From Cutbacks To Increases – EPBF Prize Money Booms Under Predator Partnership

AS THE EURO Tour enters the second year of its landmark partnership with the Predator Group, the impact on European pool is already impossible to ignore. Only a short time ago, discussions centred on reducing Men’s prize money from €45,000 to €40,000 per event. Instead, the opposite has happened. In the very first year of the […]

Turning Stone Classic XLI 9-Ball Open This Weekend

My Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour’s $25,000 Added Turning Stone Classic XLI 9-Ball Open is just a few days away. Once again our event will be in Turning Stone’s beautiful Event Center with free admission for all. There are no bad seats in the house. There will be a limited number free posters with all of […]

Childress, Ussery and Kennedy split top prizes on TOP Tour Championship in NC

It was just one of those things. By the time that the $1,000-added, 3rd Annual TOP (The Open Player) Tour Championship (Dec. 27-28) had whittled down to four of its original 34 entrants and spilled over  into Sunday morning, its host venue, Breaktime Billiards in Clemmons, NC was already into its general-public ‘gear.’ As so […]

Mendoza comes from deep on the loss side to win L.I. Billiards Elite Holiday Super Tournament

Split-bracket tournaments are everywhere these days and they seem to be working out for regional tours and independent events from coast to coast. And, it can be argued, the players who compete. The tour director or independent event operator sees increased entrant numbers at tournaments that allow lower and higher-ranked competitors to be separated at […]

Redemption Complete: Seoa Seo Crowned World Champion in Epic Rematch

The 2025 KAMUI WPA Women’s 9-Ball World Championship delivered a final for the ages, as Korea’s Seoa Seo completed her long-awaited redemption by defeating Kristina Tkach in a rematch that has become one of the defining rivalries in women’s professional pool. One year after suffering a heartbreaking defeat to Tkach in the final of the 2024 WPA […]

Fracasso-Verner and Tucker win Jersey Girl Billiards’ Deck the Balls holiday tourney

Places to go, things to do, people to see, right? Let’s get to it. Jersey Girl Billiards ran its annual holiday season, Deck the Balls tournament this past weekend (Dec. 19-21, spilling over to Monday morning), executing five tournaments that began on Friday night at JOB Billiards Club in Madison, TN with a warmup ‘Mini’ […]

Hollingsworth & Banks split top prizes on Q City 9-Ball Tour Christmas event

Landon Hollingsworth joined the Q City 9-Ball Tour’s Christmas ‘party’ over the weekend (Sat., Dec. 20), looking for his first (recorded with us) win of 2025 and found it. In a manner of speaking. Exiting his last year as a junior competitor, Hollingsworth went undefeated to the hot seat, but when his last vanquished opponent […]

Adam Wilk from Poland and Georgios Malekkidis from Cyprus crowned European Billiards Champions for Athletes with Disabilities

A new chapter in the history of European billiards has begun. The EPBF European Pool Championships for Disabled Athletes – Starachowice POLAND 2025 have concluded, and the winners have been decided. Adam Wilk from Poland and Georgios Malekkidis from Cyprus emerged as the top players, dominating the competition held at Hotel Europa in Starachowice. The […]

World Nineball Tour Unveils First Wave Of Blockbuster 2026 Schedule

The World Nineball Tour is excited to reveal the first wave of its 2026 schedule — a global slate of elite competition running from January through June. This lineup includes three major Matchroom Events, two WNT Junior Events and 13 WNT Ranking Events across four continents, marking the most ambitious opening of a season in […]

Benoit goes undefeated to claim Queen of the Slate title at Forest City Billiards in ME

The woman is chalkin’ up them frequent flyer miles. Or single-handedly trying to keep gasoline stations busy. In a 10-day, spread-out voyage from (in order and not counting from wherever she was before) Philadelphia to Jacksonville, FL and then, to Portland, ME (likely to have led to some seriously different choices for clothes), Ashley Benoit […]