Midwest 9-Ball Tour Triple Play (KS)

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.