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EDITOR ’S DESK 

All the World’s 

A Pool Stage! 

As the world celebrates the onset 

of a new decade (without all 

the pending numerical strife 

of Y2K), the pool world celebrates what 

has become a truly international sport. 

No more the domain of the American pool 

player, pocket billiards stamped its global 

footprint throughout Europe and Asia. In 

just the past month, as you’ll see in this issue, 

world-class events have included the Women’s 

Nationals (held on U.S. soil but won by Austrian 

Jasmin Ouschan); the World Mixed Doubles 

and World 10-Ball Championships in Manila 

(won by a 

Philippine 

team and 

Finland’s 

Mika 

Immonen); 

the women’s 

World 9-Ball 

Championships 

in China, won 

by China’s own 

Shasha Liu, and 

the Mosconi 

Cup, returning to U.S. soil, 

and, for the first time since 

2005, won again by America. 

What does this mean for 

pool as we know it? Well 

for starters, it means when we talk about 

the best players in the world, we mean it. And 

when we offer up instruction from the world’s 

best players and teachers, we really mean it. 

It also means continued growth of a sport 

we all love, right down to the amateur ranks. 

Way back when we undertook this project 

called Pool & Billiard Magazine, there were 

just a handful of world class players, and less 

television coverage. Today, thousands (yes, 

thousands!) of television hours are broadcast 

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P&B January 2010 

by Shari J. Stauch 

worldwide, in Asia, Europe and the good 

ol’ U.S. of A., offering aspiring players 

opportunities they never had before to watch 

and learn from the best players on the planet. 

Finally, it means that, for the first time in the 

recent history of our sport, the talents of these 

top players must be continually challenged. 

9-Ball, hailed as the only game the pros were 

playing, has moved over to make room for 

a wealth of new competitive pocket billiard 

games, from trick shots and artistic pool, to 

10-Ball, to team competitions. This month 

pros from around the world will gather in the 

Midwest for the Derby City Classic, pitting 

players against each other in divisions that 

include 9-Ball, One Pocket and even Banks! 

Once again, that means more for you as a 

spectator and aspiring player, especially if you’re 

spending time online checking out the live 

video-streaming 

from these 

exciting events! 

This 

month we 

also celebrate 

another report 

on our annual 

Player & Fan 

Poll, and we’re 

excited to share 

the results with 

you. We also 

commend you on your great suggestions for 

future issues, and look forward to bringing the 

news to you in this, our 27th year at P&B! 

Put on your seatbelts, players and fans – 2010 

promises to be an ever more wild ride around 

the globe. We can’t wait – how about you?! 

From the entire staff at P&B, our 

fondest wishes for a healthy, happy 

and prosperous New Year! 

EXECUTIVE STAFF 

PUBLISHER: 

Harold L. Simonsen 

EXECUTIVE EDITOR 

Shari J. Stauch 

MANAGING EDITOR 

Thomas C. Shaw 

CIRCULATION DIRECTOR 

Carol Simonsen 

COLUMNISTS 

Phil Capelle 

Dominic Esposito 

Randi Givens 

Loree Jon Jones 

Gerry Kanov 

Ewa Mataya Laurance 

Nick Nikolaidis 

John Schmidt 

Charlie Williams 

CONTRIBUTORS 

Anne Craig 

Doug Ennis 

Ashi Fachler 

Jerry Forsyth 

Tina Hardt 

Diana Hoppe 

Karin Kaltofen 

Sally Lee 

Jojo Lirio, Jr. 

Lawrence Lustig 

Luke Riches 

Tom Rossman 

Dale Shank 

Victor Stein 

Dave Thomson 

Charles Ursitti 

January 2010 

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POOLTOWN 

The SkiTAM/APP Rack 

‘Em Poker and Pool 

tournament, held 

at Denver’s Wynkoop Brewery 

enticed 114 people out of their 

homes and hotels during a 

freak snow storm to play in a 

tournament with professional 

pool player, Melissa “The Viper” 

Little, all for a good cause. 

The event raised $5,860, all of 

8 

Poker & Pool Raise Cash 

Trick Shot Talent Winner! 

O 

ne of the most unique 

events ever to take 

place in the billiard 

industry occurred November 21, 

2009 at The Bank Shot Bar & Grill in 

Laurel, MD. In Search of Cue-Dean- 

“E”TM was done in association with 

the Dr. Cue Classic Artistic Cup III, 

APPA (Artistic Pool Playing Artists), 

and The Foundation of R.A.C.K. 

This was the first time an “artistic 

pool” event has been streamed 

– Cue & A Promotions Ray 

Hansen, aka, “Big Truck” traveled 

from Texas to film each act of 

this entertainment concept, as 

well as each Artistic Pool “sport” 

round from the Dr. Cue Classic 

Artistic Cup III. (View all performer 


which went directly to the APP 

fund for the USA Ski Team’s 

athlete’s training, travel and 

other needs as they gear up 

for the 2010 Paralympics. 

USAST athletes Alana Nichols 

and Gerald Hayden, USAST alumni 

Marc Romero, and 2010 National 

Ski Hall of Fame inductee Jack 

Benedick were also among the 

attendees and the competitors. 

Melissa Little (l) with USA Ski Team’s Alana Nichols (r). 

acts and Cup III event at: www. 

ustream.tv/channel/drcue2009) 

After five months of online 

and mail-in auditions from 

around the world the final 

eight performers took stage 

to showcase their talents. 

Three primary judges (Paul 

Danno, Susan Shinn, and Steve 

Lillis) and three audience response 

judges (Maggie Mullins, Dainius 

Stipinas, and Gina Sharetts) 

reviewed each audition and 

awarded points on a 7-10 scale. 

In the end the winner was Jason 

“The Michigan Kid” Lynch (MI) 

offering Unique Table Presentation 

with a “Twist of Humor”. 

Champions received over $15,000 

P&B’s Nick Nikolaidis Wins! 

Nick Nikolaidis raced 

to the “artistic” victory 

circle on November 

22, 2009 at The Bank Shot Bar & 

Grill in Laurel, MD. Nick displayed 

burning focus, poise, and brilliant 

skill shot execution 

in the process, 

pocketing $3,000 for 

his win. Ray Hansen 

of Cue and A 

Promotions did a live 

stream at the event, 

along with the talent 

search event (see story below). 

A determined group of 27 Artistic 

Pool Playing Artists came from 

every corner of the US, Canada, 

and France to participate in the 

“sport and show” arena of the 

Dr. Cue Classic “Artistic” Cup III. 

Pros and amateurs played side by 

side in special 3 person – player 

groupings with 7-foot tables and 

high percentage make rate shots 

creating an equalizer effect for 

all competitors. Over $15,000 in 

in prize fund value, including a 

McDermott Table Trotter Cue and 

Custom Case from Frank’s Center 

for 1st and a McDermott Table 

Trotter Cue for 2nd. Beautiful Cue- 

Dean-“E”TM plaque, APPA decal, 

guaranteed payout values and 

a rather large player / audience 

prize fund produced player and 

fan friendly opportunities in a 

reunion style billiard atmosphere. 

The APPA (Artistic Pool Playing 

Artists) crusader 

force showcased 

a “class” act of 

billiard skills 

from each of 

the 8 magnetic 

disciplines of 

“artistic pool” 

– 1) Trick / Fancy Shots, 2) Prop, 

Novelty, and Special Arts, 3) Draw 

Shots, 4) Follow Shots, 5) Bank 

/ Kick Shots, 6) Stroke Shots, 7) 

Jump Shots, and 8) Masse Shots. 

When the challenge of 40 “classic” 

preliminary shots and playoff 

shootout matches were over, 

there would be an Overall event 

champion, 8 Discipline champions, 

and 2 Sportsmanship recipients. 

Visit: www.artisticpool.org 

for complete event results! 

and award certificate for each 

position of finish were awarded. 

A special thanks to all players, 

fans, & stream/event sponsors 

for the Cup III event and the Cue- 

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POOLTOWN 

Viking and Olhausen Team Up for New Tour 

Viking Cue Mfg. Inc., 

Olhausen Billiards 

Mfg. Inc and The 

Viking Cue 9-Ball Tour have 

entered into an agreement to add 

a new tour/format to the existing 

Viking Cue 9-Ball Tour. The new 

Tour is dubbed the “Viking Cue - 

Olhausen Billiards Classic Tour” 

and will feature six $5,000 added 

Pro-Am tournaments in 2010. 

All locations hosting these six 

new events will receive a Brand 

New Olhausen Champion-Pro 

9’ table with delivery and setup 

to the host location + over 

$8,000 in products and discounts 

from Viking Cues and the Viking 

What a week it’s 

going to be in 

the Midwest 

as the world’s best players (and 

plenty of aspiring champs) head 

to the Horseshoe Casino and 

Hotel in Southern Indiana for 

this year’s Derby City Classic. 

Here’s a look at the exciting 

schedule for players and fans! 

Friday, January 22 

• 9-BALL BANK DRAW 10:00 am 

• Players meeting 12:00 pm 

• Play begins (9-Ball 

Bank) 1:00 pm 

continues 5 pm-12 am 

Saturday, January 23 

• 9-Ball Bank match play 

resumes 10 am-5 pm 



Sunday, January 24 

• ONE-POCKET DRAW 10:00 am 

• Players Meeting (One 

Pocket) 12:00 pm 



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Tour co-sponsors. This is a $15,500 

value to billiard room owners. 

Room owners interested in 

hosting one of the New “Viking 

Cue - Olhausen Billiard’s Classic 

Tour” Events should contact 

Mike Janis at 1-800-200-POOL 

or email vikingtour2@yahoo. 

com. Act FAST, there are only 

six of these events available. 

Larry Olhausen, Sales Director 

Olhausen Billiards Mfg., Inc., stated 

“Olhausen Billiards is very excited 

to be associated with Viking Cues 

and to help promote the upcoming 

2010 Viking 9-Ball Tour.” 

Barry Hart, President of Viking Cue 

Mfg., Inc., stated, “Viking Cue has 

Kicking Off 2010: 12th Annual Derby City Classic! 

• Play begins (One Pocket) 1:00 pm 

• One-Pocket match play 


Monday, January 25 



• Semi-Finals (9-Ball 

Bank) 7:00 pm 



always supported tournaments 

and players throughout the 

country with sponsorships 

and is proud to be associated 

with Olhausen Billiards and 

the Viking 9-Ball Tour. Viking 

believes industry sponsorships 

and investing in the promotion of 

our sport through tournaments 

is good for the future of pool.” 

Mike Janis, the founder of the 

• Finals (9-Ball 

Bank) 9:00 pm 

Tuesday, 

January 26 

• One-Pocket 

match play 

resumes 11 

am-5 pm 

• One Pocket 

Hall of Fame 

Dinner 6 pm 


play continues 

7 pm-12 am 


Challenge 

• One-Handed 

One- Pocket Mini 12 am 

Wednesday, January 27 

• 9-BALL DRAW 10:00 am 

• Players meeting 12:00 pm 



• Play begins (9-Ball) 1:00 pm 

• 9-Ball match play 


• One-Pocket Challenge 

Viking Cue 9-Ball Tour, added, 

“Having Viking Cues and Olhausen 

Billiards combined as the title 

sponsors for these new tour 

events will be a blessing to our 

sport. Together we will be able 

to continue to provide excellent 

events for the players and help 

billiard room owners with the 

costs of hosting tour events.” 

Visit www.viking9balltour.com 

Thursday, January 28 



• SemiFinals (One Pocket) 7:00 pm 



• Finals (One-Pocket) 9:00 pm 

• One-Pocket Challenge 

Friday, January 29 





Saturday, January 30 



• Semi-Finals (9-Ball) 7:00 pm 

• Finals (9-Ball) 9:00 pm 

• Awards Ceremony 10:00 pm 

(9-Ball Bank, One-Pocket, 9-Ball 

All Around Champions) 10:30 pm 

As always, buy-backs will 

abound, and tournament tables 

will be available for rental (plenty 

of matchups to be had!) each night 

from midnight to 7 a.m. For more 

info visit www.derbycityclassic.com 

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Three for 

Three! 

by Nick Nikolaidis 

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If you have a shot you’d like me to try or have 

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Resolve 

by Shari J. Stauch 

Shari Stauch is the Executive Editor of Pool & 

Billiard Magazine, co-author of Precision Pool and 

The Pool Player’s Edge, and a 20 year veteran of the 

Women’s Pro Billiard Tour. She was inducted into the 

WPBA Hall of Fame in 2007. 

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T 

he most 

common 

number of 

balls used to make 

an interesting trick 

shot is 3. Yes, we’ve 

seen the occasional 

4, 5 & 6 balls but the 

most regular number 

of balls used is a 

three ball cluster. 

In this month’s 

issue, I’ll execute 

three different 

shots with basically 

the same cluster configuration. 

THe SeT UP 

Start by freezing the 1 ball to the rail on the first 

diamond. Freeze the 2 ball to it and angle it to the 

second diamond of the opposite rail (15 degrees to be 

precise). Freeze the 3 ball to the 2 as diagrammed 

with an angle of 10 degrees. Repeat this exact setup 

for the other two clusters, only the starting ball 

will be on a different diamond (as diagrammed): 

4 ball on the center diamond (end rail); 7 ball on 

the second diamond from the pocket (long rail). 

Ahhh, New Year’s resolutions; we all 

make ‘em, we all break ‘em. Let’s 

make this year’s pool goals different! 

By setting a reasonable goal for your game, and 

measuring your achievement, you can actually 

experience results instead of frustration. 

This process of achieving pieces of your goal and 

recognizing your achievement will give you the 

confidence and a belief in your game that you’ll 

need to be able to springboard to the next level. 

As you set your pool goals for 2010: 

1. Make your goal specific: Instead of, “I want 

to improve my game,” think in terms of game 

elements, running a rack or learning a new skill. 

