Final 16 begins single-elimination Stage 2 at Oneida WPA Women’s 8-Ball Championships

Surprises? Not really. Disappointments? For sure, as at least 48 competitors have been eliminated from the first-ever WPA Women’s 8-Ball World Championships, eight of them having left the stage with some measure of recompense. Anticipation regarding the matchups that are and could be ahead as the tournament comes down to its Final 16 and heads […]

Robertson & Johnson split top prizes at Jersey Girl Billiards’ Krome Klassic event

Chane comes from the loss side to claim Invitational Natural Born Women’s title Both of the winners of last weekend’s (June 27-29) main event of the $2,000-added Krome Klassic in North Little Rock, Arkansas, a production of Jersey Girl Billiards, will now have entered the AZBilliards’ pool player database for the first time. It’s not […]

Final qualification round to single-elimination set for Oneida WPA 8-Ball World Championships

Kicking off the July 4th weekend, the final 16 competitors on the winners’ side of the double-elimination bracket for the WPA’s 8-Ball World Championships at the Oneida Casino Hotel in Green Bay, WI are set for matches that will begin tomorrow (Friday, July 4th) at 2 p.m. Winners of those eight matches will have qualified […]

Therèse Klompenhouwer – Another Shot at History

Women in billiard have brought our sports to new heights. Therèse Klompenhouwer has changed hers forever. After 20 years as a pro carom player, she is a 5-time World Champion and has claimed more than 60 official titles so far. With women carom players competing for the first time at the World Games this summer, […]

Fuller family splits top prizes on Q City 9-Ball Tour stop in Cary, NC

It can go either way. When family members find themselves scheduled to compete against each other in a tournament, one will sometimes, often actually, defer to the other, allowing one to advance and the other to either move on to the loss side or be eliminated. Sometimes they’ll take pride in the fact of facing […]

Newcomer Billy Rogers goes undefeated to claim Cuetec DFW 9-Ball Tour stop at Outlaws

You just never know with pool. High-level competition at all skill levels usually yields results compatible with what one knows about the players involved. You put Shane Van Boening into an APA setting against a 4 and you can usually ‘bet the house’ on SVB coming out on top. In Dallas, TX, you put up […]

The Pearl Is Back – Earl Strickland Joins the Florida Open and US Open Lineups

Five-time US Open Champion. Three-time World Champion. One of the greatest to ever pick up a cue—Earl “The Pearl” Strickland is ready to make history once again. This August, the legend returns to the World Nineball Tour stage, taking on two of the biggest events on the calendar: the Florida Open and the US Open Pool […]

First-ever Women’s 8-Ball World Championship, run by the WPBA, debuts in Green Bay, WI

Junior competitor Jordan Helfery (14) is surprise winner in Day One first round (Wed., July 2) It is kind of a big deal. Or, as WPBA Tour Director Jerry Stuckart put it “a very, very big deal.” There’ll be more on this as our coverage continues through to the final of the 2025 Oneida WPA […]

MacDonald successfully defends her NWPA Martha Hartsell Memorial title

Canada’s Kathie MacDonald checked a lot of ‘boxes’ with her undefeated run to claim Stop #3 on this year’s Northwest Pool Association Tour (NWPA), an event known as the Martha Hartsell Memorial, held as it is traditionally, at Phil’s Bar & Grill in Salem, OR this past weekend (June 28-29). First win in 2025 (check), […]

Crechale chalks up his first major win at Stars & Stripes Split Bracket event in TN

Since its inception, our coverage of national and international pool events has always featured a healthy influx of new names entering our database with a first-ever (recorded) cash payout and/or major/regional tour win. While Mississippian Phillip Crechale made his entrance into this database in February with a win at Jersey Girl Billiards’ Music City Split […]