44th Annual Texas Open 9 Ball Championships Info and updates.

[terryhanna]

Matches starts @ 9am central for The 44th Annual Texas Open 9 Ball main event.

This is the 44th consecutive year for the Texas Open 9 ball Championships.

Team USA Mosconi Points up for grabs at this event.

9′ Gold Crown III Tables; Simonis 860HR Tournament Blue cloth; Super Pro Aramith Balls.

The Texas Open 9-Ball Championships are the longest consecutively running Open pool tournament in the USA.

Full 128 player field.Races are to 9 on both sides of double elimination bracket.

Check out this prestigious list of all the great Champions of the past here ↪ http://skinnybobs.com/tex.../past-winners-texas-open-9-ball/

Online brackets here ↪ http://challonge.com/TexasOpen44



Tune in and see if last years Canadian Champion John Morra can repeat.








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[terryhanna]

Top three picks in the players Auction went for over 10k combined

1st Sky Woodward
2nd John Morra
3rd Justin Bergman

 

[terryhanna]

Day # 2 main event matches at The Texas Open 9 Ball Champioships kick off today @ noon should be a great day of matches.

There will be 2 One Loss side matches beginning at 12 Noon. and 1:30pm cst.(TBD) Winner's Side begins at 3pm cst.

At 4:30 the feature live stream winners side match will be Justin Bergman vs John Morra. These two guys have been barking at each other for a while now about playing a big money action match and this just might be a preview :smile:

John and Justin have been talking about trying to make the Action match happen sometime before the end of the year now.

The field will be narrowed down to the finals 32 players today,setting up a great day of money matches all day Monday.

Online brackets http://challonge.com/TexasOpen44





9′ Gold Crown III Tables; Simonis 860HR Tournament Blue cloth; Super Pro Aramith Balls.

 

[terryhanna]

John was looking smooth he beat Bergman 9-6 and moves into the final 16 on the winners side.

Justin is needing a good finish here to earn enough Team USA Mosconi Cup points to move into the top ten,he will have to do it from the scenic route on the B side of the bracket now.

 

[terryhanna]

Congrats to Vivian Villarreal The Texas Tornado she won the Ladies division at 44th Texas Open again.

I think that is her 5th time winning it

Open Division is Down to final three players John Morra vs James Davis Sr playing in the semi final now.

Winner of that will face the young gun Devin Poteet in the finals

 

[terryhanna]

Coming up next from the 44th annual Texas Open 9 Ball Championships .

The Finals

The Young Gun Devin (Head) Poteet vs Defending Champ Mr Smooth John Morra .

It's true double elimination John has to beat Devin twice.

John double dipped Sky last year in the finals lets see if he can do it again this year.

Winner breaks race to 9

The great Jeremy Jones is in the booth doing the commentary




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[terryhanna]

Congrats to Mr Smooth John Morra he played flawless in the finals,and double dipped in the finals for the 2nd year in a row.

Big Shout out to the Young Gun Devin Poteet Sky's road dog he's only 20 years old for a great 2nd place finish.

Thanks to everybody that tuned in and sweated the matches.

Join us for the next event the Houston Open 9 Ball Championship just few days. away

When
Sep 8 – 10, 2017

Where
Legends Billiards, 201 Gulf Fwy, League City, TX

Last Mosconi Cup Event of the year for team USA , With a Huge players auction.





1st John Morra
2nd Devin Poteet
3rd James Davis Sr
4th Jeremy Jonees
5th-6th Sharik Sayed, Ryan Lane
7th-8th Shane MCminn,Kevin Guimond

 

[barrymuch90]

I think this is a good example of how powerful taking a hiatus from pool can be. Not that John Morra was a slouch before but I speak from experience saying every time I'm in a slump the best medicine is a break from the game and every time I seem to come back and jump speeds and feel that focus and drive all over again

 

[gxman]

Great job by Morra. I like seeing him do well.

 

[pt109]

The guy on the left is a Canadian 9-ball Champion from the 90s, Jeff White.
the kid on the right ended up winning a few himself.....
.....and now Texas Champion back to back....:bow-down:





But I doubt anyone will ever surpass the man on the right in this pic....
Bob Vanover, nine times Champion.



The guy on the left Bob is laughing with? AZ's own, Jack Potter....
...who was usually too busy bailing out his buddy Dean to snap this one off...