2. Make your goal measurable: Keep a notebook 

or chart of elements you’re working to improve. 

3. Make your goal action-oriented: If you’re 

working to improve your competitive game, 

include joining a league or competing in 

a local or regional tour as your “big goal” 

with action steps to get you there. 

4. Time your goal: Deadlines, even tiny ones, 

help the procrastinator in all of us. It may not 

Nick’s Quick Tricks 

THe eXeCUTIoN: 

Position the cue ball at 45 degrees and strike 

it at 8 o’clock. The only difference in these 

three identical setups will be the speed. 

1st setup: 50% (easy) 2nd setup: 60% (intermediate) 

3rd setup: 70% (difficult) 

Make sure to hit the rail about 1/16 of an inch before 

the ball. This will allow for the compression into 

the rail and make the 1st ball in the corner. The 

cue ball will then come off the rail into the second 

ball creating a billiard/combination splitting the 

other two balls into their respective pockets. 

Head Games 

be practical to say you’ll play four hours every 

Thursday, but accomplishing four hours a 

week lets you achieve a workable schedule. 

5. Make your goal realistic: We’d all like to be 

Johnny Archers, but if you haven’t developed 

your game (or your schedule!) to allow you to play 

full time, then set a goal that works for YOU. 

6. Write it down: Writing down our goals and 

resolutions makes us accountable to them. 

Once you write them down, share them with 

friends, family or fellow players. Encouragement 

from the support people in our lives makes 

sticking to resolutions easier and even fun. 

Now that you’ve got the basics down, we want 

to hear about your 2010 pool resolutions! Drop 

me a line at shari@poolmag.com and share 

your pool goals for this year. Not online? Mail 

your resolutions to Pool & Billiard Magazine, 

115 S. Main St., Summerville, SC 29483. 

Next month, alongside our annual Player 

of the Year issue, we’ll feature several 2010 

resolutions that make the cut and can 

help others set their own pool goals. 

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34 Precision Pool 

Measuring With Your Ferrule 

Once accustomed to using the fraction 

theory of aiming, you can add another technique—namely, 

adding the variable of your 

own cue stick to make it easier to see your 

aiming point on the shot. Here, after you 

find the fraction on the object ball, you line 

up the inside of your ferrule to your aiming 

point on the object ball. For example, see 

figure 2.8 for a shot with a half-ball hit to the 

right. First you find the half-ball hit on the left 

side of the object ball that will send it to the 

right. Then, as you look down the shaft and 

ferrule of the cue stick as it contacts the cue 

ball, you aim the right side, or inside (going 

into the hit on the object ball), of the ferrule 

to the half-ball hit, cutting the ball to your 

right. If you’re attempting a half-ball hit to 

your left, you find the halfway distance and 

line up the left side of your ferrule to that 

point on the object ball. 

This method works well on longer shots, 

can work wonders on thin cuts, and can also 

help your aim when using english. As we’ve 

shown in figure 2.8, even with left english 

on the cue ball you’ll keep the inside of the 

ferrule to the half-ball aiming point on the 

object ball. 

Advanced Tips and Tricks 

1/2 ball 

aim 

Left 

spin 

The aiming techniques so far described 

should help set you on your way to more 

consistent shot making. As we’ve mentioned, 

over time you won’t consciously 

employ a particular aiming method but will 

come to rely on muscle memory. That said, 

even the pros resort to little tricks to keep 

them focused on their contact point, especially in situations in which a tough shot 

demands total focus on making the shot, regardless of resulting position. In pool 

lingo this is called cinching the ball. 

Most of these techniques involve extended visualization. For example, you don’t 

just just just visualize visualize visualize the the the contact contact contact point point point on on on the the the object object object ball, ball, ball, or or ghost ghost ghost ball, ball, ball, or or the the the railroad railroad railroad track track track 

to to the the the object object object ball; ball; ball; instead instead instead you you you visualize visualize visualize a a track track track all all the the the way way way to to the the the pocket. pocket. pocket. Or, Or, Or, as as 

shown shown shown in in figure figure figure 2.9, 2.9, 2.9, you you you visualize visualize visualize the the the tip tip tip of of your your your cue cue cue extending extending extending to to a a reference reference reference point point point 

all all the the the way way way to to the the the rail rail rail beyond beyond beyond the the the shot, shot, shot, forcing forcing forcing you you you to to follow follow follow through through through in in a a straight straight straight 

line to the contact point. 

Many Many Many players, players, players, once once once they’ve they’ve they’ve learned learned learned a a bit bit bit about about about shot shot shot making making making and and and have have have built built built up up up 

a a memory memory memory for for for their their their aiming aiming aiming points points points of of reference, reference, reference, will will will check check check their their their stroke stroke stroke and and and follow follow follow 

1 

Inside 

of 

ferrule 

Center 

ball 

45º 

angle 

Figure 2.8 Adding your cue stick as a 

measuring device to the fraction aiming 

method. 

126 Precision Pool 

on the wrong side of the ball and now have 

9 

to do something drastic to obtain position 

and get back in line for the rest of the the rack. 

This most often results in in missing missing the ball ball or 

getting out of position and giving up the last last 

two or three balls to the opponent. 

In figure 6.3, we’ve illustrated a typical situ 

ation in in which some poor player has ended 

up on the wrong wrong side of the 8-ball. Poor posi 

Wrong 

angle 

tion was played played from the 7-ball to to the 8-ball; 

8 

what’s left is is a nasty angle going away from 

the 9-ball. With the the balls in this position, position, you 

Ideal 

really have to come up with a super stroke 

angle 

shot to get the cue ball to go around the the table 

to get in position for any kind of shot on the the 

9-ball. 9-ball. By contrast, if the cue ball had landed 

anywhere in in the shaded area, representing representing the 

correct side, this player could simply float the 

cue ball down to the other shaded area for a 

relatively easy shot on the 9-ball. 

Just in case you’re still not a believer in 

Figure 6.3 Don’t get stuck on the wrong side of the this commandment, figure 6.4 shows another 

ball. 

case of ending up with the wrong angle. You’re 

shooting the 7-ball, trying to get position on 

the 9-ball. Because of your poor resulting cue 

9 

ball position, you’ll have to go three rails to get 

7 

position on that 9-ball. Even worse, you now 

Wrong angle 

have a greater chance of scratching because 

you’re turning the cue ball loose and running 

it around the table another 20 feet (6.1 m). 

Ideal 

(Note that the farther you have to make your 

area 

cue ball travel, the more control you lose 

and the greater chance you have of making 

an error.) That’s really a shame in this case 

because the shaded area represents the best 

(and vast) area where you could have planned 

to arrive on the 7-ball for an easy position play 

to the 9-ball. Make it a habit to note the zone 

Figure 6.4 Another wrong angle shot resulting in a 

you need to reach to stay on the right side of 

tough trip to the 9-ball. 

every shot. 

3. Don’t Cross the Line 

The line we’re referring to is the line from the pocket through the object ball and 

extended out across the table, as shown in figure 6.5. As you’ll note in this shot, 

even after the cue ball crosses the line of the 9-ball to the pocket (but not until after 

contacting the rail), you have a makeable shot at the 9-ball, with a much greater 

margin of position than if you were to try and go back and forth across the table. 

When the cue ball must cross over this line too soon in order for you to get position 

on the shot, it means you’re undoubtedly sending the cue ball back and forth 

• English 

• Safeties 

• Practice plans 

• Match strategies 

• Trick shots 

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Figure 4.11 Another fancy break in straight pool. 

Figure 4.12 An aggressive One Pocket break. 

Whether you are a weekend player or seasoned professional, 

if you are serious about improving your game, Precision Pool 

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THE DRill Instructor 

Happy New Year to all of my fellow 

pool playing family. 2010 is the 

start of many good things for 

all of us, beginning with a great attitude! 

Your attitude is the one thing you are in total 

control of: You can choose to have a “bad day” if 

you want to. Me—I’m not signing up for that. And I 

have to tell you I’m always fascinated at how long 

the line is of people who want to sign up to have 

a bad day. Come join me. I have found that the 

“Having a Great Day” line is almost always shorter. 

When training our mental game, we know it’s 

critical to play out a vision of the shot we want 

to make before we execute. You need to have 

a positive vision to see that you’re going to 

succeed, if you expect things to go well for you. 

What you do and say has everything to do with 

what happens to your next shot. So often I see a 

player demonstrate a negative outward 

behavior by shaking his head in disgust, 

banging the butt of their cue and 

cursing about the shot or at himself. But 

when you think negative, negative things 

happen! You say, “I hate banking.” That’s 

why you miss bank shots. You think to 

yourself, “Come on, don’t scratch in the 

side pocket.” You shoot and scratch. 

I could name fifty of these negative 

affirmations players make and that’s 

exactly what happens. It’s time to make 

a change and make a difference. 

The hypnotist guides a client to use 

the right outer portion of the cerebral 

cortex – the frontal portion of the brain. 

This is termed the subconscious mind 

because the right hemisphere controls 

imagination, face and place recognition, 

and multi-tasking, while the left 

hemisphere, or conscious mind, controls 

speech and rational decision-making; it is critical, 

analytical, and can only do one task at a time. 

The two sides of our brains process information 

differently and function independently. For instance, 

when you are playing flawlessly “in the zone,” you’re 

using the right, subconscious side of your brain. But 

without going to a hypnotist or playing a hypnotic 

CD or video, you can – right now – use the power of 

your subconscious to tap the wealth of pool training 

that you have etched in your unconscious mind. This 

simply requires tapping a memory of an excellent 

performance; in other words, a well-played match, 

or the exhilarating feeling of playing at the top of 

your game. Hypnotists call this method anchoring. 

You dig into your memory and use that as your 

anchor back to being “in the zone of excellence.” 

Here’s how: Take a break and stare at yourself in 

the mirror (or stare at something in the room). Then 

say out loud, “Eve-apple,” or say it to yourself if 

you’re not alone. I chose the words eve and apple, 

because I wanted to use a memory jogging anchor 

based on several words that apply to our enjoyment 

of the mental game: enjoy, visualizing, executing, 

awesome, pool, playing, life, experiences. 

Eve-apple is your key phrase to anchor 

you back to a time when you played 

flawlessly – perfect strategy, accurate aim, 

smooth stroke and cue ball control. 

When you vividly recall the feeling of playing 

well, neurotransmitters in the brain send this 

message to every cell, nerve, and muscle in the 

body. This literally transforms how you think, 

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Now, to make this work you have to practice! 

Four times a day, every day for one month, 

simply take a few moments to recall as vividly 

as possible a previous experience when you 

played your best (feel it, remember it, get into 

it). The most effective time is the tired time 

right before you go to sleep. Once you have 

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What’s 

The 

Trick: Ask 

“Why?” 

by Ewa Mataya Laurance 

Ewa Mataya Laurance has been a top 

player on the WPBA tour for over twenty 

years and is one of the sport’s most famous 

personalities. She is in both the BCA and 

WPBA Hall of Fame, is a former WPA 

World 9-Ball champion and the reigning 

women’s world trick shot champion. Ewa 

is a player representative for Brunswick 

Billiards, an ESPN color commentator, 

and co-author of the Complete Idiot’s 

Guide to Pool & Billiards with P&B 

managing editor Thomas C. Shaw. 

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The public loves trick shots, and anyone 

who does exhibitions in front of 

corporate clients, the general public, 

or for charities includes them in their show. 

We can break down trick shot types into Setup 

Shots and Skill Shots. The pool players in an 

audience appreciate the second group more 

but a clever set-up can win smiles all around. 

Even if you never expect to give an exhibition in 

your life it will pay you to learn some trick shots. 

First, because sooner or later some neighbor or 

guest in your home will, once they find out you 

have your own table, ask you to shoot one. A fancy 

set-up shot works best in circumstances like that. 

But you can get a lot more out of learning some 

trick shots, even “automatic” set-up shots. 

Set-up shots depend on positioning the balls 

perfectly. The simplest example is placing a ball on 

the foot spot and a second ball against it so the line 

through the two ball centers is aimed at the closest 

cushion corner of 

the corner pocket. 

Almost anyone 

can make both balls 

in one shot. They 

can shoot hard, 

soft, aim dead on, 

or hit the first ball 

off center and both 

balls will go in. 

Where you benefit 

is knowing why. 

First you need 

to know that the 

ball on the spot 

goes in because 

of a ninety-degree 

rule. If you draw a 

line from center to 

center, then a line 

at ninety degrees 

from that line you’ll see that the path of the line 

leads to the corner pocket. Frankly, you don’t need 

to know why this ninety-degree rule works. 

Second, you’ll know that the second ball goes 

in the other corner because the first ball pushes 

it forward a bit as it drives it to the pocket. It was 

aimed at the point of the cushion but it goes into the 

middle of the pocket because of this pushing action. 

Will it ever come up in a game? Probably 

not as neatly as this but you will be hitting 

two balls that are touching and because of 

asking “Why?” when you learned this trick shot 

Striking V iking 

you’ll then know where both balls will go. 

Now multiply that by fifty set-up trick shots and 

fifty skill trick shots and pretty soon you’ve got a 

much better understanding of how to make things 

happen on the pool table. It will also make your 

matches more entertaining to watch, but none of 

us care about superficial stuff like that. Do we? 

Since I’ve got a little more space this month 

I’m going to toss in something that would 

never make it otherwise because it doesn’t 

take a full column: Repetitious safety play. 

One-Pocket is often associated with gambling 

so the game has never captured my interest, 

but I had the occasion to watch a few DVDs and 

noticed something that Efren Reyes did. Others did 

it, too, but he used the technique far more often. 

If Efren was in a fix he would play a safety by 

skimming a ball, bouncing the cue ball off the side 

cushion and sticking it on the rack of balls. Over and 

over. Not just once or twice but three, four, five, six, 

even seven shots in 

a row. His opponents 

seemed to get easily 

bored shooting the 

same safety more 

than three times 

in a row, and the 

end result was an 

advantage to Efren. 

