Philippine Open to Start World Ranking Tour It’s all systems go for the first-ever Philippine Open Pool Championship which will kick off at SM Megamall, Megatrade Hall 2, on Wednesday, May 27, 2009, and the best of the best in the world will compete for top prizes and highly coveted places in the world rankings of [...]

BEF Junior National Qualifiers Underway The Billiard Education Foundation (BEF) would like to invite junior billiard athletes to participate in qualifying tournaments for the 21st Annual Junior National 9-Ball Championships. Qualifying tournaments are currently underway throughout the United States and will continue through June 14th. Junior players that qualify will be eligible to participate in the [...]

Painter Crowned VA 8-Ball Champ VA State 8-Ball Championship / Virginia Beach, VA by Lea Andrews Famed Q-Master Billiards in Virginia Beach, VA, hosted the 2009 VA State 8-Ball Championship May 16. With 32 players vying for the win, the competition was fierce, but Mike Painter stayed strong, outlasting the field and walking away with the cash, [...]

Shuffett Celebrates Southern GSBT Victory Great Southern Billiard Tour / Greenville, SC by Joshua Johnson, Inside POOL Fourteen-year-old Landon Shuffett moved through a field of 55 players to take home the $1,000 first-place prize and crystal trophy in the Great Southern Billiard Tour’s return to Greenville, SC. Shuffett, rated an A player in the GSTB’s A-B amateur [...]

Bennett Turns the Page on Another Jacoby Win Jacoby Carolina Tour / Rocky Mount, NC by Lea Andrews On May 16-17, Sharks-n-Shooters in Rocky Mount, NC, hosted the guaranteed $1,000-added ninth stop of the Jacoby Carolina Tour, and the field of 40 was a solid spectrum of players, from juniors Jackson “Smoky” Jeffreys and Patrick Pipkin to local [...]

Great Southern Billiard Tour Returns Home to Greenville Great Southern Billiard Tour / Greenville, SC by Joshua Johnson, InsidePOOL Staff After a trip north to Ohio, the Great Southern Billiard Tour returned to its roots in the South as its most recent event kicked off at The Palace in Greenville, SC, the weekend of May 16-17.  A great [...]

Irish Invasion at Great Lakes Ladies’ 9-Ball Open Mid-American Ladies’ Tour / Evansville, IN by Lea Andrews “The Irish Invader” Karen Corr and fellow countrywoman Julie “Motor Molly” Kelly were two of the fourteen women vying for the biggest chunk of the prize money at the second stop of the Mid-American Ladies’ Tour, a $1500-added WPBA qualifier event [...]

Tri-State Tour / Parsippany, NJ by Lea Andrews On May 16, Comet Billiards in Parsippany, NJ, hosted a $500-added A-D Tri-State Tour event that drew 37 players. After tearing up the one-loss side, Christian Smith clinched first and $750. In the winners’ side quarterfinals, Jose Cruz, having just won two hill-hill matches, found himself in another. [...]

National Championship Series 14.1 / Latham, NY by Lea Andrews A small but strong field of 12 men gathered at Diamond 8 Billiards in Latham, NY, May 16 for the New York 14.1 State Championship, a qualifying event for the NCS National Championship in Parsippany, NJ. After a long day of undefeated play, Tom Walter of [...]

Tiger Bay Area Amateur Tour / Tampa, FL by Lea Andrews Strokers Billiards in Tampa, FL, hosted the fifth stop of the Tiger Bay Area Amateur Tour May 16. Out of the 13 ladies who arrived for the $260-added event, it was Melissa Morlan who emerged as the winner, claiming first place and $225. The match for [...]