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Contents
Instruction
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Beat People With a Stick
Poking at Poking
12
Tricknology
Pinball Wizard
14
Pro Pool Workout
Avoiding Upsets
16
The Year of Pro Secrets
Stroke Fixers
18
Banking With The Beard
Z-Banging
Features
20
Out-Deueling the Competition
21
Champions Crowned at Ozone
Billiards U.S. Amateur Open
22
Second Verse, Same as the First
Archer Defends Turning Stone Title
24
Neslihan Gurel: Don’t Mess With Nes
32
Thousands Flock to APA National
Championships
More than $1,000,000 in Prize Money Awarded
in 30th Annual Team Championships
34
Fu is Queen of the World
Wins WPA Women’s World 9-Ball
Championship Crown
36
Pen and Cue: Mark Twain’s Life
of Billiards
40
“Fireball” Strikes New York
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On the Cover:
The beautiful Neslihan Gurel
moved across the world from
Turkey to New York City to
make her bid to become a
top player in the game of
pool. But she's not just a
pretty face in additional to
honing her billiard skills, she
also plans on going to the
Fashion Institute of Technology to master design.
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Regional Roundup
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Northeast
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Western
Columns
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Cue Maker’s Corner
Ryan Theewen
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On Board With the BCA
Billiard Congress of America
Launches BankShot Entertainment
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Stripes
Give Me a Break
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Sudoku Puzzle
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Instruction
Poking at Poking
free mini-lessons at the APA Nationals, I saw every
Giving
imaginable stroke style and an amazing array of flaws.
< by Tom Simpson
arm clenched up, it’s hard to do anything but poke. How do you move
that rigid arm more than a couple of inches? Pokers have very little backswing, no pause at the back of the swing, and screech to a stop without
going through the cue ball. They appear to be in a hurry.
The most prominent flaw, by far, was poking. It was everywhere, at
every level. I was astonished. Sure, we cure the two or three pokers
we get in most of my classes, but this was epidemic.
What to do about it: Lighten up. Try stroking (no ball) with a tight
grip, and as you stroke, gradually soften your grip. You’ll find you can
take a longer backswing and a longer, smoother hit stroke. Once you get
this to work pretty well, increase your hit speed. Try to allow your arm to
fold nicely at the elbow.
Since my Poking Enlightenment, I’ve been able to see more
deeply into poking and develop some useful insights into curing
the problem. Let’s start by getting on the same page with our terminology. A “poke” is a pool stroke that decelerates on the way to
Soften your grip hand. Strive to keep your grip hand soft, all the
way through the shot. Start with slow speeds and work your way up.
“ Hitches cause
glitches.”
the cue ball, often stopping where the middle of the CB had been.
Some players think of it as “jabbing,” “stabbing,” or “punching” the
cue ball. Poking is bad. It makes speed control very difficult—and
makes the player look like an easy target.
“Stroke” is what we want. Strokes accelerate nicely through the
cue ball. The stick, weighing three times what the ball weighs, does
its job without interference, like a hammer driving a nail. Remember in baseball and tennis, when your coach kept saying, “Swing
through the ball!”? Same idea. If you think you are hitting the cue
ball, you will tend to poke. Hit your finish. Get your tip through that
cue ball at least a few inches.
Pokers can’t stop themselves from poking merely because
they’ve come to understand they are doing it. It all happens too
fast.
Why players poke: Many players poke simply because when
they were beginners, they didn’t get to see good pool. They did
what they saw, and now it’s an unconscious habit. As players get
better, though, they continue to poke, even after it’s been pointed
out to them many times.
Here we go deeper. I believe players poke because they do
not trust their stroke. They don’t believe they can take a full stroke
and stroke straight, so they take a very short, very jerky backswing.
Because they doubt their ability to take a smooth, languid, straight
stroke, they jab quickly at the cue ball. It’s all over before they know
what happened. Pokers black out during the backswing. Pokers can’t
catch themselves poking because they are not present—not fully
there—in the shot. There’s nobody home, so they can’t even get to
the back of the backswing. But of course, “You must be present to
win!”
