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Interesting FB comments from Duong Quoc Hoang: ONE MONTH IN AMERICA. FIVE TOURNAMENTS. Vice City Classic - 5th Florida Open - 9th Arizona Open - 17th Phoenix Open - 17th US Open - 33rd Not the results I came here hoping for. This month was a struggle for me, probably more mentally than...

Men’s 10 ball prizes: Champion$80,0001 2nd$40,0001 3-4th$20,0002 5-8th$10,0004 9-16th$5,0008 17-32nd$2,50016 33-48th$1,25016

Chua is playing … and so is Justin Bergman! Interesting no-shows: AJ Manas and Alexa Pecelj. Thorpe, Styer, Woodward, Gorst and SVB also listed. Ko brothers played in this last year. Not this year.

As I thought, Chua is playing at the Predator World 10-ball tournament and a mixed doubles event in Vietnam. He is keeping a foot in both worlds, Chinese and Western pool.

True. But I can read the magazine digitally at night with the light off and my wife asleep without disturbing her.

Agreed. More players from Taipei and the Philippines will go there because the money is good, but so far only the Ko brothers and Chua were major contenders for a WPA-WNT title. I don’t think Chua is entirely done with traditional 9-ball. He was messaging FB supporters to watch the U.S. Open on...

Not sure I’d want to be taking stimulants playing pool, but if there were something scandalous here, we would have heard from other players by now.

I wonder if Matchroom will pick Hoang for the Reyes again. There was no Hanoi Open this year and no word if it will be back. What is the business/revenue case for Hoang if Matchroom doesn’t go back to Vietnam? I bet MR would like to add Januarta, but I don’t see two teens on the team. Manas...

Maybe you’ve seen it all, but I haven’t. Just $32 a year, and no, it’s not just pictures. Plenty of good information for people like me. Great story on Mika before he died. The archives are good too. Glad there is still one industry mag alive.

This is great. Now I want to look up a bunch of older matches.

Not dismissing it. I just think it’s the second biggest event in pool. Just a hair behind the U.S Open. I think it is imperative Matchroom try to hold the event this year. The prize fund was similar to the U.S. Open until 2024, when it moved to Saudi Arabia, briefly as it turned out. The...

I think we all know what everyone thinks here of Rogan. Like or dislike, time to move on. Great final.

What was the crowd like, being there, sjm? Was the finals crowd the the biggest you have been a part of? And what could have been done better in your view. From what I could see and hear, the players seemed to love the new locale.

I honestly don’t remember being as tense as a fan through a whole match as this one. Especially toward the end. The shot clock kept Robbie’s slow pace from being an issue for me. In the end it was part of the problem for him. The beeps were constantly going off when he went down to shoot. And...

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