Derby City Classic One-Pocket Field Thinning Mike Fieldhammer, InsidePOOL Staff Round seven of the one-pocket division began Wednesday evening with 35 billiards players and fans are stacked in the aisles to get a glimpse of some of the great matches. Larry “The Truth” Nevel bested Shane Van Boening 3-1, but it didn’t dampen Van...
Louisville Billiards Action Heats Up By Mike Fieldhammer, InsidePOOL Staff The weather and action are heating up in Louisville. Rainy weather greeted players arriving on day two of the Tenth Annual Derby City Classic. Round three of the 9-ball banks tournament is nearly complete. Last night’s bank pool ring game winner, Brian Gregg, suffered...
Derby City Classic Event Schedule Visit the Derby City Classic image gallery Visit the billiards video podcasts area Thursday, January 3rd • Late sign-ups (if fields are not full) 4 pm-10 pm • Practice time for 9-Ball Bank players 5 pm-12 am • Tables available for rental 12 am-7 am Friday, January 4th •...
Peach Reaches Finals of 2007 Philippines World Pool Championship English pool player Daryl Peach has dreamed the impossible dream and is through to Sunday afternoon’s race-to-17 final of the 2007 Philippines World Pool Championship. He followed up his epic 11-10 win over Francisco Bustamante in the quarter-finals with a cool, controlled performance to beat...
Bustamante Wins All-Filipino Billiards Battle In a flawless performance on the main TV table, Francisco Bustamante won the billiard battle of the Filipino giants as he crushed Alex Pagulayan 11-2 to book a spot in the quarter-finals of the 2007 Philippines World Pool Championship. Playing in front of a standing room only crowd at...
Reyes Eliminated at 2007 Philippines World Pool Championship Efren Reyes is out of the 2007 Philippines World Pool Championship. The 53-year-old Filipino legend went down on TV Table 2 at the Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City, Manila, at the hands of European No.1 Konstantin Stepanov of Russia. For Reyes, the winner of this event in...
Souquet Survives Round Billiard players Ralf Souquet, who won the hearts of the Philippine nation this time last year with his graciousness in defeat in the 2006 final, made his way into the last 32 with a 10-8 win over Naoyuki Oi of Japan. The German though was not happy with his performance –...
Strickland Salvages World Pool Championship Hopes Earl Strickland put on a dazzling display of pocket billiards as he won nine racks back-to-back to salvage his 2007 World Pool Championship hopes at the expense of China’s Li He-wen. Strickland had earlier rolled over against Malaysia’s Alan Tan, 9-2, in his opening game but followed that...
Alcano Fires Warning and Reyes Survives Scare With four of the 16 groups completing their matches in the opening rounds of the 2007 Philippines World Pool Championship, defending champion Ronnie Alcano fired out a warning shot to his title rivals. Alcano, who took this title a year ago in the same city, only conceded...
Wu on Collision Course for Second World Pool TitleWorld Pool Championship Brackets (/images/upload/world-pool-championship-bracket.pdf)Discuss the 2006 Philippines World Pool Championship (/forums/index.php)The unheralded Holtz had been one of the surprise packages of the tournament but was not at his best as he faced Wu on the main TV table.