Archives for 9 Ball Billiard category
Posted on Mar 02, 2009 under 9 Ball Billiard |
Stan James Canadian 9-Ball Tour
Calgarians Sweep Honors in Toronto
Presented by the Indigo and Chapters bookstores and Cineplex Entertainment, the Canadian 9-Ball Tour entered to its final day for the third season at Shooters Snooker and Sports Bar in Toronto.
The twelve remaining sharpshooters came back on Sunday to try and re-produce a same form that had allowed them to survive the first two day’s action. The loser’s side matches kicked off this final day and it was highlighted by Tom D’Alfonso could not showing up for his B side match against the Toronto’s John Jorgensen. To the local cueist Jorgensen, waited patiently the 15 minutes for he can also releax and allowed for D’Alfonso to appear and then gratefully accepted the his easy passage through to the next round by the decision of a forfeit in the game.
The reigning Canadian snooker champion Floyd Ziegler was pitted against the consistent Mario Morra. The mid way point of this match gave no clear indication as to who would be moving on as Morra held a slim advantage at 6-5 in front. Morra kept the pressure on Ziegler and had a chance to seal the deal in the fourteenth rack and missed the intended shot presenting Ziegler with a simple 4-9 combination to draw back to 6-8. Morra didn’t have to wait much longer as he secured the next rack to bring the handshake and send Ziegler out of the event with a 9-6 win.
Andrew Attard, another player who could easily be described as “sneaky good” simply because of his modest and unassuming personality, found himself opposing one of the surprise packages in this event, Wayne Tate. Attard was in no mood to skip breakfast and with a powerful break and sure handed potting, demolished Tate by a 9-1 score.
The last match being played early Sunday saw one of the pre event favorites Jason Klatt facing off against another long shot John Timmermans. Regarded as a very tough competitor, Timmermans knew he would have to be at his best to eliminate Klatt. Unfortunately for Timmermans his best did not come on this day as Klatt eased through with a comfortable 9-4 victory.
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.
Posted on Feb 25, 2009 under 9 Ball Billiard |
February 27, 2008, at Singapore – ESPN STAR Sports’ Guinness 9-Ball Tour 2008 will feature two World Champions as the field is announced for Asia’s premier pool competition. Philippines’ Alex Pagulayan (2004 WPA World Pool Champion) and Chinese Taipei’s Chia-Ching Wu (2005 WPA World Pool Champion) are expected to lead the charge as 24 of Asia’s top pool masters cue off in the opening leg of the Tour in Chinese Taipei from 29 February – 2 March 2008, to be held at the Taipei Gymnasium.
Organised by ESPN STAR Sports with Guinness as the title sponsor, the Tour attracts Asia’s top cuemasters with Asian Professional Billiards Union (APBU) -sanctioned players from Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, the Philippines, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Thailand, India, China and Chinese Taipei taking part.
Chinese Taipei will be looking to repeat last year’s dominance of the Tour with a strong line-up comprising of Wu, last year’s Overall Tour Champion Jung-Lin Chang, Pin-Yi Ko (2007 WPA World Junior Champion), Ching-Shun Yang (2007 Tour Grand Finals Semi-finalist), Hung-Hsiang Wang and Pei-Wei Chang. Countering the challenge will be top-ranked players such as Philippines’ Pagulayan, Joven Bustamante, Jeffrey De Luna, Antonio Gabica and Marlon Manalo and Indonesia’s hot prospects of A. Budi Sumarno, Siauw Wieto and Ricky Yang.
Representing Malaysia yet again is Ibrahim Bin Amir, together with compatriot and Alan Tan, while Singapore has fielded Tour Toh Lian Han and newcomer Aaron Koh. Carrying the flag for Japan and South Korea are Satoshi Kawabata and Ryu Seung Woo respectively as Hong Kong’s Han Xiao-Xiang and Vietnam’s Do Hoang Quan will be looking to do their countries proud. Rounding off the talented field are Thailand’s Nitiwat Kanjanasri and India’s Sumit Talwar.
The Guinness 9-Ball Tour is sanctioned by the Asian Pocket Billiard Union (APBU) and organized by ESPN STAR Sports’ Event Management Group (EMG). Taipei City Government is the co-organiser for the Chinese Taipei leg. Guinness is the title sponsor for the Tour. The local sanctioning body is Chinese Taipei Billiards Association. Iwan Simonis and Aramith supply the official tablecloth and official balls respectively. Brunswick provides the official pool table while Predator is the official cue. BCLN is the official apparel supplier. The Official Hotel is the Sherwood Taipei. STAR Sports is the official broadcaster.
