Before we turn our sights completely to the Super Billiards Expo Straight Pool Challenge put on by Fury and Charles Eames and Steve and Heather Kurtz, I would like to draw your attention to a little event we have planned that starts a week from this coming Sunday.
Bill Maropulos, Dana Stephenson, and myself have been trying to carry on the fine tradition started by Bob Jewett. With Bob's contributions and the contributions of known straight pool supporters like Stu Mattana, Rich Klein, Simonis Cloth, and just in the last few minutes, Jeff Mohl, and John Sunderland, we have been able to raise $7,500.00 in added money to this event. Our goal has always been to match the original added money of $10,000.00 that Bob had originally started with. We are going to change the format just a little and allow people to buy more than just one ticket this year in an attempt to generate prize money. I haven't done this before but I am going to throw this out to the AZB straight pool sub forum and see if anyone else would like to help support this event. Attached is some more information about the event and about the contributions. 100% of all the money is paid to the players.
We are talking with JR Calvert and Inside Pool about streaming some of the preliminaries and hope to have most of the event streamed and video'd. Thank you for your continued support of this great game.
I’m sure you have heard about the Straight Pool Challenge at Derby City that was run by Bob Jewett for its first four years. While not a straight pool tournament, per se, it gives great players an opportunity to play and great fans an opportunity to watch. The players are allowed to pay $100 and take 12 chances on the first four days. The three high runs for each of the first 4 days are paid $300, $200, and $100 respectively. They rack 14 balls and take the 15th ball in hand and cue ball in hand and see what they can do. The top eight runs of the three days then have a round robin tournament and all of the matches are recorded, some by Accu-Stats. We have had players like John Schmidt, Thorsten Hohmann, Ralph Eckert, Charlie Williams, Mika Immonen, Darren Appleton, Niels Feijen, Huijdi See, Danny Harriman and many others compete in the event and we have had many high runs in the 100s on tough Diamond tables.
I ask if you would be willing to make a donation towards this event. We have always had a prize fund of $10,000.00 added. Bob Jewett donated all the money for the first four years. Last year, he donated some money and I was able to obtain other donations from others to reach our $10,000.00 goal. This year, so far, Bob Jewett and Stu Mattana are again donating and Rich Klein, Simonis Cloth, and Jeff Mohl are new donors filling out our Golden Sponsor roster. The Silver Sponsor patrons include John Sunderland of James and Sons Jewelers in Chicago, Arnold Kupec, Stan Haines and Angel Levine. Ted Antle of Chicago has also promised to help as has James Franklin of AZB.
I am asking if any of the rest of our 14.1 clan on AZB would be willing to make a donation to the event. It starts on Sunday, January 22, 2012.
If you can make a donation money can be sent by check or money order to the following address or you can paypal to my account at gwtlaw@aol.com with a notation Derby City Straight Pool.
Derby City Classic
4700 New Middle Rd.
Jeffersonville, IN 47130
If not, thank you anyway for taking the time to read this and thanks for all you do for Straight Pool.
By the way, attached is a summary of last year’s event, along with links to videos of many of the runs and a few of the matches if you wanted to view some of them or if others in your leagues would like to look at them. Accustats did two of the matches and they are for sale at the Accustats site.
2011 Derby City Straight Pool Challenge
Twenty eight players entered (which was up from 26 last year) and for their $100 entry fee, they were given 12 attempts to see how many balls they could run. Cue ball in hand, 15th ball wherever they wanted to put it and 14 balls racked up.
Daily prizes were given for the top three runs during the four day preliminaries.
