At long last, the winner of the Snooker Sweepstakes has been announced, and it will go to a snooker enthusiast out of Mississauga, Ontario. Snooker Sweepstakes Winner Announced !
Congratulations to Mr. Syed Ayub who claimed the prize, which will include 2 round trip airplane tickets to England, 7 nights accommodations, and a p...
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CueSports International, Henderson, NV (Nov. 13, 2015) – Since 1994, the Mosconi Cup has featured the best players from USA and Europe to compete head-to-head in singles, doubles, and team formats until one team wins eleven matches. Since its inception, USA has eleven victories compared to Europe’s nine. Coming into 2015 however, Europe has won five consecutive years and is looking for its sixth....
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Veteran snooker player Derek Martin will be representing Canada this week at the IBSF World Championships in Egypt. Snooker Canada would like to take this opportunity to thank Derek for representing us in an event of this calibre. Derek Martin
Great start so far winning his first match 4–3.
Best of luck and we look forward to...
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Liu ShaSha of China successfully defended her title and proved to the world that she is the best in women's pool by snatching the World 9-Ball Championship title for a third time. A tight tug-of-war would be expected between the defending champion and the current Euro Tour champion Jasmine Ouschan (Austria), but the final resulted with a rather surprising and preposterous score of 9-4.
In the play...
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In 9 days, East meets West & the world will find out which is the greatest team in the world. Kings Cup's Asia vs Europe/USA , The Real Rivalry starts November 19th. The Legend begins...
Manila, Philippines- Efren. Mika. Ko. Django. Van Boening. Appleton. Little Ko. Albin. These 8 players share 14 World Championship wins,...
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Congratulations to Mark Johnston for winning the ranking event in London, Ontario this weekend. Mark edged out Barry Larone by a scoreline of 3-2 to take first place and climb up to no. 23 in the rankings. Mark Johnston
Thank you to Strokers for hosting the event and a shout out to Nicholas Ridley for helping out. Good luck...
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Stop # 7 of the Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour will be at Union Station Billiards in Portland Maine on Nov. 14 & 15. Union Station Billiards (formerly Spot Shot Billiards) is a new and welcomed addition to our schedule this season. Owners Mary and Phil Harju are our most generous hosts for what promises to be another great event and deserve our thanks for hosting our tournament. Union Statio...
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FOLLOWING A nine event qualification series, the American team is now in place as they prepare themselves for a December assault on the PartyPoker Mosconi Cup. Having last won the coveted transatlantic pool silverware in 2009, this year’s team comprises the top five players on the ranking list.
Shane Van Boening was the first to qualify after yet another stellar year but the remaining four spots c...
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Jamie McconeryCongratulations to Jamie Mcconery for winning Ottawa’s first ranking event this past weekend. This took place at The famous Orange Monkey in Canada’s capital and was a great event.
Snooker legends that came to participate as spectators included promoter Ervin Budge and Gatineau’s own André Goyette.
The high run...
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WITH A last-gasp runners-up finish at the US Open, Karl Boyes, the ebullient Englishman, stole the final automatic qualifying spot from under the noses of more fancied rivals. And it now sets him up for his fourth PartyPoker Mosconi Cup appearance next month.
With Albin Ouschan topping both World and Combined Rankings after a magnificent second half of the year, and Niels Feijen winning the Euro T...
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John Furman
John had an incredible lust for life always looking for the next adventure. He started his pool journey at Pool Paradise where he found his love for the game. He always loved doing drills and practicing with his fellow players. He met a lot of great people playing pool.
John moved on to a different pool hall becaus...
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The 2nd leg of the 2015/16 ‘404’ season wrapped up this past weekend (October 24th & 25th) at Shooters Snooker and Sports Club. The 404 will continue to be held throughout the 2015/16 season at Shooters.
Despite the competition across the GTA this past weekend to attract pool and snooker players to various tournaments, the ‘404’ was still able to draw a solid field of 46 competitors for the we...
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Eighteen teams made the trek to Petrina’s on Halloween Day for another doubles event. A great day was had by all directed by the ever quotable Barry Hetherington.The tournament ran smoothly with some upsets and some blow-outs but generally very tight competitive play. After a dozen or so hour the B-side finalists Brendan Hui (6) and Aaron Nie (6), forefeited to Don Eddie (6) and Chris Xie (6) n...
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On October 24-25, the second stop of the Falcon Tour was hosted in Jonquière, QC at L'international Billard. There were 34 players in attendance. Here are the results:
Winner Danny Hewitt $1,000
2nd Sylvain Grenier $700
3rd Jeff Blais $500
4th Maxime Villeneuve $365
5-6th Eric Hamel and Alain Martel $260 each
7-8th Luc Tremblay and Dany Nguyen $200 each
2nd chance tournament
Winner Pat Desb...
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John ColucciCongratulations to John Colucci, who won the Canadian Snooker Tour event this past Saturday at the Acadamie de Snooker de Montréal. John beat room owner Stéphane Martineau 3-0 , and enjoyed his first event win of the season.
In another battle the following day, Francois Normand beat Stéphane Martineau, who made it...
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45 snooker players spent the weekend at The Corner Bank for the inaugural GTA Six Red handicap snooker tour event. The calcutta was held Friday evening prior to the tournament draw and it netted $8,000 towards the eventual purse. The Corner Bank added $1,000 to the entry fees brought in of $9,000, bringing the prize pot to nice event $10K.
The handicap range went from -4 for the very elite playe...
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Houston, Texas – Defending Space City Open 9-Ball Champion, James Davis, Jr., and One Pocket Champion, Manny Chau, are already confirmed for this year’s Space City Open IV. For the fourth, consecutive year, the prestigious Space City Open will be hosted by Bogies Billiards and Sports Bar in Houston, Texas, on December 3rd-6th, 2015. Boasting former division champions Sky Woodward, Justin H...
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Congratulations to OB Pro Team member Mike Dechaine who just won the $11,000 added Gotham City Billiards Inaugural 9-Ball Pro Classic with an undefeated run through a star studded field of players this past weekend.
Mike's road to victory saw him beat James Stevens 10-1, Karl Boyes 10-3, Jeremy Sossei 10-7, Dennis Orcollo 10-7, Jorge Rodriguez 10-4 and Jason Klatt 10-4. Mike then played Warren Ki...
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Another of the innovative tournament formats was held this past weekend (October 17, 2015) at the Shooters Snooker and Sports Club. This was the first time for an event that restricted entries to those players with handicaps 3 through 6. Because this was scheduled to be a one day event the field was restricted to 38 players. Demand for these ‘one-off’ tournament formats continues to be strong and...
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Thanks again to The Corner Bank for opening there Venue up to us. For anyone that has not made it down to check out this new venue they need to. The Corner Bank Sports Bar & Grill
We ended up with 8 players 4 Black and 8 Red players. We decided to play down to the last two in each division. On the Red side we seen two very tight matches between Les Edwards & Rolland Colbourne which came do...
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