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The 2024 Dutch Masters winner and 2005 World Championship runner-up Jean Paul de Bruijn has made a run of 26 in the Belgian League. His monumental effort came in the second inning, and he won the match 40-19 in 13. Only eight runs (documented, refereed) of 26 had been made in history, three of...

Two tables with history. My team played a league match this evening in Zundert (Den Hoek), a legendary billiard room near the Belgian border in the Netherlands. No other room in the world can claim that two runs of 28 were made on their tables. Owner Louis Havermans, a former top player...

It is with pleasure that I announce a new section in Carompedia: Ladies Events. I've gathered the results of the tournaments that matter most: the World Championships, the European Championships (for a while called "European Ladies Cup") and the Women's Open / Jennifer Shim Memorial in New...

Dear billiard friends, Today I am launching a website I have been working on for some time. It’s called “Carompedia”, and that name should be self-explanatory. Basically, it’s an archive with tournament results and pictures. You can look things up, find your favorite players, relive events you...

Quite a performance this afternoon, in a Dutch Grand prix. Jaspers runs 7 - 13 - 12 - 5 and is three points away from a world record. Unfortunately, two almost umakeable positions in the 4th and 5th inning spoil the party: 40 in 7. You can find out more if you have Facebook. Check out Bert's...

Does anybody know of a billiard room in or near Jupiter, Florida? Thx.

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The UMB world ranking needs to be fixed. It's a mess. By Bert van Manen A new edition came out on 3 August 2015. Check it out here: http://files.umb-carom.org/Public/Ranking/1_WP_Ranking/2015/W14_2015.pdf If you just let your eyes wander from nr. 100 to nr. 1, it looks okay. Fairly...

Available again: the story of modern day 3-cushion. At the center of the action: the brilliant Swede, Torbjörn Blomdahl. 208 pages, hardcover, full of facts, anecdotes, diagrams and portraits of all the top players for € 29,95. Order your copy in English or in Dutch: www.bertvanmanen.nl

The Blomdahl Era is still available: www.bertvanmanen.nl, or mail me here. Find me on Facebook: "3-cushion forum & market". Happy 2015.

Six or eight weeks from now, it looks like, "The Blomdahl Era" will be sold out. You can still get your copy now, order it directly at www.bertvanmanen.nl In the book, you’ll find a 10-page interview with TB about his career and the beautiful rivalries he’s had, first with Raymond Ceulemans...

I need to get in touch with these billiard players: Charles Grimes, Hamilton, Ohio David McMillan, Lafayette, Indiana Ken Thomason, Signal Hill, California Roger Ballenger, North Hills, California For all four, I have a Gmail or Hotmail address, probably their "backup" email, and they have...

"The Blomdahl Era" is Bert van Manen's first book about billiards. It will tell you all about the post-Ceulemans years (1986 - 2014) and the beautiful game that is 3-cushion billiards. Tournament results, player portraits, instructional diagrams for the advanced player, and articles about the...

It gives me great pleasure to tell you that my first book about billiards, "The Blomdahl Era", will be available in June and can be pre-ordered in May. For all questions you may have, please visit the website www.bertvanmanen.nl, or send me a PM.

What an amazing day for 3-cushion billiards. I added no less than FIVE averages over 3.000 to my list, two of those were over 4.000! It all happened in the European Team Championship group stage. Here they are: Blomdahl bts Nilsson 40 - 34 in 11. (Vienna) P. Ceulemans bts van Geel 40 - 16 in...

A double record for Tayfun Tasdemir? He got into a shoot-out situation with Eddy Leppens yesterday (40-40, in the 16th final of the Luxor World Cup), and ran 10! To my knowledge, that is the highest run in a shoot-out, ever. The Turk with the stylish game also made the highest recorded run in an...

Just so we are all on the same page about this, the current world records for best match average are: to 40 pts - Caudron (1997, v Willems), 40 in 6 Caudron (2006, v de Backer) 40 in 6 Zanetti (2014, v Fasciana) 40 in 6 to 50 pts - Merckx (2011, v In Won Kang) 50 in 6 to 60 pts -...

Some are entitled, some are invited. By Bert van Manen Inviting 48 players for the annual UMB world championship 3-cushion is about as easy as negotiating a permanent peace in the middle-east. There is just no way to please everybody. I often hear fierce criticism of the UMB, when people...

The Juanjo Trilles Challenge 2012 was a four-day 3-cushion match in Valencia, Spain, between Frederic Caudron and Dick Jaspers, won by the first by a margin. We were all hoping this would become an annual event, but alas. Not in 2013, maybe in 2014. Sorry for the "non-news".