Further information can be obtained at www.g9bt.com
Posted on Feb 25, 2009 under 9 Ball Billiard |
KF Cues 9-Ball Tour (Pete Ultimate Amateur Winner)
The Ultimate Billiards Ft Pierce, Fl hosted the game of $700 and Added Amateur event in the game. The open event had drew a record field of 47 players and as always the Amateur event went to one better by drawing a massive 75 players in all. The Amateur is proving to be the big success and now drawing a huge field of Ladies and junior players by taking advantage of the huge entry fee discounts to all players.
The Ultimate Billiards would also prove to itself by one of the leading rooms in the State of Florida to host an event of this size with its 20 9 ft pool tables and would make things run very smooth now and then.
Mark Wathen would be the man to take the hotseat on the day of the game beating George Saunders into 6-4 and prove why as of late he is a big threat in the Amateur division making his way through to the 2nd final of the season. A newcomer Tony Pete was causing problems on the one loss side having another lost to Wathen on the winners 6-4. Pete had some battle on his way to the finals with a hard fought for 5-4 win over Adam Wheeler followed by a 5-3 win over Ed Kiess, 5-2 win over Josh Lewis where he would be facing Raymond Linares who is another player in the game is so improving fast. This match would go right down to the wire with Linares playing strong pool only to fall short in the last game, at 4-4 linares would make a very tough to the game 7 only to leave himself in a worse position on the 8 and hand the match to Pete leaving Linares in 4th spot. The semi-final would see pete dominate with some fine safety play and Leave George Saunders kicking the balls the whole match and send him out in 3rd place.
The Final, Wathen had been sat around nearly 2 hours and it showed as Pete was gathering momentum on the one loss side Wathen was losing it. Pete would dominate the final taking advantage of a sluggish Wathen to win the match and his first KF event 8-3. The only consolation for Wathen is he would jump to no1 displacing Ted Lepak for the tour points leader.
Posted on Feb 25, 2009 under 9 Ball Billiard |
Jones and Pan New 2008 9-Ball Champions!
2008 9-Ball Champions Jeremy Jones and Xiaoting Pan were recently crowned champions of the 2008 GenerationPool.com in 9-Ball Championships. In the event, hosted by Billiard Congress of America, and was held in conjunction with the 2008 International Billiard and Home Recreation Expo at Charlotte Convention Center, June 8-12, 2008.
In the first final match, both were taped by ESPN, Jones met Ronnie Wiseman to vie for the title of the match. In the error-ridden set, it seemed that both parties’ nerves were getting better and better of them. The score thrilled to 3 apiece — none of which was a run-out. After a miss each on the 8-ball in the following rack, Wiseman take the 8, but then accidentally scratched, moving Jones up a game. He also took the next rack when Wiseman missed a straight-in 9-ball. After pushing out after his next break, Jones capitalized on a failed secured attempt by Wiseman and ran out to reach the track 6-3. Wiseman broke next after missed the 2, but so did Jones, so Wiseman narrowed the gap to 2 racks; however, Jones broke and ran out the final rack to secure the win into 7-4.
The women’s final was actually a rematch in the 4th round, in which Ga Young Kim sent Pan to the one-loss side 9-6. The women seemed a little more settled than the men did, but still they started somewhat shakily than the mens. Kim reached a 3-1 advantage with a safety break and run-out, but Pan tied it up when Kim scratched on the 8-ball in the next rack and then won the following after Kim left her a shot on the 2-ball. Now in her element, Pan broke and ran out for the 4-3 lead to have a dramatic round. When Kim’s 7-ball ejected out of the pocket, Pan moved another step closer in the short race to 7 and thrilled the game. Kim pushed out on her next break, and Pan missed the 1-ball. Kim started to clear the table, but she didn’t leave herself a good shot on the 8-ball and tried to play safe to secured the win. However, Pan had a shot and took it to reach the hill. In the final rack, Pan pocketed three balls on the break and cleared for her 7-4 win. and Ga Young Kim lose.
Posted on May 29, 2008 under 9 Ball Billiard |
THE annual Sun.Star-Super Balita 9-Ball Challenge is set to kick off next month for its eighth year as the biggest and most prestigious billiard tournament in the South.
Posted on May 29, 2008 under 9 Ball Billiard |
Reigning Philippine National Open champ Lee Vann “The Slayer” Corteza and Filipino-Canadian Edwin Montal got off to hot starts in the 2008 Predator International 10-Ball Championships Tuesday (Manila time) at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, an online news report said.
Posted on May 29, 2008 under 9 Ball Billiard |
Francisco “Django” Bustamante will stand Saturday as the lone Filipino in the final four of the Predator International 10-Ball championship.