Author: Paul

(Photo: Men’s Open Singles winner Leslie Tarter, courtesy of Bad Boys Billiard Productions

The term everything’s big in Texas can also be said to apply to pool in the Lone Star state. The recent BCAPL 2010 Texas State 8-Ball Championships was a big success. Held April 6-11 at the E-Center in Harker Heights, Texas, players traveled to the event not only from deep in the heart of Texas but also from neighboring Oklahoma and New Mexico.

The divisional entries included: Men’s Open Singles 131 entrants, Men’s Master Singles 6 entrants, Women’s Open Singles 46 entrants, Men’s Senior Singles 28 entrants, Men’s Trophy Singles 42 entrants, Women’s Trophy Singles 16 entrants, Scotch Doubles 28 couples entered, 95 Mixed / Open Teams and 25 Women’s Open Teams. The total payout for the tournament was over $38,000. CueSports International (CSI), the parent company of the BCA Pool League (BCAPL) added $4,700 and Bad Boys Billiard Productions added $1,000.

The Billiard Education Foundation (BEF) will host the annual Challenge the Stars benefit in conjunction with the BCAPL National 8- Ball Championships and the 2010 U.S. Open 10-Ball Championship in Las Vegas on Tuesday, May 18th. Diamond Billiard Products will provide the tables for the festivities which will take place in the Grande Ballroom of the Riviera Hotel & Casino at 8:00 pm. This benefit gives all players and spectators an opportunity to support youth billiard programs while mingling with and competing with top pros from all over the world.

On the 19^th of April, Andrews Air Force Base, located in Maryland, home of the Presidential plane “œAir Force One” hosted it’s 1^st Pocket Billiards Instructional Workshop taught by Steven  Brown Sr.,  a Billiard Congress of America (BCA) Certified National Instructor.

The Base Community Airmen’s Center was the venue, which had a Ceremonial Grand Opening in February. The Community Airmen’s Center features Billiards, numerous flat screen TV’s, Wii consoles, Xbox consoles, PlayStation consoles, Pay-Per-View boxing, movie nights, Internet Café, multiple video games, a study area, a outside barbeque patio with awning, a DJ on weekend nights and the full service Sports Page restaurant.

1^st Stan Tourangeau (Vancouver, BC)

On the B-side Scott Snyder (Vancouver, WA) and Bill Rosenberry (Portland, OR) tied for 7^th place ““ victims of Bob Zack (Portland, OR) 9-6 and Eddie Mataya (Seattle, WA) 9-7 respectively.  Both Mataya and Zack had their momentum upended in the next round, as both tied for 5^th place at the hands of Pat Schumacher (Portland, OR) 9-7 and Bob Olsen 9-6 respectively.  Schumacher then ended Olsen’s run at 4^th place by a 9-2 margin.  In the B-side finals, Jesse Allred eliminated Schumacher at 3^rd place 9-7.  The tourney final was one-race to 11, and Stan Tourangeau (holder of numerous North American amateur titles) kept control throughout to take the title over Jesse Allred by an 11-6 margin!

Two Unknowns Battle Through To Vegas Showdown

Further Representation for USA and Spain

DAVE GRAU AND CARLOS CABELLO, relative unknowns outside their respective areas of the American North East and Spain, became the latest two qualifiers to make it through to Las Vegas and the starting line up of the 2010 PartyPoker.net World Pool Masters.

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The World 8-Ball Championships final was a run-out fest between Niels Feijen and Karl Boyes. The First rack had a bit of back and forth action and was taken by Boyes. Then he broke and ran three consecutive racks to lead 4-0. When he came up dry on his next break Feijen ran the table and then broke and ran the next rack. 4-2. Then Feijen suffered a dry break and Boyes cleared that table and broke and ran the next. Another dry break brought Feijen back to the table to clean up. With the score at 6-3 Feijen broke but the table came up tough. He missed his second shot at the table and Boyes returned the favor by missing his second shot attempt as well. Again Feijen came to the table and again his second shot failed. The table simply was not being at all generous with opportunities. Boyes studied the table for a while and jacked up for a nifty little nip shot into the corner that gave him the chance to clear the table. When he succeeded the score became 7-3 in our race to 13 and Feijen was in trouble deep.

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Jerry Forsyth- WPA Press Officer

The great eight had their shot at the spotlight in Fujairah and three of them made the most of the early going.  45 minutes into the round Ruslan Chinakhov led Jeff de Luna 5-1, Karl Boyes enjoyed the same lead over Vicenancio Tanio and Darren Appleton had a 4-1 gap over Joven Alba. Neils Feijen and Andreas Roschkowsky were being a bit more dramatic as Feijen led their match 3-2 at that point.

None of our leaders would ever falter. Ruslan Chinakov and Karl Boyes both won their matches by score lines of 10-5, Darren Appleton squeked past Joven Alba 10-8 and Niels Feijen gradually widened the gap between he and Roschkowsky until he sank the final ten ball at 10-6.

Day Four of the World 8-Ball Championships
-Jerry Forsyth-
WPA Press Officer

The World 8-Ball Championship in Fujairah, UAE, held the round of 32 first today. This is single-elimination so that any loss means the end for the losing player. It is a race to ten games with the winner breaking. Our first round featured half of the remaining field and there are very few players left who cannot be mentioned as possible candidates to take it all.

The first player eliminated today was Scott Higgins. He ran into an extremely sharp Ronnie Alcano and got buzz-sawed 10-3. Alcano simply gave him no air. It seemed that every time Alcano had a shot he ran out the table, including at least six break and run performances.