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The 2024 World Pool Championship final in Jeddah was more than just a match — it was an epic showcase of heart, resilience, and world-class shotmaking that pushed the limits of the modern game. Fedor Gorst and Eklent Kaçi came into the iconic Green Halls knowing only one would walk away with...

You think pool is hard, with all that has to be learned about shot selection, approach, stance, stroke, and cue-ball control? Try doing it in a wheelchair. Everything that the standing-up, walk-around-the-table guys and gals have to learn pretty much goes out the window. Competitors in a...

THE KAMUI SLOVENIAN OPEN got underway today at the Terme Olimia resort in the peaceful border town of Podčetrtek as 140-plus players screwed their cues together for the PREDATOR Euro Tour’s second-ever 8-ball competition. Making a change from the more regular rotation games, there were some big...

Just posted another oldie from 1989. Here is Kim Davenport vs Mike Sigel in the semi-finals...

If nothing else, the 13th Annual NC State 9-Ball Open, held under the auspices of the TOP (The Open Players) Tour, was a showcase event, featuring a wide selection of well-known competitors at all skill levels from the Mid-Atlantic and Southern regions of the country. We’ll pass on the...

WE ARE AT the mid-point of the 2025 season on the PREDATOR EURO TOUR series as both Open and Women’s event take place this week within the impressive event space at the Terme Olimia resort on the Slovenia/Croatia border. The KAMUI SLOVENIAN OPEN gets underway tomorrow morning, while the Women’s...

It’s a good sign when in almost every tournament that we cover by writing up a report, there are new competitors entering our database, at which point we create a Player Profile and christen it (so to speak) by entering information about their first cash payout. This ‘good sign’ is particularly...

Rack Race #12 had some competition this past weekend (July 5-6). Some three hours away from Rack & Grill II in Augusta, GA (in a crow-flies straight line, closer to four hours on roads), the 13th Annual NC State Open 9-Ball championships in Clemmons, NC had a way of siphoning off some of the...

Fedor Gorst is gearing up for glory as he returns to Jeddah to defend his World Pool Championship title at the world’s richest Nineball tournament, set to make history once more in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the second consecutive year. In collaboration with the Saudi Arabian Billiard &...

On June 21, The West Coast Women’s Tour was welcomed by Racks N Cues Billiards & Brews in Windsor, California for the first time. This new sponsor room, which just opened its doors in the heart of Sonoma County wine country in 2024, played host to 29 competitors from around the region including...

This is straight from the master tapes, so please pardon the lack of scoring.

Most sporting cliches, while undoubtedly annoying, are centred in fact. ‘Records are made to be broken’ is a prime example, although when it comes to the World 9-Ball Championship one unprecedented achievement may well last a lifetime. Twenty years ago this month, Wu Chia-Ching, now known as Wu...

Chezka Centeno fights to double hill in the final and falls to Ouschan’s 5th Break and Run While tactically, the games are the more or less the same; line up a shot, make the shot and leave the cue ball in place, at minimum, for your next shot, the game of 8-ball differs substantively from its...

The Final Four competitors at the 2025 WPA Women’s 8-Ball Championship, set to compete at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. (EDT) this afternoon (Sun., July 6), has likely come as a surprise to more than just a few. Given what many people probably thought ahead of time, or at least those who follow the sport...

Surprises? Not really. Disappointments? For sure, as at least 48 competitors have been eliminated from the first-ever WPA Women’s 8-Ball World Championships, eight of them having left the stage with some measure of recompense. Anticipation regarding the matchups that are and could be ahead as...

Chane comes from the loss side to claim Invitational Natural Born Women’s title Both of the winners of last weekend’s (June 27-29) main event of the $2,000-added Krome Klassic in North Little Rock, Arkansas, a production of Jersey Girl Billiards, will now have entered the AZBilliards’ pool...

Kicking off the July 4th weekend, the final 16 competitors on the winners’ side of the double-elimination bracket for the WPA’s 8-Ball World Championships at the Oneida Casino Hotel in Green Bay, WI are set for matches that will begin tomorrow (Friday, July 4th) at 2 p.m. Winners of those eight...

Women in billiard have brought our sports to new heights. Therèse Klompenhouwer has changed hers forever. After 20 years as a pro carom player, she is a 5-time World Champion and has claimed more than 60 official titles so far. With women carom players competing for the first time at the World...

It can go either way. When family members find themselves scheduled to compete against each other in a tournament, one will sometimes, often actually, defer to the other, allowing one to advance and the other to either move on to the loss side or be eliminated. Sometimes they’ll take pride in...

You just never know with pool. High-level competition at all skill levels usually yields results compatible with what one knows about the players involved. You put Shane Van Boening into an APA setting against a 4 and you can usually ‘bet the house’ on SVB coming out on top. In Dallas, TX, you...