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[19 Oct 2009 | No Comment | 1,047 views]
New Billiard Game Gets Debut at US Open

World Wide Sport of Billiards Corporation is pleased to introduce Bonus Ball, an exciting new pool game…

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[29 Sep 2009 | No Comment | 514 views]
Double, Double for Kimberley at Wavertree

Birmingham’s Roy Kimberley took both the Pro-Cup and Main Event for the second successive time…

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[14 Sep 2009 | No Comment | 1,500 views]
Alcaide Wins Predator 10-ball Tour in Portugal

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 …

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[11 Sep 2009 | No Comment | 1,002 views]
Predator International 10-Ball Tour – Day One Complete

The format of this stop on the Predator International 10-Ball Tour features four brackets, A through D. A and B have been played all the way down to the final four players out of each bracket (final two on the winners side and final two on the one-loss side) who will be placed in the field of the final sixteen on Saturday. Brackets C and D will be played out on Friday.
Bracket A contained some very impressive names. Ralf Souquet (Germany), Jasmin Ouschan (Austria), Rodney Morris (USA), Stephan Cohen (France) …

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[2 Sep 2009 | No Comment | 258 views]
UPA League of Champions Expands Across USA

The United States Professional Poolplayers Association’s (UPA) League of Champions has hit the ground running with sponsorships not only by top names in the industry such as Instroke Cases and Poison Cues, but local organizations namely AZ Diamondbacks and the Boys & Girls Club of Metropolitan Phoenix.  The fastest growing amateur league in the nation continues to set its sights on new territories giving entrepreneurially inclined individuals the opportunity to start their own League of Champions.

After the inaugural launching of the league system in …

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[1 Sep 2009 | No Comment | 450 views]
France’s Cohen Surprise Winner at World 14.1

There’s a new sheriff in straight pool town, Stephan Cohen. In an event where names like Ortmann, Hohmann, Immonen dominated headlines all week, relatively unknown Stephan Cohen…

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[20 Aug 2009 | No Comment | 419 views]
DreamVision Announces New Billiard Film Production

Set in the world of women’s professional billiards, the original live action drama is inspired by the soon to be released book “STICKS”…

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[19 Aug 2009 | No Comment | 987 views]
Appleton and Majid Fall in Ten Ball Showdown

World Ten Ball Champion and World Number 1, Darren Appleton and partner Imran Majid fell short of victory in the £10,000 Scotch Doubles showdown against Karl Boyes and Chris Melling.
Once again the fantastic Club 147 was the host for this enthralling nights entertainment. The main event kicked off at 8pm Saturday 15th August to a packed house of american pool fans. In addition the action was going out live on the Internet via Cuesport TV’s new dedicated channel American Pool TV.
Boyes and Melling were given a 5 rack start in …

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[12 Aug 2009 | No Comment | 467 views]
Appleton and Majid Hungry for Win

Club 147 in Leicester will once again host top flight pool this weekend as we see the first event promoted by Tonic Promotions.
This match has massive appeal to the UK and further afield as it is being graced by the presence of World Ten Ball Champion, World Masters Champion and World Number 1, Darren Appleton. Appleton is paring up with Nations Cup winner Imran Majid in a scotch doubles ten ball match against two other great UK players.
Karl Boyes, bronze medallist at the 2007 World Championships, partners twice WEPF World …

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[23 Jun 2009 | No Comment | 221 views]
League of Champions Launched by the UPA

PHOENIX, AZ (June 23, 2009) – The United States Professional Poolplayers Association (the “UPA”) has come into the final phases of testing its newest collaboration and the organization is finally ready to launch its amateur league nationwide to be known as the League of Champions.
The handicapped league offers players access to professional pool on many levels using an official U.S. ranking computed by a newly developed cutting edge program called a Systematic Speed Ratio (SSR).  The SSR is utilized to help determine both an …