Nick van den Berg (NED), current #1 ranked player of the Euro-Tour series, made his way to the final 16 players of the Dynamic Billard Treviso Open. He made it to the winner’s qualification round where he met Oliver Ortmann (GER). Ortmann turned out to be a tough opponent for van den Berg and won the match with 9:7. That sent van den Berg to the loser’s side where he had to face Wojciech Szewczyk...
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Family Billiards Hosting Stop #7!
Once again, Oscar Dominguez and Desiree Rivera's 'Mezz West State Tour' will be making a stop at Delbert Wong's 'Family Billiards' venue in San Francisco, California - chalking up the 7th in a total of 11 stops in its debut season on the west coast of the United States. Playing 9 ball on Delbert's collection of 18 Brunswick, Gold Crown pool tables, we are sure to...
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Makiyama & Lu Win Andy Cloth WIPC Qualifier: Russian & Dutch Champs Debut in USA
Young, beautiful, and dangerous with a pool cue, Nathalie Seichter of Holland will be planning on doing plenty of damage in her first trip to the United States. Photo courtesy of Melissa Rademakers
Story by Brook "Heart of Hard Times" Th...
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Currently most of the best players in the world are in the Philippines to take part in the Manny Pacquiao sponsored "Pacman Cup" doubles event. Similar to the first edition of this event which took place in the early fall, there is a "warm up" singles event.
In a match yesterday between American 1# player Shane Van Boening was up against local favourite Ronnie Alcano. At the 1hr 25 min mark in t...
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The final tournament of the 2014 edition of the Dynamic Billard Euro-Tour series will begin on Thursday morning, December 11th, at 09:00 CET. 144 men will play the Dynamic Treviso Open for a total prize fund of 34.000,-€ and important ranking points.
The situation in the Euro-Tour rankings for men players is quite close and exciting at the moment. The current leader is Nick van den Berg (NED) with...
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With the announcement earlier this year by NAPA about the addition of singles leagues, NAPA Ontario is looking at starting it's first singles league in Ontario.
NAPA Ontario's Monday Night 8 Ball Singles League at Petrina's in Ajax is scheduled to start Monday, January 12, 2015. All matches will be played out of Petrina's Billiards in Ajax. The regular session will be 20 weeks long, with pla...
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Viking Cue to Sponsor Inaugural Andy Cloth Women's International Pool Championship
By Mark Thomas
MADISON, Wisconsin December 5, 2014 Viking Cue Manufacturing, LLC announced today that it is partnering with Dragon Promotions to sponsor the Inaugural 2014 Women's International Pool Championship event to be held December 16 – 21st in New York City. "Viking is incredibly excited about being able to s...
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CueSports International, Henderson, Nevada (December 9, 2014) – CSI is pleased to announce that the 2014 CSI Invitational 10-Ball Championship matches have been released on the CSI YouTube channel. Sixteen (16) matches featuring some of the best players in the world, all filmed in the Predator Arena, can be viewed in their entirety absolutely free.
The format consisted of four groups of four play...
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Saturday December 6th was a great day for Ben Heywood, as we once again saw a player go through a tough field undefeated. Ben had a tough first round draw with Ben Chang, coming out the victor and then successfully beating some room favorites Mike Patay, Paul Duell, Jeremy Isard and Pod Snagosh..and then sat waiting for the finals to begin…
Stuart McTaggart had a tougher route, as the youngster, j...
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Congratulations to all our participants in the NAPA OPEN TOURNAMENT.
It was a great afternoon of pool at Petrina's on Sunday December 7th all in the name of helping the needy at Christmas. Over $250 was raised for the local food drive and will make lots of people happy for Christmas. Many players also dropped off non-perishable food items.
The eight-ball action was intense with all bar box battl...
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It is with great pleasure to announce the details the inaugural Ted Wormworth Memorial.