How players poke: Pokers tend to be clenched up. Their stroke
arm is tight. Much of that tightness comes from a grip that’s way
too tight or one that grabs hard during the stroke. With the stroke
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Hit off the spot. Practice hitting the cue ball off the spot. Use chalk
or balls or paper donuts to mark a target on the cloth about 6 inches
behind the cue ball and another 4 inches past it. Slow down. Try to see
your tip come back to the back target and see your tip finish at the forward target.
Start from the back. Pokers have trouble staying conscious at the
back of the backswing. Still hitting off the spot, pull your tip back to that
6-inch target and start from there. Hang out at the back of the swing.
Take your time, check your aim, and when you’re ready, accelerate your
stick smoothly forward to your 4-inch finish target. Also, try some with
your eyes gently closed during the hit stroke. Listen for the cue ball to
fall in the corner pocket. Open your eyes and check your tip position.
Enjoy your backswing. Now that you know you can stroke smoothly
forward from the back of the swing, let’s get that stick back there nicely.
Try to take a soft, languid, luxurious backswing. Be present and trust
your backswing. Hitches cause glitches.
Establish a cadence. Count out loud, 1-2-3, in an even cadence, as
you take your hit stroke. Say “One” as you begin to pull your tip away
from the back of the cue ball. Say “Two” at the back of the backswing,
and say “Three” as you hit the ball. Pokers don’t stroke in an even beat
like this. Slow down and force yourself to stroke in cadence at a speed
that feels natural to you.
Stop poking around. It may take an act of faith at first, but you’ll feel
better about your stroke, get better results, and look better at the table.
Tom Simpson
Tom Simpson is a Master Instructor in both the BCA
and ACS Instructor Programs. He delivers his acclaimed
3-Day Weekend Intensive in 12 cities nationwide. As
inventor of Elephant Practice Balls®, the Stroke Groover™,
and the Ghostball Aim Trainer®, and authorized
instructor for Secret Aiming Systems™, Tom’s innovations
in training have helped thousands of players. Listen to an
audio description of the Intensive, and read 35 instructional articles at
www.NationalBilliardAcademy.com. Contact: Tom@PoolClinics.com.
Pinball Wizard
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game to pocket our intended ball to score. This month I have
picked three shots that, if you master them, will make you a
pinball wizard.
The inside scoop on this shot is to start by aiming at the
first diamond on the end rail next to Pocket F and continue to
adjust the cue ball in the direction of the arrow until the shot
goes. Cue ball hit is dead top, no left or right.
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The first shot is from the follow portion of the trick shot
professional program. I like to call it “The Bump and Run.” The
two ball is adjustable in the jaws of Pocket E. It can be as far as
one ball’s width from the pocket cut. I usually place it about
a chalk cube width out from the cut. The one ball is in the
center of the table and on the first diamond line. The three
ball is centered between the points of Pocket F. The cue ball is
adjustable on the third diamond line.
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The third shot is the toughest of the three pinball shots, and
that is probably why I like it so much. I always like shots that
challenge my stroke, and this is one of them. Set up the balls as
diagrammed. I place the cue ball one ball’s width from the diamond line. The key to this shot is a 60% hit on the 1 ball with top
left english. The cue ball will use the 1 ball as a rail, carom into
Balls 2, 3, and 4 then follow into the 9 ball for the score.
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its number as a vertical line to aim at. I never adjust my stroke or
aim on this shot, only the position of the cue.
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As with all pinball wizard shots, of course there is a twist: Besides making sure you set up the shots correctly, you must have
a supple wrist. Oh come on, you didn’t think you were going to
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The next shot is a close cousin to the first. The instructions for the shot are almost identical, except that this is a
draw shot that I like to call “The Pinball Draw Shot.” The two
ball is adjustable in the jaws of Pocket E. It can be as far as
one ball’s width from the pocket cut. I usually place it about a
chalk cube width out from the cut. Ball 1 is in the center of the
table and on the first diamond line. The three ball is centered
between the points of Pocket D. The cue ball is adjustable on
the third diamond line.