Day one
Darren Appleton 183- $300 http://vimeo.com/19924939
Corey Deuel- 125- $200 http://vimeo.com/19354477
Niels Feijen 102- $100 http://vimeo.com/19341188
Day two
Mike Davis 146-$300 http://vimeo.com/19385310
Dennis Orcollo 74- $200 http://vimeo.com/19879145
Beau Runningen 64 $100 http://vimeo.com/19905212
Day Three
Beu Runningen 96 -$300.00 $100 http://vimeo.com/19826130; http://vimeo.com/19849585
Alex Pagulayan 81- $200 http://vimeo.com/19864523
John Schmidt 73- $100
Day Four
Johnny Archer 71- $300 http://vimeo.com/19956468
Mike Davis 69- $200 http://vimeo.com/20030493
Sasch Tege 55- $100 http://vimeo.com/20021515
The top eight runs qualified for the single elimination tournament.
Appleton 183
Davis 146
Corey 125
Niels 102
Beau 96
Alex 81
Dennis Orcullo 74
Schmidt 73
Schmidt Appleton match http://vimeo.com/19485456
Deuel Pagulayan match http://vimeo.com/19655765
Davis Orcollo match http://vimeo.com/19408510
Available at Accu-Stats
Beau Runningen/ Niels Feijen http://www.1vshop.com/Accu-Stats/sto...*++(DVD)
Mike Davis/ Alex Pagulayan http://www.1vshop.com/Accu-Stats/sto...*++(DVD)
Final Results of the tournament:
1st Darren Appleton-$2,500.00
2nd Alex Pagulayan- $1,800.00
3rd-4th Niels Feijen and Mike Davis-$1,150.00
5th-8th John Schmidt, Corey Deuel, Beau Runningen, Dennis Orcollo-$700.00
High Run Darren Appleton-$1,000.00-183 Highest filmed run in any competition. http://vimeo.com/19924939
John Schmidt, who usually dominates the high run attempts, had an off year, running only 73. He did run a 149 in practice the day before the event started, but during the competition, he did not soar to his usual heights.
Danny Harriman showed up the last day and took all twelve of his attempts. He said he has only been playing three cushion billiards in the last year. His high run was a 72 http://vimeo.com/19853043 and he just missed beating our eighth seed, John Schmidt who had the 73.
Johnny Archer came up short with a 71.
Mika also came up a bit short with a 68.
2011 Sponsored by Diamond Billiards, Bob Jewett, Angel Levine, Richard Burns, Stu Mattana, and Ultimate 10 Ball ultimate10ball.com/
Bill Maropulos, Dana Stephenson, and myself have been trying to carry on the fine tradition started by Bob Jewett. With Bob's contributions and the contributions of known straight pool supporters like Stu Mattana, Rich Klein, Simonis Cloth, and just in the last few minutes, Jeff Mohl, and John Sunderland, we have been able to raise $7,500.00 in added money to this event. Our goal has always been to match the original added money of $10,000.00 that Bob had originally started with. We are going to change the format just a little and allow people to buy more than just one ticket this year in an attempt to generate prize money. I haven't done this before but I am going to throw this out to the AZB straight pool sub forum and see if anyone else would like to help support this event. Attached is some more information about the event and about the contributions. 100% of all the money is paid to the players.
We are talking with JR Calvert and Inside Pool about streaming some of the preliminaries and hope to have most of the event streamed and video'd. Thank you for your continued support of this great game.
I’m sure you have heard about the Straight Pool Challenge at Derby City that was run by Bob Jewett for its first four years. While not a straight pool tournament, per se, it gives great players an opportunity to play and great fans an opportunity to watch. The players are allowed to pay $100 and take 12 chances on the first four days. The three high runs for each of the first 4 days are paid $300, $200, and $100 respectively. They rack 14 balls and take the 15th ball in hand and cue ball in hand and see what they can do. The top eight runs of the three days then have a round robin tournament and all of the matches are recorded, some by Accu-Stats. We have had players like John Schmidt, Thorsten Hohmann, Ralph Eckert, Charlie Williams, Mika Immonen, Darren Appleton, Niels Feijen, Huijdi See, Danny Harriman and many others compete in the event and we have had many high runs in the 100s on tough Diamond tables.
