Petrillo Brings Home Holiday Billiards Win Tri-State Tour / East Rutherford, NJ by Skip Maloney Dennis Petrillo shouldered a defeat in the hot seat match and came back to win the Tri-State Tour stop December 27. Petrillo and hot seat/finalist opponent Ron Mason were among 27 entrants who signed on for the $500-added, B-D...
Pagulayan Makes Another Comeback by Samm Diep Same story, different game. An overjoyed Alex “The Lion” Pagulayan, self-admitted “slow starter,” comes back again. This time the format was a three-day, winner-takes-all, race-to-100 showdown in the TheActionReport.com (TAR) pit. After more than 23 hours of billiards, Pagulayan proved his late-blooming style is exactly what it...
Chau Captures Breaker’s Spooktacular 9-Ball Manuel “Javier” Chau captured the Breaker’s Spooktacular 9-Ball Tournament title by defeating Ryan McCreesh. The tournament was held at Breaker’s Billiards in Pittsburgh, PA on October 27-28. A strong field of 32 billiard players started Saturday’s action. By evening, only 8 players were left. Notable players like Howard Vickery,...
USA Billiards Team Clinches Victory The USA billiard team secured a dramatic 8-7 victory in the best match of the tournament so far in the 2007 PartyPoker.net World Cup of Pool. The second seeded Americans side of Rodney Morris and Corey Deuel looked to be heading out of the competition as they trailed 5-2...
World Champion Pagulayan in Kelowna Alex Pagulayan, the Nine Ball World Champion in 2004, has announced his entry into the Stan James Canadian National Nine Ball Tour this weekend. He joins current Canadian National Champion (and Kelowna resident) Brady Gollan in what is being called the strongest field of players to assemble in Western...
The Lion Conquers WaterlooCanadian 30K Tour / Waterloo, ONT by Willy Hermoza and E. Butera Bitter cold saw in the weekend of February 3-4, bringing 54 billiard players to Pool Paradise in Waterloo for the month’s first Canadian 30K Tour billiards stop. Given the strong field, it was no surprise that it took a...
Top Field Narrowed to 4 at International Challenge of Champions By InsidePOOL Staff With eight of the world’s top players present to vie for the $50,000 first place prize at the International Challenge of Champions, which kicked off today, August 11, 2004, only four remain for Thursday’s matches. Presented by Billiards International, Ltd., the...