The trick to this shot is to start by aiming at the first diamond
on the end rail next to Pocket F and continue to adjust the
cue ball toward Rail 3 until the shot goes. Cue ball hit is dead
draw, although I have seen some players use left or right.
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Jason Lynch
Jason Lynch grew up playing pool in Michigan. In
his early twenties he started playing in the VNEA and
placed as high as 16th in 8-ball and 9-ball. In 2005, he
won the Michigan VNEA speed pool contest. He has also
pocketed 11,100 and 12,011 balls in 24 hours as
fundraisers for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for
Life. In 2007 he had his best finish to date, placing sixth
at the Artistic Pool U.S. Open and winning the stroke category. Jason is ranked 14th in
the world by the WPA. His sponsors are Shelti Pool Tables, Seybert’s Billiard Supply,
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n 2001, a 16-year-old Neslihan Gurel walked into
her lunch period hangout, a pool room near her
school in Ankara, Turkey, in quite a different state
of mind from the many other times she’d been in
there—the formerly carefree teenager had just lost
her father. “I’m always afraid of telling the truth, of
people thinking I’m being too dramatic,” she confided before explaining, “When my father passed
away, I was, like, psycho, because I didn’t understand what was going on.”
After her father’s death, a heartbroken Gurel, who’d never lost
anyone close before, went through her life in a daze—a part of her
was waiting for her father to return. All the activities that used to
fill her time—swimming, squash, and ice skating among them—
stopped completely. Gurel’s mother allowed her daughter to grieve
in her own way for two months before suggesting she see a psychiatrist, who then made her own suggestion: find a new hobby.
“One day [at the poolroom], I just got the balls and started hitting
them so hard,” said Gurel. And when she told her psychiatrist that
pool gave her energy, that she was feeling better, the doctor prescribed more pool.
For a year, Gurel played without instruction, simply using the
pool balls like others use stress balls, taking all her emotion out on
them, and though she wasn’t working on her game, it nevertheless
caught the eye of an elderly regular. “He told me, ‘You’re playing
good, so let’s play together.’ Because before that, I was always playing alone,” Gurel recalled, adding with a laugh, “I was just beating
myself.”
The first thing her new mentor taught her was to shoot more
slowly, and then he worked on her technique. As the two worked
closely together, it was clear that Gurel’s natural athleticism lent itself well to her pool playing. “One day he said, ‘You are ready.’ I said,
‘Ready for what?’ He said, ‘Ready to play the Turkish Championship.’
I said, ‘Are you crazy?’”
Despite her protests that she was “just a beginner,” Gurel played
the Turkish Championship, which is not a single event, but rather a
professional circuit. “Luckily … I finished in third place. In my first
tournament.” Her mentor had an explanation for her: “You are so
talented, and you are great at this game. Most players try to beat
their opponents, but you are trying to beat yourself.” In fact, she
began hearing over and over how talented she was, and she began
playing as a professional. “I stopped everything else,” she said.
While she was still a rookie, though, she found that making
a living as a pro player in Turkey was next to impossible, despite
TV appearances and even her role as a high school pool teacher.
But an exhibition in Korea in December 2008, the second annual
“Showdown in Seoul,” opened the door to another possibility.
Welcome to The Big Apple
During the event, which pitted two three-lady teams—Team Korea and Team World—against each other in singles and team 8-ball,
9-ball, and three-cushion matches, Gurel found herself matched up
with Jeanette Lee in a game of three-cushion. “The problem was, it
was my first time playing three-cushion. But in that match, I don’t
know how it happened, I played awesome. In two innings, I finished
five to zero.”
