The Billiard Education Foundation (BEF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Samm Diep-Vidal to the position of Executive Director.
Vidal joins the organization on May 1, 2012 to work alongside current Executive Director, Laura Smith. On August 1, Vidal will assume full executive director duties; Smith will continue on as a trustee of the organization.
Left most 2nd place Basdeo Sookhai; 1st place Andzrej Kaldan; right, owner operator Kenin Buckley
Andrzej Kaldan goes undefeated at A/D 9 Ball Tri-State Tournament held at Gotham City Billiards in Brooklyn , N.Y. His tournament trail, included wins over Eddie Perez 6 -1; Inna Bediner 7 – 3; Jaydev Zaveri 6 – 5; Rick Shellhouse 6- 5; Randy Mackin 6 – 2 and, Basdeo Sookhai 7 – 6 to get into the Hot Seat. On the loss side, Basdeo defeated the ever tough Daniel Dagotdot 8 – 4 , to reach the Finals. Due to the late hour and the player’s fatigue, both players agreed to split the event with Andrzej taking top honors.
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!!
Keystone TAP, LLC Â – Â Established, Entertaining and Expanding
Halifax, PA, April 24th, 2012 - TAP Players in the Heart of PA and Soul of MD know they got a good thing in their league. And the word is spreading throughout its borders.
Keystone TAP started in May 2007 operating in 6 Counties in PA. In 2009, the purchase of another PA TAP operation took place which included two additional territories and the players from Hagerstown, MD and Frederick, MD wanted to join in too. Creating a league extending over 13 counties in Pennsylvania and 2 in Maryland.
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.
 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. ???
