We often get asked by players to come out with new products and by far the most common request we have gotten over the last few years is for a premium OB Chalk. So we spent the last year working directly with a new chalk manufacturer in China to come up with a chalk that we hope will be considered by players to be a premium chalk. Something that players would try and hopefully perceive as being as...
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(Translated by Chris Kuai) The 2nd CBSA ‘Sanlig’ China Billiard World Championship final was between Shi Hanqing from China and Mick Hill from England. They played the full 41 racks and Shi Hanqing won the title with the smallest margin, 21-20.
The final was a close game from the beginning to the end, with the largest lead being 3 when Hill was 15-12 up during the second session. In rack 38, Shi...
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Chen Siming takes China Billiard World Champion with 17-11 win over Kelly Fisher.
Last women’s match in the 2nd China Billiard World Champion was held between Chinese home star Chen Siming and British legend Kelly Fisher. Chen Siming took the victory 17-11 with a purse of 400,000 RMB.
Chen Siming started rolling with a 3-0 lead before Kelly Fisher came back and tied the score 3-3. It was a close g...
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Loretta Lindgren executed a come-from-behind victory in a 48 player field to secure the second stop on the WPBA sanctioned, Gulf Coast Women’s Regional Tour. Lindgren suffered an early loss to Belinda Lee, 5-3, and rebounded to meet hot seat winner, Yvonne Asher, in the finals. This was Asher’s debut in a Gulf Coast final, and a first-time, finals face-off for the pair. A seasoned Lindgren overcam...
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On Sunday, March 13, Shooters Snooker Club in Toronto hosted their third consecutive Sunday SL 3-5 Tournament. After two Sundays of ‘3-5’ 9-Ball tournaments, Shooters hosted a 3-5 8-Ball tournament this time around. The field included some of the strongest mid-level amateurs, making this tournament exciting and hard to predict the outcome.
After a few rounds of play, the field of 38 was narrowed d...
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Snooker Canada is planning on streaming more & more events in the near future and is looking for a few good commentators to entertain the viewers.
If this is something that interests you, and you think you may have the qualities to do so, please drop us a line, we’d love to hear from you.
We will also be looking to continue to offer snooker matches on Canadian television , so this can be a good o...
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On March 12, Shooters Snooker Club in Toronto hosted its 404 9-Ball Tour Event #7. The 404 Tour is host to players from all over the GTA, ranging in skill levels, with no maximum handicap. With 38 players registered, this was a one-day event in order to accommodate for the following day’s SL 3-5 8-Ball tournament. This group of Shooters’ regulars, and some new faces, competed all day for their sha...
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Tour newcomer Peter Charles was the big story at the first official Poison Lone Star Billiards Tour Spring 9-Ball Event, held on February 27-28, 2016, at Bogies Billiards West. This event drew a staggering 73 entries in the amateur 9-ball division, and 53 in the open 9-ball division. After losing in the fourth round to J.C. Torres, 7-6, Pete Charles went on to decimate the amateur division, bestin...
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The first event of the Petrina’s Bar-Box 8-Ball Series was held on March 13th. Many other events limited the field to fourteen from Brampton to Belleville and parts in between. The event is the first of five events which is a modified single elimination event. Players cannot lose after their first round of play so they get a “mulligan match” to warm up from their drive and shake off the cob webs...
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During the recent Euro-Tour event in Treviso, the EPBF has conducted a course for international referees. The course was run by Thomas Overbeck (top left) and assisted by Miha Vovko (lower right). The applicants had to prove their theoretical skills, knowledge, they had to pass a test and work at the Euro-Tour event for individual evaluation. Finally, all ten applicants passed the test and will st...
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On behalf of the Canadian Billiards & Snooker Association, I am pleased to announce that the 2016 Canadian Pool Championships will be held May 5th to May 10th at Tapis Vert Ste-Foy in Quebec City, QC.
Please find attached information related to the tournament, the host hotel accommodations and other details to distribute to the players in your region. Also bear in mind that with the announceme...
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Atlantic 9 Ball Tour Event #4 News!
The fourth stop of the Atlantic 9 Ball Tour is now complete! Another full field, this time with 96 of the Atlantic Provinces best 9 ball players competed from 25-28 Feb 16. The staff at Almon Billiards completed some minor renovations which included painting, reorganizing tables and adding two more tables with a new live stream area! Great job to everyone...
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The World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA) is pleased to announce the new WPA World 8-Ball Championship will take place at The Corner Bank in Toronto, Canada this coming August. Tentatively scheduled for mid month, the exact dates will be announced very shortly. This will be the first World Professional Championship in North America in twenty years and the first ever in Canada.
The prize fund for...
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CueSports International, Henderson, NV (March 11, 2016) – CSI is seeking a motivated, knowledgeable, and experienced Marketing Manager to oversee and perform all company marketing functions. The Marketing Manager will be responsible for customer retention & relationship management, new customer attraction, social media marketing, press release development, email marketing, advertising & pr...
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Organizers of the Atlantic Challenge Cup today announced Connelly Billiards has been named the official pool table for the 2016 event taking place July 8-11, 2016 in Schaumburg, Illinois (just outside Chicago).
Connelly will be providing its Connelly Competition Pro table for use in the tournament room, as well as in the Team USA and Team Europe practice rooms.
“The success of the inaugural Atlant...
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The third stop of the Atlantic 9 Ball Tour is now complete! Another full field of 64 of the Atlantic Provinces best 9 ball players competed from 22-24 Jan 16. The staff at Almon Billiards refinished their existing 8 tables and added 2 more tables in time for this stop. Great job to everyone involved including Dick Barker, TJ Martin and the table repair crew. There is even more great news on top of...
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OB Cues Ladies 9-Ball Tour held their first tour stop of 2016 on the weekend of February 6th – 7th at Rusty’s Billiards in Arlington, Texas. Sixty-one players, both old and new, were represented from across Texas and even from Florida, to set record attendance for the inaugural 2016 stop. The owner and manager, Jeff Pitts and Tim Gildon and the entire bar and wait staff did a wonderful job takin...
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During the March 5th weekend, with many pool events going on throughout the GTA, Shooters welcomed 77 players competing in two exciting tournaments. This past weekend Shooters hosted its Amateur 6-Reds Snooker Tournament and its special ‘3-6’ 9-Ball Tournament for a combined prize pool of just under $7,000 for both tournaments.
Shooters’ ‘3-6’ 9-Ball event invited skilled players SL3 to SL6 to rac...
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During the March 5th weekend, with many pool events going on throughout the GTA, Shooters welcomed 77 players competing in two exciting tournaments. This past weekend Shooters hosted its Amateur 6-Reds Snooker Tournament and its special ‘3-6’ 9-Ball Tournament for a combined prize pool of just under $7,000 for both tournaments.
Shooters’ Amateur 6-Reds Snooker Tournament invited amateur players to...
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The Ontario Billiards and Snooker Association is the governing body for cue sports in Ontario. For too many years the OBSA has been focussed primarily on snooker. The OBSA is changing to meet the demands of players and as such will begin hosting events in all fields of cue sports, snooker, eight-ball, nine-ball, ten-ball, etc. across the province. The OBSA is sanctioned by the Canadian Billiards a...
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