And it wasn’t her only impressive performance. In a 9-ball match
against Yu Ram Cha, whose reputation at the time hadn’t reached
Gurel’s circle, Gurel got out to a strong lead. “I was playing really
so comfortable, so I could run out, and I was up three to zero, then
she came back. I didn’t stand up. She ran out, she’d break and run,
break and run.” Even though Gurel didn’t win the set, she achieved
a personal goal, which was playing up to her potential. And when
she met Cha’s coach, pro player Charlie Williams, he helped her see
a path to her goal of making a living playing pool.
Williams suggested that if she wanted to improve her game,
she should move to Asia or the United States. The idea of living
in the U.S. appealed to Gurel, and she set her sights on Orlando,
where a number of people she knew, including Williams and Cha,
were living. When it came time to move, though, a problem with
her flight to Orlando landed her in New York City for three weeks.
“Then when I stayed here, I changed my mind,” Gurel laughed. “I
needed to move to New York, not Orlando.”
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Culhane Crushes Tri-State Competition
Tri-State Tour / Queens, NY
Regional Roundup
Hatch Hammers Final Joss Event of the Season
Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour / Amsterdam, NY
by InsidePOOL Staff
Dennis Hatch may
not have won all of the
Joss Northeast 9-Ball
Tour’s events in the
2009-2010 season, but
he came very close. In
the tour’s season finale, “The Hatchetman”
bested Lyn Wechsler
to take yet another
title. Main Street Billiards in Amsterdam,
NY, hosted the $1,500added event and the
33 players who took
part in it.
Hatch went undefeated through
the event, defeating
Dwight Dixon in the
Dennis Hatch
winners’ side final
four easily 9-4. He went on to face Wechsler for the first time in the
hot seat after Wechsler advanced because of a forfeit by Spencer
Auigbelle. The hot seat match was neck and neck until Hatch finally
pulled away to win by a
Results:
narrow 9-7 margin.
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
7th
Dennis Hatch
Lyn Wechsler
Spencer Auigbelle
Dwight Dixon
Ron Casanzio
Jeremy Sossei
Kevin Guimond
Geoff Montgomery
$100
$700
$550
$400
$250
Once on the one-loss
side of the chart, Auigbelle returned to defeat
Jeremy Sossei and send
him home in a fifth-place
tie 9-6. Tied with Sossei
$100
was Ron Casanzio, who
was eliminated by Dixon
9-3. The ensuing quarter- Second Chance Results:
final match saw Auigbelle
1st
Kevin Ketz
$340
matched up with Dixon,
2nd
Jeff Smullen
$220
with Auigbelle sweep3rd
Brent Boemmels
$140
ing aside his opponent
4th
Bruce Carroll
$100
9-4. The semifinal match
5th
Tim Parisian
$50
was a lopsided affair, with
Walter Szydlowski
Wechsler routing Auigbelle 9-2 to earn another chance at Hatch. But Hatch took the lead
in the final match and kept it all the way, and though Wechsler put
six racks under his belt, it wasn’t enough to keep “The Hatchetman”
from yet another Joss Tour title.
In the $500-added second chance event for non-pro-rated
players, 20 players participated to try to earn their share of the
$900 total prize purse. The event’s format was double elimination and a race to 3. Kevin Ketz went smoothly through the field
unchallenged to earn first place over Jeff Smullen in the finals
3-2.
by InsidePOOL Staff
Ed Culhane went
undefeated through
the 25-player field
the Tri-State Tour’s
August 14 stop mustered, besting Daniel
Dagotdot in the finals.
The event was hosted Geoffrey Bauer, Ed Culhane, Daniel Dagotdot
by Master Billiards in
Queens, NY, and featured a $750-added purse.
A 7-4 defeat of Trevor Heal in the winners’ side final four
put Culhane into the hot seat match. His opponent was Geoffrey Bauer, who had just delivered Dagotdot to the one-loss side
of the chart 7-4. Bauer put up a fight in the hot seat match, but
Culhane prevailed 7-4.
