Inside POOL Magazine is pleased to announce that it will be the official live streaming video provider for the Super Billiards Expo. The Super Billiards Expo will be held March 18-21, 2010 at the Valley Forge Convention Center in King of Prussia, PA. The streaming video for the event will be available for free at InsidePOOLmag.com.

The Super Billiards Expo has become the largest consumer oriented show in the billiards industry. The hundreds of vending booths coupled with dozens of professional, amateur, and TAP League events and thousands of players, the event has defined the standard that all billiards events are measured.

The main event, the Players Championship, is a $500 entry fee 10-ball event that features $20,000 added and is limited to 64 players. The double elimination event is one of the events that will be featured on the live streaming video produced by Inside POOL Magazine.

Another popular event is the Artistic Pool Masters Championship event. This event features the greatest artistic players such as Tom “Dr. Cue” Rossman, Jason “The Michigan Kid” Lynch, Eirc Yow, Florian Kohler, Bruce “The Big Guy” Barthelette, and Andy “The Magic Man” Segal, vying for the title. This event will also be streamed live.

The free live stream will be produced by Inside POOL Magazine via Ustream at the Inside POOL Magazine streaming channel starting 11am EST, Thursday, March 18th, 2010 and running until Sunday, March 21st at 7 pm for the finals of the Players Championship.

Defending champion Schmidt will be looking to make a successful title defense at the Players Championship at the Super Billiards Expo in 2010.

Other events during the Super Billiards Expo include the TAP League Rally in the Valley, which features thousands of TAP league players competing throughout the course of the event. With a myriad of amateur events, thousands of amateurs will be competing in open, juniors, women, and senior events.

About the Super Billiards Expo
The Super Billiards Expo will be held March 18-21, 2010. The venue is the Valley Forge Convention Center in King of Prussia, PA. The Super Billiards Expo is considered one of the most exciting events in the billiard industry every year. Started back in 1993, Allen Hopkins’ vision for the ultimate billiard experience has been growing year after year. We are extremely proud to be one of the events that thousands of players and fans look forward to every year. Sponsors for the Super Billiards Expo include Viking Cues, Muellers Recreation Products, Simonis Cloth, Diamond Billiards Products and Accu-Rack. For more information, please visit the Super Billiards Expo web site.

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The 2nd Annual XTM Billiard Championships saw some of the biggest names compete for the title.

The 2nd Annual XTM Korea vs. Europe 3-Cushion Championship featured 3-Cushion super star Semih “The Magic Man” Sayginer captaining his European team of Italy’s Stefano Pelinga and Turkish Woman’s Champion Neslihan Gurel. The Korean Team was captained by Korea #1 Kyung Rul Kim with Shin Young “Godzilla” Park and The Black Widow Jeanette Lee. The first team to win five matches would be crowned the champions for this Dragon Promotions event airing on XTM in Korea.

The first match started with scotch doubles pairing Kim and Park against Sayginer and Pelinga. The Europeans started out with the lead at 2-0, but the Koreans came back quickly to tie at 2-2.  Park later made another point to take the lead but then Pelinga and Sayginer re-took the lead at 4-3. But that would be it for Europe as Korea commanded the next several points to win the match at 8-4.   But Sayginer came back in the very next match with Gurel in the mixed doubles and the two Turkish players created great chemistry against Park and Lee. With Semih’s expert coaching, Gurel made several crucial points to help defeat the Korean team 8-6. Score now sat at 1-1 for Korea and Europe.

Gurel and captain Sayginer discuss a shot.

The next match was the 3-on-3, with each player alternating shots. The Koreans were too strong in their order though Europe gave their best, they still succumbed 8-5 putting Korea back in charge 2-1. Next in the lineup was the singles which pitted Park against Sayginer. Last year’s King of Carom had Park against Sayginer in the finals but Park losing soundly to the Turk. This time would be no different as Sayginer made a 5 and then 8 point run to win quickly at 15-2 and tie the matches again at 2-2. The next match was highly anticipated with World Trickshot Champion Pelinga against fellow Women’s World Trickshot Champion Jeanette Lee. Pelinga on paper seemed the favorite, but Lee kept control of the match and won 12-9 to prevent Europe from taking the lead 3-2. Kim would face Gurel next and of course was heavily favored even with Sayginer coaching Gurel. Kim would win fast at 15-2 and put Korea on the hill at 4-2.

Sayginer looks on while the Lee shoots.

“If Pelinga would have beaten Jeanette, and then even with Gurel still taking the loss and Europe taking the 3-on 3 loss, the match would be closer at 4-3. But then the Captains match was next and then if Semih beat Kim, it would be hill hill at 4-4 and then they would play the finale 3-on-3 match. The score is deceiving because it could have easily gone that way .” said General Manager of Dragon Promotions Myung Jin Kim.

Another 3-on-3 was scheduled and this would eventually be the finale. Thought Europe put up a good fight, the more experienced Korean team were too good on this day and would win 8-4 to win the Korea vs. Europe event again for the second year in a row.

Korea vs Europe 3-Cushion Challenge was sponsored by XTM, Sopooong Department Store, Tony Moly Cosmetics, and Ra Beauty Salons. Official equipment sponsors are Simonis Cloth http://www.iwansimonis.com/, Vigma Balls www.vigma.com , Hollywood Tables, Poison Cues www.poisonbilliards.co.kr , and Predator Cues www.predatorcues.co.kr

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