Results
Howdy ya'll, we had a well rounded crowd of 28 for our first US Open 9-ball Championship Qualifier. We had players from around the globe to come in and take a stab for a 50 dollar seat in the 2009 US Open :thumbup:
From Mexico we had Mauro Encarso, from Jordan was Zaid "Zee" the Saudi open winner, out from China, Jui Lung Chen (has won 2 NCS qualifiers this year" also Jerry Chuang,
Azers: Chase "da bank", KenRogoway "Rougeplayer", Doug Winnet "bullshooter' with him was Jimmy Sisemore best wishes to Charlie "Papa Red" Smith he could not make it., and Noel, Up I-45 from Houston was Yoko, David Parker and Raul Escobedo, From Canton was Tony Prillize
Robbie Cleland, Hubert Baker, Jeff Kimbrell sans Barbra, Tony Ewart, and Mark Whit showed up to play
DFW players we had Cody Wright, Adam P., Jon Rawlins,both Robert Newkirk and Robert Clark.
The UNT players that showed were Andrew Walters and Justin Cromer
Our own JR Pockets manager Andrew Brown even took a shot.
after a nine month hiatus Zack "rackem zackem" Ballas was in the house.
The mini tourny for the quick exit players was taken down by David Parker over Robert Newkirk
5/6th went to Doug Winnet and Mauro
4th was taken by Zee
After dropping his second match 7-3 to Mauro, Noel came through the second chance bracket to take Mauro 5-2 and Zee 5-3 to take home home 3rd
A single race to nine for the finals, TJ Davis up 7-2 verse Chen in the alternating break match watched as Chen hit that gear we have all seen and he climbed back into the match, with a 5 to 1 run
, now with TJ breaking at 8-7, B & R for the win. :thumbup:
2nd to Chen :clapping:
1st a well earned US Open spot for TJ Davis :dance:
He was so taken aback when filling out the form that for a moment could not remember his address.
, you think he had never won a tourny before.:smile:
Good luck to ya in October you earned this spot for sure
We paid out just under 2000 plus the $600 entry into the Open
could not get the stream up and running big thanks to Ken for all the help :thumbup:
Also thankyou to all the spectators we had that suffered through the AC shutting down
Big props to all the players shooting well through the added heat.
To Roy the owner of JRs for letting us have this Open qualifier, Andrew Brown thankyou thankyou
to the staff Danny "new bartender" and hottie
, Indura and Nickie the other hotties (AC was down)
Shane Johnson "cuephoric" getting the tables up.
anyone else I forgot mention Thankyou
Capt K ooouuuttt