Once on the west side, Dagotdot bounced back, eliminating Mike Harrington 7-5, as Heal fell to Andrew Kane 7-2. Dagotdot and Kane moved on to the quarterfinal match, where they
fought tooth and nail for the right to advance. Dagotdot edged
out Kane 7-6 and went
on to face Bauer in the Results:
semifinals. Bauer didn’t 1st
Ed Culhane
$500
put up much of a fight, 2nd
Daniel Dagotdot
$270
and Dagotdot was able 3rd
Geoffrey Bauer
$180
to move past him 7-2. In 4th
Andrew Kane
$100
the final match, it was all
5th
Trevor Heal
$50
Culhane, as he pushed
Mike Harrington
past Dagotdot 7-3 to
win the title.
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Regional Roundup
Page Pushes Through for GSBT Victory
Great Southern Billiard Tour / Sanford, NC
by Lea Andrews
After a thirdround loss to Cary
Dunn, Steven Page
took the long way to
Jimmie Bullis, Steven Page, Shannon Daulton, ultimate victory at
Glenn Russell
the Great Southern
Billiard Tour’s August
14-15 stop, which drew 56 players to Speakeazy Billiards in Sanford, NC. The $1,500-added event was sponsored by Nick Varner
Cues and Cases, as well as Andy Gilbert Custom Cues, for which
tour director Shannon “The Cannon” Daulton is now a player
representative.
While Page was pounding his way through the left side of the
bracket, tour regular Glenn Russell was making his way through
the right side, getting past fellow A-player Dana Hallett 9-7 to
arrive in the hot seat match against Hope Gladden. A-ranked
Gladden had just held Dunn to four games, but he managed just
seven against Russell, who claimed the hot seat as his own while
Gladden moved over to the semifinals.
On the one-loss side, A-ranked Chris Adams, who’d taken a
first-round 11-1 hit from AA-ranked Jeff Abernathy, ousted Branked James Blackburn 9-6 and A-ranked David King 9-5 to face
Hallett. Meanwhile, Page was taking down B players Asia Cycak
9-3 and Lay Thammajong 9-3 to meet back up with Dunn. He got
his vengeance with his 9-7 victory, plus a spot in the quarterfinals against Adams, who’d put Hallett in fifth 9-5. It was the end
of the road for Adams, though, as he finished in fourth 9-6. In
the semifinals, Gladden was looking for a rematch with Russell,
but Page had his eye on the finals, and he got there by keeping
Gladden two racks shy of his goal—Page moved on 9-7.
In the first set of the true double-elimination final match,
Page and Russell fought to hill-hill, but when Russell scratched
on the 8 ball, the set went Results:
to Page. The second set
Steven Page
$1,000
was a virtual replica of 1st
Glenn Russell
$500
the first, stretching out 2nd
3rd
Hope
Gladden
$250
once again to hill-hill,
4th
Chris
Adams
$170
when another error on
Dana Hallett
$125
the 8 ball cost Russell 5th
Cary
Dunn
the game, set, match,
David King
$75
and tournament. Vic- 7th
Lay Thammajong
tory belonged to Page James Blackburn
$45
9-8, his first on the Great 9th
Chris
Vollmar
Southern Billiard Tour.
Larry Faulk
Asia Cycak
56 InsidePOOL Magazine ◊ October 2010
16-Year-Old Satinoff New Florida State Champ
Florida State Amateur Championships /
Fort Pierce, FL
by InsidePOOL Staff
Sixty-one players
attempted to become
the next Florida State
amateur champion the
weekend of August
14-15, but it was 16year-old Danny Satinoff Gary Gilsinan,Natalie Crosby, Justin Gilsinan,
who prevailed, taking Tony Crosby, Danny Satinoff, Bill Mallen
the title at the Florida
State Amateur Championships. This $1,500-added event was
hosted by Ultimate Billiards in Fort Pierce, FL, and held in conjunction with the Poison U.S. 9-Ball Tour.
