Final 18 Players Return to Frisco Billiards Event Ultimate 10-Ball Championships / Frisco, TX by InsidePOOL Staff Easter Sunday will see the return of the top 18 players at the Ultimate 10-Ball Championships, held this week at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Frisco, TX. The $50,000-added tournament had both a women’s and a men’s...
Hawkins Hammers Out GSBT Win Great Southern Billiard Tour / Cornelius, NC by Lea Andrews Ohio resident Lucas Hawkins was well rewarded for his troubles after he made the lengthy trip to Cornelius, NC, for the Great Southern Billiard Tour’s July 31-August 1 stop. The GSBT first-timer, who’s rebounding from a one-year hiatus from...
Four Men Standing at U.S. Open U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships / Chesapeake, VA by Lea Andrews It’s official: Either Donnie Mills or 2002 U.S. Open Champion Ralf Souquet—or both—will be racing to 13 in the finals of the 34th Annual U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships Saturday. The two men, who were part of the original field of...
Williams Lucasi Hybrid Classic Billiard Event Player and promoter Charlie Williams has won the Lucasi Hybrid Classic hosted by Bankshot Billiards in Jacksonville, FL. It’s been pretty rare lately for Shane Van Boening to be playing in the semi-finals and to not win the event. The “South Dakota Kid” was handed two close losses on...
I was wondering how to improve hitting the cue ball when it’s frozen to the rail. How do you adjust your stance and bridging? The first thing you have to realize is that you can only make contact with the very top of the cue ball, which means you can do very little as...
Hi pool fans, thanks for all the e-mails. I am going to answer some more questions sent to me through my website www.allisonfisher.com (http://www.allisonfisher.com/). What weight of a cue do you shoot with? I use an 18 ounce Cuetec cue. When I played snooker, I played with a 19 ounce cue, which was the...
Fisher Wins First Title for the Year by Inside POOL Staff With a 7-4 slam dunk over Ga-Young Kim, Allison Fisher won her first WPBA title for 2007 July 1. Hosted by the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, FL, the Cuetec Cues Florida Classic was the fifth event of an odd season that...
King and Queen of Carom Dominated by USA Korea The American ladies surprised the Korean carom billiard fans by dominating the opening day or the Queen of Carom. Korean-Amercian Jeanette Lee crusied through Guam’s Shanelle Loraine 7-1 her opening match, avenging her loss to Loraine the day before in the World Pool Cup womens...
San Miguel Asian 9-Ball Tour a Hit in Jakarta Reyes Escapes Upset; Valle, Wu Advance to Quarterfinals Number-one seed Efren “Bata” Reyes proved that he wasn’t just a magician—he also showed that he was an escape artist as well after surviving two close calls during the historic first day of the San Miguel Asian...