Junior players to compete annually in Europe versus USA competition
The European Pocket Billiard Federation and the Billiard Congress of America, the governing bodies of pool in their respective regions and two of the founding members of the World Pool-Billiard Association, today announced a joint venture in the promotion of junior pool. Beginning in 2015, a Mosconi Cup style event for junior pla...
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32 players were in attendance at the ninth stop of the Four Points Tour in Newmarket.
There were shocking results early in this event with some top players making an early exit. Erik Hjorleifson was sent home after his third round match courtesy of Isaac Ramos (7-7). Mario Mario was another third round casualty as Ryan Millar came out on top in the case game.
With the top two players eliminated fr...
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One of the greatest champions and ambassadors of billiards in the history of the sport will captain Team West against Asia Manila, Philippines- The epitome of the word legend. Team West will be injected with iconic blood as Ewa Mataya Laurance will don the role of Captain as her Team West gears up for Team Asia in the AM8.com...
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Players & Fans,
Stop # 11 of this season's Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour will take place on March 28 & 29 at the Golden Cue Billiard Lounge in Albany NY. Rocco Spinelli Jr, owner of the Golden Cue, is our host for this edition of the "Northeast 9-Ball Open XXVIII" and he deserves much thanks for his continued generosity and support of our tour. The Golden Cue is one of upstate New York's largest and...
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Saratoga, Wyoming- Mika Immonen, Shane Van Boening, Johnny Archer, Corey Deuel, Oscar Dominguez, Raj Hundal, Donny Olson and Shanelle Loraine are some of the mega pool stars appearing at this year's Andy Cloth Wyoming Open! 8-Ball, 9-Ball, 10-Ball, Saratoga, and the Wyoming State Junior Championships will be the disciplines to master at the 3 day Rocky Mountain pool extravaganza taking place on...
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Snooker Canada is pleased to announce the official dates for the 2015 Richler Cup, May 28-31.
Canada’s largest snooker tournament will be part of the inaugural Toronto International Snooker Festival and is attracting players from different parts of Canada, as well as other continents including South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Monte Carlo Billiards in Mississauga will be hosting the...
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On March 14-15, 64 players participated in the Pool Players Give Back fundraiser tournament. Over $500 was raised toward the Heart and Stroke Foundation. This tournament was held at Rhythm N Cues in Sudbury Ontario. Andy Aupin lost his first match and won 12 straight matches. Andy jumped in the 8 ball to win against Marc Julien, who played with the heart of a champion. What an incredible final!
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Tapis Vert Pool Hall in St-Foy Quebec just outside of the provinces beautiful capital of Québec City, was the scene of this weekends Pro Tournament. This was a 32 player max event with $2700 added. 10 Ball call shot and safeties was the game with races to 10 on the B-Side and 8 on the losers side. The small max field with the added money attracted players like John & Mario Morra, Alain Martel, Mar...
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Manila, Philippines- A veteran force joins the Eastern team. Taiwan's world renowned Jennifer "China Doll" Chen is the next Asian player selected for Team Asia in the AM8.com Queens Cup to play against USA/Europe next month. Chen has 12 major international titles as well as a gold at the highly coveted Asian Games, and will be the senior member of Team Asia with 24 years of professional competi...
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Rudder and Diaz Win LSBT Spring Event
There were 88 players in attendance this past weekend at Bogies West in Houston, Texas, the newest Lone Star Billiards Tour venue, hosting its first two-day, 9-ball event in addition to a Gulf Coast Women’s 9-ball event. Former Lone Star Tour Champion Chase Rudder fought his way through an elite field of 39 players, while Marvin Diaz took care of business in h...
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2015 will mark the 10th consecutive year the World Tournament of 14.1 will be staged. This is the longest consecutive run of the championship since the 1960's.
New York City, NY - Dragon Promotions is pleased to announce the 10th consecutive year that the world's oldest billiard event will be produced. This year's confirmed...
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It was an amazing run for Natalie Esparza as she went undefeated, taking down the best of the best in Texas female amateur billiard competition this past Saturday at the second Gulf Coast Tour stop of the year held at the new Bogies West in Houston, Texas. The Gulf Coast Tour, a WPBA sanctioned regional tour, drew a whopping 29 women to the one-day 9-ball event, the largest field to date for the f...
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Archived photo of John MorraOn the weekend of March 7th most of the best players in the Northwest and a few from across the country descended on the Chinook Winds Casino in Lincoln City, Oregon. This Casino has been a long time supporter of pool and has held WPBA pro events in the past. This weekends tournament has a 20 year h...
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Eight DIAMOND BILLIARD PRODUCTS Pro-Am 9’ tables are now for sale!
These tables are going to be used at the CANADIAN OPEN POOL CHAMPIONSHIPS being held at the Delta Meadowvale Hotel in Mississauga, Ontario from March 30-April 4th, 2015.
These tables are being built specifically for this event and will be only be used for only 6 day so
they are practically brand new.
The table will have a one piece...
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Jennifer Barretta Suits Up for USA: The AM8.com Queens Cup
Elite USA pro Jennifer Barretta looking forward to doing battle against Team Asia Photo courtesy of Carlos Luna Photography
Manila, Philippines- Here she comes. NYC's all-American girl Jennifer "9mm" Barretta has been selected to represent USA on Team West against Asia...
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Another successful installment of the 2014/15 ‘404’ series took place this past weekend (February 28 & March 1) at the Shooters Snooker and Sports Club. This was the 7th event in this season’s tournaments.
Despite a very busy pool schedule this season with ‘major’ tournaments on every weekend from October to May and at least 2 other ‘major’ tournaments this past weekend, this ‘404’ event drew...
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This past Saturday with the news of Johnny Archer's participation, 85 players showed up to take part in the Pro event at Dooly's Valleyfield. The way the Québec Federation sets up these events, they have a guaranteed prize pool of $2700. If these events only average 32 players then a guaranteed prize pool is a great thing. However these Pro tournaments average around 50 players because of staggere...
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2015 PartyPoker Mosconi Cup
Shane Van Boening
Shane takes the early lead
SHANE VAN BOENING, looking to make his ninth appearance in the PartyPoker USA Mosconi Cup, is the early leader in the nine tournament qualification series for the three automatic spots.
So far, four events have been played and Van Boening...
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2015 PartyPoker Mosconi Cup
USA qualifying event schedule
WITH JUST over nine months until the 22nd annual PartyPoker Mosconi Cup takes place in Las Vegas, Matchroom Sport can announce the roster of events and points system to be used to determine three of the five player USA team.
There are nine scheduled events in total and American players who finish in the top 32 at any of those eve...
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2015 PartyPoker Mosconi Cup
Front Runners set out their stalls
THE RACE FOR the three automatic spots on 2015 European PartyPoker Mosconi Cup team is well underway with two events on the nine event series having recently completed. Like last year, there are three separate ranking lists in operation – the first comprised of a five event Euro Tour series; the second a four event ‘World’ ser...
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