Reyes, Bustamante, Orcullo Join Association of Billiard Professionals Oscar Dominguez – ABP Board Secretary & Treasurer Manila, Philippines – The top three billiard managers in the Philippines have joined forces with the Association of Billiard Professionals (APB). The companies include Puyat Sports owned by Aristeo Puyat, Negros Stables owned by Jonathan Sy, and Bugsy...
Beijing Open Has Crowned New Champions Jun Lin Chang and Yu Ram Cha are the 2011 Champions of the Beijing Open. Chang, a former winner on the Guinness Tour, proved his mettle this week by taking on a series of tough opponents and vanquishing them all. He first eliminated Carlo Dalmatin of Croatia who...
16 Players Remain in World 8-Ball Some days you have good days and some days you have bad days. On Thursday Raj Hundal of India had both at the World Pool Billiards Association (WPA) World 8-Ball Championship. He began great, destroying Konstantin Stepanov of Russia 9-0 in a perfect match where he broke...
Qualification Rounds Over at World 8-Ball Some big names have left for the exits in Fujairah. World 9-Ball Champion Francisco Bustamante was ahead of Daryl Peach 6-4 in the race to seven games and lost that match 7-6. He then had to defeat David Alcaide of Spain to stay alive but failed as Alcaide...
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...
Second Title in Four Years for Li and Fu China 10-5 Philippines CHINA, represented by Fu Jianbo and Li Hewen, won their second PartyPoker.net World Cup of Pool crown as they dismantled the Philippines by a 10-5 scoreline and silenced a huge home crowd at the Robinsons Place Mall in Manila. It was the...
China Edge Germany as Pinoys KO Taiwan in Thriller China 9-7 Germany Philippines B 9-8 Taiwan The 2010 PartyPoker.net World Cup of Pool final will be contested by China and Philippines B after a couple of epic semi-finals at the Robinson Place Mall in Manila. Earlier China (Fu Jianbo and Li Hewen) had beaten...
Taiwan Looming in Sunday Semi Showdown Taiwan 9-5 Poland Philippines B 9-1 Finland Two of the heavyweights of world pool will contest the second semi-final of the PartyPoker.net World Cup of Pool as Taiwan and the Philippines both recorded last eight wins at Robinsons Place Mall, Manila on Saturday evening. Taiwan, represented by Chang...
Dennis Orcollo and Roberto Gomez have made their way through to the second round of the PartyPoker.net World Cup of Pool as they laboured to overcome Croatia in front of another huge crowd at Robinsons Place in Manila. The score was 8-4 but the Croatian pair of Phil Stojanovic and Karlo Dalmatin will rue...
Francisco Bustamante hopes he and Efren Reyes can claim the World Cup of Pool title for a third time. The PartyPoker.net World Cup of Pool begins on Tuesday at Robinson’s Place in Ermita, Manila, Philippines, with Bustamante and Reyes aiming to win the competition in front of their home fans for the second year...