IPT assures Bata of his prize
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
Multi-millionaire Kevin Trudeau, founder of the tremendously successful International Pool Tour, has assured Efren “Bata” Reyes, winner of the recent World Open 8-Ball Championships, as well as the other players, that their checks will be issued very soon.
Reyes defeated American Rodney “The Rocket” Morris in the finals of the grueling eight-day tournament to pocket the top prize of $500,000. Reyes himself had earlier said he was not worried about non-payment of his prize money since Trudeau had paid him the $200,000 he won in last December’s King of the Hill tournament and over $60,000, which he won in the North American Open, where Marlon Manalo finished second to Thorsten Hohmann and received his prize of $99,000.
Trudeau’s commitment to pay the players their prize money came in the wake of a concerted effort to put down the IPT which, since its inception last year, has been extremely successful.
Trudeau himself, in a letter to the players, a copy of which was forwarded to Viva Sports/Standard Today, wrote that the IPT, from its inception, has had “its share of people who enjoy spreading false negative gossip about the IPT. These prophets of doom look for anything they can point to as negative.”
Trudeau said the IPT has been more successful than virtually all other billiard tournament promoters and associations combined.
“To date we have paid out more than $3.5 million in prize money to players,” said Trudeau.
The IPT founder said the delay in sending the players checks was “unavoidable due to a multitude of factors, most notably the finalization of the acquisition by Ho Interactive” and that the exciting merger/acquisition will be formally announced soon.
Source:
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=sports4_oct7_2006
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
Multi-millionaire Kevin Trudeau, founder of the tremendously successful International Pool Tour, has assured Efren “Bata” Reyes, winner of the recent World Open 8-Ball Championships, as well as the other players, that their checks will be issued very soon.
Reyes defeated American Rodney “The Rocket” Morris in the finals of the grueling eight-day tournament to pocket the top prize of $500,000. Reyes himself had earlier said he was not worried about non-payment of his prize money since Trudeau had paid him the $200,000 he won in last December’s King of the Hill tournament and over $60,000, which he won in the North American Open, where Marlon Manalo finished second to Thorsten Hohmann and received his prize of $99,000.
Trudeau’s commitment to pay the players their prize money came in the wake of a concerted effort to put down the IPT which, since its inception last year, has been extremely successful.
Trudeau himself, in a letter to the players, a copy of which was forwarded to Viva Sports/Standard Today, wrote that the IPT, from its inception, has had “its share of people who enjoy spreading false negative gossip about the IPT. These prophets of doom look for anything they can point to as negative.”
Trudeau said the IPT has been more successful than virtually all other billiard tournament promoters and associations combined.
“To date we have paid out more than $3.5 million in prize money to players,” said Trudeau.
The IPT founder said the delay in sending the players checks was “unavoidable due to a multitude of factors, most notably the finalization of the acquisition by Ho Interactive” and that the exciting merger/acquisition will be formally announced soon.
Source:
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=sports4_oct7_2006
