Author: Paul

Mosconi Cup Captains Named
Varner and Ruijsink Go Head to Head

MATCHROOM SPORT can announce that Nick Varner and Johan Ruijsink will lead America and Europe respectively into battle at the 2010 PartyCasino.net Mosconi Cup.

Both captains have plenty of experience of the tournament with Varner leading his men to an outstanding victory in Las Vegas last December and Ruijsink having skippered Europe to their first Mosconi victory in five years in the same city in 2007.

The 17th running of the PartyCasino.com Mosconi Cup takes place from Thursday 9th to Sunday 12th December at East London’s famous York Hall, following an eight year absence.

The Glass City Open is Back!
But Now It’s a Whole New Ball Game
TOLEDO, OH – September 21, 2010 – The Glass City Open, Toledo’s namesake pool championship is back, but it’s different. The event is now a 5-player Open Team 8-Ball Triple Elimination Tournament, limited to 64 Men’s teams and 24 Ladies teams. They will compete for $40,000 in prize money at the Ramada Hotel and Conference Center Thanksgiving weekend, November 26-28, 2010.

Reyes May win his first title at home

Efren Reyes is now the official Champion of the 10th Annual Predator International Championship. Young gun Gomez took over the match early leading 5-1 and later 7-4, but could not keep Reyes from the title.

Gomez came out strong at the onset of the match and had a look of steely determination. He quickly dismantled the older Reyes and it seemed inevitable the grand master of billiards would have to bow down to his younger aggressive opponent.

MANILA—-LEE VANN “œTHE SLAYER” CORTEZA of the Philippines hacked out an 8-5 victory over Rodney “œThe Rocket” Morris of the United States in the finals to capture the Predator Sweet 16 Tournament at the Block, SM City North Edsa, Quezon City Tuesday night.

Laddy Mills
Mills holds off one-loss side challenge from Petrov to win New England 9-Ball season opener
Laddy Mills stopped a 7-match, one-loss side winning streak by Ivo Petrov to go undefeated and pick up the victory on the opening stop of the New England 9-Ball Series on Sunday, September 12.  The $100-added event drew 26 entrants to Buster’s Billiards in Somersworth, NH.

China Wins World Cup of Pool

Second Title in Four Years for Fu and Li

China 10-5 Philippines

CHINA, represented by Fu Jianbo and Li Hewen, won their second PartyPoker.net World Cup of Pool crown as they dismantled the Philippines by a 10-5 scoreline and silenced a huge home crowd at the Robinsons Place Mall in Manila.

With 143 players and 21 teams, Riverside TAP will send three teams to Las Vegas for the 2010 TAP National Championship at Bally’s.

“I think about half of the players in my league have the photograph of Bally’s on the their cell phone,” said Brock, a longtime Temecula resident who recently moved to Wildomar. “The league is freaking going crazy. You work for 365 days and it comes down to this one day where you have three matches and you got to get it done.”

2008 PartyPoker.net World Cup of Pool winners, Team USA, made their way into the last 16 after coming through a life or death struggle against the Swedish pair of Marcus Chamat and Thomas Mehtala.

The American axis of Johnny Archer and Rodney Morris, currently ranked Nos. 1 & 2 on the US rankings, were big favourites in advance of the match, but Chamat has one of the biggest hearts in the game and Mehtala, making his big-time debut held his end up.

Hi all! I’m so excited to announce the newest addition to the Breedlove Clan! Savannah Lee Breedlove, was born on August 31st, 2010 at 6:51pm. She came into this world 6lbs, 12.9 ozs and was 19 1/2 inches long. She took her time joining us, it took 17 hours of labor, WITHOUT an epidural, spinal block, etc, due to problems getting the injection through all the scar tissue in my back (over 100 injection attempts in all! ) In the end, we decided to keep her anyway. Lots of jet black hair, a sweet face, super long fingers and toes, wonder who she gets that from? :