One-Pocket is 

often a game that 

requires patience 

and I noticed that 

the better players 

could get on the 

repetitious safety 

train more easily 

and stay on longer, 

while the guys 

who lost patience 

soonest were 

those that were out of the running early on. 

When it was time to go “up stream” with the balls 

many players exhibited nearly equal amounts of 

patience. There were some who “like to shoot at 

their pocket” and who might jump the gun, but 

I’m not sure that can all be attributed to having or 

not having patience. But when shooting a simple 

repetitious safety shot there were clearly two types 

of players, and no one I saw that day came close to 

having Efren’s patience. If I watched more matches 

I might have seen someone else and I would bet 

they would be among the very top tier. That’s a hint. 

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Dealing 

with 

Shadow 

Balls 

By Phil Capelle 

Author Phil Capelle is billiards’ most 

prolific instruction author, with titles 

ranging from Play Your Best Pool, Play 

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to Capelle’s Practicing Pool. He has been 

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Visit Phil at billiardspress.com 

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Play Your Best Pool 

Balls that block a pocket and clusters 

are obvious problems that can 

thwart your attempts to run out. Not 

as obvious, but just as devastating are what I call 

shadow balls: any ball in the area within your 

ideal position zone, or that is adjacent to it, that 

could affect your choice of position. A shadow 

ball can turn into an obstructer if you make a 

mistake and end up behind it. Once you learn to 

recognize these pests, you can create a plan for 

minimizing or eliminating the risk they present. 

Diagram #1 shows a typical shadow ball, the 9. 

You can determine the area that is not available 

for playing position on the 6 by extending two 

lines from both sides of the cue ball’s position at 

contact out past the shadow ball. Even though 

the shadow ball in this example is more than 

a foot from the object ball (the area covered by 

the x), it still covers a wide area of the table. 

Diagram #2 shows the same two ball positions 

for the 6 and 9. Cue Ball A would be perfectly 

positioned for getting from the 6 to the 7 were it 

not for the shadow ball. To avoid getting hooked 

behind the 9 when playing shape on the 6, you 

must play for a bigger cut angle on the 6. 

The area between the hook zone and the 

position zone is your margin for error. With whitey 

at Cue Ball B, you may have to cross the table 

and back to get on the 7. This tougher position 

play is the price you should gladly pay for 

avoiding getting stuck behind the shadow ball. 

The primary keys to dealing with shadow balls 

are: 1) recognizing when they are a hazard, 

2) leaving a sufficiently big margin for error, 

and 3) being willing to accept a tougher route 

to the next ball to avoid getting hooked. 

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DIAGrAM 2 

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Professor 

Lance 

Perkins: 

Man of 

Mystery? 

By R. Givens 

Randi Givens is the author of The Eight 

Ball Bible: A Guide to Bar Table Play 

and editor of Banking with the Beard by 

Freddy Bentivegna. 

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A 

P&B reader asks: “I have a question 

for Randi Givens: Who was Lanson W. 

Perkins?” -- Jon Siegel, Wilmot, NH 

Professor Perkins was the foremost thinker in the 

grounding in how to play Championship billiards. 

Willie Hoppe was actually a very well trained 

player taught by many top players as a youngster. 

Insulting Perkins began a feud that 

Willie Hoppe would live to regret. 

science of billiards in the late 19th and early 20th A report in the March 28, 1914 issue 

centuries. Perkins had been a merchant seaman of SPORTING LIFE shows the depth of 

who always sought out the best billiard players the animosity that developed between 

in every country he visited. After examining the Professor Perkins and Willie Hoppe: 

techniques of great players all over the world, “A ripple of laughter wafted through the little hall 

Perkins combined the best aspects of all the top just as Hoppe reached 50 in his run. Willie heard 

players forms into one simple coherent style From some one in the audience snoring. He stopped 

one great player, Perkins took the grip, from another and looked up, and lo and behold! It was no less 

the best stance and from yet another he copied a personage than Professor Lanson Perkins, who 

the best stroke and so on until he had created just at that moment was dreaming of the time 

the most effective cueing method ever devised. when his brilliant pupil, Welker Cochran, would 

Perkins was the first person to seriously analyze take the measure of this champion of champions.” 

the ergonomics of billiards with the 

idea of doing everything in the simplest 

most synergistically efficient way. 

Professor Perkins brought human 

engineering to the science of billiards. 

It is self-evident that Perkins used 

Occam’s Razor in devising his 

fundamentals. Occam’s Razor is a 

scientific principle stating: “The simplest 

procedure that reliably produces the 

desired results is always best.” 

With this idea firmly in mind Perkins 

created a style of play capable of 

“making any conceivable shot.” 

The achievements of Lanson 

Perkins’s students proved the 

effectiveness of his style. 

Professor Perkins held the opinion 

that any normally coordinated young 

person with a sincere desire and the 

willpower to play good billiards could 

be trained to world championship 

levels in a short time (2-4 years). 

When Perkins voiced his ideas to 

reigning world champion, Willie 

Hoppe, Hoppe snapped back, 

Professor Lance Perkins takes young Welker Cochran 

“Champions are born, not made.” 

under his wing, turning him into an eventual champion, 

snubbing Professor Perkins. 

now a Hall of Fame legend! This rare photo is courtesy 

But Hoppe forgot the years of training 

of Michael Shamos; from the Billiard Archive. 

he received from his father and lost his 

memory of the daily lessons champion Maurice Perkins set out to train a World Champion with the 

Daly provided whenever Hoppe did exhibitions at specific goal of dethroning Willie Hoppe. In 1909 

Daly’s room in New York City. Willie also received Perkins’s student Calvin Demarest, an amateur, 

vital strategic instruction from the great Frank Ives in beat Hoppe to win the World Professional 18.2 

Pop Anson’s billiard room as a young lad. A season Balkline Championship. Worse was to come since 

long tour with Jake Schaefer. Sr. provided solid Perkins was busy grooming Welker Cochran for 

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professional play with the specific intent 

of driving Willie Hoppe into retirement. 

Due to WW I, the first opportunity for 

Welker Cochran to demonstrate his skills 

in professional competition came in 

1919. Cochran immediately put Hoppe 

on notice of his intentions by finishing 

second, with Willie winning the title. 

We don’t know exactly what Hoppe 

thought about the appearance of Cochran 

in his billiard world, but Welker Cochran 

and Jake Schaefer, Jr. were soon beating 

Hoppe’s old records in every tournament. 

The 1921 tournament did not go well 

for Hoppe. Young Jake Schaefer, Jr. 

another newcomer to world title play 

won the championship that year with 

Cochran finishing 3rd behind Hoppe. 

Schaefer, Jr. won the 18.2 balkline honors 

from 1923-26 and Cochran lowered the 

boom on Hoppe in 1927. Willie never won 

another 18.2 tournament after 1927. 

In the 1930 World 18.1 Balkline Championship, 

Cochran let out all the stops and beat Hoppe 

3,600-2,815 with four runs exceeding the 

world high run record established by Frank 

Ives (140) with runs of 196, 176, 157 and 142. 

Cochran set a record for the highest match 

average for 18.1 up to that date with a Grand 

Average of 32.43. Willie Hoppe didn’t play 

badly, he posted his highest 18.1 match 

average in his career (25.36). Cochran simply 

beat Hoppe’s best game into the ground. 

Lanson Perkins died in 1916 and never 

got to see Cochran beat his feud rival in 

championship play. Nevertheless, we can 

be sure that Professor Perkins firmly believed 

that Cochran would eventually triumph over 

Hoppe. Perkins had seen young Cochran 

make prodigious runs in exhibitions and 

knew that Welker’s increasing ability would 

eventually result in world championship titles. 

8-Ball Bash! 

Cochran and Schaefer, Jr. dominated the 

balkline games so completely in the late 1920s 

that competition finally stopped except for a 

few challenge matches. Welker Cochran won 

the last 18.2 tournament in 1934 with Hoppe 

finishing 3rd behind Eric Hagenlacher. 

After balkline died, Cochran became a six 

time World 3 Cushion champion who defeated 

Hoppe six out of nine times they competed 

for the World 3 Cushion title. Cochran was 

the only player to ever hold the World 3 

Cushion and the World 18.2 Balkline titles at 

the same time. Welker Cochran won more 

than ten World Billiard Championships. 

Welker Cochran dedicated his book SCIENTIFIC 

BILLIARDS : “To Professor Lanson W. Perkins 

Who took me in hand at the age of fourteen 

and taught me the fundamentals of billiards, 

I dedicate this volume with the fervent hope 

that it may be as helpful to my readers as his 

patient and kindly instructions were to me.” 

P&B January 2010 21

It’s All 

About 

Team- 

Work! 

by Charlie Williams 

Charlie Williams is one of the world’s 

top players and personalities. Charlie 

won the BCA Junior Nationals at 14 

and is now a 10 year veteran on the pro 

scene, sponsored by Predator. Founder 

of Dragon Promotions, he produces over 

40 international events each year. He 

also manages and coaches pool stars Yu 

Ram Cha and Shanelle Loraine. Visit 

dragonpromotions.com or email questions 

to charliedragonwilliams@gmail.com 

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Happy New Year! 

As I write this, it’s not yet 2010 

and I’m just back from the 

Philippines (finished second at The World Mixed 

Doubles Classic - see this issue’s coverage). 

This was the first time men and women played 

partners in a international televised event. 

I was paired with a young 21-year-old Korean 

girl name Eun Ji Park (shown in photo), who is 

still relatively unknown in the pool world. I had 

never played with her. Despite being unfamiliar 

with her game, style, and personality we still 

did well in the event, and we played a great 

match each time we paired. To overcome the 

challenges, I drew upon many experiences in team 

competition to make sure our chemistry meshed. 

First, it’s important to know where your partner(s) 

stand in terms of skill level. And they should 

know yours as well. So I had her do a series of 

drills with draws shots, follow, spin, and different 

shot-making drills to understand what she 

could and couldn’t do. I also performed these 

drills, though I was fairly certain she knew of 

my game, it’s still good to reinforce things and 

also give her confidence in my abilities. 

Next, I let her shoot some racks alone, so she 

could get a good warm-up session in. No one 

likes a table hog, and playing scotch doubles, 

alternate shot doesn’t offer much time to 

warm up and get into your game properly. 

After that we played some practice games 

together, playing the tournament’s alternate 

shot rules. At first we couldn’t run out because 

we didn’t have proper rhythm going, but I 

was determined to keep playing with her 

until we ran a few racks together. This wasn’t 

just to practice shots, but to show us both 

that we could do it and have that knowledge 

and confidence going into our first match. 

Then it was show time! I was responsible for 

the decision-making, as the more experienced 

player. Note: When you are playing with a partner 

who is same level as you, it should be a shared 

duty but usually even then there is a dominant 

player, or captain. It’s better to figure out that role 

at the outset and accept it. When you have two 

players who can’t agree on their roles then you 

have poor chemistry and a team that will not win. 

Communication is important. Tell your partner 

what you want, and if you see they are troubled, 

help them. Always stand next to them ready to 

help. Don’t stand too far away or sit down; this 

gives off a feeling of uncaring or lack of faith. 

At the same time, you must be careful of too 

much talk. Efren Reyes and Rubilen Amit’s first 

match was shaky because Efren was overcoaching 

and Amit felt too much pressure to deliver. When 

Efren realized this, he assured her, “No more 

talking, just play as you normally would.” 

A wise move; Efren reminded himself that 

she was a world champion and didn’t need 

excessive help. They redeemed themselves 

and played superbly the rest of the event. 

With my own partner, when I knew there 

would be tricky spots, I would definitely take 

the initiative and coach her on the right shot 

and thinking process. But when it was routine 

and within her ability, I stayed quiet. A couple 

of times I should have offered an option to her, 

and it cost us a couple games. But that’s going 

to happen. No team will ever communicate 

perfectly, and we learned from our mistakes. 

Finally, and most important, is to always stay 

positive. Never say negative or degrading 

comments to your partner, even if they royally 

mess up. Your partner will already be beating 

themselves up, they don’t need help from you. 

When they make a good shot, let them know. 

When the game is won, give them a high five 

or fist bump. And when they miss or dog an 

easy ball, just smile at them and nod your head 

and tell them, “Don’t worry, we’ll get it back”. 

Eun Ji missed an easy shot at one point and we 

lost a crucial game. It was disheartening, but I told 

her not to worry and that we would get our chance. 

The next game Efren missed a 10-ball and we won 

an easy game to tie it up. Everybody misses – or 

the game wouldn’t be very exciting. How we deal 

with the mistakes is what makes champions. 

Just remember, a good team is about 

camaraderie and chemistry, not about skill level. 

If you lose, tell ‘em, “good match and we’ll get ‘em 

next time.” If you pout, there won’t be a next time. 

And if you win, celebrate! 

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Pool Secrets from Legendary Players... 

IN THE INIMITABLE WORDS 

OF “THE RIFLEMAN!” 

The legendary Hall of Famer 

Buddy “The Rifleman” Hall sure 

has a way with words. So for this 

month’s Shark Bytes we went back 

and pulled out a few quotes from 

some of Buddy’s COLORFULLY 

worded tips to P&B Readers… 

“Fatback through 

a hound dog…” 

“You’ve done it a thousand 

times. You ran through that rack 

like fatback through a hound 

dog and then you scratched 

when you made the nine… 

“On one through eight your 

shot routine included aiming, 

stroking and planning 

position… But when you got 

to the nine, you left out the 

last part, planning for position… 

so your old shooting brain was 

still screaming for information 

when you pulled the trigger… 

“So, here’s what you do… pretend 

you need to go somewhere on 

the table… and use that as your 

position input on the last shot…. 

