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Ipoola is the new IPA and... Ipoola is the new IPA and profits will now be paid to support existing pool events. There is no sanctioning override, no separate IPA or Ipoola Championships, instead the profits will be used to sponsor current pool events. Ipoola website will be updated by...

Ipoola is the new IPA and... Ipoola is the new IPA and profits will now be paid to support existing pool events. There is no separate IPA or Ipoola Championships, instead the profits will be used to sponsor current events.

lol. I know my hopes are up but they have to be. Wouldn't it be great if it came to be? A concept like the IPA requires good word-of-mouth and support from those who would benefit the most from inside the pool world. Being immediately after the site announcement, this positive momentum is...

Thank you for your questions CreeDo and also for your time in reading my response to them. In 2002 I began working toward holding a big pool tournament in Canada that was going to be called the Canadian Open. I worked many, many hours procurring documents and communicating with different...

Hi, I'm Mark Corkum, I'm a pool player and I founded the International Poolplayer Alliance (IPA). The IPA's website can be found here: www.ipoola.com . The IPA is a global community of cue sport players and supporters. It is also an e-commerce portal that donates 100% of its profits which...

Ipoola guaranteeing at least half its revenue to IPA Championships. Hi, I'm Mark Corkum, I'm a pool player and I founded the International Poolplayer Alliance (IPA). The IPA's website can be found here: www.ipoola.com . The IPA is a global community of cue sport players and supporters...

The Inaugural KING of POOL 9-Ball Championships is taking place in Bedford, N.S., August 4-5, 2007. This is a grass roots event. Entry fee is $320 and will be accepted (cash only) the morning of August 4th. So far 23 spots are reserved (all players from Atlantic Canada). It would be great to...

well here's another opinion. Since the t.v. ratings are good, doesn't that prove that pool IS ready for big-time? Who's saying that it's not? Some other sport? I don't know of any other sport where the players are so desperate for the sport's own prosperity. Pool is an excellent genre of...

Personally I don't believe a tour should be funded solely by qualifiers... but to get it off the ground, it's not a bad idea. I can imagine three full 32 player qualifying tournys per year within the Maritime provinces in Canada, one per province, a combined population of about 2 million...

...realistically, there'd be hundreds of times more players at $100 entry.

Well who isn't at least a little shocked that there are a few unseen wrinkles in the ipt master plan. The world open players should be paid what they were told they would be paid. Hopefully they will. I also believe the ipt can work. It may have been a mistake to not work with the current...