Satinoff scored victories over Wesley White 7-5, Eddie Cabrera 7-4, Danny Ramirez 7-6, Floyd Reasons 7-6, and then Justin Gilsinan 7-5 to reach the hot seat match. Hans Berber notched wins
over Dan Lettau 7-6, Brad Watters 7-3, Johnny Aguilar 7-3, Fred
Kenney 7-6, and yet another hill-hill win over Jarred Schlauch to
reach Satinoff. The ensuing match was a lopsided 7-0 affair that
saw Satinoff remain undefeated while Berber went to the oneloss side of the chart.
After eliminating Meglino in fifth place, Gilsanan had to face
last year’s winner, David Uwate. Uwate’s five-match winning
streak came to an end as
Results:
Gilsanan recorded a 6-2
Danny Satinoff
$1000
win. Gilsanan went on to 1st
Justin Gilsinan
$600
face Berber in the semifi- 2nd
Hans Berber
$400
nals and looked good at 3rd
David Uwate
$350
the beginning, holding a 4th
Anthony Meglino $250
5-2 lead, only for Berber 5th
Jarred Schlauch
to fight his way back to Jim Sandaler
$150
5-all before Gilsanan took 7th
Chip Dickerson
the last rack to reach the Fred Kenney
$100
finals. But Satinoff proved 9th
Daniel Mosey
to be too strong for Gil- Floyd Reasons
sanan and took control of Tito Solari
the match early, finishing $60
it off with a comfortable 13th Ob Cirillo
Prescott Buckwold
8-3 win.
Chrs Gentile
Mark Wathen
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Regional Roundup
Bryant and Ng Best Port Arthur Field
Lone Star Billiards Tour / Port Arthur, TX
by InsidePOOL Staff
Local news coverage of the Lone Star
Billiards Tour’s August
28-29 stop added to
the excitement, as the
$1,350-added event
attracted 43 open and
13 women players to
Crazy 8’s Family Pool
Charlie Bryant, Sylver Ochoa, Ming Ng, Marie
Hall in Port Arthur, TX.
Chhuon, Tony Nguyen
Charlie “Hillbilly” Bryant took precedence in the open division, while Ming Ng won
the women’s event.
Match play wrapped up on Saturday evening and brought
the final 12 back Sunday. On the winners’ side final eight, Bryant bested Will Felder 9-3, David Gutierrez dusted Dalton Riley
9-4, Sylver Ochoa ousted Brian Rosenbaum 9-2, and it was Mike
Alonzo over Viet Do 9-5. After being down by a deficit of 5-1,
Gutierrez sent Bryant west by a score of 9-7, and Ochoa stopped
Alonzo cold. In the hot
Open Results:
seat match, Ochoa sent
Charlie Bryant
$800
Gutierrez west 9-0 while 1st
2nd
Sylver
Ochoa
$400
the one-loss side played
3rd
David Gutierrez
$300
out.
4th
Dalton Riley
$200
5th
Mike
Alonzo
$125
It was David Heinz
Brian
Rosenbaum
over Rosenbaum and Do
Viet Do
$80
over Rodney Stewart, Troy 7th
Troy Woodard
Woodard bested Felder, Chuck Pham
$45
and Riley eliminated 9th
Will
Felder
Chuck Pham. Rosenbaum
Rodney Stewart
took down Do to meet David Heinz
up with Bryant, and Riley
eliminated Woodard to
meet up with Alonzo. One Ladies’ Results:
Ming Ng
round later, it was Bryant 1st
Mary Chhuon
versus Riley but “Hillbilly” 2nd
Loretta Lindgren
made quick work of him 3rd
Belinda Lee
7-0 then eliminated Guti- 4th
errez 7-4. In the finals
$265
$170
$70
$40
Ochoa came on strong 4-1 and then 6-4, but Bryant gave his final
answer 9-7. In overtime, Bryant wasted no time and defeated
Ochoa 7-3.