“Your brain is very comfortable 

doing the same routine over and 

over. That’s why you tend to steer 

towards those golden arches 

three times a week, it’s familiar 

territory and you know what to 

do there. Same thing happens 

when you shoot pool. When your 

brain gets used to playing shape 

it wants to do so on every shot.” 

“A whole bunch 

more work…” 

“Sometimes in 9-Ball you get 

so locked up by your opponent 

it seems your options go 

from bad to worse… 

“Make the best of a bad situation 

and tie something up on the 

table (with an intentional foul). 

“So what? He was getting ballin-hand 

anyway. Now you foul 

and he is in a nightmare situation. 

This is a whole bunch more work 

than he had planned to have 

after sewing you up so well. 

“Your opponent has been sitting in 

his chair congratulating himself on 

tying you up and giving himself 

the opportunity to win. He 

thought he would be cruising, 

instead he’s bumping along 

trying to find a miracle that 

probably won’t show up…” 

“Sit there burning 

rubber…” 

“When you find an object ball 

tucked near a corner pocket… 

logic tells you topspin is the 

proper way to keep the cue 

ball traveling (for position). 

“But the topspin may backfire… 

and cause the cue ball to 

stop dead in its tracks. When a 

cue ball carries topspin into the 

rail, it tends to rebound off of the 

cushion, and the topspin kicks 

in and attempts to carry the cue 

ball back toward the same rail. 

“Use a draw stroke to ‘pull’ the 

cue ball off of that first rail. 

“Now practice the shot with 

topspin until you can make 

it come off the cushion and 

sit there burning rubber.” 

“Don’t overcook…” 

“Everyone 

I know has 

been in this 

situation. 

You have 

overcooked 

your 

previous 

shot and now you lay funny on 

the next ball, if you call being on 

the wrong side of the ball funny. 

“Coulda’ been an easy out, but 

you lost control of whitey and now 

you gotta go around the world 

riding the rails just to get out. 

“So if you want to avoid risk, 

BYTES! 

don’t overcook the previous shot 

and get on the wrong side of 

the ball. These are penalty shots 

that you brought on yourself.” 

“Safeties are a dull 

moment…” 

“Too many players have the 

attitude that safeties are a 

dull moment in the game and 

therefore get a little sloppy. 

“Pros know that safeties are 

often the key to winning games, 

and concentrate on getting 

exactly where they need to be 

to execute the most devastating 

leave for their opponent. 

“We need to concentrate just as 

hard on position play in a safety 

as when pocketing a shot.” 

The “Gear Effect” 

“You can use the ‘gear effect’ 

to either apply topspin or 

draw to the object ball… 

The ‘gear effect’ tells us if we 

stroke the cue ball with draw that 

we will impart follow to the object 

ball and that if we stroke the cue 

ball with follow then draw will be 

imparted to the object ball…” 

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CAMPUS CORNER 

Calling All College 

This month’s column was 

originally planned as 

the second in a 2-part 

series, but the response has been 

greater than expected, so watch 

for more! In part 1, college-bound 

pool players were offered a list of 

schools that traditionally participate 

in intercollegiate tournaments, 

specifically the Association of 

College Unions International (ACUI). 

This month’s column offers further 

info on some of the country’s 

most organized college clubs: 

Arizona State University 

We have a billiards club with 

about 50 members, 20 of whom 

are “regulars.” We receive 

discounted rates at our school's 

pool room, ACUI tournament 

registration fees are covered, 

and some travel expenses 

to and from the tourney are 

reimbursed. -- Rob Henrichs 

Bentley University 

The Billiards Club has about 

30 active members. The school 

provides funding for tournaments 

and events. Events are typically 

trick shot exhibitions (Matt "No 

Fail" MacPhail). Pool tables are 

free for all students so there 

is no fee for practice time/ 

tournaments.- Kevin Vaughn 

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University of 

California, Irvine 

The Anteater Billiards Club 

has about 20 members. These 

members are active on our 

ladder rankings, which eventually 

determine players who go to the 

ACUI regional tournament. My 

school provides support for 

covering the cost of some of our 

tournaments. They also cover the 

cost of ACUI registration fees, hotel, 

and gas. The club is responsible 

for organizing tournaments and 

ranking systems. – Jonathan 

Dy Albay, club president 

Carnegie Mellon 

Our pool club is new; we 

currently have about 10-20 active 

members. Also, we have received 

funding from our school to help 

with start-up costs. Our adviser 

is Professor Michael Shamos, 

who also serves as the Curator 

of the Billiards Archive, and is the 

author of a number of books such 

as The Illustrated Encyclopedia 

of Billiards, among others. You 

can find out more about us at 

www.betterbreak.net/blog and 

also on our Facebook group 

“CMU POOL CLUB.” – Caleb Tan, 

CMU Pool Club President 

Cornell College 

Our club has 3 or 4 committed 

members and another half a 

dozen stop-ins. For the upcoming 

year, the college has given us 

enough support to replace the 

cloth on one of our 3 tables, 

buy house cues, and prizes for 

roughly four tournaments a year 

(top three places)." – William 

Czerwionka, Club Vice President 

University of Delaware 

I go to the University of Delaware 

and we do have a club. The 

school provides the standard 

allocation of $800 a year. It does 

not pay for any trips or events, 

except for an excursion to a 

regional ACUI tournament. Visit 

copland.udel.edu/stu-org/sasf/. 

--Samantha Adler, Club Secretary 

emory University 

Our Billiards Club has about 15 

active members. We are chartered 

by the College Council, which helps 

subsidize tournament fees, trips to 

ACUI Regionals and Nationals, etc. 

Our main supporter is probably 

the Dobbs University Center (DUC). 

The building's Director is Jeffrey 

Martin and he is our faculty advisor. 

The DUC also helps us with ACUI 

registration and travel fees. – 

Joaquin Del Cueto, club president 

Mansfield University 

Our club has about 12 active 

members. The school provides 

funding for teams to tournaments 

such as the University of Michigan 

Team Pool Championships. 

– Clifford Torpy, Club President 

University of Michigan 

The Michigan Billiards Club has 30 

registered members, about half of 

whom actively participate in weekly 

club events. Club members earn 

2 free hours of pool each week 

during scheduled club meetings 

plus a 33% discount any other 

time they visit. Those with highest 

club attendance are nominated 

as officers. Michigan provides a 

venue, an administrative advisor, 

support with PR and recruiting, 

and access to intercollegiate 

competition opportunities. 

– Contributed by club officers 

New Mexico Tech 

About 6-10 people on average 

participate in our club. Our school 

www.poolmag.com

By Betsy Sundholm 

Bound Players! 

supports our ACUI tournaments, 

as well as other activities. We host 

open tournaments throughout 

the year, with prize support 

from the school, as well as “Best 

Player” tournaments with limited 

entries which are usually of the 

format 7-8-9 or Billiard-Snooker- 

Straight. My school is paying 

my hotel, flight, entry fee, and 

all other expenses for my trip to 

the nationals. - William Aitken 

radford University 

We have 10 members right now, 

three of which have qualified for 

the ACUI National tournament. Our 

school allows us to practice for 

free on Wednesday nights and we 

do have an advisor. We are also 

recognized as a sports club through 

the Sports Club Council. Our web 

site address is radford.edu/~rubc. 

– Jon Hirst, Club President 

rochester Institute 

of Technology 

The RIT Pool Club has been a 

student government sponsored 

club for about 8 years now, and 

we usually have around 25-30 

members. We have two 2-hour 

“meetings” a week with free play 

and small tournaments. We file a 

budget and charge dues to cover 

about 2/3 of our costs (renting the 

pool room/food for meetings) and 

students cover the other 1/3. We 

haven’t had any ACUI events, but 

the school did pay our entry fees 

to our regional 9ball tournament, 

and has agreed to help one 

student with travel to national if 

he decides to go. - Eric Evans 

Southern Illinois 

University - edwardsville 

We have a group of students 

that play together, but nothing 

organized. We now have what 

is called “Tournament Tuesdays” 

in which we hold some type of 

bowling, table tennis, or pool 

tournament every week. As for (3time 

ACUI national champion) Lars 

Vardaman, he has been very busy 

with his schooling and did take one 

player, David Fitzgerald, under his 

wing and has helped him out a 

lot. David has earned an invitation 

to nationals this year too. – Steve 

Siegel, Game Room Manager 

Texas A&M 

International University 

The Recreational Sports 

department gives the club free 

practice on specific days of the 

week. As for ACUI, the club must 

generate their own fees to go to 

the tournament. However, the Rec. 

Sports department will pay the 

entry fee for the top 2 individuals 

who qualify for the ACUI tourney 

via the campus 9-ball tournament 

in the Fall. - Steve Sayward, 

Asst. Director, Intramurals 

University of Utah 

Our club, “Joining Every Student 

Through Billiards” Club (JEST) has 

about 20 members. The student 

union recreation manager is our 

advisor. We get a discount on 

the table rentals for pool club 

and we often get the tables free 

when we host intercollegiate 

tournaments. We also get funding 

from our student government to 

help cover costs of table rentals, 

conferences, and food. We 

have hosted the ACUI region 13 

tournaments, and we usually 

participate in the 9-ball tournament 

every year. Our Facebook group 

is called “JEST Billiards” - Sylvia 

Flater, club member and 2009 

ACUI Championship contestant 

University of Washington 

Our Trick Shot of the Week (master 

a posted shot and win free table 

time) has been popular in the 

past. Historically I would run a 

tournament and send players to 

the ACUI regional tournament 

based on the number in the 

tournament and budget. The 

Games Room would cover the 

entry fee, transportation and 

lodging. If someone won the 

regional tournament we would 

contribute what we could to 

transportation and lodging for the 

National Tournament. 

-Kitty Willis, Game Room Manager 

West virginia University 

We have a young billiards club 

that was started this past fall 

semester. Currently we have 

approximately 20-25 members. 

We currently have great support 

from our university. Our club hosted 

the ACUI tournament qualifier with 

support from our Student Union this 

past semester sending two players 

to the ACUI Region 4 Qualifier 

where one player qualified for 

Nationals. We have a Facebook 

group called “WVU Billiards Club,” 

– Ben Litvak, Club President 

Schools that offer scholarships 

for pool (such as an athlete 

would receive for varsity football 

or basketball) are exceptionally 

scarce. The University of 

Akron is one of these rare 

gems, and their club will be 

featured in the next edition of 

this “Pool in School” series. 

We’ll also take a look at 

Purdue, Sam Houston State, 

University of Florida, University 

of Tennessee – Knoxville, and 

University of Western Ontario. 

For more info, visit the 

Association of College Unions - 

International at www.acui.org. 

P&B January 2010 29

2009 Player & Fan Poll Results 

The results are in and we are very excited to report 

that your game participation is up and buying plans 

are optimistic despite a tough financial year for most. 

This is in no doubt attributable to three primary factors: 

1. The widespread availability of organized leagues and 

regional tours to provide a consistent venue for competition. 

2. Lots of TV programming aired worldwide, plus the advent 

of many events using live streaming via the web. 

3. The foresight of many of our industry’s manufacturers to 

introduce new, innovative and cost-efficient products to benefit 

your games. 

Pool & Billiard Magazine’s Annual Player & Fan Poll has 

grown over the last two decades to now include several dozen 

questions encompassing hundreds of choices and soliciting 

many personal preferences. Our Player & Fan Poll was 

conducted exclusively online this year at poolmag.com in order 

to provide you with the most consistent result calculations. The 

results you’ll see here are based on hundreds of responses. 

Those of you that took part in this year’s survey are representative 

of Pool & Billiard Magazine’s entire readership. You are the 

players and fans setting the buying trends within our industry. 

As always, your high level of participation defines you as the 

cue sport’s core market participants. The choices you make on 

furnishing a home billiard room, purchasing playing equipment 

and instructional materials, visits to local billiard clubs, the 

leagues you join, and the tournaments you play in, eventually 

influence the choices made by millions more casual participants. 

A sincere and special “Thank You” to all of you who took part in 

our 23nd Player & Fan Poll. 

WHO ARE YOU? 

P&B readers still skew heavily in favor of male 

readers; 89.9% male vs. 10.1% female. 

More of you are married this year, 71.8% vs. just 58% last year; 

hopefully you’re teaching your wife the finer points of pool! 

77.7% are in the 36-64 age range, and 50.3% of you have 

college and/or advanced degrees, up from just 42% in 2008. 

85.1% of you are homeowners. 

YOUR PLAYING HABITS 

We asked what year you began playing; we should have asked 

what decade! Amazingly, answers ranged from 1935 all the 

way up to new players taking up the game in 2009 (welcome 

aboard!). That’s – count ‘em – EIGHT decades worth of pool 

aficionados, proving that pool is indeed a lifetime sport! 

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And of course, you play more than the casual player; our 

respondents report picking up a cue an average of 200 

times a year, with many of you playing every single day! Our 

favorite response: “Daily, since purchasing a pool table.” 

Right on! 

Where do you play? We asked players to rank where they played 

most often, and as you can see, few of you limit yourselves to just 

home or the local club. That’s one of the great things about pool; 

it can be played anywhere you can stuff a table. “Other” options 

included college rec rooms, social clubs, and condo gaming areas 

Do you participate in organized competition? While playing 

and practicing at home may rank as the most peaceful place 

to hit a few, that doesn’t mean players aren’t getting out 

there and into some action. Over 60% compete in leagues 

up from 57% in 2008, and over 48% in local tournaments, up 

from 46% in 2008. Answers in the “Other” category included 

state and national events as well as pro competition. 

www.poolmag.com

Games Played? 8-Ball remains the number one game choice 

of readers, followed very closely by 9-Ball, up from 81.3% in 2008. 

Straight Pool has declined just slightly, and One Pocket is up from 

17% last year to 26.9%! Other games mentioned included 10-Ball, 

Golf, Bobble Ball, Bonus Ball, Trick Shots, Banks, Russian Billiards, 

Rotation, 3-Ball, Cribbage, Kelly Pool, Equal Offense and 7-Ball. 

