Qlypmics Continues as Owen and Bartram Battle for 14 Hours

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Qlypmics Continues as Owen and Bartram Battle for 14 HoursLooming rematch seems likely in straight pool, upsets shake 10-ball event

by Paul Berg, InsidePOOL Magazine Staff
Play started back up in the second set of two U.S. Open events contested at the Qlympics in Louisville, KY, today, but not before a late-night session drained a pair of competitors. Starting at two Sunday afternoon and grinding until four AM Monday, Gabe “The Babe” Owen and Chris “Dante” Bartram set the stakes at $7,000 for a twelve-ahead set in 10-ball, the Columbus, OH, road player getting the last two from 2005 U.S. Open 9-ball champ Owen. TheActionReport crew filmed and broadcast the epic struggle, which ended with a settlement.
Owen was able to end up six games ahead giving Bartram the last two, and they squared up for half the posted cash in time to get a little rest before the U.S. Open 14.1 Straight Pool Championship bracket was drawn up from a scant 18 players. John “Mr. 403” Schmidt and Danny “The Springfield Flash” Harriman are at opposite ends of the bracket and seem likely to rumble to the finals and reprise their match from The First All-Around Action Challenge last week. The races are to 150 points in the tournament, as opposed to the mighty 400-ball test that Schmidt won over Harriman, but with great confidence in his new cue courtesy of sponsor OB-1 that he first hit balls with during a mammoth new high run of 403 set at Q-Master Billiards II just before the U.S. Open 9-ball Championships in Virginia last month, Schmidt will be watched as the clear favorite.

While Schmidt was the winner of the 10-ball event at the recent Great Southern Classic II in Atlanta, his path in the U.S. Open 10-ball Championship here will be a bit rougher. Huidji See got into town last night and was jumped on by action hounds Eric Durbin and Will Peay, but both booked loser against the big up and comer. See held an 8-4 lead against Schmidt, and while the 2006 U.S. Open 9-ball champion rallied to a tie at nine games each in the alternate-break format, Schmidt scratched on the subsequent break and was relegated to the chair. Clearing those ten balls and smashing in three in the next rack, See finished the break and run for the 11-9 stunner.
While his next match in the Clarion Conference Center will offer Schmidt a chance at revenge in straight pool, See will play in the last four on the winners’ side in 10-ball against Louis Ulrich, who is looking in form and merciless. Cincinatti, OH, young gun Shannon Murphy came back from a 7-2 deficit facing Bartram. While Bartram managed to hold a tenuous 10-8 lead, he never got the chance to get off the hill, Murphy running out a dry break to catch him 10-10 and breaking and running for the case game victory.
Rounding out the undefeated ranks, Murphy will play Rafael Martinez-Chavez, who stopped Jason Miller 11-6. Miller was coming off an 11-9 win over Owen, and with the absence of many other high finishers from the U.S. Open One Pocket and Full Rack Banks events last week, those two are in the best position to claim the all-around bonus. With a small field of 18 in the 10-ball event as well, despite the obvious dearth of international players drawn away by the World Pool Championships in Manila, there are questions as to where all the uninvited Americans are.
“We’re very disappointed with the turnout,” event organizer and BCAPL head Mark Griffin said. With $5,000 added to each of these events, Griffin cited lengthy advertisement and flyer campaigns for the fledgling offering of these events under the Qlympics umbrella and expressed uncertainty as to where to go from here. “I want to know where the communication breakdown is between us and the players,” Griffin said.
While they are few, the combatants are of high quality, and there is plenty of outstanding pool left to be played in Louisville. Keep your eyes on InsidePOOLmag.com for all of the latest from the Qlympics, as U.S. Open 14.1 Straight Pool and 10-ball play continues through Friday, and Shane Van Boening and Earl Strickland begin The Action Challenge II race to 100 in 10-ball later this week.

Capp Comes Back for Billiard Win

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Capp Comes Back for Billiard Win
Tri-State Tour / Astoria, Queens

by Rick Davis
The Tri-State Tour held their November 10 offering at Break Bar and Billiards in Astoria, Queens, NY, where Brian Capp stunned the field with a great comeback dealing the death blow to all the top entries.
Late on the winners’ side Pablo Sanz met Mark Mallari in the hot seat match. Both players had several top finishes to their credit, and after a tooth and nail fight Sanz came through with a 7-5 win to earn a rest in the hot seat. At the same time, on the one-loss side Capp was working on his comeback mostly unnoticed to that point. After taking a fourth-round loss to Mike Harrington, Capp blew through three opponents to face Harrington again, this time in the quarterfinals. There the match tipped each way, but finally Capp slipped past 7-6 to get revenge.
Capp advanced to the semifinals where he faced Mallari in another grinder, and yet again Capp came out on top of the double-hill showdown. After eliminating three of the other top six players, Capp arrived at the finals hoping to make all the effort worthwhile. The extended race took its toll on both Capp and Sanz, and the neither could claim much of an edge, then seeing the light at the end of the tunnel Capp took the final rack to win the match 9-8 and earn a great event win.
Results:
1st Brian Capp
2nd Pablo Sanz
3rd Mark Mallari
4th Mike Harrington
5th Adalberto Nazario
Gail Glazebrook

Nevels Gets Vengeance on Viking Billiard Tour

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Nevels Gets Vengeance on Viking Billiard Tour

The Viking cue 9-ball Tour was at Weekend’s Pub in Goose Creek, SC this weekend for the $1,500 added Open and $500 added Amateur Divisions which drew in 73 players. Players from as far away as Canada and California came to participate. From Canada, Shawn The Snowman Miller and Lance Salazar from California made their way to the events.

