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New World Woman Pool Champion

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 06:31:13 -0500

Kelly Fisher championed the WPBA United States Open 9 ball Pool Championship on Sunday after beating Iris Ranola. This winning put the English pool pro at the top spot of the Women Professional Pool and Billiards Association ranking list and drove Karen Corr away to the second spot. Fisher ha...

9-Ball Championship Title Shared by Two Players

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:06:55 -0500

The first Predator 9-Ball Tour's Women's Open was won by Iris Ranola and Liz Ford. The 9-ball event, held on July 19-20, 2008 at the Parsippany pool room Comet Billiards and sponsored by Jim Murnak Cue Cases, featured some of the top WPBA players from the likes of Megan Minerich, Caroline ...

Death of a Pool Tournament Director

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:05:48 -0500

Joe Kerr, a leading pool tournament director and the father of Akron Open and Ohio State Championship, passed away last Sunday at the age of 63. Kerr was an enthusiastic promoter of billiards and a talented pool player until he was diagnosed with a progressive muscle disease. Kerr left behind his pa...

Pool Poker and Pain

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:46:18 -0500

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Pool Poker and Pain sponsored by Top Billiards Cloth

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:40:59 -0500

The leading billiards cloth Simonis had announced sponsoring "Pool, Poker and Pain". The forthcoming TV reality show will challenge a group of adrenaline rushed contestants who will compete against each other in pool games, then play poker together and eventually will hurt one another in a...

Speed Pool Record Breaking Attempt Failed

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:45:34 -0500

Dave Pearson, who holds the Guinness Book of World Records on clearing 150 billiard balls using two pool tables in less than 9 minutes, failed in breaking his own record last Thursday in Lava Lanes, Oregon. Pearson had managed to pocket only 9 sets of 15 at an equivalent period of time. Dave Pearso...

Major Drop in the 2008 BCA Trade Show

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:44:47 -0500

The 2008 Billiard Congress of America International Billiard & Home Recreation Expo, ended up last weekend in North Carolina, underwent a huge plunge in the total number of exhibitors and visitors. The drop in numbers is attributed to the recession in the national economic in general and in the ...

World Straight Pool Championship Qualifiers

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:11:14 -0500

Qualifiers for the 2008 World Straight Pool Championship will be held in 6 different stops in the United States and the Netherlands between July 12 and August 2, 2008. The straight pool (14.1) qualifiers are conducted by Dragon Promotions and Dr. Michael Fedak of NYC. The 2008 Predator World Straig...

Philippines Billiards Version of American Idol

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:18:09 -0500

The 7th leg of the "Search for the New Billiards Idol" was launched last weekend at the AMF-Puyat Billiards Center in Cubao, Quezon City. The contestants will take part in bi-weekly tournaments organized by the Billiards Managers and Players Association of the Philippines, and the new foun...

2008 World 8-Ball Championship

Sun, 25 May 2008 08:43:37 -0500

Ralf Souquet of Germany won the 2008 World 8-Ball Championship at the finals held last Friday in Fujairah City, United Arab Emirates. It is the first World 8-Ball Championship in the career of the 40 years old German pool player, who claimed the World 9-Ball Championship title back in 1996. ...

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