The next stop of the Euro-Tour series, the Dynamic Billard German Open promises to become a huge success again.
192 men and 46 women from over 30 countries all over the world have announced their participation in this tournament. The location for the event is superb. Baunatal is in the center of Germany. One of the biggest factories in town, also one of the event’s main sponsors, is the...
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Organizers of the 2015 Atlantic Challenge Cup today announced Dynamic Billard will be the official table supplier for the inaugural event taking place in Rankweil, Austria, 1 July - 4 July, 2015.
Dynamic Billard, well known for its support of the Eurotour and the European Championships, has agreed to supply one of their match tables for this great event. Dynamic has been making a match table for...
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The 2015 Richler Cup has come to a conclusion and has exceeded expectations in terms of quantity and quality.
With a starting field of 77 registered players, Canada’s largest snooker tournament proved to be very competitive. It had a combination of 4 former Canadian Champions, a few former Quebec Champions, a few former Ontario champions, 1 former U.S. Champion, and a host of other talented player...
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Bar Box Eight-ball is not a walk thru the woods as some people would think because of the smaller table size. When two good players meet up it can be a grinding match unless the break opens the table to the shooter’s expertise. Come up dry on your break and your skilled opponent can easily run-out. If the balls are clustered the game becomes a chess match. On Saturday May 30ththere was a small...
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A very successful season of the Shooters Amateur 9 Ball Event wrapped up on the weekend of May 16th and 17th, 2015 at the Shooters Snooker and Sports Club in North York with the finale of this season long event. From a very humble yet optimistic goal of 32 players at the outset of this event to a high of 92 participants (with a waiting list) on December 27, this Amateurs only tournament exceeded a...
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The Final Event for the 2nd Season was held at Tony’s Billiards on May 23rd, where 41 players came out to compete for the top title of Royal City Challenge Champion! With 10% of the entry fees from the season and $500 added by Tony’s Billiards to the total prize fund, and another huge Calcutta, the stakes were high for everyone competing.
Congratulations to Ken Stutz for his 1st Place Finish, and...
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It is with great joy to announce that Prime Minister Harper has recognized our efforts this year in trying to promote and develop our game of snooker.
We will be sure to continue to strive further with the same values & principles in which our organization was founded.
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Today it was decided that the European Pocket Billiard Federation's youth sports director Sandra Hanf, will act as team captain for the inaugural staging of the Atlantic Challenge Cup.
Sandra has now worked with the youth through the EPBF for the last couple of years and has got to know the players well during that time. Sandra added "I am so pleased and proud to lead this group of players into th...
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Will Felder fought his way through an elite, open division of 32 players, besting Durango Duran in the finals, 7-0, while David Thomas took care of business in the 50 player amateur division, also overcoming Duran in the amateur finals, 7-4. Felder and Thomas went undefeated to win their first-ever Lone Star Tour event titles.
Ariana’s, along with tour sponsors Poison by Predator Cues www.poisonbi...
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This past Sunday, May 17, the Billiard Club Bolivar in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, hosted the Open tournament for Dominican billiard players of all categories. There were the 32 players from around the country.
The tournament held under the double elimination format in groups of 8 and a second stage of simply removing the last 16 qualifiers. In the double elimination race stage 5 and stag...
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Loretta Lindgren came out firing at this past weekend’s Gulf Coast Women’s Regional Tour 9-ball Event held May 16th at Ariana’s in Houston, Texas. Lindgren fought her way through a distinguished field of 26 women to capture her first-ever, regional tour victory. Ariana’s, along with tour sponsors Delta-13 Rack www.delta-13.com, and the APA of North Harris County www.facebook.com/apanorthharriscoun...
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Week One Results for Winter/Spring Session of the NAPA Ontario Thursday Night 8 Ball League at Petrina's in Ajax
The winners of the regular session for the Winter Session of the NAPA Ontario Thursday Night 8 Ball League at Petrinas was The Lil Puckers. For winning the regular session, the Lil Puckers will receive $950.00 cash, qualification for the NAPA Nationals, and a bye in the first round of p...
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Iwan Simonis, the producer of billiard cloth, has agreed to become a partner of the Atlantic Challenge Cup. In an agreement reached this week, Simonis 760 will be used during the inaugural staging of this event.
"We are very excited to partner with Iwan Simonis for this event. Iwan Simonis has been a long-time supporter of the EPBF/IBPF and the events it organizes, and this project was seen as a g...
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Johnny Archer and Thorsten Hohmann. Photo courtesy of Lynn Gosselin @ www.infiny.ca
Four days of billiard festivities concluded yesterday in Thetford Mines, Québec as the Archer Cup and the amateur divisions both came to an end. This years "Classique des Applaches"which was in its 5th year, boasted amateur divisions for "C"...
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It was a great afternoon for pool on Monday May 18th. Players gathered at Petrina's in Ajax for a round-robin event eight-ball bar-box event. The event had a handicapped entry by skill level but no handicap for play as all races were to one. Each player played fifteen (15) games. The top 13 records and the top 3 players ranked 4 and under advanced to the finals. The finals were a double elimin...
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2015 PartyPoker World Pool Masters
Superstar field announced for Manchester
WITH THE 2015 PARTYPOKER WORLD POOL MASTERS set to take place at the iconic Victoria Warehouse, Manchester from Friday 14thto Sunday 16th August, Matchroom Sport can announce the field for the 23rd annual pocket billiards showdown.
Sporting a $20,000 top prize, the Masters aims to bring together some of the...
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As all things in life, the principle that Charles Darwin once taught us is that in order to survive, you either change or you die in this world.
Well the same applies to our great game of snooker. Once upon a time, we had the luxury of hundreds of rooms and thousands of young players across the country playing snooker. There were no distractions to compete with it, no cellular phones, no internet,...
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After 16 weeks of tough Friday Night play the session finals were held on May 15 at Petrina's Billiards in Ajax. Twenty-nine players were qualified and twenty showed up to contest the play-offs. After seven rounds of play the final twelve combatants squared off for the Dash to the Cash.
The semi-finals had two eights in one bracket and two fours in the other setting up a thrilling final. In the...
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The 8th and last regular Shooters Amateur 9 Ball Event took place on the weekend of April 25 & 26th at Shooters Snooker and Sports Club. When play began a total of 84 players were ready to test their skills against each other in this handicapped event. The 84 player turnout was excellent in light of the fact this event was being played opposite another event where several of the better Amateur...
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There have been many discussions and debates on whether the seeding of players in a tournament is a wise decision.
On the one side, as the debate goes, this will attract the stronger players, and as a result, you are inclined to have a better show at the end of the tournament.
On the other side, this creates an unfair advantage for the strong players as they are sort of “protected” to not meet oth...
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