Category: Billiard Tours
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Rademakers Rakes in WPBA Qualifier
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Northwest Women’s Pool Association / Bellevue, WA by Suzanne Smith The weekend of August 15-16 was a great one for competition at the Northwest Women’s Pool Association’s fifth tour stop of the season, hosted by The Parlor in Bellevue, WA. Twenty-six women came out to fight for the title and…
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Cohen Shocks World as the New Predator World 14.1 Champion
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Cohen made history as France’s first World Pool Champion Parsippany, New Jersey- There’s a new sheriff in straight pool town, Stephan Cohen. In an event where names like Ortmann, Hohmann, Immonen dominated headlines all week, relatively unknown Stephan Cohen of France surprised everyone, including himself. Cohen’s win capped off the…
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Private: Dailey Takes the Day in Parsippany
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Tri-State Tour / Parsippany, NJ by InsidePOOL Staff The August 29 installment of the Tri-State Tour rolled into Comet Billiards in Parsippany, NJ, for their $500-added stop. Of the 34 participants, it was relative newcomer Duane Dailey who walked away with the $700 first-place prize. Dailey found himself in the…
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Showdown at Predator World 14.1 Championship
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Immonen and Ortmann Face Off Saturday It took the likes of a player such as Mika Immonen to take out former World 14.1 Champ Thorsten Hohmann. Immonen controlled the match till the end, despite a late rally from the German. Oliver Ortmann easily dispatched USA’s Earl Herring and Scotland’s Jonni…
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Startup in N. Sacramento plans electrical grid savings
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A Dallas-based startup has come to Sacramento with big plans to profit from the transition to a “smarter” electricity grid. Energy Parametrics & Communications Inc. this week announced it will open a data center and office in North Sacramento. Executives said Thursday they expect to hire as many as 70…
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Ortmann Incredible on Day 4 of World Straight Pool
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Williams Moves Up to #2 Seed at Predator World 14.1 Championship Day 4 of the 69th World 14.1 Championship saw the remaining players that made the top half cut race to 150. Oliver Ortmann continued his rampage with his 150 and out shutout of Earl Herring. Top seeds Thorsten Hohmann…
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Deuel and Williams Surprise Top Seeds at Predator World 14.1 Championship
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Ortmann Dominates for Number 1 Seed Oliver Ortmann’s dominance of Group 2 has been unparelled compared to the previous years of the Predator World 14.1 as he utterly blitzkreiged his opponents. Ortmann held all of his opponents to 10 points or less, with two matches where he ran perfect 100’s…
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Eckert Scores Perfect Match at World Straight Pool
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Germany’s Ralf Eckert ran a perfect 100 ball run in his race to 100 round robin match against USA’s Dan Louie. Even better was Pat Fleming had picked the match for Accu-Stats streaming, and it turned out to be a wise choice. Eckert’s fellow Germans also had another good day…
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Union rates state 11th on its Internet speed
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Despite California’s technological prowess, its Internet connection speeds lag, according to an annual report from the Communications Workers of America. California ranks 11th among states, with an average download speed of 6.6 megabits per second. That’s a substantial improvement over 2007, when the average download speed was 3.1 megabits per…