Any idea's on who will win the Hardtimes, Bellflower qualifier??? Who is everyone rooting for???
Who's gonna win?
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do we have any names yet?
hilla_hilla said:
Who's in the field?
After two third place finishes, and adding to that the four who have finished ahead of him won't be playing, Vilmos Foldes sure seems a logical choice. Of course, I don't even know if he'll be there. George Breedlove and Dave Hemmah should have a decent shot, too.
Should be a superstrong field filled with many capable of earning a card.
Well, looking on the IPT web-site the players that have free entry fee's are:
Dan Wallace, Vilmos Foldes, Frankie Hernandez, Clent McCullosh, Richard Broumpton, Louis Ulrich, Imran Majid and Kevin Becker.
I know for certain that Amar Kang and Santos both won pre-qualifiers. I imagine a lot of the locals will play (and are all very tough) maybe Dave Hemmah, Tang Hoa, Frank the Barber, Corey Harper, Oscar Domingez, Brian Parks, Fach Garcia and San Diego's Victor Castro. It would be nice to see AZ's Jimmy Mendoza come down and play. It should be an exciting tournament to watch.
Dan Wallace, Vilmos Foldes, Frankie Hernandez, Clent McCullosh, Richard Broumpton, Louis Ulrich, Imran Majid and Kevin Becker.
I know for certain that Amar Kang and Santos both won pre-qualifiers. I imagine a lot of the locals will play (and are all very tough) maybe Dave Hemmah, Tang Hoa, Frank the Barber, Corey Harper, Oscar Domingez, Brian Parks, Fach Garcia and San Diego's Victor Castro. It would be nice to see AZ's Jimmy Mendoza come down and play. It should be an exciting tournament to watch.
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I would like to see any of the following qualify: Foldes, Hemmah, Hao, and Harper.
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Hard Times
Well Dennis Orcollo is already at Hard Times and Ronnie Alcano is on his way. When I left this afternoon Dennis looked like a shoe in to win the Sunday tourny. Morro, Dave, King Kong, and Santos were playing a ring game on table one. It looks like it will be a great tournament next week. Who ever wins the cards will really earn it.
Steve
Well Dennis Orcollo is already at Hard Times and Ronnie Alcano is on his way. When I left this afternoon Dennis looked like a shoe in to win the Sunday tourny. Morro, Dave, King Kong, and Santos were playing a ring game on table one. It looks like it will be a great tournament next week. Who ever wins the cards will really earn it.
Steve
Geez Jimmy... I'm wondering about all that tournament cash you've won without reporting.. lol
Jimmy M. said:Hey Hil. I am playing.My real last name is Adame (in case there was a player list you were looking at). Long story, but everyone in the pool room has known me as Mendoza since I was a kid so I've stuck with it.
Jimmy A. M.
Good luck to you.
I was thinking that this would turn out to be a really good event and it appears its going to be.
I am planning on being down for most of the time so I will see you there.
Practice hard
Frank
I don't know any other Santos, but I'm assuming you're talking about Santos Sambajon.hilla_hilla said:
Does anyone know what happened to him during the mandatory meeting in Orlando? He was one of the 150 originally picked, yet he didn't show up for the mandatory meeting and got bumped off the list. Does anyone know WHY he didn't show up? He must be kicking himself right now, since he had a free ride into the tour and blew it. Now he has to go through an extremely difficult qualifier to get in (and supposedly already through a pre-qualifier). Anyone know the info?
jsp said:
I don't know all the nitty gritty details, but at the KOTH in Orlando when I asked Bustamante where Santos was, he said Santos has returned to the Philippines.
I do know that Santos didn't return to the Philippines for a long span, maybe several years, when he was living here in the States. I think after he won the Skins Billiards Championship and pocketed 70-plus-thousand dollars in October of 2005, he decided it was time to head back home and hang a spell, missing out on the IPT KOTH in December of 2005. JMHO, FWIW!
JAM
Thanks for the info JAM! I knew I could count on you.JAM said:
I guess Santos picked a bad time to go back to PI.
Nevertheless, I'm predicting Vilmos and Santos winning the next qualifier (although i'm hoping in a way they don't win it in Bellflower, so I can witness them winning it in Chelmsflord
).EDIT: Ooops, I somehow missed the post that said that Dennis Orcullo and Ronnie Alcano will be attending, and also the post that implied that Wu will be attending. Wow...now this field will be strong! I'm going to repick my predictions. I'm betting that Orcullo and Alcano will advance.
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Considering the field is already full, it would sure be nice to get a players list.
hilla_hilla said:
Ditto, hilla_hilla!
From the info you so kindly provided earlier in the thread, these players will be in it for sure:
Ronnie Alcano
Dennis Orcollo
Dan Wallace
Vilmos Foldes
Frankie Hernandez
Clent McCullosh
Richard Broumpton
Louis Ulrich
Imran Majid
Kevin Becker
Amar Kang
Jimmy Mendoza
Santos
Possible players because of the locale:
Dave Hemmah
Tang Hoa
Frank the Barber
Corey Harper
Oscar Domingez
Brian Parks
Fach Garcia
Victor Casto
Then I read somewhere that Cliff Joyner will be entering this event.
Last two IPT qualifiers, the field was about 45 or 46 players, if memory serves me correct. Do they cut it off at an amount certain? At any rate, the above-referenced players make up about half of the field. I'm eagerly awaiting to see who shows up for this one.
JAM
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King Kong and Morro will probably play to.
Didn't Lee H win spots to the last 3 events as well? I thought he placed in the top 6 during the 1st event.
Didn't Lee H win spots to the last 3 events as well? I thought he placed in the top 6 during the 1st event.