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The Efren “Bata” Reyes Yalin 10-Ball Championships will be held from August 26-30, 2025 in Mandaluyong City in the Philippines. The tournament is part of the celebration of Efren Reyes’ 71st birthday and aims to discover the next generation of billiards champions according to International...

Las Vegas, Saint Louis, San Antonio, and Jacksonville Set to Host Pro Billiard Series Events The Pro Billiard Series (PBS) is proud to announce its 2026 US PBS Stop Schedule, featuring four major events in Las Vegas, Saint Louis, San Antonio, and Jacksonville. Next year’s series brings a...

Shane Van Boening’s hopes of a record-breaking sixth US Open Pool Championship title came to a crushing end, as the American legend was eliminated by Ko Pin Yi on day three of the 2025 LiveSB.io US Open Pool Championship. The 2025 LiveSB.io US Open Pool Championship — the 48th edition of the...

The 2nd Polish Heyball Championships and five HEYBALL POLSKA tournaments are behind us The fifth tournament of this year’s HEYBALL POLSKA ranking of the Polish Billiard Association took place in Kielce – the Polish Men’s Championships. Karol Skowerski became the Polish champion, defeating...

Shane Van Boening’s bid for a record-breaking sixth US Open Pool Championship crown hit an unexpected setback on day two, as the American fell into the Losers’ Bracket following a surprise defeat to Finland’s Arseni Sevastyanov at the 2025 LiveSB.io US Open Pool Championship. The 2025 LiveSB.io...

There you have it, we’ve employed his nickname in a headline now. His future is cast in journalistic stone. He’s 11. He’s Gavin ‘Hawkeye’ Mathew from Frisco, TX and he just went through six opponents at the $1,000-added, 51-entrant Stop #8 on the Cuetec DFW 9-Ball Tour, a split-bracket event...

In emerging as the winner and runner-up at this past weekend’s (Aug. 15-17) stop on the Northwest Women’s Pool Association Tour (NWPA), Shaundra Radford and Robin Adams have recorded their best finish on the tour. Radford, who’s climbed steadily up the pool ‘ladder’ to chalk up her first win...

World No.1 Fedor Gorst made a commanding start to his US Open Pool Championship title defence with two dominant day one wins, as he bids to become only the fifth player in history to retain the crown. The 2025 LiveSB.io US Open Pool Championship — the 48th edition of the World Nineball Tour’s...

Last night (Sat. Aug. 16), the Philippines’ Johann Chua became the 11th different competitor to be among the 9-Ball, Battle of the Bull’s ‘final four’ in the past three years. The only competitor to appear more than once among the final four has been Shane Van Boening (SVB), who made his second...

Shane Van Boening became the first competitor to advance to the Battle of the Bull semifinals, defeating Vietnam’s Duc Thien Luong, double hill. He awaits the winner of a battle between Germany’s Felix Vogel and Tai Pei’s Yu-Lung Chang (Chang ahead 7-5, as we report) The Philippine’s Johann Chua...

Vann Corteza, Morra, Francisco Sanchez-Ruiz, Labutis and He are out of the race In horse-racing parlance, the ‘horses’ in the 3rd Annual Battle of the Bulls’ 9-Ball tournament are approaching the far turn, from which they will emerge and head for home, as they say. Of the 32 matches which...

Hohmann and Yapp also set to battle in Stage 1’s qualifying round for Stage 2 single elimination By the end of the day, barring any schedule mishaps, the $35k-added Battle of the Bull’s 9-Ball tournament will be down to 16 competitors on each side of its Stage 1, double-elimination bracket. The...

Key competitors already on the Stage 1 loss side of Battle of the Bull 9-Ball Tournament As we began work on this report, Fedor Gorst and Roland Garcia were continuing to compete in the finals of the $10k-added One Pocket tournament of the 3rd Annual Battle of the Bull, hosted by Wolf’s Den in...

The World Games billiards competitions in Chengdu, China, concluded today (Thursday). The four remaining titles went to Myungwoo Cho (South Korea / Men’s 3-Cushion), Guodong Xiao (China / Men’s Snooker), Oliver Szolnoki (Hungary / Men’s Pool), and Taiyi Zhang (China / Mixed Heyball). Men’s...

I thought 9-ball was starting today, but have not seen a bracket yet.

There were three Chrises in this past weekend’s (Sat., Aug. 9) stop on the Q City 9-Ball Tour. The plural of ‘Chris’ looked strange to us, too, but we checked; standard English rule for pluralizing proper names. They all finished among the top six. Two of the three battled against each other...

Three of the total seven gold medal decisions were on the schedule today in the billiards competitions at the World Games in Chengdu, China. Standing on the top step of the podium were Therese Klompenhouwer (The Netherlands/Women’s 3-Cushion), Yulu Bai (China/Women’s 6-Reds Snooker), and Yu Han...

You’re in luck. If you’ve missed, for whatever reason, any of the matches in the $10,000-added One Pocket division of the 3rd Annual Battle of the Bull at Wolf’s Den in Roanoke, VA, you can still catch the semifinal, scheduled for this evening (Wed., Aug. 13) at 7 p.m. (EDT). The final...

Recently, regional pool tours have gotten into the habit of separating varied skills into separate brackets. Sometimes the two brackets will come together at the end, combining (one example) four competitors from each of the brackets and letting them play out a small bracket for an overall...

On Saturday July 12, the ladies of The West Coast Women’s Tour gathered to battle in Berkeley, CA for Stop 3 of the 2025 season. The event featured a field of 36 talented players from across California and was held at The Break Room in historic downtown Berkeley. At the end of this all-day 9...