hi all,
just wanted to chare this with u all. Ive had some questions before of people asking me what greath player we have in belgium, as almost nobody knows one. Ive always been telling we have greath players, but the financial part dont allows us to compete in big tournaments and get to be know. SO
id like u to present.
Mario lanoye aka SUPER MARIO
he has been in the national tour for several years and a former snooker player who converted to pool some years ago. Has hasnt been playing for some time for personal reasons, but he's back and he has the fire in his eyes. Considered by many the greathest pool player our country have (dispite he's not #1, but thats only numbers...). He will be introduced like this:
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Mario Lannoye..... "Super" Mario won over 500 titles in his career, both in Pool and Snooker.
The cool Belgium player played the 1992 EC 9-ball final, when other players who will join him in the 7-ball event where just learning how to walk...
He is a gentlemen for the game and still is a danger for any top player in the world.
Watch out, or you out!!
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anyway, this weekend its the SUPER open weert (thx maurice for having this) with a special 7ball ringgame with 8 of the best invited players around. And the last spot has been won by mario. As the entree fee is pritty high, all felow belgium poolplayers put there money together (25-100$ each) and payed for his entree fee (does this happen in the US? nah only in europe will u see this, just tells u how low on $ we are in the poolworld, but how much we trust our national hero's)
So mario will be playing the ringgame on saterday and ALOT of belgium players will be there to suport him. he will play vs
Thomas Engert - "The Lean Machine"
Raj Hundal - "The Hitman"
Ronnie O 'Sullivan - "The Rocket"
Ralf Souquet - "The Kaiser"
Niels Feijen - "The Terminator"
Mika Immonen - "The Iceman"
Marcus Chamat - "Napoleon"
(almost the full musconi cup), so even if im 99,99% sure no one has ever heared of super mario, just being alowed as the last member of the ringgame tells u enough of his possibilites if he's on fire, and he IS!
he's also competing in the 9b open weert tournament, qualifying easy with 4 wins, and 6-3 win over Souquet Ralf to be on the winnerside. Other belgium players will qualify and some are already qualified, but mario is the guy to watch out, if he got the fighting spirit back, ANY player will have to watch out. no matter if u are Alex lely, niels, nvb, or GOD.
i cant promise u he will be #1, but i can sure as hell promise ull have a tough match, i hope mario makes it back to the top after his break, and i justed wanted everyone to let u know who i consider one of the greathest belgium pool players. so watch out.
now i hope belgium poolplayers will find the needed 2000$ for the ipt in march. wont be easy to find this kind of money without anything back, just believing in a player, and national proud, but i really hope we can put mario into the ipt quali, and maybe realise the dream every poolplayer has (as me) and see a belgium guy kicking some a**
well thats it for this week, sorry no silly solly post, but introducing u a player i and many others are proud of.
just wanted to chare this with u all. Ive had some questions before of people asking me what greath player we have in belgium, as almost nobody knows one. Ive always been telling we have greath players, but the financial part dont allows us to compete in big tournaments and get to be know. SO
id like u to present.
Mario lanoye aka SUPER MARIO
he has been in the national tour for several years and a former snooker player who converted to pool some years ago. Has hasnt been playing for some time for personal reasons, but he's back and he has the fire in his eyes. Considered by many the greathest pool player our country have (dispite he's not #1, but thats only numbers...). He will be introduced like this:
=======================================================
Mario Lannoye..... "Super" Mario won over 500 titles in his career, both in Pool and Snooker.
The cool Belgium player played the 1992 EC 9-ball final, when other players who will join him in the 7-ball event where just learning how to walk...
He is a gentlemen for the game and still is a danger for any top player in the world.
Watch out, or you out!!
=======================================================
anyway, this weekend its the SUPER open weert (thx maurice for having this) with a special 7ball ringgame with 8 of the best invited players around. And the last spot has been won by mario. As the entree fee is pritty high, all felow belgium poolplayers put there money together (25-100$ each) and payed for his entree fee (does this happen in the US? nah only in europe will u see this, just tells u how low on $ we are in the poolworld, but how much we trust our national hero's)
So mario will be playing the ringgame on saterday and ALOT of belgium players will be there to suport him. he will play vs
Thomas Engert - "The Lean Machine"
Raj Hundal - "The Hitman"
Ronnie O 'Sullivan - "The Rocket"
Ralf Souquet - "The Kaiser"
Niels Feijen - "The Terminator"
Mika Immonen - "The Iceman"
Marcus Chamat - "Napoleon"
(almost the full musconi cup), so even if im 99,99% sure no one has ever heared of super mario, just being alowed as the last member of the ringgame tells u enough of his possibilites if he's on fire, and he IS!
he's also competing in the 9b open weert tournament, qualifying easy with 4 wins, and 6-3 win over Souquet Ralf to be on the winnerside. Other belgium players will qualify and some are already qualified, but mario is the guy to watch out, if he got the fighting spirit back, ANY player will have to watch out. no matter if u are Alex lely, niels, nvb, or GOD.
i cant promise u he will be #1, but i can sure as hell promise ull have a tough match, i hope mario makes it back to the top after his break, and i justed wanted everyone to let u know who i consider one of the greathest belgium pool players. so watch out.
now i hope belgium poolplayers will find the needed 2000$ for the ipt in march. wont be easy to find this kind of money without anything back, just believing in a player, and national proud, but i really hope we can put mario into the ipt quali, and maybe realise the dream every poolplayer has (as me) and see a belgium guy kicking some a**
well thats it for this week, sorry no silly solly post, but introducing u a player i and many others are proud of.
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no thats isnt the guy, in fact there are 2 guys who might become my future coach, but one is asking alot of money (budo pascal , who qualified for the open weert on winners side with a tough first day together with the dutch top5 (he plays alot of eurotours too and is known as 'The pro') and johan monserez who might do it free if only i had a car to drive to his poolhall everyday wich i dont 
so sad. Ah well im getting to frusty staing at home, think ill go to my crappy karaoke barr and shoot some 100+ runs in straight pool to make me feel a bit better.
