World Pool Masters Champion, Raj Hundal has been selected as a nominee for Most Up and Coming Personality of the Year Award at this year’s BASA…

The Philippines’ Efren “Bata” Reyes and Rubilen Amit broke out of a seven-all deadlock and turned back Team Korea’s Charlie Williams and Park Eun Ji, 9-7, in a thrilling showdown in the 2009 World Mixed Doubles Classic at the Nuvo City Lifestyle Center in Libis, Quezon City last night. Reyes and Amit bucked a pair of scratches from breaks and a slew of missed shots in carving out the victory .
Amit, the reigning women’s world 10-ball titlist, sank a difficult shot on the left …

The Philippines’ Efren “Bata” Reyes and Rubilen Amit played a near-flawless game this time as they overpowered Team Europe’s Mika Immonen of Finland and Borana Andoni of Albania, 7-1, yesterday to arrange a title showdown with Team Korea in the 2009 World Mixed Doubles Classic at the Nuvo City Lifestyle Center in Libis, Quezon City.
The one-sided victory was far from their error-prone 7-4 win over the Japanese pair of Hayato Hijikata and Kaori Ebe in the opener of the event where the Filipinos needed …

The 2009 US Open Champion, Mika Immonen, has continued his astonishing few months by lifting the World Ten Ball Championships in Manila today.
In the final ‘The Iceman’ defeated Lee Van Corteza of the Philippines 11-6 to take the crown.
Earlier in the day Immonen booked his place in the final with a 9-7 victory over Antonio Lining, Corteza defeated Spaniard Davud Alcaide by the same scoreline.
Further details will follow later.

This was the first day that any players could be eliminated from competition by going two and out. Perhaps the biggest surprise was the early exit by American player Shane Van Boening. Van Boeing lost today to young Russian superstar Konsatntin Stepanov 9-6.  Martin Kempter of Austria also left the room today after dropping his match on the hill to Tey Choon Kat of Singapore.  Another disappointment to the crowd came when local hero Demosthenes Pulpul faced off against Ronnie Alcano in a match that had to eliminate one Filipino. …

Some big names have hit the bricks at the WPA World Ten Ball Championships in Manila. Ralf Souquet of Germany is now on the one-loss side after dropping his first match 9-6 to Thomasz Kaplan of Poland. He is joined there by Shane Van Boening of the USA, Jeff De Luna of the Philippines, and Ronnie Alcano of the Philippines. Van Boening lost 9-8 to Nguyen Anh Tuan of Viet Nam, and Alcano lost 9-7 to Dang Jin-Hu of China.
While some of our names have met with early misfortune, others …

Darkside Promotions held their second event in Club 147 this last Saturday and what a night of entertaining pool it was…

Further photo’s from the second tour stop on the 2009/10 Predator International 10-Ball Tour. This event came from Anadia in Portugal.
David Alcaide kisses the trophy
The Final match Feijen v Alcaide
The fantastic TV Arena
The Podium

David Alcaide of  Spain has taken the title of the first Predator International 10-Ball tour. Alcaide played flawless pool in the final match against Niels Feijen of the Netherlands. Tied after the first two racks, Alcaide then took control of the match and never let Feijen have any opportunity to make a comeback. Alcaide took racks 3, 4, 5 and 6 to mount a four-game lead, then surrendered what would be Feijens final 10-Ball in rack number 7. From there, Alcaide completely ruled the day and easily swept the last …

The first final four match-up at the Predator International 10-Ball Tour featured two men who have faced one another across the Baize many times. Niels Feijen and Marcus Chamat met in a match that belonged to Feijen most of the way. Feijen began by putting a 4-pack on Chamat so that he was halfway home to the magic number of eight racks before Chamat ever left the gate.
But with some absolutely superb jump shots to escape safeties Chamat fought back and won the next three racks running to draw …