Corey Duel wins One Pocket
After four days of play and nine rounds of play the One Pocket competition is down to 8 players. Three players still have re-buys, Francisco Bustamante, Benny Conway and Corey Deuel. The raining 2012 Champion Shane Van Boening and the remaining four other players, Darren Appleton, Joseph Gray, Danny Harriman and Sylver Ocho have one loss. The finials for the One Pocket are Thursday nigh, streamed PPV by Accu-Stats.
Billiards star earns top honors from the Women’s Professional Billiard Association
Billiards superstar Jeanette Lee, known throughout the world as “œThe Black Widow,” will be inducted into the Women’s Professional Billiard Association (WPBA) Hall of Fame on Wednesday, Feb. 6 prior to the start of the 2013 WPBA Masters at Soaring Eagle Casino in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. Lee, who has won over 30 national and international titles, is currently ranked as the No. 3 billiards player in the world.
Photo By Ricky Bryant
 Justin Hall wins Ring Game & Francisco Bustamante wins 9-Ball Bank
Tuesday, Day five of the tournament will start with the third round of the One Pocket which is down to 147 players from the original 280.
The “œBig Foot” ten ball challenge will also start on the 10 foot tables. The event has 32 players with $1000 buy in competing for a piece of the $50,000 prize fund which will go to the last 8 standing in the single elimination event.
Congratulations Shannon!!
Tuesday was the Banks and One Pocket Hall of Fame induction dinner. The inductees for this year were Shannon “œThe Cannon” Daulton and Larry Price. Larry Price was one of the great players we lost in the past year. He was inducted into the Banks HOF having won the DCC banks in 2002 and 2008.
By Ricky Bryant
Day one of the 15th Derby City Classic was kicked off with a field of 353 players in the 9-Ball Banks event. The event is single elimination with a onetime buy back option. Round...
TOURNAMENT IS FULL – Check out the players
Left to Right:Â Â Jesse Hernandez, 1st place, Crispian Ng, 2nd place
Jesse Hernandez probably thought he’d seen the last of Crispian Ng on the weekend of January 19-20, when he sent him west during the Omega Billiard Tour’s 2013 season opener Saturday night. Ng, though, came back from the one loss side to challenge Hernandez in the finals, pushing him to double hill before Hernandez prevailed to claim the season-opening event title.
I bought the North Coast TAP League January 1st of 2012 with great enthusiasm. I am happy to say we are gaining interest and growth everyday. This of course, couldn’t have been accomplished without the great support and structure that TAP Corporate has in place, including Team Help from fellow Licensees, always there when you need them.
Niclole Keeney (Ladies Division Winner) – Danny Smith (Open Division Winner)
When it was all said and done over a whopping
$42,500 was paid out in prize money at this event
“Photo courtesy of Alison Fischer – NYCgrind.com”
Check out the Complete results with prize money amounts for the Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour’s “Turning Stone Classic XX 9-Ball Open”. Total prize fund $41,400.
The winners are: Jay Mikel Cortes from Cebu, Philippines, Josh Boelter from Portland, Oregon and Paul Ramos from Sydney, Australia. The winning designs will all be part of our new cue line launched in April and we will be sending each winner the first cue built of their design as their prize. The winning designs can be seen on the OB Cues contest page here: www.obcues.com/pages/Contests.html
Ckeck out the pictures of the winning cues!
