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Prior to this past weekend (April 25-26), the last time Fayetteville, NC’s Joshua Shultz won a pool tournament (of which we are aware), he was a teenager. He’d entered our database for the first time in June of 2018, when he’d finished in a tie for 5th place at a stop on the Q City 9-Ball Tour...

Rebekah Green comes from the loss side to win Natural Born Women’s event John Maikke, from Mableton, GA, came from a win on the Rack Race Series in South Carolina a week ago (April 18), and travelled (presumably from his home in Mableton) just over four hours to compete in the Jersey Girl...

Coming off his best recorded earnings year with us (’25), Hungary’s Oliver Szolnoki is on track to make this year his best, after executing an undefeated run at the $15,000-added 17th Annual Bob Stocks Memorial, which drew 62 entrants to On Cue Sports Bar & Grill in Front Royal, VA this past...

As the Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour heads into the final two stops of its ‘25/’26 season, 13 of its 17 stops, to date, have been won by four of its competitors. Jeremy Sossei leads that pack with five wins, while Tom Cayer, Luka Fracasso-Verner, Curtis Wright and Ron Casanzio have won two each...

The United States Snooker Association (USSA) Tour is back in 2026 as the Nashville Snooker Academy in Brentwood, Tennessee, hosts the season opening event, the 2026 Tennessee State Snooker Championship, on May 16 & 17. There is expected to be a total of twelve events on this season’s Tour...

Carlos Mario Villegas is the 2026 USBA National Champion. Villegas advanced as the top seed from Group C in the round robin stage, only dropping one match to King Lee 30-28. That loss still left Villegas with a 5-1 group play record, which was the best in the group. After a first round bye...

The World Nineball Tour is delighted to confirm the return of Johan Ruijsink as captain of Team USA for the 2026 Mosconi Cup, as the Americans look to reclaim victory on home soil at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida from 27–30 November. DON’T MISS THE MOSCONI CUP BLOCKBUSTER –...

The 2026 USBA National Champion will be crowned today, and the only thing that is known for certain is that it won’t be 2025 Champion Raymon Groot defending his title. After a dominating 40-12 win over Henry Ugartechea in the round of 32, Groot was eliminated in the round of 16 by Carlos Mario...

Status designations can get tricky when it comes to pool players. Everybody recognizes the Professional status; that upper echelon of competition that plays out on world stages. So, too with the ‘Amateur’ status, which generally occurs at an Amateur pool league level. There is, too, a ProAm...

Day one play finished at the 2026 USBA National Championships with relatedly few major surprises. Defending champion Raymon Grout remained undefeated in his round robin group, along with former champion Hugo Patino. Also undefeated after day one was another former champion, Pedro Piedrabuena...

(North Palm Beach, FL) Village Cue Club was on fire this weekend — in the best way — as the Billiards division of the 2026 First Responder Games delivered three days of great competition from Florida’s finest. First Responders from around the state rolled in ready to battle on the tight Diamond...

This coming weekend (April 24-26), the nation’s most important team billiard competition will take place at Galeria Łódzka. It is there, on a specially prepared stage, that a TV table will be set up to host 12 matches at the highest level. The world’s best billiard players will be in action. We...

We’re about midway through the fourth season of the Rack Race series of tournaments, (currently looking ahead to #10 of 18 scheduled events, organized and run by Michael Newsome at his Rack & Grill locations in Georgia and South Carolina. While the entrant numbers can wax and wane depending on...

Raymon Groot will look to defend his USBA National Championship title this week as the 2026 USBA (United States Billiard Association) National Championship is held at Bergen Billiards in Palisades Park, NJ. The event kicks off on Thursday (April 23rd) with eight round robin groups of seven...

Ramon Alvarado signed on to compete in the Sullivan Open Tour’s event this past weekend (Sat., April 18), looking for his second, regional tour win on the tour, having won his first, just shy of a couple of months ago (Sat., February 28). He found it. Sort of. He went undefeated to the hot seat...