For those of you who are not familiar with the name, Ted Wormworth was a pillar of the snooker community for decades in the province of British Columbia. It is only recently that I remember having a long talk with Ted about what we can do to develop the game of snooker some more in this country. How ironic is...
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Got back home and wanted to share some of my thoughts on what in my opinion, was one of the best Mosconi cups ever. The event gets better every year and it amazes me how Matchroom and SKY Sports continue to put forth this kind of effort year after year and find ways to make this event the best on the planet, bar none.
I wanted to address a few points from an inside perspective if you will.[caption...
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Pao & Fox Tear It Up in NJ: J.Pechauer Cues Joins Andy Cloth Women's International Pool Championship
By Ed "Sandman" Liddawi
Edison, New Jersey – Sunday November 23, 2014 marked the day that several cue toting women would come out to Sandcastle Billiards from various states ranging from Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and even as far as Virginia to compete in an attempt to qualify for a spot...
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In the 1980’s I played a lot of Snooker. I was tired of always losing to the same guys that gave me 20 or 30 point spot and won my rent money. So I decided to change how I spent most of my time on the snooker table. I am about to share with you some of those things! First I started playing matches against myself. I would give my left hand a 50 point spot and play my right hand against my left hand...
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EUROPE 11-5 USA
Darren Appleton 5-2 Shane Van Boening
Nikos Ekonomopoulos 5-2 Shane Van Boening
TEAM EUROPE won the 2014 PartyPoker Mosconi Cup, beating the USA 11-5 in front of a boisterous crowd at the Tower Circus, Blackpool. The score line was their joint second best winning margin and leaves the Americans with some soul-searching to do as they attempt to get back into competitive shape for t...
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The 3rd event of the 2014/15 ‘404’ series took place this past weekend (November 29 & 30th) at the Shooters Snooker and Sports Club in Toronto.
The 404 continues to be a popular tournament for GTA players and beyond with participants from as far away as Orillia and Columbus, Ohio making the trek to compete in this tournament. It is also satisfying to see the mix of regular 404 players and play...
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EUROPE 9-5 USA
Boyes / Ekonomopoulos 5-3 Schmidt / Hall
Nikos Ekonomopoulos 3-5 Justin Hall
Gray / Boyes 5-3 Deuel / Schmidt
Feijen 5-2 Bergman
EUROPE WON three of the four Wednesday night matches to leave themselves four points clear of their American opponents and within two points of their fifth consecutive PartyPoker Mosconi Cup win following a torrid night at the Tower Circus in Black...
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EUROPE 6-4 USA
Feijen/Gray 2-5 Hall/ Bergman
Boyes 5-2 Deuel
Appleton/Ekonomopoulos 5-2 Schmidt / Van Boening
Feijen 5-3 Bergman
Appleton /Gray 4-5 Van Boening/ Deuel
EUROPE INCREASED their lead at the 2014 PartyPoker Mosconi Cup as they won the second session 3-2 to take the overall score to 6-4 with a potential 11 matches to complete. The US though, topped and tailed the session with wins but l...
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2014 PartyPoker Mosconi Cup
Europe nick early lead after bruising battle
EUROPE 3-2 USA
Team match – Europe 5-1 USA
Appleton & Boyes 3-5 Duel & Hall
Mark Gray 3-5 John Schmidt
Feijen & Ekonomopoulos 5-1 Van Boening & Bergman
Darren Appleton 5-3 Shane Van Boening
TEAM EUROPE will take a 3-2 into the second day of the PartyPoker Mosconi Cup after an exciting evening’s play...
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2014 PartyPoker Mosconi Cup
First day matches set for 21st annual transatlantic shoot out
WITH THE START of the 2014 PARTYPOKER MOSCONI CUP less than a day away, both team captains have set their stalls out for the opening day’s matches. With five games in each session there are some mouth-watering prospects in the offing, culminating in a real clash of the titans as Darren Appleton and Shane Va...
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