Author: Paul

Alex Pagulayan Wins

With a little help from Diamond Billiards     

It was a fun weekend with good friends, great pool, amazing stories, as well as true kindness and generosity. The first annual Str8-Shots Shoot for a Cure event was held at Felt Billiards in Englewood, Colorado on September 21-23. It began as a vision between the Colorado Springs couple, Marc and Kimberly Griffiths. They wanted to organize an event to raise money for cancer, a cause they are both very passionate about.

Children and parents gathered at Bogies Billiards in Houston this past Tuesday, September 25^th, 2012 to enjoy a “œKids Pool Camp” hosted by WPBA Billiard Pros Melissa Little of Denver, CO and Kim White of Houston, TX. The “œKids Pool Camp” concept, designed by Little, was created to spark an interest in pool for children, ages 17 & under.  The program also aids in building character, self-esteem, and confidence, in a social atmosphere, through billiards.

TAP LLC is pleased to announce that they have reached an agreement to partner up with a exciting up and coming live streaming company called Lavalinked. TAP has a one year exclusive deal with Lavalinked, being the only billiard league in the world that will have access to their state of the art live streaming capabilities.

Laurel Highlands TAP Summer Titleholder Results

Two brackets totaling 32 teams shot it out for a prize fund of $7,000 from August 24 to 26th at the Cooperstown Vets in Derry Pa.. This Titleholder is typically the smallest one of the three yearly Titleholders due to the summer slow down but was purposely restricted even more so this year due to the national play offs scheduled into this already busy weekend. But there was still plenty of stiff competition and hill-hill matches.

6 Year old Hailey Cook, playing pool at Nana and Papa’s house.

When our grandchildren were very young, they would sit on our pool table and roll the pool balls. They loved the sound as the balls hit together, and would clap their hands and laugh with excitement when a ball went into a pocket. As they grew older, they stood on the side of the table, seeing who could roll the balls into the pockets. After watching their Papa (my husband, Sam) play pool one day, they decided that they wanted to be just like him.

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(Shanghai)–With a grand finale performance that spoke of true greatness, the Philippines Dennis Orcollo capped an amazing week in Shanghai, winning the 2012 China Open Sunday afternoon with a brilliant 11-9 win over never-say-day Lu Hui Chan of Chinese-Taipei in front of several hundred people at the Shanghai Pudong Yuanshen Stadium arena.

(Shanghai)–Britain’s Kelly Fisher came into Sunday’s final at the China Open feeling pretty good about her game. But even she had no idea just how good things were about to get.

With an eye squarely on the prize, and clearly on greatness as well, Fisher put in an electrifying performance as she completely routed an overmatched Zhou Doudou of China, 9-2, to capture the 2012 China Open.

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(Shanghai, China)–The 2012 China Open women’s event is now down to four players, and as befitting a tournament featuring the best in the world, the top three ranked players in the world will be part of the cast.

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(Shanghai, China)–Yes, perseverance does indeed pay off.

Wu Jing, the 12th ranked female player in China, had played 2009 World 9-ball Champion Liu Shasha on numerous occasions and never tasted victory against her famous compatriot.  But tonight on the TV table inside the Shanhai Pudong Yuanshen Stadium, the very unheralded Wu finally pulled it off. And what a time to do it.

By Ted Lerner/WPA Press Officer

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(Shanghai, China)–The 2012 China Open got underway on a rainy Thursday afternoon here in Shanghai, and it didn’t take very long for the fireworks to start going off inside the Shanghai Pundong Yuanshen Stadium.