Dagotdot and Chan Split Tri-State Billiards Title Tri-State Tour / Brooklyn, NY by InsidePOOL Staff Daniel Dagotdot scored his second title of the Tri-State Tour’s 2011-2012 season with his September 24 split with Alan Chan in the finals. He went undefeated through the 49-player field that gathered at Gotham City Billiards in Brooklyn, NY,...
Ray Martin and Jerome Keogh Inducted into the Straight Pool Hall of Fame Billiards Stars Named as New Inductees to Hall of Fame New Brunswick, New Jersey – Three time World 14.1 Champion Ray “Cool Cat” Martin and 14.1 Continuous inventor Jerome Keogh will be the very first inductees into the 1st Annual Straight...
Saunders and Kennedy Come Out on Top of KF Cue Tour KF Cue Tour / Spring Hill, FL by Lea Andrews Though they chose different routes to get there, George Saunders and Tommy Kennedy both ended up in the same place the weekend of January 9-10: the KF Cue Tour winner’s circle at Capone’s Billiards in Spring...
Pan Advances to Finals WPBA Tour Championship / Hollywood, FL by Anne Craig Kelly Fisher, the 2008 Player of the Year, and Xiaoting Pan, the number-two-ranked player on the WPBA Tour for 2009, were both looking for their first win of this season. With the cameras rolling and the crowd rooting on their favorite player, the second...
Tri-State Tour / Parsippany, NJ by Lea Andrews After a grueling day of play, a 31-player field was whittled down to two men who agreed to skip the final set. Mike Aro and Joe Fego split first- and second-place money at the $500-added B-D Tri-State Tour event June 13, hosted by Comet Billiards in...
Taylor is Overall Champion of Dr. Cue Classic Artistic Cup II Dr. Cue Classic Artistic Cup II / East Windsor, CT by Skip Maloney Dan Taylor not only won the overall championship of the Dr. Cue Classic Artistic Cup II, but in so doing, tallied a record 208 total points out of a possible...
International Pool Tour Announces IPT Pro-Am Tournament The International Pool Tour (IPT) has anounced the IPT Pro-Am Tournament. Sixteen of the best players in the world will compete with an open field of players in a new and unique format November 8-9, 2008. The Pro-Am Tournament is open to any competitor who places...
Van Boening Double Trouble for Archer Reno Open / Reno, NV by Rick Davis Shane Van Boening is the new Reno Open champion after coming out on top of the final four in the final day of play. After taking a loss to Johnny Archer earlier in the event Van Boening found himself in...
In the last column, which I called “Shark Attack 101,” we looked at the insidiousness of intentional sharking. We saw that sharking is a matter of degree and that anyone can be sharked under the right conditions. I left you to ponder several questions in the search for viable strategies to handle such occasions:...