In the ladies’ event, Ng’s play was close to flawless, scoring
wins over Love Nguyen, Belinda Lee, Marie Chhuon, and Loretta
Lindgren. It was Chhuon who made her way out of the woods
and into the finals but was outgunned by Ng 7-1.
Kraber Wins First OB Cues Event
OB Cues Ladies’ Tour / Richardson, TX
by InsidePOOL Staff
Texas wasn’t the only thing hot the weekend of August 2122—when the OB Cues Ladies’ Tour held their $2,000-added sixth
tour stop, the heat was on for the competitors as well. The Billiard Den in Richardson, TX, hosted the 36
ladies, and Jennifer
Kraber won her first
OB Cues title.
Lisa Marr went
head to head with
Kraber for the hot
Lisa Marr, Tracie Voelkering, Marci Rothberg,
seat, and the hardLarry Rothberg, Jennifer Kraber, Amanda
fought win went to Lampert, Julie Stephenson
Kraber in a hill-hill
finish. Angela Garza and Julie Comitini finished seventh, Michelle
Cortez and Lisa Henderson-Major tied for fifth, Orietta Strickland
took fourth, and Julie SteResults:
phenson finished in third
1st
Jennifer Kraber
$750
place.
2nd Lisa Marr
$550
$400
Kraber, who just this 3rd Julie Stephenson
$280
year has been in the finals 4th Orietta Strickland
5th
Lisa
Henderson-Major
$160
three additional times,
Michelle
Cortez
considered herself “al$110
ways a bridesmaid, never 7th Angela Garza
Julie Comitini
a bride.” This day, though, $60
she defeated Marr in the 9th Monica Anderson
Kim
Pierce
finals with a score of 7-3.
Melinda Bailey
Kraber has been a con- Corina Campbell
sistent player on the OB
13th
Michelle Prince
$35
Cues Ladies’ Tour, and
Rebecca
Riley
with her first tour win
Annie Doyle
ever, she is at the top of Tara Williams
the rankings.
Upcoming Central Tournaments
10/9-10 Fast Eddie’s Olhausen 9-Ball Tour
Fast Eddie’s Billiards
Lubbock, TX
210-241-3116 $1,500
Open
10/9-10 OB Cues Ladies’ 9-Ball Tour
Fast Eddie’s Billiards
Austin, TX
512-248-0646 $2,000
Ladies
10/9-10 Lone Star Billiards Tour
Slick Willie’s
Houston, TX
713-303-8111 $1,350
Open
10/16-17 Lone Star Billiards Tour
Casper’s Billiards
San Leon, TX
281-559-1400 $1,550
Open
10/23-24 Fast Eddie’s Olhausen 9-Ball Tour
Fast Eddie’s Billiards
College Station, TX
210-241-3116 $1,500
Open
10/23-24 Brickyard Bar Table Classic
Brickyard Billiards
Indianapolis, IN
317-248-0555 $1,500
Open
10/30-31 Lone Star Billiards Tour
Bogies Billiards and Games
Houston, TX
281-821-4544 $3,000
Open
11/3-7
Texas State BCAPL 9-Ball Champs E-Center
Harker Heights, TX
317-440-1143 $3,000
Members
11/6-7
Lone Star Billiards Tour
Skinny Bob’s
Round Rock, TX
512-733-1111 $1,350
Open
11/20-21 Fast Eddie’s Olhausen 9-Ball Tour
Fast Eddie’s Billiards
Houston, TX
210-241-3116 $1,500
Open
11/20-21 Great Southern Billiard Tour
Michael’s Billiards
Fairfield, OH
513-860-0044 $1,500
Amateurs
60 InsidePOOL Magazine ◊ October 2010
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Regional Roundup
Piazza Double-Dips Owen
Bar Table 8-Ball Tournament / Englewood, CO
by Samm Diep, PoolTipJar.com
On August 21-22,
Table Steaks South
(soon to be known as
Billiards Ink) in Englewood, CO, hosted a
$1,000-added bar table 8-ball tournament,
Gabe Owen, Ruben Silva, Tommy Tokoph,
the second in a series
of big-money-added
Tony Piazza
events this summer.
