Houston’s Shahram Changezi has won Event 2 of the 2026 United States Snooker Association (USSA) National Tour, after winning the 2026 Wiraka Colorado Snooker Open at the Hampton Inn & Suites in Boulder, Colorado. Changezi started the event as one of the early favorites to take the title, and he came through his group in such a fashion to reflect this as he cruised to three successive 2-0 victories over opponents Abhishek Lingashetty, Mitchell Sayre and Colin Holgate. Changezi advanced out from his group to face Ray McCarthy in the round of 16, and breaks of 64 and 40 helped […]
he basically did get paid in full for the debt. but time frame he really got paid 40 cents on the dollar.
oscar might have been very happy to get anything at all, as most would have. and being a great guy accepted graciously with no hard feelings as least his public say.
well at least the thing is over between them and that is good. but if i ever did business with one of them it is obvious which one would it be.
Yeah, after about two years of losing every single 9ball and every single 10ball match to Josh, Fedor is definitely due. Perhaps, as you suggest, the US Open 9ball will be where Fedor turns the tables on him. I am a fan of Fedor, and I'd love to see him regain his top gear, which we haven't seen in a while.
Obviously, this isn't true. Our sport is one in which winning four rotational pool majors in a year is a phenomenal year. With deeper fields than our sport has ever seen and globalization of the game still in high gear, it's hard to imagine that anyone will produce a Varner-1989 or Immonen-2009 kind of year anytime soon.
Admittedly, Filler's 2026 is already incredible. Josh has already won the Las Vegas 10 ball and the WNT UK Open. He also won the Derby City 9ball, convincingly knocking off both SVB and Gorst en route to victory. The thing about Filler is that he seems to have an incredible year as often as any player of the 9ball era.
with in reason im right Stu, as filler is taking so much of the top money paid in tournaments . along with a very small subset of top players. not enough left for the good pro to pay expenses if he has to travel far. certainly if out of the country.
they are obviously out classed against the very best.
there has to be a way for the pros to win more , or some guarantee show-up fee for them. or you may find most start dropping out of long travel.
time will tell. but if i am right it might mean no going backwards.
They call him ‘Django,’ with the ‘d’ apparently silent. You don’t get many pool nicknames that are first-person, singular verbs, but this is one of them. In the Romani (Indo-Aryan) language, it means “I awake.” The word came to use in the Philippines when, in the 1990s, a legendary, Romani jazz guitarist by the name of Django Reinhardt became popular in the islands, where Francisco Bustamante was born in 1963, declaring (after a sort-of nine-month slumber) that he was ‘awake,’ four days after Christmas. He picked the nickname up early in his career, when he was in his mid-to-late 20s, […]
Last year the China World Games drew some of the top European pros at the same time the Florida Open was being played. Filler, Woj, Maciol and Szolnoki among them.
There does not appear to be a conflict this year. WPA calendar doesn't have any other big competing men's events taking place. It will be interesting to see the Florida Open field this year. Haven't seen any indications of whether Filler will show.
Nice video work, if you are a cyclopes. There are far too many videos out there in this format. It would be nice if they could be formatted for wide screen viewing too.
For those who were wondering about the cost of all the restoration...
The chateau and all the buildings around it and 18 acres of land cost about a million dollars. The owners have spent about three million so far in the restoration. Because it is a historic site, the French government supports the restoration work, with the requirement that the work be done by skilled/approved architects and workers. It seems that the chateau started to be abandoned after WWI, after the cheap local labor died fighting the Germans. No one had lived there permanently "for decades", and 11 different family members were co-owners, so nothing got repaired.
