Aramith launches a new dining room concept

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Aramith Launches a New Dining Room Concept
Know how to entertain
When it comes to family home entertainment, the Fusion table has exactly what it needs to create those unique memorable moments to share with friends and family. By integrating a quality pool table and a game table right in a design dining table, the Fusion concept is unique in the fact that it adds multi-functionality to the dining room.
The table shifts seamlessly from a pure design object, into a roomy get2gether dining table, transformable in seconds into a quality billiard table or a game table to accompany the after dinner drinks.
As such, the Fusion table introduces a totally new product concept that addresses the current trend of people enjoying inviting and entertaining friends at home again. In this context billiards is one of the rare games that gathers young and old, male and female, friends and neighbors.
As such, Aramith’s innovative Dining Room Concept makes inviting, lounging or cocooning at home a truly entertaining experience.
For more information, please visit the Saluc website: www.fusiontables.com (http://www.fusiontables.com)
SALUC is a Belgian manufacturer of billiard balls under the Aramith brand, distributed in more than 85 countries with a marketshare of 80 % worldwide. The company has a turnover of about 22 millions euros and employs 200 people.

Daulton Tops Great Southern Billiard Tour

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Daulton Tops Great Southern Billiard Tour

Great Southern Billiard Tour
by Rick Davis
The Great Southern Billiard Tour pulled into Breakers in Knoxville, TN, where a 45-player field emerged to seek the title. Although many top players were in attendance it was tournament director Shannon Daulton who came out on top besting the field.
On the winners’ side Daulton was in control of the lower half of the chart as he defeated two of the strongest tour regulars, John Hennessee and Eddie Little, to reach the hot seat match. Not far behind was Steve Moore, winner of the previous tour stop, who plowed through Todd Nelson but was upset by Claude Marrier who bested him 9-4. The hot seat match was then Marrier and Daulton and Daulton wasted no time drilling Marrier 9-1.
Then it was all eyes on the one-loss side. Earlier action there saw Robert Green fight back after his loss early in the day until Little showed him the door while the same story unfolded for Dallas Roach who shutout Larry Nevel just before falling to Moore 7-3. Moore was on a mission from there on and pounded Little 7-2 then got revenge against Marrier 7-3 to face Daulton in the finals.
With true double-elimination the road was tough for Moore but after he took the opening set 9-7 it was anyone’s game. In the final set each player tried to get a lead but it was Daulton who took it first and extended it for the 9-5 win to defeat Moore and claim top honors for himself.
Results:
1st Shannon Daulton
2nd Steve Moore
3rd Claude Marrier
4th Eddie Little
5th Robert Green
Dallas Roach
7th Larry Nevel
Todd Nelson

Hatch Dominates Tiger Pool Tour

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Hatch Dominates Tiger Pool Tour

Tiger Pool Tour / Sterling, VA
by Rick Davis
A stacked field of 61 players came out for the Tiger Pool Tour, which held its ninth event at First Break Café in Sterling, VA, over the July 21-22 weekend. Top national players, previous event winners, and other dangerous entities swarmed the event, but Dennis “The Hatchet Man” Hatch recovered from a loss to best the field.
Action on the winners’ side included a who’s who of tour players. Hatch made his way through three rounds before falling to Chuck Altomare 9-5, who was sent west as well by Matt Clatterbuck in the next round. Clatterbuck, who has taken three top-three finishes including a win, was now in the hot seat match. On the other end of the board Mike Davis fell just short and was defeated by tournament director Andy Lincoln 9-5, but Lincoln was denied also as Shaun “Get Some” Wilkie, who has also taken three top-three finishes, slipped by 9-7 to take his seat in the hot seat match. Wilkie and Clatterbuck inched along, but in the end it was Clatterbuck who had the endurance for the 9-6 win.
On the one-loss side the cream was certainly rising to the top. Hatch took a trio of wins, including a 7-1 slap against Lincoln, to reach the quarterfinals. Nearby, Ryan McCreesh was on a comeback, taking six left-side wins, including the elimination of Davis 7-4, but was then upset just shy of the quarterfinals by Chuck Altomare 7-3.
The handful of remaining matches blazed through as Hatch eliminated Altomare 7-5 in the quarterfinals, then Wilkie 7-3 in the semifinals, to reclaim his seat at the finals. Hatch and Clatterbuck put on a good show from the amassing crowd, but the top pro, Hatch, was too much for the top tour player and defeated him to claim the title.
Results:
1st Dennis Hatch
2nd Matt Clatterbuck
3rd Shaun Wilkie
4th Chuck Altomare
5th Ryan McCreesh
Andy Lincoln
7th Jeremy Sossei
Bob Begey