Queens, New York- Efren Reyes has entered into the quarter finals with his dominating win over Mika Immonen 200 to 87 points. Reyes took the lead early in the match even after he missed an easy shot during the opening rack. Immonen failed to take advantage and missed 4 balls later and Efren built a 140+ ball lead from there.
Asia has another entrant in Zion Zvi of Israel. When informed that Israe...
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Norway over Croatia
In a thrilling encounter up to the last minute, Team Norway eliminated Team Croatia from the junior’s team event. Norway’s Even Letnes Waernes scooped the first point for his team, defeating Filip Bermanec (CRO) with 8:6 in 9-ball. However, the other two matches were both tight and fiercely fought over. Croatia’s Roberto Bartol snatched the point in 8-ball away from Audun Ris...
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The steely Hohmann is carrying his invincibility from last year to this year's 72nd World 14.1 photo by www.charleseamesphotography.com Queens, New York- Finland's Mika Immonen had a rough day on Day 3 of the Predator World Tournament of 14.1. After he ran 40+ balls, he missed and the game was over. Defending champion Thorsten...
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Day 7 will continue with Team matches
At the Dynamic Billiards European Youth Championships in the Stahlpalast in Brandenburg a. d. Havel, Germany, the 9-ball individuals are down to the last 8 players standing in all three divisions.
One last 16 encounter was the match between Andrey Seroshtan (RUS) and Even Letnes Waernes (NOR). Seroshtan had the better start and took a 4:1 and 5:2 lead over Wae...
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Huidji See made one of the greatest comebacks ever at the World Tournament!Queens, New York- Some new straight pool heroes are forming in New York. One of the top favorites Johnny Archer, a former Bronze medalist, faced against World 10-ball Champ Huidji See in another USA vs Europe TV stream match. Archer looked to have it in...
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Kivela ousts Pereira
Jesse Kivela (FIN) terminates the hopes of Hugo Pereira (LUX) for another round in 9-ball with 8:5. That match saw a classical turn of the tide. It started out in Pereira’s favour. The player from Luxembourg played not necessarily better than Kivela, but he had the balls roll in his favour. Out of the first 5 racks, Kivela was only able to win one so the score went to 4:1 in...
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Gold for Lauwereyns, Filler and Khodjaeva
8-ball champions crowned in Brandenburg a. d. Havel, Germany
The 8-ball individuals at this year’s Dynamic Billiard European Youth Championships have been decided. Moritz Lauwereyns (BEL) crushed Berk Mehmetcik (TNC) with 7:3. It was amazing to have these two players in the final. For both of them, it was already a great achievement. Since they are both kn...
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8-Ball down to final matches
In a very intense semi-final match, Kateryna Polovinchuk (UKR) ousted current 9-ball World Champion Oliwia Czuprynska (POL) with 5:3. In the beginning, the match looked like business as usual. Both players played a run out for first rack to make a statement. Then, Polovinchuk made some potting errors and allowed Czuprynska to take a 3:1 lead. The audience was convince...
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Two really tight matches take him to the single elimination round in 9-ball
Today, the 9-ball competition started at the Dynamic Billiard European Youth Championships. One player really drew the attention of the audience: Leonid Klishar from the Ukraine. In his first round match, he played Miika Myllymaeki (FIN). Though Klishar was leading 7:5, he was not able to pocket the deciding 9-ball. Inste...
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Queens, New York- The pressure is high and palms sweaty as the final day brings forth several players on the bubble to decide if they make it to tomorrow's double elimination stage or go home.
The heat is on during the final day of the round robin at the 72nd Predator World Tournament of 14.1. Dr.James Heller & Max Eberle shown here p...
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Nail-biting finish in straight pool decided the score for the teams
In two team matches, straight pool brought the decision – and what a close decision it was. In the winner’s qualification round of the junior’s division, Team Belgium played Team Norway. Audun Risan Heimsjoe brought the 8-ball point clearly home to Norway by defeating Belgium’s Laurenz Cansier with 7:2. Moritz Lauwereyns took car...
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Szewczyk pipped Oegaard to the post
What a thrilling match in the junior’s single elimination stage of the last 16 players in 8-ball individuals. Wojciech Szewczyk (POL) pipped Mikael Oegaard (NOR) to the post with 7:6. So far it has not been the championship for Szewczyk. Last year’s 9-ball and Team Champion and runner-up in 8-ball Wojciech Szewczyk has not yet played up to his ability. But he h...
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Queens, New York- The first timers in the Predator World Tournament of 14.1 are making the most of their initiation. Efren Reyes, Earl Strickland, and Darren Appleton have yet to taste defeat in the round robin stage of the event. All three players have won their matches soundly and look like the favorites to win their respective groups.
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Queens, New York- Excitement is building on Day 2 of the preliminary races to 100 rounds of the Predator World 14.1 as the day culminated into two big highlights for the USA. While Europe still looks strong, and Efren Reyes still goes undefeated, it was the Americans that came with the tournament's first perfect scores.
John Schmidt lived up to his moniker of Mr.400 tonight. He had his hands seem...
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Not that we needed clarification of his all round talents as a world class pool player, but on Saturday evening - after four days of grueling competition in the Southern Classic 9 Ball competition - we saw Alex “The Lion” Pagulayan matched up again two nights running in a final against Johnny Archer in the Accu-Stats Simonis Arena at Harrah’s Casino and Hotel in Tunica, MS.
On Friday evening Alex...
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10-ball competition found worthy winners
The 10-ball finals are over. The new European Champions are Kamila Khodjaeva (BEL) in the girl’s division, Joshua Filler (GER) in the pupil’s division and Jose Alberto Delgado Hernandez (ESP) in the junior’s division. The first final to finish was the pupil’s division. Only after about one hour of play, Joshua Filler pocketed his final 10-ball to defeat An...
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Dramatic scenes in the semis
The final matches of the 10-ball competition are all set. After fierce fighting, the following pairings were determined:
Juniors: Jose Alberto Delgado Hernandez (ESP) v Tobias Bongers (GER)
Pupils: Andreas Madsen (DEN) v Joshua Filler (GER)
Girls: Kamila Khodjaeva (BEL) v Ana Gradisnik (SLO)
Probably the most breath-taking semi-final was the match between Tobias Bonger...
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On july 28th 29th Rod Babin along with Marco Lue of Le Spot hosted the 1st Le Spot Barbox battle. 30 players came out to this round robin event and what a day it was with 2 groups fighting it out to see who will make the top 16 and into the cash with the last 8 coming back on sunday to see who is the best.
3/4th place went to Kevin Booker and Nito Bucais took home $75.00. In the finals it was Rick...
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8-ball competition started
Today, the 8-ball competition has started at the Dynamic Billiards European Youth Championships in Brandenburg a. d. Havel, Germany. All day will see 8- ball individual matches until 16:30 when the quarterfinals in 10-ball will commence. In the girl’s division, the current World 9-ball Champion Oliwia Czuprynska (POL) had to deal with Germany’s Veronika Ivanovskaia. The...
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Queens, New York- The anticipation is over. Day 1 of the Predator World Tournament of 14.1 kicked off with a jam packed full house of straight pool fans trying to catch the action with the world class international field. And they weren't disappointed. Some big runs and surprising upsets in round 1.
The players of the 72nd Predator World...
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