What instructional items do you use? Besides the choices 

above, answers varied from “training devices,” “friends that 

are better at the game,” “tips from those I respect in the game,” 

“Billiard Academy,” “schools (PSIP, Allison’s Academy),” “WPBA 

Pros instruction,” “players who are stronger than me,” “Practice 

Balls, video camera,” “televised events,” and “my teammates.” 

EQUIPMENT NEEDS 

What kind of equipment do you own? We’re excited to report 

that table ownership is actually up among P&B readers, 

from 62% in 2008 to a whopping 73.9% this year! Pool cue 

ownership is up from 96%; case ownership up from 84%. 

A. Table 73.9% 

B. Cue 98.8% 

C. Jump Cue or Break Cue 79.4% 

D. Case 87.9% 

Where do you buy? We asked you to rank your equipment 

buying habits, A, B, C or D with “A” most often. Much like every 

industry, from small to large ticket purchases, mail order/internet 

sales are gaining market share, up from 40% last year. Hint 

to retailers: Make it easy for us to find your products online! 

Do you express loyalty to companies supporting leagues or 

tournaments by using their products? You do, sometimes! 

What do you play to buy in the next 12 months? 48.5% of us 

plan on a table purchase, up from 46% last year! You plan on 

spending anywhere from $1,000 (used) to $6,000, with the mid 

range falling into the $4,000 mark. Most will be looking for a 4 x 8. 

83.8% plan on a cue purchase, and that’s up from 75% 

last year. 19 oz. remains the favorite weight and 13 mm the 

favored shaft size. Buyers expect to pay anywhere from 

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P&B January 2010 31

2009 Player & Fan Poll Results 

Continued from p. 31 

$50 for a simple break cue to up to $8,000 for a special 

cue. The median price range settled in at $250 - $500. 

And, 52.9% plan a case purchase, up slightly from 50% last year. 

Case shoppers expect to pay anywhere from $40 on the low side to 

$1,000 on the high side. The median price range was $100 - $200. 

Finally, what influences your buying decisions when it comes to 

picking out that special table, cue or case? Exposure to product 

rates as your most important consideration, followed closely by 

respected recommendations and reputation of the manufacturer. 

POOL ON THE TUBE 

Have you viewed pool on TV in the last year? Most of us have! 

A full 92% have viewed pool on TV this past year, the 

majority on ESPN. WPBA events were named as the primary 

viewing choice, followed by trick shot events. 23.5% of 

pool’s TV viewers responded to ads they saw during 

billiard programming. (Several mentioned subscribing 

to P&B from our own TV ads – thanks, fans!) 

How would you rate current billiards programming on television, 

i.e. excitement, production, frequency? You’re watching, but 

you’re not always liking what you see. And without a doubt, you 

all want to see more! Respondents were vocal on this question. 

Here are a few of our favorite comments, good, bad and ugly: 

“Production is excellent. Frequency is fair.” 

“Commentary is excellent. Camera work 

is fair and could be better.” 

“Gradually improving over time. Announcers need 

to improve. Need to see more male events.” 

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“Dismal, practically non-existent!” 

“Love it, could be more of it.” 

“Dreadful. Nothing live in the US but plenty available in 

europe and Asia. If someone could come up with a way to 

make it exciting to the American public, it would be huge. I 

watched the Mosconi Cup streamed over the internet and 

it was some of the best sports drama I’ve ever seen.” 

“Women’s is the best for coverage… Get earl the Pearl to 

do some interviews… excitement is good. Need more earl 

and Alex the Lion types... I miss work to watch pool on Tv.” 

“Trick shot tournaments are exciting and 

amazing. Hate the commentators, they talk way 

too much. Love the game, love watching.” 

“very good, but could show more men’s tourneys.” 

“enjoyable with very good production values, but 

frequency is skimpy. They need to show more.” 

“Not enough live or current. Should show more players 

in even earlier rounds. Too much of the same players.” 

“o.K. I would like to see more tournaments, 

more shot explanations, and tech tips.” 

“Show times are not always the best. Thank God for Dvr’s.” 

“I can’t get enough. I watch all the time 

when training and in spare time.” 

“I love it! I record (Dvr) every billiards anything I can 

find on Tv.” 

“out of 10 stars I would give it a 6. There needs to be 

more creativity.” 

“ Usually only women are shown. I would like to see men 

participate. There is little of that. Further, more some in 

depth instruction would be very helpful to us novices.” 

“I enjoy what’s on, but I’d like to see 14.1 and 8 ball as well.” 

“Not shown too often but production qualities excellent.” 

“Love to watch the WPBA. Wish their programming times 

were easily found.” 

“Way too infrequent and way too stale (ie, tournaments 

that took place many months earlier). I wish I lived in 

a civilized country that would broadcast live pool.” 

“I would like to know a little more about the players.” 

“So tired of Tv matches edited for time constraints (1hr.). 

I’d much rather grab my case and drive a 100 miles to a 

tournament!” 

“I have noticed most tournaments in recent months are 

either women’s tournaments or trick shots. I enjoy both. I 

would like to see some classic games with the old timers.” 

“Billiards on live streaming is fresh, often live, archived 

for later viewing and more relevant to me as a player and 

instructor. I use them as educational material, excellent 

production, need more often on a regular basis.” 

www.poolmag.com

“Instructional articles are always most helpful.” 

“The article that will turn me into an A player.” 

Who are your favorite players to watch? (Male and/or 

female). Our favorite comment goes to: “Strickland, because 

he’s a lunatic; Vivian, because she’s fun and exciting; 

new faces; and Allison because she’s a monster!” 

Here are the Top 20 players you specifically mentioned as 

your favorite players to watch on TV, ranked in order of fan 

favorites, from the top. And the winner is… Allison Fisher! 

Of note, Jasmin Ouschan moves into the top three after a 

stunning year at the table. We also had several ties, each 

of which included at least one male and one female player. 

Women slightly edged out the men in terms of popularity, no 

doubt because of their more regular exposure on ESPN. 

1. Allison Fisher 12. Kelly Fisher 

2. Johnny Archer 13. vivian villarreal 

3. Jasmin ouschan 14. Francisco Bustamante 

4. efren reyes Gerda Hofstatter 

5. earl Strickland 16. ewa Laurance 

6. Karen Corr Monica Webb 

7. Jeanette Lee rodney Morris 

8. Mika Immonen Xiaoting Pan 

9. Corey Deuel 20. Steve Moore 

Ga Young Kim Sarah rousey 

Shane van Boening Yu ram Cha 

RATING P&B 

Which articles are most interesting to you? We asked you to rate 

your favorite articles A, B, C, etc. with “A” as most interesting 

What would you like to see in future issues? We appreciate 

all your kind comments and suggestions. For those of 

you looking for more men’s events on TV – We can’t help 

you there! But here, in no particular order, are a random 

sampling of the comments we received. If you don’t see 

your unique suggestion here it’s likely because we have 

it in the works and don’t want to ruin the surprise! 

“The article that will turn me into an A player.” 

“Like the instructional articles especially the ones for the 

more advanced player. More about the mental and 

confidence building parts of the game.” 

“More vocal support of billiard retail stores. (the backbone 

of the industry) Internet sites are killing them.” 

“An article on where to play the best pool across America.” 

“Keep up the good work u r doing great.” 

“More tips on how and what to practice.” 

“I would like to see much more emphasis on selecting, 

maintaining, and care of pool cues. Including different 

design techniques and the advantages and disadvantages 

of each design.” 

“More stories on old time hustlers.” 

“Historical Articles about older/past players and pool rooms. 

Features on current and upcoming players or famous regional 

players!” 

“equipment reviews by players.” 

“Instructional articles are always most helpful.” 

“More input from the pros on cues and tips... what they 

prefer, what we should be looking for in a cue and the tip.” 

“Maybe some articles of the lesser known players of 

both men’s and women’s tours.” 

“Same as now is fine. I enjoy coverage of WPBA and BCA 

tournaments. I also enjoy articles about the psychological (and 

other ancillary) aspects of maintaining a consistent game.” 

“More about what the pros do when they are not playing 

pool.” 

“More about leagues. I do not drink, would I fit in?” 

“How about some road stories by the old timers/ 

road hustlers?” 

“I like the birthdays - please include more of those!” 

“I love the mag as it is but would like to see less ads and 

more instruction.” 

“Instruction on playing on less than perfect equipment. 

everything assumes that the table is perfectly level and the 

rails bounce exactly the same. The real world isn’t like that!” 

“I think the instructional articles are the best. I learn 

a lot from them as a cheap (economical) alternative 

to a good coach/mentor. I can’t find a ‘good, quality’ 

instructor that I feel comfortable with… They want to 

teach you stance, bridge, and stroke techniques that 

they use but not a lot of theory or the physics of the 

game. The real ‘how to’ or ‘why it works’ stuff.” 

“More interactive videos from instructors.” 

P&B January 2010 33

USA 

Wins 

Mosconi 

Cup! 

Story by Matchroom Sport 

Photos by Dale Shank 

34 

Team USA showed closed 

ranks for their first 

victory since 2005! 

L-R: Johnny Archer, Corey 

Deuel, Nick Varner, Shane 

Van Boening, Dennis Hatch 

and Oscar Dominguez! 


Gathering at the MGM Grand in 

Las Vegas, the 2009 PartyPoker. 

net Mosconi Cup kicked off 

December 10th and American hopes 

were high for a victory, which would, if 

acomplished, be their their first since 2005. 

Team USA took the first day’s honors, winning 

four of the five matches to leave the star-studded 

European team reeling. Only Ralf Souquet, 

who sneaked past Oscar Dominguez in the final 

game of the day, recorded a point for Europe. 

By contrast the American side looked in 

confident shape as rookie Dennis Hatch led 

them out into the arena for the opening match. 

They sealed that victory as Van Boening dropped 

the first case 9 ball of the Mosconi Cup. 

There was more joy for People’s Choice Hatch 

from Buffalo in the second match of the day as he 

partnered with Johnny Archer to a nerve jangling 

6-5 win over Niels Feijen and Darren Appleton. 

Then, Shane Van Boening upset newly 

crowned U.S. Opena and World 10-Ball champ 

Mika Immonen to give the USA a 3-0 lead. 

Alex Lely put out the German pairing of 

Souquet and Hohmann next and trailing 3-0 a win 

was imperative. It didn’t go that way though as 

rookie Oscar Dominguez and the seasoned Corey 

Deuel, making his sixth Mosconi Cup appearance, 

took them to the cleaners with a 6-2 win. 

Tearful MVP Dennis Hatch 

The trend continued on day two. Wins for Hatch 

and Dominguez and Archer and Van Boening in 

the doubles and then Archer again in the final 

singles match gave the capacity crowd something 

to cheer about and only Thorsten Hohmann had 

any success for Europe as he beat Corey Deuel. 

Archer’s final win, coming from 1-5 down 

to beat Darren Appleton, was the killer blow. 

Earlier in the day, starting out with his ‘dream 

pair’ of Ralf Souquet and Niels Feijen, Euro skipper 

Alex Lely hoped to seize the early initiative but 

it backfired as his men were outplayed by Shane 

Van Boening and Johnny Archer. It was a big 

victory, moving the score to 5-1 instead of 4-2. 

Thorsten Hohmann relieved some of 

the pressure as he dug deep to defeat Corey 

Deuel 6-4 and give Europe their second 

point of the tournament. But then Oscar 

Dominguez and Dennis Hatch took down 

Mika Immonen and Darren Appleton in a 

dramatic match to restore a four point lead. 

The 38 year-old Hatch emerged as the 

personality of the tournament with some stellar 

play as he wore his considerable heart on his 

sleeve. “This is about playing for your country, 

your brothers and your fans,” said Hatch. 

Trailing 2-7 going into the third day, Europe 

found themselves in a position of having to 

win everything and the word behind the scenes 

www.poolmag.com

Talented Team Europe 

graciously gave up their 

cup. L-R Mika Immonen, 

Thorsten Hohmann, Ralf 

Souquet, Niels Fiejen, Alex 

Lely, Darren Appleton 

was that they had a whole new approach 

after the disasters of the opening two days, 

and were brimming with confidence. 

That manifested itself in the first match 

of the session as a focused Niels Feijen and 

Thorsten Hohmann took care of Hatch and 

Deuel by a 6-1 score. “We aren’t going out 

without a fight.” said Hohmann. “As you look 

at each individual in our team we’re all world 

champions but the US are probably the strongest 

team they’ve had. Maybe on paper we were the 

favorites but I knew America would be strong.” 

The score soon became 7-4 to the USA as 

Mika Immonen held his nerve alongside Ralf 

Souquet to defeat Shane Van Boening and 

Oscar Dominguez by 6-4. Immonen, who 

looked out of sorts over the first two days, 

admitted that he was a little jet lagged. “I 

haven’t played great as I’ve been struggling 

with flu and jet lag so I’m trying to get it back 

but I’m still not 100 per cent,” said a relieved 

Immonen to Sky Sports Andy Goldstein. 

If the Mosconi Cup is all about momentum, 

then Dennis Hatch proved he was a big man 

for a big job as he derailed the European 

train, winning 6-4 against Niels Feijen. “He 

could’ve had me 5-1 and shooting the 9-ball 

and I would still think I had a chance - I 

never give up” said a red-eyed Hatch. “If it 

Not even the 

focused Thorsten 

Hohmann (l) or 

the intense Mika 

Immonen (r) could 

stop the American 

onslaught... 

wasn’t for the crowd then this wouldn’t be 

the same thing but they’re on your back and 

you’re on theirs so we carry each other.” 

There was another big win in the next for 

the USA. Johnny Archer did a superb job 

as he put in another awesome performance 

and also coached his partner Corey Deuel 

through some tricky hairpins. Archer and 

nervous Deuel negotiated the table to win 

the match and take the USA to 9-4. 