The tournament was held in conjunction with a Team CSI exhibition
featuring Earl Strickland and John Schmidt, led by team manager Mark
Cantrill.
This weekend’s festivities drew a field of
57 top players from
across the state, including cameo appearances from 2004
U.S.
Open champion Gabe Owen and
Albuquerque’s favorite
Tommy Tokoph. Owen
Earl Strickland, Bobby Brown, Antoinette went undefeated in
Wharton, Gabe Owen, John Schmidt the finals to await
his opponent, while
Tokoph worked his way through the left side of the field after his
third-round loss to Colorado Springs’ Ruben Silva. Tokoph eliminated
a handful of tough players Results:
before meeting up with
Tony Piazza
$1,060
8-ball expert Tony Piazza. 1st
Gabe Owen
$560
Tokoph had to settle for 2nd
fourth while Piazza went 3rd
Ruben Silva Jr.
$240
on to face Silva, who was 4th
Tommy Tokoph
$190
just sent west by Owen.
5th
Ron Lincoln
$135
It was an ACUI faceoff. Silva, the 2004 ACUI
champ, and Piazza, a twotime ACUI winner, put
on an 8-ball clinic for the
room full of spectators.
The gentlemen exchanged
7th
9th
Sam Cordova
Bobby Begey
$80
Steve Chan
Ed Barego
$50
John Sanderfer
Richie Cunningham
Andy Pettinger
racks until the score was tied 3-3. In the final game, Piazza broke the
balls wide open and weaved through a sophisticated run-out to face
Owen in the finals. “I got fourth last time and third this time, so I should
get at least second next time,” jokingly said Silva.
With two savvy bar table 8-ball players in the finals, the crowd knew
they were in for a treat. Very few errors were made in the first set. It was
run-out after run-out. Then, in the final rack at 4-4, Owen made a critical
error. He scratched on the break, allowing Piazza to run that rack and
take the first set. The theme continued into the second set, except this
time, Owen seemed to lose some focus. With only a race to 4, every little
mistake counted. While up 3-2, Piazza finally gave up on his second ball
break and blasted the rack wide open to run out.
Williams Wins in Phoenix
Arizona Women’s Billiard Tour / Phoenix, AZ
by InsidePOOL Staff
Susan Williams went
undefeated at the Arizona Women’s Billiard
Tour’s fourth stop of
the season to take the
title, winning over Susan
Mello in the finals. The
$300-added event was
hosted by Bullshooters
in Phoenix, AZ, and held August 28-29.
Final Eight
Mello got past Sara Miller on the winners’ side and moved on to the
hot seat match, where she faced Williams for the first time in the event.
Williams had just defeated Ashea Erdahl. On a roll, Williams claimed the
hot seat 7-3, sending Mello to the west side of the chart.
After eliminating Barbara Lee in seventh place, Samm “Cherry
Bomb” Diep faced off against Erdahl. Diep also experienced success in
that match and moved on to the quarterfinals. Her opponent was Miller,
who had just ousted SunResults:
ny Griffin. It was a tightly
contested battle, but Diep
1st
Susan Williams
$250
edged out Miller 7-5 and
2nd
Susan Mello
$150
advanced to the semifi3rd
Samm Diep
$100
nals. Mello was waiting for
4th
Sara Miller
$60
her, and it was Mello who
5th
Sunny
Griffin
$40
won the match 7-3.
Ashea Erdahl
7th
Jery Engh
$30
The finals were a single
Barbara Lee
race to 9, and from being
tied at 5 apiece, the score
quickly seesawed to a double-hill affair. Hooked behind the 1 ball after
her break, Mello pushed out. Williams pocketed the 1 ball and cleared
the table to win the match 9-8.
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Lincoln City, OR
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