The date and venue are set for the second ever World Cup of Pool. 32 nations of two man teams will be competing for a share of the $250,000 prize fund with the $60,000 first prize.
Defending champions and Number 1 seeds the Phillipines (Efren Reyes & Francisco Bustamante) will be looking to make it two from two and in the first round have what on paper looks like an easy match against Scotland (
In the second round of the Shanghai Masters (the 2007-08 season opener) Mark Selby has gained revenge for his world final defeat to John Higgins in May. Selby won the match 5-3 to progress into the 1/4 finals.
The other big shock of the day was Steve Davis being thumped 5-1 by a resurgent Dave Harold. Harold has now beaten two former world champions en route to the 1/4 finals.
Other results:
The quarter-final matches are now set for the 2007 Shanghai Masters with the remainder of the round two matches finished this afternoon
Round 2 Results
Stephen Hendry (Sco) 3-5 Stephen Lee (Eng)
Stephen Maguire (Sco) 4-5 Matthew Stevens (Wal)
Ding Junhui (Chi) 1-5 Graeme Dott (Sco)
Adrian Gunnell (Eng) 1-5 Dominic Dale (Wal)
Stuart Bingham (Eng) 5-4 Stuart Pettman (Eng)
John Higgins (Sco) 3-5
It has been a long time since we posted on the blog and the reason has been the fact that Billiards Boutique has been so damn busy!
The beginning of September saw the launch of our brand new store at Southwell Business Park, Portland. On the opening day we decided to run a free entry pool tournament with £100 cash up for grabs. The event attracted 28 local players and was won by Dorset County
Due to the success of the last tournament at our snooker cue shop in Portland we are running our second monthly competition on Saturday 13th October.
It is £5 to enter with £40 added. All entry fees paid out in prize money. This particular event is played to WEPF world rules and all matches will be best of 5 frames (final best of 7).
Limited to 32 runners so book early on 01305 822132.
The
1. Learn about splicing
The butt timber is spliced (joined) onto the ash shaft, this is done in one of two ways, by machine or by hand. The two methods produce cues of very different appearance.Machine splicing is less expensive than hand splicing but is a very effective way of adding the butt timber to the shaft. The butt timber (usually ebony) is cut to provide four points, which are glued
The Barnsley 9-ball Open takes place this weekend 1st/2nd December at the fantastic Rileys club in Barnsley.
Highly regarded tournament director Shirley Ang will again take the reigns in what is anticipated to be a high quality field - it is believed that 2007 World Pool Champion Daryl Peach will be in attendance.
Saturday night will see the £250 per man special event take place - straight KO,
This weekend see’s the semi-finals and the finals of the Partybets.com Premier League snooker.
The league which started in September with 7 of the worlds best snooker players reaches it’s finale this weekend at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre.
Stephen Hendry on home soil will play the bookies favourite to lift the crown - Ronnie O’Sulliavn in the first semi-final - followed by
Get your entries in for the Billiards Boutique Christmas Pool Open.
Saturday 15th December is the qualification event, £10 to enter in advance and each player will be given a time slot to play their qualifying matches.
The qualifiers will be run as best of three frame matches in a double elimination format.
This means everyone is guaranteed 2 matches for their money. Two players from the
Royal London Watches Grand Prix champion Marco Fu has been given the final wildcard place for the Masters in January.
Fu, who defeated Ronnie O’Sullivan in October’s Grand Prix final joins snooker’s top 16 elite players plus qualifier Barry Hawkins.
Fu will play Steve Davis in the first round.