The final match of the day saw Mika 

Immonen battle his fatigue to record a 

life-saving victory for Europe as he beat 

Oscar Dominguez 6-4 to leave Europe four 

points behind going into the last day 

On the final day, America made quick 

work of the European team. Trailing 9-5 

at the start of the day, Europe needed the 

biggest comeback in Mosconi Cup history to 

retain the trophy and Ralf Souquet was the 

reliable choice for skipper Alex Lely and he 

delivered a solid performance to defeat Shane 

Van Boening by 6-3. “We were down 9-5 and 

with the US only two games away from victory 

so we went into today as playing a regular 

tournament,” said Souquet. “The first one was 

very important and I’m really looking forward 

to every match. But we have to take it one step 

at a time and that was only the first step.” 

Hatch then took America to the brink 

glory as he pounded Niels Feijen 6-0. 

Unwilling to go quietly, Europe continued to 

fight for a comeback. Thorsten Hohmann upset 

Archer 6-1 to keep the Euro dream alive. That 

left it to Shane Van Boening to win his first 

Mosconi Cup in three attempts, as he reversed 

his earlier defeat to Ralf Souquet with a historic 

6-2 victory. “This is the third year I have been 

in it and I’ve lost the last two so there was no 

way I wanted to lose again,” said Van Boening. 

It was a proud moment for American 

captain Nick Varner after last year’s disastrous 

trip to Malta; “This has been the best five 

days of my life and they all just played so 

well and I’m so proud of them,” he said. 

For Europe it was a tough defeat after 

two consecutive victories. “We came here 

very motivated but from day one we felt we 

were swimming upstream,” said Alex Lely. 

“Today we got going but hats off to the 

Americans, they played really well. Oscar 

and Dennis played really strong and the old 

schoolers did well and they deserved it.” 

Live in its entirety on Sky Sports in the 

UK, the PartyPoker.net Mosconi Cup featured 

two five-man teams representing Europe and 

the USA. Now in its 16th year, the Americans 

hold a 10-4 lead with one tied match in 2006. 

P&B January 2010 35

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At right: Jasmin pumped 

up after her win! 

Far right: League of Nations! 

Runner-up Xiaoting Pan from 

China, champion Jasmin 

Ouschan of Austria and Dee 

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Seals 

National 

Victory 

Story & Photos 

by Anne Craig 


The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and 

Casino was once again the site for 

the Women’s Professional Billiard 

Association’s (WPBA) culminating event of the 

tour season, the WPBA Tour Championships. 

The top ranked 64 players for 2009 

competed for much more than just the title. 

Rankings after this determined which 48 

players received their Exemption to the 2010 

WPBA season. The event was streamed live 

over the web for free thanks to Pooldawg.com, 

Presenting Sponsor for Web Streaming 2009. 

Wednesday evening featured a celebrity 

Charity Pro Am to benefit Vivian’s Kidz hosted 

by former Miami Heat Pro, Jason Mashburn. 

Prior to the Pro-Am, the WPBA gave The 

Most Improved Player award to Canada’s 

Denise Belanger, whose improvement from the 

rankings at year end 2008 to now earned her 

the award. Rookie of the Year honors went to 

another Canadian, Veronique Menard. The 

WPBA also honored Mr. James Bakula, formerly 

of Brunswick Billiards, with the 2009 WPBA 

Hall of Fame Trophy for Meritorious Service. 

The Charity Celebrity Pro Am was tons 

of fun, and alongside the team play, there 

was a silent auction with great sports and 

TV memorabilia which in total raised a lot 

of money for Vivian’s Kidz Charity. 

Play kicked off Thursday and there was 

only one major upset in the first round when 

veteran WPBA player and Hall of Famer, Vicki 

Paski defeated one of the shining stars of the 

next generation, Sarah Rousey, hill-hill. 

The second round, 8pm matches heated 

up considerably with the stunning hill-hill 

match between Japan’s Kyoko Sone and the 

current #1 Ranked Player, Ga Young Kim. 

Kyoko came out the victor between the two, 

sending Ga Young to the one loss side for the 

first time in several tournaments. The next 

volley was lobbed by Angel Paglia when she 

defeated veteran Helena Thornfeldt, 9-5. 

Jeanette Lee, who earlier in the day 

unveiled the custom-made Orange County 

Chopper “Black Widow Bike” commissioned 

by her sponsor, Liquid Wick, defeated Laura 

Smith to advance to the third round. 

Friday morning 11:00am, the tension was 

high. There was a lot at stake for many of these 

players in the one loss side, several of whom were 

“on the bubble” on the 2009 WPBA Rankings. 

The first web match of the day featured four-time 

Collegiate Champion Eleanor Callado shooting 

against Canada’s Cathy Metzinger. Eleanor 

played strong, and won convincingly 9-3. 

The WPBA’s Most Improved Player 2009, 

Denise Belanger, played a tough match against 

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Borderline Billiards co-owner, Janet Atwell 

but in the end, defeated Janet 9-7. The WPBA 

will see some fresh faces on the exemption 

list including Holly Sholes, Michell Monk 

and Eleanor Callado. Their accomplishment 

is made more special since all three lost their 

first round matches to top players. They all 

barreled their way through the one loss side and 

can now say they are WPBA Pros for 2010. 

With 16 players left standing after a 

grueling day’s play, the redraw resulted 

in some interesting match ups – Jeanette 

Lee 9-3 over Kyoko Sone; Jasmin Ouschan 

over Line Kjorsvik 9-7; Allison Fisher 9-4 

over Michell Monk (also the web match 

up); Karen Corr 9-8 over Ga Young Kim; 

Vivian Villarreal over Melissa Little 9-7; 

Xiaoting Pan over veteran Laura Smith 9-4; 

Kelly Fisher over Tamara Rademakers 9-3; 

and Tracie Hines over Angel Paglia 9-5. 

Down to the final 8, Jeanette defeated 

Seminole sponsored Vivian Villarreal 9-5; 

Jasmin played focused, intense pool against 

Allison Fisher to win 9-5; Xiaoting Pan 

defeated Tracie Hines in a 9-8 thriller 

and Kelly Fisher was on fire against 

Karen Corr, winning the match 9-5. 

Jasmin Ouschan came into this Semi Finals 

as the hottest player on the tour having won 

two events this season. Meanwhile, Jeanette 

Lee had put herself in contention several 

times in the past couple of years, searching 

for her first title since 2001. With the score 

knotted 6-6 in the tense TV race to 7, Jasmin 

had the break in the final game. She pocketed 

a ball but was left with a safety which she 

executed very well. Jeanette was forced to kick 

one long rail and missed it entirely; giving 

Jasmin ball in hand and a seat in the finals. 

Kelly Fisher, 2008 Player of the Year, 

and China’s Xiaoting Pan were both 

looking for their first win of this season. 

Fisher could’t get started and Pan won 7-3 

to reach her second finals of this year. 

That set up a Europe vs. Asia final as 

two fierce competitors entered the arena, 

ready to do battle for the title of the 2009 

WPBA Tour Champion. Jasmin Ouschan 

came into this final poised to win her third 

WPBA title of the season, and Xiaoting 

was looking for her first win since the 

2008 BCA Generationpool.com event. 

The crowd was amped up and ready 

for a great match as the competitors 

stepped into the arena. 

Jasmin drew first blood and Xiaoting 

found herself down 1-4 as she broke in game 

6, pocketed a ball with position for the 2 and 

showed her stuff as she ran out and the score 

was now 4-2. Jasmin continued on and ran out 

the rest of the rack to go up 5-2 on Xiaoting. 

This was proving to be a fast match! Xiaoting’s 

break came up dry and the two became 

embroiled in a safety battle on the three ball. 

Xiaoting blinked first, allowing Jasmin yet 

another runout opportunity, which she took 

full advantage of, and was on the hill, up 6-2! 

Jasmin broke and she pocketed a ball but 

missed the one ball which set off a safety 

battle between them. Xiaoting ended up 

leaving Jasmin snookered on the two ball. 

The crowd cheered as Jasmin jumped the 

seven ball, and hit the two dead center of the 

side pocket for position on the next ball. 

She ran out for a final score of 7-2 and the 

title of the 2009 WPBA Tour Champion, 

her remarkable third title of the season. 

Could the 2009 Player of the Year award be 

far behind? We’ll have to wait and see! 

Sponsors included host Seminole Hard 

Rock Hotel & Casino and staff, presenting 

sponsor The American Pooplayers 

Association, ball sponsor Aramith, table 

sponsor Brunswick Billiards, cue sponsor 

Cuetec Cues, cloth sponsor Simonis, Inc., 

and banner sponsors Mueller Recreational 

Products and Pooldawg.com. 

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BEYOND BORDERS 

China’s Shasha Liu Wins Kappa 2009 Women’s World 

9-Ball Championship! by Jerry Forsyth, WPA Press Officer Photos by Mike Neumann 

The pool world has a 

new World Champion 

and she is only 16 

years old. Liu Shasha of China 

has defeated Karen Corr of Great 

Britain 9-5 to claim the title and set 

her career in motion in grand style. 

The 64 player Kappa 

2009 Women’s World 9-Ball 

Championships marked the 

event’s first staging in China, 

sponsored by Kappa Sportswear. 

Eight players were seeded into the 

eight initial groups. These players, 

chosen by their WPA rank, were 

joined by seven other players 

in each group to play doubleelimination 

down to the final 32 

single-elimination tournament 

to determine a champion. 

Surprising early knockouts 

included Julie Kelly of the USA, 

Yukiko Oui of Japan, Pang 

Xueling of China, and Angel 

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players struggled to overcome 

a tough Asian contingent. 

By the time the final 32 were 

narrowed to 16, the field was 

decidedly Asian-flavored. A 

whopping 13 hailed either 

from Taipei, China, or Korea. 

Still representing WPBA, Karen 

Corr (GBR) seemed to be able 

to withstand the Asian 

onslaught when she defeated 

CZH Charlene of Singapore 9-3. 

Allison Fisher (GBR) then lived 

up to her billing with the 9-0 

destruction of Brittany Bryant 

(CAN). Pan Xiaoting (CHN) ruled 

Keiko Yukawa (JPN) 9-3;Yu Ram 

Cha (KOR) defeated Chang Su-Han 

(TPE) 9-4; and Gerda Hofstatter 

(AUT) ended the tournament for 

Johana Espinoza (VEN) 9-4. 

Saturday saw the field reduced 

from sixteen players to eight in 

the first round. Number one seed 

Chou Chieh-Yu (CHN) was upset 

9-4 by Zhou Doudou (CHN). Allison 

Fisher (GBR) was eliminated from 

the field 9-8 by Chen Xue (CHN). 

Fu Xiafang (CHN) defeated Han 

Fang (CHN) 9-8 and Karen Corr 

(GBR) rolled over Tsai Pei Chen 

(TPE) 9-3, making Ms. Corr the 

only western player to survive. 

The bottom bracket found crowd 

favorite Pan Xiaoting ((CHN) 

defeating qualifier Gao 

Meng (CHN) 9-4, Korean 

powerhouse Yu Ram Cha beating 

Gao Shu Pin (TPE) 9-3, Liu Shasha 

(CHN) getting by Chen Siming (CHN) 

9-7 and former world champion 

Liu Shin-Mei ((TPE) progressing 

9-5 over Gerda Hofstatter (AUT). 

The round of the great eight 

began with five Chinese players 

still in the mix, an incredible feat 

for the representatives of the host 

nation. Karen Corr kept western 

hopes alive as she defeated 

Zhou DouDou (9-3) to make the 

final four. She was joined in the 

elite group by Fu Xiofang, who 

easily escaped Chen Xue 9-2. The 

last two slots were filled by Pan 

Xiaoting with her victory over Yu 

Ram Cha (9-4) and Liu Shasha who 

steamrolled Liu Shin-Mei 9-1. 

That left four undefeated players 

all seeking the same prize. The 

two semi-final matches could not 

have been closer. First, Karen Corr 

defeated Fu Xiofang of China 9-8 

to earn her berth n the final set. 

Then Liu Shasha edged 

her fellow Chinese citizen 

Pan Xiaotang by the same 

9-8 margin to get her ticket 

punched for the honor of 

playing Corr in the finals. 

Before the final match a 

playoff was held between 

Pan Xiaotang and Xiaofang 

to determine the third place 

finisher. Pan controlled this 

match throughout and took 

third with a convincing 9-1 

victory. A crowd of over 

1,000 very excited fans 

then took their seats to 

watch the final battle. 

It appeared that Corr would 

walk away with the title. 

She was the master of the 

table early on and rarely 

gave Shasha a glimpse of 

daylight. At one point she led 5-1. 

Shasha was obviously nervous and 

off her game. But then, realizing 

that she had to be aggressive 

for a chance at victory, she put 

her nerves aside and dug in. 

Sasha won the next game to 

make the score 5-2, then broke 

and ran five racks in a row to 

lead 7-5! The penultimate rack 

had a bit of back and forth but 

Shasha won that as well. 

On the final break she made 

four balls on the snap and easily 

ran out to earn the gold 9-5! 

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Mighty Mika Immonen Continues Win Streak at WPA 

World 10-Ball Championships! By Jerry Forsyth, WPA Press Officer 

Mighty Mika 

is simply 

unbelievable! 

From a win at the U.S. Open, 

to a win at the Tournament 

of Champions, and onto yet 

another victory in the World 10- 

Ball Championships! These wins 

push him over the $200,000 

mark for the year in purse 

winnings alone and cement his 

place firmly in pool history. 

The WPA sanctioned World 10- 

Ball Championships took place 

in Manila, Philippines prior to this 

year’s Mosconi Cup. Launching 

with a 128 man field, it took three 

days of hard play to narrow the 

contest to 64 and another day to 

get to the single-elimination stages 

where every match was do or die. 