I ask if you would be willing to make a donation towards this event. We have always had a prize fund of $10,000.00 added. Bob Jewett donated all the money for the first four years. Last year, he donated some money and I was able to obtain other donations from others to reach our $10,000.00 goal. This year, so far, Bob Jewett and Stu Mattana are again donating and Rich Klein, Simonis Cloth, and Jeff Mohl are new donors filling out our Golden Sponsor roster. The Silver Sponsor patrons include John Sunderland of James and Sons Jewelers in Chicago, Arnold Kupec, Stan Haines and Angel Levine. Ted Antle of Chicago has also promised to help as has James Franklin of AZB.
I am asking if any of the rest of our 14.1 clan on AZB would be willing to make a donation to the event. It starts on Sunday, January 22, 2012.
If you can make a donation money can be sent by check or money order to the following address or you can paypal to my account at gwtlaw@aol.com with a notation Derby City Straight Pool.
Derby City Classic
4700 New Middle Rd.
Jeffersonville, IN 47130
If not, thank you anyway for taking the time to read this and thanks for all you do for Straight Pool.
By the way, attached is a summary of last year’s event, along with links to videos of many of the runs and a few of the matches if you wanted to view some of them or if others in your leagues would like to look at them. Accustats did two of the matches and they are for sale at the Accustats site.
2011 Derby City Straight Pool Challenge
Twenty eight players entered (which was up from 26 last year) and for their $100 entry fee, they were given 12 attempts to see how many balls they could run. Cue ball in hand, 15th ball wherever they wanted to put it and 14 balls racked up.
Daily prizes were given for the top three runs during the four day preliminaries.
Day one
Darren Appleton 183- $300 http://vimeo.com/19924939
Corey Deuel- 125- $200 http://vimeo.com/19354477
Niels Feijen 102- $100 http://vimeo.com/19341188
Day two
Mike Davis 146-$300 http://vimeo.com/19385310
Dennis Orcollo 74- $200 http://vimeo.com/19879145
Beau Runningen 64 $100 http://vimeo.com/19905212
Day Three
Beu Runningen 96 -$300.00 $100 http://vimeo.com/19826130; http://vimeo.com/19849585
Alex Pagulayan 81- $200 http://vimeo.com/19864523
John Schmidt 73- $100
Day Four
Johnny Archer 71- $300 http://vimeo.com/19956468
Mike Davis 69- $200 http://vimeo.com/20030493
Sasch Tege 55- $100 http://vimeo.com/20021515
The top eight runs qualified for the single elimination tournament.
Appleton 183
Davis 146
Corey 125
Niels 102
Beau 96
Alex 81
Dennis Orcullo 74
Schmidt 73
Schmidt Appleton match http://vimeo.com/19485456
Deuel Pagulayan match http://vimeo.com/19655765
Davis Orcollo match http://vimeo.com/19408510
Available at Accu-Stats
Beau Runningen/ Niels Feijen http://www.1vshop.com/Accu-Stats/sto...*++(DVD)
Mike Davis/ Alex Pagulayan http://www.1vshop.com/Accu-Stats/sto...*++(DVD)
Final Results of the tournament:
1st Darren Appleton-$2,500.00
2nd Alex Pagulayan- $1,800.00
3rd-4th Niels Feijen and Mike Davis-$1,150.00
5th-8th John Schmidt, Corey Deuel, Beau Runningen, Dennis Orcollo-$700.00
High Run Darren Appleton-$1,000.00-183 Highest filmed run in any competition. http://vimeo.com/19924939
John Schmidt, who usually dominates the high run attempts, had an off year, running only 73. He did run a 149 in practice the day before the event started, but during the competition, he did not soar to his usual heights.
Danny Harriman showed up the last day and took all twelve of his attempts. He said he has only been playing three cushion billiards in the last year. His high run was a 72 http://vimeo.com/19853043 and he just missed beating our eighth seed, John Schmidt who had the 73.
Johnny Archer came up short with a 71.
Mika also came up a bit short with a 68.
2011 Sponsored by Diamond Billiards, Bob Jewett, Angel Levine, Richard Burns, Stu Mattana, and Ultimate 10 Ball ultimate10ball.com/
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