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3Cushion / Features

Pedro Piedrabuena wins final: 3.750 average

Pedro Piedrabuena played a great final in Maywood.

MAYWOOD – The 40-year-old Pedro Piedrabuena from San Diego in Calyfornia has won the Open USBA three cushion tournament in Maywood. In the finals he defeated Hugo Pattino, the number one on the ranking, in a magnificent match: 30 points in eight innings (30-16).

The tournament, with a total prize money of $ 17.000, was played in the Eight ball billiards center in Maywood and was part of the Open tournament series of the USBA.

Forty players were divided into 5 groups of 8 players, playing round robin. The top 2 finishers from each group advanced to the semifinals. The top USBA-ranked A-players were seeded into the qualification groups, one per group.

 

3Cushion / Features

Shooni at Shooters

 Shooters, a major pool room just outside of Kansas City, was host to 3-cushion billiards star Mazin Shooni on May 20. Mazin conducted a clinic for four local players””Travis Gallup, Stan Lombardo, Bob Mansky, and Dennis Reinecker””in the afternoon, and that evening he put on an exhibition before an attentive and appreciative audience. Both events were on Shooter’s newly recovered Gabriels Imperator table.

Features / Press Releases

Tribute to Grady ‘The Professor’ Mathews

Tribute to Grady ‘The Professor’ Mathews

January 3, 1943 – April 18, 2012


They called him ‘The Professor’, but they could just as aptly have called him Mr. One Pocket. It is hard to imagine a model for contributing more to the game of One Pocket than exhibited over the career of Grady Mathews; he has truly been an ambassador to the game.

Born January 3, 1943 in San Antonio, Texas, when Grady was a teenager his family moved to San Mateo, California, just about 25 miles outside of the pool Mecca of San Francisco. Grady was a good natural athlete, but once he got started with pool, that is where he turned his attention. He proved to be an adept student of pool, especially the game of One Pocket, honing his skills at fabled Cochran’s in San Francisco in the early 1960’s before he took to the road.

Features

1st Annual Southern Classic

DIAMOND BILLIARD PRODUCTS INC. and DIAMOND PROMOTIONS, LLC. are proud to announce the new Southern Classic pool tournament.

Formatted exactly like the ever popular Derby City Classic, this new event looks to bring 9-Ball Banks,

One-Pocket, and 9-Ball into an area rich in billiard tradition and ripe for a big ‘ole pool tournament!

Pool 300 Sanctions with CSI

Press Releases

Pool 300 Sanctions with CSI

Pool 300 Sanctions with CSI Henderson, NV.  –   April 4, 2012  –  CueSports International (CSI) is proud to announce the sanctioning of Pool300 by the BCA Pool League (BCAPL), starting June 1, 2012.  CSI...

3Cushion / Features

Kick-back strategy

The game is eight-ball and you have the solids. The 8-ball is blocking the corner pocket. It wouldn’t help to make the 7-ball, and while there are various ways to play safe off the right side of the 3-ball, they don’t improve your chances, and they give your opponent a chance to play safe in return. An ingenious play is to hit the 3-ball squarely with low backspin so that it banks off the end rail and back into cueball.

Features

KOZOOM


The United States Billiard Association (USBA) and Kozoom are proud to announce an International partnership to promote the sport of carom billiards.

Kozoom, based in France, is the largest live/archival streaming production company in the world. Kozoom’s teams travel the globe bringing exciting carom billiard events to the Internet. including UMB World Cups, National Championships and numerous other world class special events.

USBA, the governing body for three cushion billiards in the United States, is enjoying remarkable growth in the interest in this challenging sport. More and more individuals and room owners are adding carom tables nationwide, enabling players througout the US to paricipate in both casual and official tournament play.

Features

U.S. Amateur Championship Entry Window Opens April 1 Winners of Men’s and Women’s Division Advance to Pro Events

LAKE SAINT LOUIS, MO (March 30, 2012) “” The entry window for the 2012 U.S. Amateur Championship opens April 1.  Players interested in competing in this year’s event can download an entry form at www.usamateurchampionship.com.

Preliminary qualifying rounds for the U.S. Amateur Championship will be held throughout the country in late-September.  The Men’s Division will feature 128 players, while the Women’s Division will feature 32 players.

Features

Tri-State Event

Trvor Heal wins  Tri-State event at $750 Added B/D 9 Ball event held at Port Richmond Billiards in Staten Island, N.Y. His tournament trail of 6 wins  and 1 loss, included wins over Ed Culhane 7 – 0; Inna Bediner 10 – 8; Rajesh Vannala 7 – 4; and Gary Murgia 7 – 1; before suffering a loss to Bryan Jeziorsky 7 – 5 for the Hot Seat. From the loss side Trevor defeated Bill Suden 7 – 4, to face Bryan for a rematch in the Finals. ???

Event Coverage / Features

TAP RALLY in the VALLEY

The first day of the TAP agenda was a National Meeting with an impressive attendance of licensees, as it was standing room only. This meeting was conducted by Founder, President and CEO Loyd Schonter, covering all details of the present and the future drive for TAP. It is very understandable that most discussions in this room were confidential and for only the TAP family however I am sure the Billiard Industry will be more than impressed with where he is leading the TAP Organization.  TAP proudly announced a new relationship at this meeting with McDermott Cues which was attended by their Representatives Larry Liebl Executive Vice President and Jayme Cernika Customer Service and Special Events Manager. They introduced their impressive line to the TAP family. McDermott also contributed $10,000.00 in cues and other McDermott products to the Rally in the Valley events in addition to this they had their Instructor nearby demonstrating the abilities of their cue line.

Features

B/D Nine Ball, Tri-State event at Gotham City Billiards.

left to right:       2nd Place -  Nicholas Chan;  1st Place   – Koka Davladze ;   3nd Place  -  Joe Palone

Koka Davladze wins  Tri-State event at $1250 Added B/D 9 Ball event held at Gotham City Billiards in Brooklyn, N.Y. His tournament trail of 6 wins  and 1 loss, included wins over Tony Ignomirello 8 – 7; Edie Perez 7 – 4 ; Quin Y. Chen 8 – 5;  and Tyronnie Harlee 9 – 7;  before suffering a loss to Nicholas Chan 7 – 4 for the Hot Seat. From the loss side Koka Joe Palone 7 – 1, to face Nicholas a second time in the finals.  Koka finished the Finals in solid fashion with a 9 – 4 victory.

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