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Ashley Benoit becomes first Jersey Girl competitor to bring home 3 of event’s 5 trophies You’d think that after all this time, we here at AZBilliards wouldn’t be surprised to see someone we’d never heard of win a ‘major’ event. We are not the informational gatekeepers for every body that wields...

There is a noteworthy dynamic at work in the Northwest Women’s Pool Association (NWPA) Tour, which held its most recent 25th anniversary tour stop (#4) this past weekend (July 17-19). Kathie MacDonald retained her position at the top of the tour’s member standings by going undefeated in the...

Billiards has officially returned to the Rocky Mountain State Games (RMSG), Colorado’s Olympic‑style amateur sports festival produced by the Colorado Springs Sports Corporation, promoted by event commissioner Samm Diep-Vidal, and directed by USA Cue Sports national tournament director, Jose...

The World Nineball Tour is delighted to confirm the official qualification cut-off events for two of the sport’s biggest team competitions, with places at the 2026 Reyes Cup and 2026 Mosconi Cup to be decided during the remainder of the 2026 WNT season. The 2026 US Open Pool Championship (25–30...

THE 2026 KAMUI European Youth Pool Championships concluded this evening at the Terme Olimia Resort, in Podčetrtek, Slovenia as the three 9-ball tournaments played out in the afternoon and the two team events in the evening. Individual golds went to Gabriel Aspholm of Sweden, Slovakia’s Mark...

AFTER EIGHT DAYS of play at the 2026 KAMUI European Youth Pool Championships, just one day remains and it promises to be a medal extravaganza. The three 9-ball finals plus the two Team championship deciders add up to a day of thrills, spills, joy and heart-break. It will also complete the medal...

THE 8-BALL FINALS at the 2026 KAMUI European Youth Pool Championships delivered high drama and glory as well as disappointment as Rachelle Enfroy (FRA), Mark Szabo (SVK) and Robin Hauge Pettersen (NOR) took home the gold medals. Enfroy defeated Julia Cabala of Poland 5-0 in less than 30 minutes...

Big Dog Billiards in Des Moines, IA hosted their annual extravaganza and, as usual, it was a huge success. Owners Jim Landrum and Randy Hanson and their Executive Assistant Jeremy White welcomed the hundreds of pool players, fans and cuemakers to their beautiful room this past week to show their...

Legends are often a combination of remarkable skill in a given arena (pool, for example), combined with a certain degree of story-telling, wherein the subject (Kim Davenport, for example) becomes a mix of real-life accomplishments over time, combined with attributes that can seem unlikely...

Last year fell a little short of being Winston-Salem, NC’s Niko Konkel’s best recorded earnings year with us here at AZBilliards. At the age of 14, he recorded his first cash payout with us (two of them, actually) in 2021 and the following year, won his first regional tour title on the Q City...

Yen Huynh from Los Angeles pulled a double dip in the final to win stop #3 in The West Coast Women’s Tour. Thirty-two women from across California participated in this double-elimination tournament at staple host venue Family Billiards in San Francisco, California. Huynh won her way to the...

Dubuque, Iowa — The wheelchair divisions took center stage Friday at the 2026 USA National Pool Championships, where Bill Larson claimed the 2026 USA National Wheelchair 8-Ball Championship and Derrick Bonds successfully defended his national title by capturing the 2026 USA National Wheelchair...

THERE WAS MORE action today at the 2026 KAMUI European Youth Pool Championships in 9-ball, Teams and 8-ball where the quarter-finalists have been determined in the Girl’s and Under 19s while the Under 17s resume at the last 16 stage tomorrow. All three events conclude on Sunday evening with the...

THERE WERE MORE gold medal deciders at the KAMUI European Youth Pool Championships in Slovenia as the closing stages of the 10-ball tournaments played out in front of a large, enthusiastic crowd. Merle Schmitz of Germany claimed the Girl’s title while Timothei Furko won an all-Slovakian showdown...

Apparently, the ‘600 and under’ range of FargoRates is more intimidating than the ‘550 and under’ range. At a ‘550 and under,’ June 27-28 stop on the Sullivan Open Pool Tour at Shooters Family Billiards in Wayne, NJ, half of the 42-entrant field had FargoRates in the 400s. Two weeks later, this...