Category: Assorted Tours

Asia-Pacific Pool Tour Announced Raya Sports of the Philippines has announced the 2008 Asia-Pacific Pool Tour. This WPA-sanctioned series will be exclusively played as 10-ball events and will begin with the Philippine 10-Ball Open, to be held at the Araneta Coliseum in Manila January 21-27, 2008. The season will lead…

Tan and Joven Champs at KIA Motors Korea International Championships Billiard Players from Japan, Philippines, USA, Hong Kong, Guam, and Korea joined the 4th Annual KIA Motors Korea International Championships. This event was originally the first ever international pocket billiards event in Korea which has lead to the pool boom…

Sayginer and Cha Shoot Down Massey and Sakai The KIA Motors Showdown, presented by Dragon Promotions, took place in Seoul, Korea to once and for all settle who ruled trickshots and all around play. Undisputed artistic carom champion Semih Sayginer would take on the winningest pool trickshot champion in history,…

Kressel Crowned King in Virginia 2007 Virginia State 9-Ball Championships / Richmond, VA Rarely do four-year-old tournaments have much tradition, but the Virginia State 9-Ball Championships, presented by 5 Hour Energy Drink, already has more than its share. From the handmade trophies of local walnut off the family property of…

Sayginer Leads Carom Team in KIA Masters of the Trickshot Billiard News – For the first time ever in billiards history, Pocket Billiards took on Carom Billiards in a team trickshot event. The Pocket Ball Team was captained by USA’s famed Mike Massey while the Carom Team was captained by…

Blomdahl is King of Pool and Billiards in Korea Billiard News – Torbjorn Blomdahl of Sweden, the current #1 ranked 3-Cushion player in the world, defeated Korea’s number one Young Hwa Jeong in a contest of carom and pocket billiards. The two champions played a set of 3-Cushion, 9-Ball, and…

Tosado Takes It All Tri-State Tour / Parsippany, NJ by Rick Davis The Tri-State Tour held its annual invitational event over the July 8-9 weekend at Comet Billiards in Parsippany, NJ, where the top players in each class faced off while the players for the year were recognized. After nearly…

Corr Takes Command New Jersey State Championships / South Amboy, NJ by Rick Davis Karen Corr was crowned champ of New Jersey after dominating the field at the championship event held July 14-15 at Prime Time Billiards in South Amboy, NJ. The event offered up plenty of top tier players…

Murgia Comes Back to Claim Tri-State Season Opener Tri-State Tour / Edison, NJ by Rick Davis Billiard News – The 2007–2008 season of the Tri-State Tour kicked off July 14 at Edison Billiards in Edison, NJ, where a 32-player field turned out for the double-elimination, B/D handicapped, 9-ball event. Topping…

Ortmann Fulfills Lifetime Goal at Predator World 14.1 Championships East Brunswick,NJ – Oliver Ortmann has done almost everything you can do in the game of pocket billiards with European titles galore, US Open Straight Pool titles, and even a World 9-Ball crown. Almost. And today he has fulfilled a full…