Players & Fans,
The Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour will be at Sharp Shooters Billiards & Sports Pub in Amsterdam NY on February 16 & 17 for our "Northeast 9-Ball Open XXXI". Tim and Julie Berlin, owners of Sharp Shooters, deserve much thanks for once again hosting our event and allowing us the use of their beautiful room. Sharp Shooters is the home of some of the Diamond Pro tables tha...
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The Dynamic Billard Leende Open 2019 starts with a full field of 170 players. Once again, the Golden Tulip Jagershorst Hotel in Leende, the Netherlands, is the host to an international pool competition. For many years now, this venue has proven its suitability for high class pool billiards and first class accommodation.
The prize money in the new season has gone up to 38.000,-€ for the event w...
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The WPA wishes to advise that it has cancelled the sanctioning contract between itself and the Chinese Billiards & Snooker Association (CBSA) for the event known as the Chinese Pool World Championship that was announced in Beijing on the 16th January 2019 by CBSA, to be played in March this year.
There has been a serious breach of the contract against the WPA, and therefore the WPA had no...
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DIAMOND Billiards will be the Official Table Supplier of the US Open 9-Ball Championship for the next two years, Matchroom Multi Sport is pleased to announce.
The news means DIAMOND Billiards will continue its long-standing partnership with the US Open 9-Ball Championship and will provide all 34 match tables for this year’s event, which will take place at Mandalay Bay Resort, Las Vegas from Ap...
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FIGUEIREDO'S AMERICAN DREAM
Igor Figueiredo will make a return to the professional circuit after winning the 2019 Pan American Snooker Championship at the Q-Ball Snooker & Pool Club in Houston on Sunday evening.
This tournament is the flagship event for the newly formed Pan American Billiards and Snooker Association (PABSA), a continental federation serving players from both North and S...
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CSI is pleased to announce that recorded matches from the 2018 US Open 8-Ball Championship have been released on the CSI YouTube Channel. Seventeen (17) videos featuring many of the world's best players such as Shane Van Boening, Alex Pagulayan, Skyler Woodward, Thorsten Hohmann, Dennis Orcollo, Corey Deuel, Eklent Kaci and more can be viewed in their entirety – absolutely free!
The 2018...
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KAMUI BECOME OFFICIAL CHALK AND TIP OF MATCHROOM POOL EVENTS
Matchroom Multi Sport is delighted to announce a new three-year partnership which sees KAMUI become the Official Chalk and Tip of Matchroom Pool events.
The 26th annual World Pool Masters, to take place in Gibraltar in March, will be the first event in the new partnership. KAMUI will also be the Official Chalk and Tip of April’s U...
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Its that time of year again for our Snooker Tournament. Starts Feb 8 with an exhibition by Cliff Thorburn and continues on until Feb 17. Three matches a day (11am, 3pm and 7pm) until the last weekend.
Grand Valley Golf and Country Club is the host and their food is excellent. We have a great line up of players. Cliff Thorburn, John Everekian, Fern Loyer, Eddie Galati, John White, Bob Chaperon,...
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Congratulations to the Lion Alex Pagulayan & Brittany Bryant for winning the 32nd Annual Music City Open 9-Ball Championships Men's & Women's Divisions! A second gratz to Alex as he also won the Midnight Madness $500 entry winner take all event!
The main event kicked off Thursday night, we had 119 Players in this 9-ball race to 11 with winner break extravaganza. The event was held at J...
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One month after the first of 6 events (plus one huge payout Grand Finale) from Shooters “47”Extravaganza Series! On Jan 19-20, Shooters Snooker & Sports Club in Toronto hosted its second Extravaganza event - “36” Extravaganza 9-ball Tournament. This tournament always seems to put the strongest players SL 6 and under in the spotlight. With a strong field of 44 players for t...
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Shortly after Jayson Shaw was selected over Joshua Filler for the European Mosconi Cup team with the final wildcard pick, the fiery young German realized a couple of things.
First, he had much work to do to become the professional pool player that he believed he could be. Additionally, what better time to start than now? Under the instruction of coach Michael Wahl, Filler started working on hi...
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By Keith Paradise - World champion and Billiards Congress of America Hall of Famer Ralf Souquet will face reigning WPA World 9-Ball champion Joshua Filler at Astoria’s Steinway Billiards. Souquet, who lost his first match of the tournament to Mike Dechaine then battled his way through the one-loss side of the bracket, squeaked by James Aranas in the semifinals, 13-11. The brash, young Filler jump...
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For the second time in three days, Mieszko Fortunski watched as the lead slipped from his grasp at the Predator Grand Final.
The young Pole jumped out to an early lead against Chris Melling but let the Englishman back into the game with a handful of unforced errors, as Melling gutted out a victory against Fortunski in a sudden death shootout in the quarterfinals Saturday night at Astoria’s Ste...
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The 256-player field for the 43rd US Open 9-Ball Championship is now full.
With 221 player entries confirmed, and 35 spots reserved for global qualifying events still to take place, Matchroom Multi Sport is now operating a waiting list system. Players who have not yet entered the 2019 US Open 9-Ball Championship should join the waiting list at www.matchroompool.com/usopen9ball. If a place in t...
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On Thursday night, Mieszko Fortunski watched as a late lead evaporated against Jayson Shaw, with the reigning Turning Stone Classic Champion using a late rally to defeat the Pole, 11-9.
One night later there would be no such late match drama, as Fortunski capitalized on a handful of unforced errors and breaking struggles from Jesus Atencio to easily handle the Venezuelan, 11-3. The victory cli...
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The field for the 43rd US Open 9-Ball Championship will be set at 256 players, with over half the available spots already filled.
A total of 116 players have already submitted their entry, with another 60 spots reserved for worldwide qualifying tournaments, and more qualifiers expected to be added soon for the first US Open under the Matchroom Multi Sport banner, to take place at Mandalay Bay...
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Things weren’t looking so good for Jayson Shaw.
The talented, young Scotsman trailed Poland’s Mieszko Fortunski nine games to eight in his opening round match of the Predator Grand Final and had just missed a bank shot on the 1 ball.
With just two games needed to win the race-to-11 set Fortunski’s fortunes changed, as Shaw took advantage of a pair of last-minute opportunities to pull ahead...
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For another year, US-based cue manufacturer McDermott Cues will be sponsoring the European Championships and Euro-Tours of the EPBF.
Since 1975, McDermott has consistently raised the industry standard for what billiard players expect from a high quality pool cue. McDermott products use the latest technology in their state-of-the-art facility, along with the finest materials in the world. In 40...
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The past couple of years have been rather lucrative for Filipino Carlo Biado. In 2017, the 35-year-old earned top honors at the World Pool and Billiards Association’s World 9-Ball Championships in Doha, Qatar and also placed in the top five at a half-dozen prestigious events – including the Derby City Classic 10-Ball Challenge, the Super Billiards Expo Professional Championship and World Pool Ser...
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