Posted on Feb 27, 2009 under 9 Ball Billiard |
The Ultimate Billiards in Ft Pierce, FL hosted at their first ever KF event and another record-breaking field turned out the game. $1,700 added event attracted to 112 entrants over the two days. The $1000 was added Open event kicked off the 47 players, and Richard Broumpton doing all the damage. Broumpton went of through to the finals undefeated with the wins over Johnny Reaves 7-5, Javier Chirino 7-2, Cal Mcgann 7-3, Doug Johnson 7-3, and Curtis Kelley 7-3, putting on him up against Eddie Cabrera for the hot seat match of the game. Cabrera was also having a breakout to this event, beating several of the top players in the rank or field, including wins over Han Berber 7-5, Gail Grecar 7-1, and Bill Dunsmore to put him up against Broumpton for the hotseat match.
To this game match proved to be a tight affair, with Broumpton edging a 7-4 win to take the hotseat. He would now wait of the winner to the one loss side where Josh Lewis was a man on a mission. Lewis had lost his first round match to Prescott Buckwold 7-4, then went on to record 9 very impressive wins beating the likes of Han Berber 7-6, Mike Destefano 7-3, Doug Johnson 7-3, Tony Crosby 7-4, Bill Dunsmore 7-5, Curtis Kelley 7-6 and Eddie Cabrera to put himself in the final, leaving Eddie Cabrera with a fine 3rd place finish.
The Finals was all to Broumpton. Broumpton had recently switched to the new line of Concept Cues, which tour director Tony Crosby and billiard pro Corey Deuel have been developing, It proved to be the right Concept for Broumpton, as he dominated a one sided final besting Lewis 9-2 in the single race final and take his first KF Cue Tour win with the $800 winners purse.
Final Results
1st Richard Broumpton $800
2nd Josh Lewis $600
3rd Eddie Cabrera $450
4th Curtis Kelley $260
5th-6th Jason Richko and Bill Dunsmore $150
7th-8th Tony Crosby and Mark Coats $100
9th-12th Jeff Hughes, Gail Grecar, Randy Epersen and Doug Johnson $65
Posted on Feb 27, 2009 under 9 Ball Billiard, 9 Ball Challenge |
Queensland are proudly to announce that there are four people will be travelling down to Adelaide this weekend for a competition, 20-22nd February 09, to attend the Australian National 9 Ball Championships at the Empire Lounge. While the field will be very strong each of the players representing Queensland has an excellent chance of reaching the latter stages of the tournament.
The tournament is broken into 3 days:
At day 1 Scotch Doubles (Mike Vokes & Stephen Burford) winner to represent Australia at World Cup of Pool 2009. All teams play each other in a round-robin event with the top 4 playing in a semi-final and final knockout event.
At Day 2 Singles (Mike Vokes, Stephen Burford, Mark Prociv and Adam List) to compete in a double elimination event against all players in the tournament who are not seeded in the top 16. Once 16 players are remaining, the day is over and these 16 players return to play in day 3
Day 3 The 16 seeded players are drawn against the Qualifying players from Day 2 in another double elimination event, with the winner representing Austalia at the World Championship 2009.
The Association wishes for the best of luck in each player with every success to each and we trust with the hearts that our abilities will be represented well amongst our peers to peers. God speed!
Posted on Feb 27, 2009 under 9 Ball Billiard, 9 Ball Pool 2008 |
Midwest 9-Ball Tour Triple Play (KS)
Back to back weekends of pool at Shooters in Billiards at Wichita, Kansas, can’t get in any better than November 28th-30th which held a bar table nine-ball handicapped (rated 3-12) event; and then to the following weekend (December 3rd-7th) at the one-pocket division and $3000 entry bar table ten-ball ring game – this all courtesy of the Midwest 9-Ball Tour and a very tired Evelyn Dysart.
The Results (November 28th-30th – 9Ball Handicapped)
rank 1 Mike Banks, Jr. $2000
rank 2 Randy “Bigg” Gordon $1000
rank 3 Sam Cole $400
rank 4 Shane McMinn $200
rank 5/6 Joey Gray /David Caron $75
rank 7/8 Brian Phillips /Clegg Ratcliff $60
rank 9-12 Randy Kolpin /Mike Teder /Mike Lacy /J.R. Dodd $50
rank 13-16 Junior Brown /David Griffin /Eddie Sipes /Soup Louangrath $40
rank 17-24 Marshall Roney /Alan Martin /Jim Lee /Matt Low /Jesse Vogel /Steve Kakoulias /John Boster /Perry Gibson $30
rank 25-32 Chuck Raulston /Bryant Bishop /Chris Weast /Jerry Keene /Bill Bolin /Jay Lara /George Trujillo /Dave Rymer $20
To next up, at the one pocket division held at the weekend of 3rd to 7th
December. With $1000 added incentive and $100 entry, the competition was fierce at this time around with several coming in to participate in the ring game as well. Tournament at the one-pocket was played on nine-foot tables and when the field dwindled down, the semis held Chip Compton and Buddy Hall. Hall wasted no time to jump into the finals as he took down Compton handily 3-1. Although the race was tight with Hall and Gabe Owen in the final round 3-2, Owen (after taking the hot seat match), sealed the victory going undefeated through the field of twenty-four.
Results (December 3rd-7th – One Pocket)
1st Gabe Owen $1100
2nd Buddy Hall $800
3rd Chip Compton $500
4th Joey Gray $300
5th/6th Tony Chohan/Scott Frost $230
Moving onto the huge excitement and to cap off the triple play was the $3000 ten-ball entry ring game. This $5000 added battle of competitive spirit was a true test of ones steady handedness. The ring game played at bar tables and limited only thirty-two players, but drew a total of sixteen entries. The format was four men on each table, randomly drawn to those tables, with the players picking numbers to determine their groups. forty-five minute breaks, redrawing the order in the group every ten games. with no safeties allowed.