Seaver Slays Lucasi Billiards Field Lucasi Hybrid Cues All-American Tour by Mimi McAndrews What started out to be a miserable day had a happy ending as Jeannie Seaver won the Flamingo Billiards Tour 3rd Annual “Cues for the Cure” event, which was combined with the Lucasi Hybrid Cues All-American Tour’s October 8 tournament, hosted...
Barretta Makes Predator Billiards Tour History Predator Pro-Am Tour / Levittown, NY by Jerry Tarantola and Alison Fischer, NYCgrind.com The Predator Pro-Am Tour’s twelfth stop of the season rolled through Cue Nine in Levittown, NY, October 1-2. The event drew top amateurs and pros for their respective events, and while there was stand-out play...
Turning Stone Classic Returns Turning Stone Classic XVI / Verona, NY by InsidePOOL Staff The Turning Stone Classic XVI, produced by the Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour, kicked off December 16 with a full field of 128 players vying for their share of the hefty $25,000-added prize fund. The event is hosted by the Turning...
G-Force Last Female Standing at U.S. Open Billiards Event U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships / Chesapeake, VA by InsidePOOL Staff The elimination rounds continue at the 35th U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships in Chesapeake, VA, and fewer players are left to vie for the title and the $40,000 first-place prize. Gerda Hofstatter is the only female...
Ladies Suffer Heavy Losses at U.S. Open U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships / Chesapeake, VA by InsidePOOL Staff Of the 16 women who participated in the U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships for the first time, 13 have been eliminated. Ten went two and out: Angie Hawkins, Tracy Prescott, Loree Jon Hasson, Jackie Duggan, Borana Andonia, Morgan...
Archer Makes Incredible Comeback at U.S. Open 9-Ball U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships / Chesapeake, VA by InsidePOOL Staff Down 6-1 in the race to 11, it looked fairly bleak for Johnny Archer in his second-round winners’ side match against Dennis Orcollo. But somehow “The Scorpion” dug deep and turned the tables on his opponent,...
Turning Stone Classic XV / Verona, NY by InsidePOOL Staff The Turning Stone Classic XV has played down to the final 16 undefeated billiards players in the winners’ bracket at the end of Friday’s matches, with numerous matches left to go on the one-loss side. The four-day event is hosted by the Turning Stone...
Mezz Pro-Am Tour / West Hempstead, NY by Jerry Tarantola, NYCgrind.com A field of 31 top New York-area players came out to Raxx Billiards in West Hempstead, NY, to compete for top honors at the August 8 Mezz Pro-Am Tour. Some notable players in attendance included George “Ginky” SanSouci, Shaun Wilkie, Matt Krah,...
Rousseau Resigns from WPBA The Women’s Professional Billiard Association has announced that President John Rousseau has resigned. Below is the statement released by the WPBA. It is to our disappointment that we have to announce the resignation of John Rousseau, as President of the Women’s Professional Billiard Association. The Board of Directors speaks sincerely...
Immonen Digs Deep to Snap off Mezz Title Mezz Pro-Am Tour / Brooklyn, NY by Jerry Tarantola, Nycgrind.com Mika “Iceman” Immonen came back from a huge deficit in the finals of the Mezz Pro-Am Tour’s April 18 stop to take first place over Gregg McAndrews, winning $975. The tour’s seventh event of the season was hosted by...