Below are headlines from various news sources in the pool and billiards industry. This list is updated every 2 hours and only contains the 10 most recent articles from each source.
AZ Billiards News
Gindac Ciprian Gabriel wins second Rack Race Stop (#7) at Rack & Grill III in Aiken, SC
Over the last three Rack Race events, Romania’s Gindac Ciprian Gabriel has battled for the hot seat and the event title, twice. At Rack Race stop #5 (March 14-15), he downed Josh Roberts in the hot seat and after losing the opening set of the final, came back to defeat him in the second set. […]
The draw has been confirmed for the 2025 UK Open Pool Championship, which returns to the Telford International Centre, Telford, United Kingdom, from 6–11 May. Broadcast live on Sky Sports in the UK and Ireland, and internationally via WNT TV, the tournament will showcase over 50 nationalities of elite talent from across the globe, all […]
Billiard Education Foundation Presents the Monica Webb Battle of the Junior Champions
Top Junior Talent from USA, Canada, and Mexico to Compete at Borderline Billiards The Billiard Education Foundation (BEF), in partnership with Borderline Billiards, is proud to announce the Monica Webb Battle of the Junior Champions, a premier international youth billiards tournament set to take place August 29-31, 2025, in Bristol, Tennessee. Sponsored by Brunswick, this […]
Billiard TV FAST Channel is Now Available on Prime Video
Billiard TV is now available as a free ad-supported television (FAST) channel on Prime Video, where viewers can stream the 24/7 television network with programming dedicated exclusively to cue sports anytime for free. Billiard TV offerings in 2025 include 150 days of live event programming in addition to highlights and full-event footage from the past […]
Chaplin takes two out of three over Woods to claim Stacie Hughes Memorial in Roseburg, OR
Memorial events in a pool community tend to be intensely personal. They’re generally organized and held to honor a competitor from a given community and reflect aspects of a career at the tables that doesn’t necessarily highlight specific accomplishments at ‘major,’ newsworthy tournaments at which the memorialized player excelled. They’re generally attended by competitors from […]
Ultimate Pool USA’s Ozone Billiards Iowa Shootout In The Books
The Rack Billiard Club in Clive, IA – a suburb of Des Moines – was exploding with excitement as players from all over came to compete in Ultimate Pool USA’s latest event. They had four divisions – the Open, the Women’s Open, Mixed Pairs & the Junior Open plus the Iowa Shootout Championship. All events […]
Gomez & Chohan Take Beasley Open
Owners Rich Kuntz & Tammy Frampton welcomed both players & fans to the legendary Brass Tap & Billiards in Raleigh, NC for the $20,000 added Beasley Open. Featuring both one pocket and nine ball divisions, this World Nineball Tour event allowed players to add their finishes to the nine ball world rankings. Doug Beasley Custom […]
Barahona comes from the loss side to win split-bracket event on Garden State Pool Tour
In a $100-added, split-bracket 9-ball event hosted by Shooter’s Family Billiards in Wayne, NJ this weekend (Sat., April 19), 32 entrants (18 in a High bracket, 14 in a Low) battled at a stop on the Garden State Pool Tour (GSPT) until each separate bracket had a hot seat occupant and a semifinal winner. Those […]
Xu comes back from hot seat loss to claim stop on Garden State Pool Tour
In his first year of recording his earnings with us here at AZBilliards (2023), Ronnie Sheng Xu won two stops on separate tours; New York’s Tri-State Tour (downing Ambi Estevez in the final) and New Jersey’s Garden State Pool Tour (GSPT) defeating Joe Valania in that final). Last year, he finished in the money on […]
Taylor Coffey, 12-year-old Jacob Hyatt split top prizes at 5th Annual Anthony Mabe Memorial
Taylor Coffey earned his place in the headline of this tale by going undefeated to the hot seat at the 5th Annual Anthony Mabe Memorial, held this past weekend (April 12-13). Coffey ended up splitting the top two prizes with 12-year-old Jacob Hyatt, whom Coffey had defeated in the opening round of play and went […]