Category: 3Cushion
Pedro Wins 2012 USBA Nationals
8 FINALIST
The 2012 USBA National Three-Cushion Championship Tournament, played for the second consecutive year at the Las Vegas Tropicana Hotel as part of the ACS national tournament week, ended in dramatic fashion as defending champion Pedro Piedrabuena overcame a twelve point deficit with a scorching finish to defeat Mazin Shooni 40 to 33 in 34 innings. With the victory, Piedrabuena not only defended his crown but also notched his 5th national championship title.
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In Memory of Steve Elzinga.
In Memory of Steve Elzinga.
Steve passed away on April 13, 2012 at the age of 63 from Lung Cancer. Born on March 24,1949 and lived in Grand Rapid MI.
One of Steve interests was Ski Diving and had 720 jumps to his name during the years of 1985 to 1993.
He also liked to play billiards and had played it for 40 or so yrs. Steve helped to promote the game by filming and streaming live 3-cushion tournaments over the course of 4 yrs. His streaming partner Michael Christenson a very close friend of Steve’s worked together and both helped a lot of people on the forums and helped a lot of streamers get started and produce better streams.
His name here was sde and was Mi_Billiards and sde on the streams.
Steve was a proud Viet Nam vet and was buried with honors at the Ft. Custer memorial cemetery in Battle Creek Michigan.
Steve was a great friend and will be surely missed by!!
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.
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.
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.
Pedro, wins 2nd year in a row Champion of Champions
Pedro Piedrabuena repeated as the Champion of Champions with a stellar 35 to 33 win over Hugo Patino highlighted by a run of 16.  Pedro was clearly the best over the four-day event, losing only once and posting a 1.440 grand average. Hugo suffered two loses and had the second highest average at 1.417. Trailing 17 to 8, Pedro started his run. When it was over, he led 24 to 17. Hugo seemed dazed for a few innings as Pedro built his lead but then Pedro faltered. The last three billiards were elusive, and Hugo staged a come back. At 34 to 33, Hugo missed a long-short-long shot but left Pedro with all three balls in a line. After pondering the shot for nearly a minute, Pedro played an up-down shot (long, short, long) for the win. Finishing third was Miguel Torres with a record of 8-2 and an average of 1.281. More to come later this week.
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& flow chart.
3-Cushion Savannah Qualifier
We started by playing two games Friday night, continuing Saturday morning at 10am, until about 11:30 pm, when we finished he preliminaries. Sunday morning we played a four man round robin to decide the winners of the finals.
Professor-Q-Ball Promotions is proud to announce Champion of Champions
3 new Kronos Gabriel tables will be used for the Champion of Champions. Anyone who is interested in buying them call now. Professor-Q-Ball (901) 210 7251
They are on sale now and will be sold after the event to the first come buyers.
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THE JUMP SHOT
The Jump Shot
The shot in this Diagram is by no means as hard as it looks. The idea is to shoot with an elevated cue into a ball frozen to a rail and then jump back over the second ball, going around the table, as shown to score. I don’t mean to imply that it is easy, which is why I have rolled up my sleeve in the drawing, but once a good player gets the hang of it he may be able to make it one time in three. It helps to use a bit of draw as well as left English on the cueball, otherwise the cueball will slow up on its way to the other end of the table.
Pendennis Club Final Charts & Story
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Mazin Shooni wins USBA Qualifier
Kentucky Landmark Presents 3-Cushion At Its Finest!!
On January 18, 2012 a talented field of thirty 3-Cushion Billiard players from across the United States converged on the beautiful and historic Pendennis Club in downtown Louisville. For 4 years now Professor-Q-Ball Promotions / Paul Frankel has promoted / directed a USBA Qualifier to determine a select group of players that will earn free entry into the USBA National 3 Cushion Championship. For 2012 these Nationals will take place from May 6 ““ 10 in Las Vegas, NV at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino.
Kicking off the festive Pendennis Club presentation of event activities was a special Artistic Pool performance by ESPN and World Masters Trick Shot Champion Tom “œDr. Cue” Rossman   Players, fans, and a host of valued Pendennis Club members / special guests enjoyed the entertaining and enlightening moments demonstrated on the pool table on Wednesday evening.