Perhaps the biggest surprise in 

the early stages was the survival 

of Chinese player Jin Hu Dang. 

He got in this championship as 

an alternate to the qualifiers by 

filling the slot of a player who did 

not make the trip to Manila and he 

made the most of the opportunity. 

As the field narrowed to the 

final sixteen, comebacks seemed 

to be the order of the day. Lee 

Van Corteza, who had trailed 

Yu Lung Chang 7-2, roared back 

with a display of break and runs 

to win the match 9-8. England’s 

Daryl Peach had trailed Satoshi 

Kawabata 5-1 but turned that 

around and won 9-7 after 

denying any control of the table to 

Kawabata in the second half of the 

match. Then Dennis Orcullo came 

back from a 7-2 deficit to Hayato 

Hijikata to win that match 9-8. 

Mika Immonen and Marlon 

Manalo had a much closer run. 

They were tied at six games each 

before Mika hit that gear of his to 

take over and win 9-6. His usual 

nemesis, Ralf Souquet, had a 

terrible 41st birthday as he was 

eliminated 9-6 by He Wen Li. 

Other matches of note found 

Warren Kiamco besting Thorsten 

Hohmann 9-5, Antonio Lining 

beating Naoyuki Ooi 9-7, Nick 

Van Den Berg overcoming 

Jonni Fulcher 9-4, Thomas 

Engert dominating Imran Majid 

9-2, David Alcaide defeating 

former World Champion Chao 

Fong-Pang 9-5 and defending 

champion Darren Appleton 

crushing Stephan Cohen 9-5. 

The next round would determine 

the final eight. Warren Kiamco 

stayed sharp and 

eliminated Daryl 

Peach 9-7. Antonio 

Lining cruised 

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continued his threat 

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Berg. New World Junior Champion 

Ruslan Chinokhov overcame Elvis 

Calasang 9-6 and Lee Van Corteza 

came out ahead in a nip and 

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eliminated his countryman Wang 

Ming 9-8, defending champion 

Darren Appleton overcame a 

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Chamat to progress 9-7 and David 

Alcaide kept his campaign going 

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The day was not over. Still to 

be determined, the final four 

that would return on Monday for 

the grand glory of a world title. 

First to go out in this round was 

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Appleton. Appleton lost 9-6 to the 

super-strong David Alcaide. Mika 

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easily 9-6. Antonio Lining had to 

go all the way to double-hill to win 

over Warren Kiamco 9-8 and Lee 

Van Corteza placed the second 

Filipino into the final four with 

his 9-7 win over He Win Li. 

Monday’s semifinals found 

Corteza facing Alcaide and 

Lining going up against 

Immonen. The locals were 

hoping for an all-Filipino final. 

But they hadn’t counted on 

the continued domination 

of Finland’s Mika Immonen. 

Immonen entered the final 

day as one of four players 

left out of the 128 who started 

the week. His first victim for 

the day was Antonio Lining 

of the Philippines whom he 

beat 9-7. Just after this win 

the other semi-final between 

Lee Van Corteza of the 

Philippines and David Alcaide 

of Spain ended with Corteza 

earning the right to face Immonen 

9-7, briefly keeping the Philippines’ 

hopes alive for a championship. 

Corteza began the final with a 

hot hand and led 2-0 after the 

first two racks. But from there 

Immonen found his game and 

slowly pulled away to take the 

title 11-6 in a convincing victory. 

P&B January 2010 43

BEYOND BORDERS 

Reyes & Amit Pocket World Mixed 

Doubles Crown in Epic Duel By Joey Villar Photos by Emille M. Soriano 

The Philippines’ 

Efren “Bata” 

Reyes and 

Rubilen Amit broke out of 

a seven-all deadlock and 

turned back Team Korea’s 

Charlie Williams and Park 

Eun Ji, 9-7, in a thrilling 

showdown in the 2009 

World Mixed Doubles Classic 

at the Nuvo City Lifestyle 

Center in Libis, Quezon City. 

Reyes and Amit bucked 

a pair of scratches from 

their breaks 

and a slew of 

missed shots 

in carving out 

the victory. 

“We got a little 

bit lucky in the 

end,” said a 

smiling Reyes. 

Amit said 

it’s a delight 

to partner 

up with Efren 

Reyes. “It’s Team Europe 

really a great 

feeling playing alongside him 

(Reyes). He’s really an inspiration.” 

Reyes and Amit will spearhead 

the country’s bid in the 25th 

Southeast Asian Games slated Dec. 

Earlier, the Philippines’ second 

team of Lee Van Corteza and 

Filipino-American Shannelle Loraine 

overpowered Team Europe’s Mika 

Immonen of Finland and Borana 

Andoni of Albania, 7-3, to clinch 

third place in the event presented 

by Nuvo Land Philippines, Inc. 

and Dragon Promotions. 

Loraine and Van Corteza had 

never met nor played together 

before, and dropped their first 

match of the event to Team Korea 

7-4, which was their only loss. But 

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they soon found 

their stride as 

they dominated 

over Team USA 

7-1 and then 

dismantled 

Europe 7-3. 

It was a 

Team Philippines II 

sweet revenge for Corteza 

who was beaten by Immonen 

in the final of the recent World 

10-ball Championship. “It’s 

a nice feeling getting back 

at Immonen,” said Corteza, 

a former six-time Southeast 

Asian Games gold medalist. 

The event was the first-ever 

The champs: Team Philippines 

international mixed 

doubles tournament 

in billiards. Dragon 

Promotions has already 

committed to producing 

this event annually. 

“We hope to be able 

to host this again next 

year and make Nuvo City 

its annual home,”,said 

Rally Martinez, Executive 

Director of Nuvo Land. 

In the consolation 

opener match of the day, 

Team Japan faced Team 

USA to avoid the dreaded 

last place finish. With 

US Amateur Champion 

Amy Chen paired with US 

Open and former World 

10-Ball Champion Shane 

Van Boening, they seemed to be 

the favorites over young Japanese 

duet of Hayato Hijikata and Kaori 

Ebe. Japan broke away at 3-3 to 

win the match 5-3 over USA. 

Meanwhile, Team Korea posted 

impressive wins and looked strong. 

“Eun Ji has been playing superb 

and has impressed me along with 

everyone else here. If she 

keeps up this level, we 

have a really good chance 

to upset Team Philippines 

in the finals,” predicted 

partner Charlie Williams. 

Korea had a golden 

opportunity at a 5-3 lead. 

The Filipinos, however, 

managed to wriggle out 

of trouble, beating the 

Koreans in an exchange 

of safety shots on the 

15th. “That was the 

Team Japan 

crucial part of the match. Things 

would have been different had 

we missed the 15th,” said Amit. 

“Efren is a legend and Rubilen 

is the women’s world champ, 

so it was a tall hill to climb. I 

played as good as I could and I 

couldn’t ask any more from Eun 

Ji. If just one or two things went 

differently it could’ve been a 

different outcome,” said Williams. 

“It was a really good match. I 

wouldn’t have minded so much 

even if we lost” said Amit. 

The 10-ball tournament was 

telecast live on ESPN Star Sports 

and ABS-CBN throughout Asia and 

the Philippines and sponsored by 

Takini Cloth, Magic 89.9, Philippines 

Star, Predator Cues, Puyat Sports, 

and hosted by Nuvo City. 

www.poolmag.com

Another Successful Event From 

Dragon Promotions

BOX SCORES 

2nd Annual Brickyard 

Bar Table Classic 

Brickyard Billiards 

Indianapolis, IN (Nov.) 

1.** Dee Adkins $1,025, $2,672* 

Tom D’Alfonso $1,025, $2,672* 

3. Brian Groce $ 500, $1,350* 

4. Rick Schroeder $ 350, $ , 850* 

5. Jason Klatt $ 250, $ 425* 

Brian Artrip $ 250, $ 425* 

*Plus Player Auction Purse 

**Co-Champions Finalists Split Purse 

Jeannie Seaver (Winner) and 

Michell Monk, 2009 Flamingo 

Billiards Tour Champ 

Flamingo 

Billiards Tour 

Corner Pocket Billiards 

Orlando, FL (Nov.) 

1. Jeannie Seaver $ 370 

2. Michell Monk $ 240 

3. Sabra Beahn $ 130 

Stephanie Mitchell $ 130 

Lone Star 

Billiards Tour 

Casper’s Billiards 

San Leon, TX (Nov.) 

1. Sylver Ochoa $ 920 

2. Bobby Pacheco $ 550 

3. Charlie Bryant $ 375 

4. Dennis Strickland $ 275 

Parker’s Billiards 

Texas (Nov.) 

1. Sylver Ochoa $ 550 

2. Derek Fontenot $ 350 

3. Andy Jethwa $ 250 

4. Javier Franco $ 150 

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Sylver Ochoa, Roy Robinson (owner), Bobby Pacheco 

Lucas Hybrid All 

American Tour 

Produced by American 

Cue Sports Alliance 

Pockets Billiards 

Crestwood, IL (Nov.) 

1. Ike Runnels* $ 450 

2. Jack Wu $ 270 

3. Gene Albrecht $ 150 

4. Kevin Potter $ 100 

Jack Wu and Champion 

Ike Runnels 

Skip & Jan’s Sports Bar 

Tempe, AZ (Nov.) 

Women’s Bar 8-Ball 

1. Patience West* $ 200 

2. Mary Mondragon $ 100 

Men’s Bar 8-Ball 

1. Larry Eans* $ 225 

2. Charles Peten $ 125 

3. Stephen Henderson $ 100 

Men’s Big Table 8-Ball 

1. Travis Choate $ 200 

2. Don Thompson $ 100 

Mike Lawrence* $ 100 

Bulldog Billiards 

Dubuque, IA (Nov.) 

1. Scott Kitto $ 500 

2. Brian Hearl $ 300 

3. Tony Garcia $ 150 

4. Tony Sundstrom $ 100 

Miller Time Billiards 

Davenport, IA (Nov.) 

1. Chris Wilder* $ 300 

2. Mason Parks $ 200 

3. Christ Aiardo $ 120 

4. Craig McLaren $ 100 

Cr’s Sports Bar 

Coon Rapids, MN (Nov.) 

1. Gene Albrecht* $ 340 

2. Randy Matthiesen $ 200 

3. Brad Vollmers $ 135 

4. Ryan Wenger $ 100 

Annual Turkey Shootout 

Fot Collins, CO (Nov.) 

1. Tony Piazza $ 600 

2. Shane Wertz $ 440 

3. Nick Smith* $ 300 

4. Mark Haddad $ 150 

*Plus ACS National Entry 

OB Cues 

Ladies 

9-Ball Tour 

Rusty’s Billiards 

Arlington, TX 

1. Lisa Marr $750 

2. A. Lampert $550 

3. O. Strickland $400 

4. D. Henson $265 

Legends Billiards 

League City, TX (Nov) 

1. Orietta Strickland $ 750 

2. Amada Lampert $ 560 

3. Tara Williams $ 405 

4. Julie Comitini $ 270 

Predator 9-Ball Tour 

Castle Billiards 

E. Rutherford, NJ (Nov.) 

1. Jerry Tarantola $1,000 

2. Scott Simonetti $ 600 

3. Jonathan Castillo $ 400 

4. Shawn Sookhai $ 300 

VikingCue 

9-Ball Tour 

rack & Cue Billiards 

Campbellsville, KY (Nov.) 

Viking Cue Open 

1. Josh O’Neal $1,860 

2. Landon Shuffett $1,100 

3. Duke Laha $ 780 

4. David Trest $ 500 

Amateur Event 

1. David Rice $ 400 

2. Gabe Apollos $ 200 

3. Robert Frost $ 100 

Mini 

1. Tim Heath $ 680 

2. Gary Luttman $ 510 

3. David Rice $ 340 

4. Joe Powell $ 170 

Dot’s Cue Club 

Rocky Mount, NC (Nov.) 

Amatuer Event 

1. Glenn Russell $1,250 

2. Younger Chapman $ 750 

3. Eddie Little $ 500 

4. DJ Outlaw $ 250 

Above: L-R Orietta Strickland, Mindy 

Cohen (owner) and Amanda Lampert 

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Top Amateurs Crowned U.S. Champs 

Top L-R: Champ Brian Parks, 

and champ Betty Sessions 

Center L-R: Runners-up Joseph 

Cole and Mary Rakin 

HThe top amateur 

poolplayers 

in the country 

came to Strokers in Tampa, 

FL in early November to 

compete for the coveted U.S. 

Amateur Champion title. 

Betty Sessions of Conyers, GA, 

became the 2009 U.S. Amateur 

Women’s Champion after defeating 

Mary Rakin of Daly City, CA, 9-3. 

Sessions avenged an earlier 

round loss to Rakin that sent 

her to the one-loss bracket. 

In the finals, Sessions came out 

strong in the 9-Ball set, jumping 

out to an early 3-1 lead before 

Rakin could win her first game. 

The players traded victories 

in the next two games before 

Sessions rattled off four straight 

wins. Rakin closed out the 9-Ball 

set with a win, but trailed 8-3. 

On-the-hill to begin the 8-Ball 

set, Sessions won the first game 

and the match 9-3 to take home her 

first U.S. Amateur Championship 

title. She moves on to compete in 

the WPBA’s U.S. Open next year. 

Brian Parks of Bakersfield, CA 

became the 2009 U.S. Amateur 

Champion in the Men’s Division 

after a thrilling 11-10 win over young 

gun Joseph Cole of Pelham, AL. 

The hill-hill battle was a nail-bitter, 

much to the delight of spectators. 

The players split the 8-Ball set 

4-4 In 9-Ball, they continued to 

trade wins through the first eight 

games. Parks gained a narrow 

edge with consecutive wins in the 

ninth and tenth games of 9-Ball. 

The 20-year-old Cole responded 

well under pressure, coming back 

to win the next two games. 

