Dennis Orcollo reinforced his position as the Philippines top pool player and among the very best in the world when he won the US Open 10-Ball Championships at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Sunday morning Manila Time. Pool patron Perry Mariano who heads Bugsy Promotions where Orcollo is the star said his [...]

Shanelle vs Borana in Poison Battle of the Beauties             by Ed Liddawi On Sunday, March 11th 2012, Sandcastle Billiards and Dragon Promotions will be hosting a very special event, The Poison Challenge Match Series featuring Shanelle Loraine versus Borana Andoni. Billed as “The Battle of the Beauties.” Both ladies have been featured in the [...]

ROAD TO 8-BALL GLORY BEGINS 96 PLAYERS VIE FOR WORLD 8-BALL TITLE IN FUJAIRAH, UAE   By Ted Lerner (Fujairhah, United Arab Emirates)–The race to 8-Ball glory got underway early Monday morning here in the coastal emirate of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates, with 96 players from over 40 countries vying for the 2012 [...]

Francisco “Django” Bustamante, the World 9-Ball Champion who was recently inducted into the Hall of Fame has added the 2012 Derby City Classic Fatboy 10-Ball Challenge held at the Horseshoe Casino and Hotel in Elizabeth, Indiana, to his list of triumphs. Bustamante, who together with bosom buddy Efren Reyes forms the one-two punch of pool [...]

    Feijen brings it home for Europe   Europe 11– 7 USA     EUROPE has successfully defended the PartyPoker.net Mosconi Cup following a convincing 11-7 victory over the USA at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. It was Holland’s Niels Feijen, in his seventh Mosconi Cup, who downed the winning 9 ball which [...]

      Europe 4 – 1 USA       AFTER the first day’s play at the 2011 PartyPoker.net Mosconi Cup, Team Europe holds a commanding 4-1 lead as they cashed in on some tentative play from the Americans at the MGM Grand.   Aside from Archer and Putnam’s solid show in the first [...]

Efren “Bata” Reyes and inaugural World Women’s 10-ball champion Rubilen Amit teamed up to win their second World Mixed Doubles Championship at the Liberation Shopping Center in Hangzhou, China Friday night. Reyes who is 54 still had some magic still left in him and together with Amit  who has played steady pool all throughout the [...]

ON TOP OF THE WORLD THE PHILIPPINES DENNIS ORCULLO IS THE 2011 WPA PLAYER OF THE YEAR TV host, pool commentator and boxing writer Ted Lerner reports that Dennis Orcullo, who once upon a time was an itinerant fisherman in a remote and poor part of the Philippines, has now reached the pinnacle of the pool [...]

JEANNETTE LEE, JOHNNY ARCHER LEAD US CHALLENGE IN WORLD MIXED DOUBLES POOL CHAMPIONSHIPS/Ronnie Nathanielsz  . Veteran Johnny Archer and the stunningly attractive  Jeanette Lee will team up for the very first time to go against the world’s best teams at the Taobao World Mixed Doubles Championships which opens on November 30.today .  The two legendary players will be [...]

    —       Van den Berg: “They’re weaker than last year; we’re stronger”   HOLLAND’S NICK van den Berg believes the European Mosconi Cup team is stronger than ever, while the American side is getting weaker. That was the Dutchman’s candid assessment of the respective sides, and he is confident of victory [...]