IPT Announcement - Dates, Locations, and Event Information for 2006 Tour Card

IPT Announcement - Dates, Locations, and Event Information for 2006 Tour Card Qualifying Tournamentswww.internationalpooltour.com (http://www.internationalpooltour.com/)The entry fee for each tournament is $2000. Each tournament will be a Double-Elimination competition with races to ten. The Two players from each tournament who will win tour cards will be the winner of the winning side and the winner of the losing side of the brackets. IPT Rules, which can be read on line, govern each tournament. There is very limited space at each event so entries are based on a first-come, first-served basis. Players should not miss this chance to play on the IPT tour by failing to register in time. On line registration is the only way to enter these events and the form is on the IPT web site www.internationalpooltour.com (http://www.internationalpooltour.com/). Absolutely no entries will be allowed at the tournament; no money will be accepted at the events.

Pool Cues, Pool Sticks and Cue Sticks

Pool Cues, Pool Sticks and Cue Sticks

Ask any great player and they’ll tell you that the most import piece of equipment that a pool player can own would is a pool cue. The modern two-piece pool cue has been around for over a century. The pool cue actually started as a mace , which was an instrument that had a club-like end and the player would simply scoot, shove or hit the cueball with as they desired. The o­ne-piece cue as we know it today when a leather tip was added at o­ne end so to decrease miscues. chalk soon followed aftwerwards and the evolution of english and spin took over the imagination of the players.
Players soon decided to travel with their own cues, since they noticed that they played better with a familiar instrument, and the two-piece cue became an overnight necessity. About that time, cuemakers invented methods to secure the two pieces of the cue. This spawned the invention of several modern-day joints that pool cues use today. Several advancements have been made to enhance the pool cue and it’s playing characteristics, but for the most part all cues have the same elements of construction; butt, shaft, joint, tip and ferrule.

Team USA Wins Mosconi Cup 11-6

Team USA Wins Mosconi Cup 11-6Shawn Putnam 4-5 Mika Immonen Finland

Team USA on the Hill at Mosconi Cup

Team USA on the Hill at Mosconi CupU.S. skipper Johnny Archer, partnered by Jeremy Jones, took Team USA to the brink of Mosconi Cup glory as they scored a victory over Thorsten Hohmann and Raj Hundal of Europe to move to the hill in the race-to-11 competition. Things started brightly for the Europeans as they won the opening doubles match to take themselves within one point of the Americans. It was all downhill from there, though, as the Americans proceeded to win the next four matches to make Sunday

Team USA Leads 6-4 After Day 2 of Mosconi Cup

Team USA Leads 6-4 After Day 2 of Mosconi CupIt

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