Robles Wins IPT billiards Challenge by InsidePOOL Staff Tony Robles triumphed over Karl Boyes at the latest installment of the IPT’s challenge match, held in Los Angeles June 24. Robles, a last-minute replacement for Alex Pagulayan, flew in the same day from New York in order to participate. Before the eagerly anticipated 8-ball match,...
Team Canada Regain Can-am Snooker Challenge
Team Canada Regain Can-am Snooker Challenge Team Canada have repeated their success in the first Can-Am Team Snooker Challenge, after winning the third staging of this annual event by narrowly defeating Team USA 11-9 at the Riviera Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. After the first of the three days of competition played alongside the...
Robles to Replace Pagulayan
Robles to Replace Pagulayan The International pool Tour has announced that Alex Pagulayan will not be playing in the challenge match against Karl Boyes on June 24, 2008. Pagulayan lost his passport and was refused entry into the US. Replacing Pagulayan will be professional pool player Tony Robles. In a statement released by management...
Kjoersvik Wins at Hammerheads Billiards
Kjoersvik Wins at Hammerheads billiards Ladies Spirit Tour / Holiday, FL by Skip Maloney Line Kjoersvik returned to the winning ways she’d established at the Hunter Classic and Arizona Women’s tour stops earlier in the year, coming back from a defeat at the hands of Jasmin Ouschan to win the Ladies Spirit Tour the...
Robles Continues Winning Streak at Billiards
Robles Continues Winning Streak at billiards Predator 9-ball Tour / Stamford, CT by InsidePOOL Staff The Predator 9-ball Tour made its debut in Stamford, CT, the weekend of June 21-22 as Rack N’ Roll billiards played host. A strong field of 51 players came out to support, with tour director Tony “The Silent Assassin”...
Ranola Victorious at Comet Billiards
Ranola Victorious at Comet billiards J. Pechauer NorthEast Women’s Tour / Parsippany, NJ by Skip Maloney Though pushed to the brink of elimination in an extended finals format, Iris Ranola came from behind and won the J. Pechauer Northeast Women’s Tour stop the weekend of June 21-22. The $1,500-added event, plus qualification to an...
Untouchable Moore Takes Seminole Billiard Event
Untouchable Moore Takes Seminole billiard Event Seminole Pro Tour / Cape Coral, FL by Skip Maloney Steve Moore went undefeated to capture the first-place prize on the Seminole Pro Tour’s June 20-22 stop. He did so with a 9-2 defeat of Sparky Ferrell in the finals of the $8,000-added event that drew 60 entrants...
Cintron Battles Back to Take First
Cintron Battles Back to Take First Tri-State Tour / Somerset, NJ by Skip Maloney Danny Cintron battled back through eight opponents on the one-loss side to defeat Rajesh Vannala in the finals of the Tri-State Tour stop June 21. The $500-added, B-D-handicapped event drew 32 entrants to One Shot billiards in Somerset, NJ. Earlier...
Archer Takes Athens by Storm
Archer Takes Athens by Storm J. Pechauer Southeast Open 9-ball Tour / Athens, GA by Skip Maloney Johnny Archer found a mid-tournament stride that propelled him to a first place finish in the J. Pechauer Southeast Open 9-ball Tour June 21. A small field of 19 entrants was on hand for the $500-added, open...
Fur Flies in Florida
Fur Flies in Florida’s Final Four Seminole Pro Tour / Cape Coral, FL by Skip Maloney Steve Moore, David Vaughn, Jerry Calderon, and Justin Hall advanced to the final four on the winners’-side bracket of the Seminole Pro Tour stop at Diamond billiards in Cape Coral, FL, Saturday, June 21. Advancement entailed a few...
Simonis Sponsors Blair Thein in Pool, Poker and Pain
Simonis Sponsors Blair Thein in pool, Poker and Pain Simonis, one of the billiard industry’s oldest companies and makers of pool and billiards cloth, has struck an arrangement to be an initial sponsor of pool, Poker and Pain, the extreme challenge series being promoted by Blair Thein. Under development for nearly four years and...
ESPN Announces Airdates for 2008 GenerationPool.com 9-Ball Championships
ESPN Announces Airdates for 2008 GenerationPool.com 9-ball Championships The billiard Congress of America (BCA) today announced that ESPN will air the semi-final and final rounds of the 2008 GenerationPool.com 9-ball Championships on July 19, 2008. The event was held June 8-12, 2008, in Charlotte, North Carolina. The tournament’s semi-finals and finals events took place...
