, there is a feeling amongst some pundits that this could be the USA’s year. However, with a f...
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Tough opening match for US player
In the first round of the girls division of the WPA World 9-Ball Championships, Brianna Miller (USA) defeated Kate Polovinchuk (UKR) with 7:5. In the beginning the match seemed to be pretty one-sided. Miller played more focussed and solid and was able to gain a clear advantage over Polovinchuk. After 5 racks the score was 4:1 in favour of Miller. In the 6th rack,...
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Qualification tournament ended today
Sunday, 02 December 2012 Today, the final spots for the 2012 WPA World 9-Ball Championships have been decided. In the junior division, Can Salim-Giasar, Jan-Henrik Wolf and Tobias Bongers (all GER) snatched the final spots. In the girls division, the three remaining spots went to Katerina Polovinchuk (UKR), Ana Gradisnik (SLO) and Natalia Seroshtan (RUS).
29 ju...
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