In the 13th and final game 

of 9-Ball, it was Parks, the 

seasoned West Coast shooter, 

winning his first U.S. Amateur 

Championship title. 

L-R: Runner-up Chris Walls, 5th place (tie) Daniel Gambill, defending champ and 3rd place finisher 

Travis Gunn, 2009 champion Brian Parks, runner-up Joseph Cole and 5th place (tie) Dean Vince. 

The 2009 U.S. Amateur 

Championship, produced and 

conducted by the American 

Poolplayers Association (APA), 

was held at Strokers in Tampa. 

Preliminary qualifying rounds 

were held throughout the country 

in mid-Sept., with more than 1,500 

players attempting to qualify. 

As Champions, Sessions 

and Parks will return next year 

to defend their coveted titles 

P&B January 2010 47

TOUR GUIDE 

American Cuesports Alliance 

www.americancuesports.org 

info@americancuesports.org 

Jan. 21-24 

ACS Midwest 8-Ball Tournament 

Riverside Casino, Iowa 

920-662-1705 

Mar. 16-20 

2010 CCS Nationals 

Toronto, Ont. Canada 

Cnsqsport.com 

June 6-12 

ACS National Championship 

Riviera Hotel & Casino 

Las Vegas, NV 

American Poolplayers Association 

call 636-625-8611 for details 

or visit www.poolplayers.com 

Arizona Women’s Billiard Tour 

Presented By J. Pechauer Custom Cues 

call Dawn Anderson: 480-272-2016 

Kristie ortega: 623-556-7640 

or email awbt@cox.net 

Artistic Pool Tour 

In association with 

Dr. Cue Classic 

Artistic Pool Tour 

For info visit: 

artisticpool.org or 

call 765.760.7665 

Bay Area Amateur Tour 

www.baatour.com 

Canadian Women’s Pool Tour 

visit www.cwpt.ca for more info 

48 P&B P&B January 2010 

Cuesports International 

www.playcsipool.com 

702-719-7665 

Jan. 7-10 

Drawbridge Inn Hotel, Ft. Mitchell, KY 

Team & Single Events, $7,000 Added 

BCA Pool League 

Membership Required 

Feb. 13-14, 2010 

14th Annual Jay Swanson 

Memorial 9-Ball Tournament 

Hollywood Billiards, Los Angeles, CA 

Feb. 22-28, 2010 

17th Annual U.S. Bar Table 

Championships 

Terribles Sands Regency Hotel 

and Casino, Reno, NV 

May 14-22, 2010 

BCAPL National 8-Ball Championships 

Riviera Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas 

May 18-22, 2010 

Predator 2010 U.S. Open 

10-Ball Championships 

Riviera Hotel and Casino 

Las Vegas, NV 

Jacoby Carolina Tour 

call (252) 908-0754 or 

www.rockcitypromotions.com 

J. Pechauer Ne Women’s Tour 

856-829-8063 

tourcoordinator@newt9ball.com. 

www.newt9ball.com 

J. Pechauer Se open 9-Ball Tour 

call 765.676.5471 for details 

or visit www.southeastopen.com 

Feb. 20-21, 2010 

$1000.00 Guaranteed Added *Open 

Pockets Billiards, Dothan, Alabama 

334-793-9644 

Entry $65 Includes $15 Registration 

*Note: All open events require $10 

Tour Card or a 5.00 One Time Play 

Regional/amateuR touR events 

The Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour 

call Mike Zuglan 

518-356-7163 for details 

or visit www.joss9balltour.com 

Jan. 30-31 2010 

Diamond Eight Billiards, Latham, NY 

$2,000 Added $100 Entry 518-786-8048 

Feb. 20-21, 2010 

Main Street Billiards, Amsterdam, NY 

$2,000 Added, $100 Entry 518-705-1173 

Feb. 27-28, 2010 

Silver Cue Billiards, Woburn, MA 

$2,000 Added $100 Entry 781-933-9771 

Mar. 6-7, 2010 

Cap’s Cue Club, Syracuse, NY 

$1,500 Added $100 Entry 315-701-0101 

Mar. 13-14, 2010 

Trick Shot Billiards & Sports Pub 

Clifton, Parkl, NY 518-383-8771 

$2,000 Added $100 Entry 

Mar. 27-28, 2010 

Classic Billiards, Rochester, NY 


585-227-7400 

April 10-11, 2010 

Raxx Pool Room & Grill 

W. Hempstead, NY 516-538-9896 

$2,000 Added, $100 Entry 

April 17-18, 2010 

Northeast 9-Ball Open XXIII 

Golden Cue Billiards 

Albany, NY 518-459-9442 


June 12-13, 2010 

Snookers Billiards Bar & Grill 

Providence, RI 401-351-7665 


Aug. 19-22, 2010 

(Season Finale) 

Turning Stone Classic XV 

Turning Stone Resort & Casino 

800-771-7711 

Mike Zuglan 518-356-7163 

$25,000 Added 

$150 Entry Tour Members 

$200 Entry Non-Members 

KwikFire Tour 

(704) 780-1536 / kcarter@ 

carolinabilliardtour.com 

www.kwikfireinc.com 

Ladies Spirit Tour 

561-262-6110 

www.ladiespiritour.com 

Lone Star Billiards Tour 

9-Ball--$40 entry All events 

Coordinator: Kim White 713.825.1411 

or kim@kimwhitebilliards.com 

Lucasi Hybrid 

All American Tour 

Presented by American Cuesports 

www.americancuesports.org 

888-662-1705 

Jan. 2, 2010 

Smokies. Virginia Beach, VA 

$1,000 Added 9-Ball, $30 Entry 

757-885-2114 

Jan. 2-3, 2010 

Pockets Billiards. Crestwood, IL 

$500 Added 8-Ball$40 Entry 708-371-7665 

Jan. 9, 2010 

Legends Sports Bar, Clinton, IA 

$500 Added 8-Ball $40 Entry 

563-243-4266 

Jan. 23, 2010 

Greenfields Pool & Sports Bar 

Lakewood, CO 303-989-9820 


Jan. 23, 2010 

Bulldog Billiards, Dubuque, IA 


563-663-6600 

Feb. 6, 2010 

Leisure Time Billiards East Moline, IL 

$500 Added 8-Ball 309-752-9559 

$30 Entry (No Masters) 

Feb. 20, 2010 

Hammerheads Pool Bar, Dundee, IL 


630-688-1719 

March 6, 2010 

Leisure Time Billiards, East Moline, IL 


(No Masters) 309-752-9559 

March 6, 2010 TBD Tampa, FL 

$250 Added $50 Entry Women 9-Ball 

561-714-6430 

March 20, 2010 

Greenfields Pool & Sports Bar 

Lakewood, CO 


303-989-9820 

March 20, 2010 

Legends Sports Bar, Clinton, IA 

$500 Added 9-Ball, $40 Entry 

563-243-4266 

April 9-11, 2010 

Nite Hawk, Portland, OR 

$1,500 Added 9-Ball, $50 Entry 

503-285-7177 

www.poolmag.com

May 9 

TBD, W. Palm Beach, FL 

$500 Added 8-Ball, TBD Entry 

503-285-7177 

June 19-20 

Slick Willie’s. Houston, TX 

$500 Added 8-Ball, $30 Entry 

713-303-8111 

North Georgia Billiards 

Amateur Tour (NGB) 

Contact Mike Bidwell 

mike@northgeorgiabilliards.com 

www.northgeorgebilliards.com 

770-380-6290 

Feb. 6 

Mr. Cues II, Atlanta, GA 

770-454-7665 7-Ball 

$1,000 Added, Entry: $25 

mike@northgerogiabilliards.com 

oB Cues Amateur Women’s Tour 

817-868-0081 

www.obcuestour.com 

Predator 9-Ball Tour 

917-202-2750 

www.predator9balltour.com 

rockford Billiard Café 10-Ball Series 

tylerv@rockfordbilliardcafe.com 

www.rockfordbilliardcafe.com 

Jan. 16, Feb. 13, Mar. 13*, Apr. 10 

Rockford, IL 815-962-0957 

$30 Entry Handicapped “9-Foot 

Gold Crown, All Others 7-Ft Valley 

viking Cue 9-Ball Tour 

call 800-200-7665 for details or 

visit www.viking9balltour.com 

Jan. 2-3, 2010 

Cornfed Reds Billiard Café 

Columbus, OH 614-834-1000 

Jan. 2-3, 2010 

Cornfed Reds Billiard Café 

Columbus, OH 614-834-1000 

Amateur Only Event $1,500 Added 

Jan. 9-10, 2010 

King Street Billiards, Fayetteville, NC 

910-425-7665 Amateur Only $1,500 Added 

Mar. 27-28, 2010 

Blue Fox Billiards Bar Grill 

Winchester, VA 540-665-2114 

$1,500 Added Open 

(Two Day Event) 

$!,000 Added Amateur 

(One Day, Sun. Only) 

Pro Tour EVENTS 

Apr. 10-11 

Fast Eddie’s Sports Bar & Grill 

919-759-0071 

$1,500 Added Amateur Event 

Plus Nitely Mini’s 

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or regional tour schedule 

you need listed in P&B? 

Email us at: 

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fee details to 843.875.5171 

2010 WoMeN’S Pro BILLIArD ToUr CALeNDAr 

Dates event Title City/State / Champion 

Mar. 10-14 San Diego Classic, Viejas Casino Alpine, CA 

800-847-6527, www.viejas.com 

May 17-22 US Open 10-Ball Championships Las Vegas, NV 

Riviera Hotel & Casino, playcsipool.com 

Jul 28- 8/1 US Open 9-Ball Championships Norman, OK 

Riverwind Casino, www.riverwind.com 

Nov. TBA WPBA National Championship, 

Hard Rock Casino Hollywood, FL 

www.seminolehardrockhollywood.com 

2010 MeN’S Pro BILLIArD ToUr CALeNDAr 

Dates event Title City/State/Champion 

Mar. 18-21 Diamond 10-Ball Players Championship Valley Forge, PA 

Valley Forge Expo Center 

May 12-16 PartyPoker.net World Pool Masters Las Vegas, NV 

www.matchroomsport.com 

May 17-22 US Open 10-Ball Championships Las Vegas, NV 

Riviera Hotel & Casino, playcsipool.com 

Oct. TBA US Open 9-Ball Championships Chesapeake/VA 

757-499-8900 

Dec. TBA Mosconi Cup, TBA Europe TBA 

www.matchroomsport.com 

Congratulations to new WPBA 

National Champion Jasmin 

Ouschan of Austria! 

Congratulations 

to new World 10-Ball Champion 

Mika Immonen of Finland! 

Pro rankings 

WoMeN’S Pro BILLIArD ToUr 

rank/Name Points Move 

1 Ga Young Kim 26400 n 

2 Jasmin Ouschan 26000 h 

3 Xiaoting Pan 25875 h 

4 Karen Corr 23750 i 

5 Kelly Fisher 23375 h 

6 Allison Fisher 23000 i 

7 Vivian Villarreal 20750 h 

8 Gerda Hofstatter 19875 i 

9 Jeanette Lee 19125 n 

10 Monica Webb 18375 i 

11 Kim Shaw 16500 h 

12 Line Kjorsvik 16250 h 

13 Tracie Hines 15875 h 

14 Helena Thornfeldt 14500 i 

15 Yu Ram Cha 14500 i 

16 Kyoko Sone 13725 h 

17 Sarah Rousey 12400 h 

18 Iris Ranola 12250 i 

19 Kim White 11500 i 

20 Melissa Little 11150 h 

21 Laura Smith 10375 h 

22 Melissa Herndon 4000 h 

23 Megan Smith 9150 h 

24 Jennifer Barretta 3875 h 

25 Angel Paglia 9000 h 

26 Julie Kelly 9000 h 

27 Liz Ford 8975 h 

28 My Hahn Lac 8375 n 

29 Brittany Bryant 8375 i 

30 Tamara Rademakers 8350 h 

31 Miyuki Sakai 8000 i 

32 Ewa Laurance 7875 h 

MeN’S Pro BILLIArD ToUr 

rank/Name Points Move 

1 Ralf Souquet 480.50 n 

2 Mika Immonen 348.50 n 

3 Oscar Dominguez 321.00 h 

4 Corey Deuel 304.50 i 

5 Shane Van Boening 238.50 h 

6 Johnny Archer 211.25 i 

7 Shawn Putnam 210.50 h 

8 Charlie Williams 203.50 h 

9 Charlie Bryant 194.00 h 

10 Stevie Moore 185.25 h 

11 Rodney Morris 184.00 h 

12 Thorsten Hohmann 176.00 i 

13 Kim Davenport 174.25 h 

14 Dennis Hatch 172.50 n 

15 John Schmidt 171.50 i 

16 Karl Boyes 155.00 h 

17 Dennis Orcullo 154.00 n 

18 Mike Davis 153.50 n 

19 Imran Majid 142.00 h 

20 Warren Kiamco 136.00 h 

21 Jeremy Sossel 136.00 h 

22 Zion Zvi 134.00 h 

23 Darren Appleton 132.75 i 

24 Lee Van Corteza 108.50 h 

25 Donnie Mills 130.00 h 

26 Robb Saez 116.00 h 

27 Dave Grau 113.50 h 

28 Alex Pagulayan 110.00 i 

29 Mark Vidal 108.75 h 

30 Al Lapena 105.00 h 

31 Vince Facquet 97.25 h 

32 Daryl Peach 92.50 i 

P&B January 2010 49

January’s 

Cool Pool Trivia 

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Mathews 

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Ouschan 

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January B-Day? Ruled by the One Ball, you possess a strong 

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so look for a those New Year’s resolutions to include a new 

practice routine, lessons, or joining a league! One also represents 

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Start a good habit now and reap the rewards of a better game all year long! 

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WPBA Pro 

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Thanks to Terry Ardeno and the Women’s Pro Billiard Tour for supplying numerous player birthdays! 

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