For the second week in a row the Viking Tour open division saw Larry The Truth Nevel battling it out in the finals against Jeff The Golden Horseshoe Boy Abernathy. However this week was a Little different. Abernathy The Golden Horseshoe Boy fought hard to get to the finals of the winners bracket by edging by two of his previous opponents in luck filled matches that thrilled the audience until the last ball had fallen in each match. Both of Abernathy’s previous opponents were quoted as saying Jeff should take his winnings and buy lottery tickets this week. He must have a Golden Horseshoe stuck in his ….. this week. Abernathy admitted that the last two matches before the Hot Seat match were by far the luckiest two matches he had since double dipping Nevel last week in the finals to win the Greenville, SC Viking Tour stop. For the Hot Seat match this week things were a tad bit different for Abernathy as he put rack after rack together and defeated Nevel 9-4 to be the final person standing in the winners bracket.

Abernathy made his way Through the field to get to the finals sending every player in his path to the one loss side, Steven Pelloni 9-2; JR Farias 9-4; Shawn Miller 9-6; Larry Jackson 9-8; Lance Salazar 9-8; Larry Nevel 9-4.

Nevel drilled thru his opponents one after another starting with Cliff Cribb 9-7; Tammy Leonard 9-0; Scott Rabon 9-7; Jason Kelsey 9-1; Mike Basha 9-5; In the battle for the hot seat Nevel was sent to the one loss side by Abernathy 9-4. Nevel then hit the 1-loss side where drilled Larry Jackson 9-2 to set up a rematch with the Golden Horseshoe Boy .

Abernathy’s winning streak was brought to a halt when he faced Nevel in the Finals and Nevel was out for vengeance this week as he drilled Abernathy 9-3 in the first set and 9-1 in the second set of the true double elimination format to win the event.

Farias Wins 9 Straight in the 1-Loss Side for the Win

Jose Farias JR lost his second match in winners bracket 7-3 to Cliff Cribb then won nine straight matches in a row to take down and win the event.

On the path to the finals Farias drew a bye in the first round then proceeded in the top half of the bracket to face and send to the one loss side Jason Benton 7-5; however he was sent to the one loss side in his second match against Cliff Cribb 7-3; once on the one loss side Farias had to fight to stay alive facing and defeating anyone he squared up against starting with Mel Johnson 5-0; Chris McKasty 5-1; Bill Allen 5-2; Billy Sikes 5-4; Tony Crescenzo 5-1; Rocky Guell 5-0; winning over BJ Hucks in the semi-finals 5-2 sending him to face Chad Stokes in the finals where he had to beat him twice in the true double elimination format offered by the Viking cue 9-ball tour. In the finals Farias won set 1- 7-3 and set 2-5-2.

Chad Stokes made his way thru the bottom half of the bracket on the winner side with ease facing and defeating Sherri Reeves 7-0; Daniel Pittman 7-6; Bill Allen 7-2; Rocky Guell 7-1; BJ Hucks 7-4 before facing Farias in the Finals.

The total PRIZE MONEY given away at this weekends Viking Tour event was $6,390.00

The Payouts for the Open Division are as follows:
1st $1720 –Larry Nevel
2nd $1050–Jeff Abernathy
3rd $700– Larry Jackson
4th $–400–Lance Salazar
5th/6th $150 each–Mike Basha Shawn Miller
7th/8th $85 each– Donnie Seagraves John Stallings

The Payouts for the Amateur Division are as follows:
1st $850-JR Farias
2nd $550–Chad Stokes
3rd $350–BJ Hucks
4th $ 150–Rocky Guell
5th/6th $75 each–Jason Kelsey Tony Crescenzo

The Viking Tour is pleased to report that a total of 16 Women and Junior players took advantage of our free entry fee program in this weeks events as well as three Active Military Personnel. The Viking cue 9-ball tour is proud to be the first to offer these discounts to our Military Personnel and Free entry to Women and Junior players at all of our events. We hope to continue to see the participation we have seen so far in an effort to grow and support our sport.

Cruz Takes McDermott All American Tour at Rudy

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Cruz Takes McDermott All American Tour at Rudy’s Place
The twelfth stop of the 2007/2008 McDermott All American Tour (produced by the American CueSports Alliance – ACS) was hosted at Rudy’s Place in Aurora, IL, on Saturday, November 10. The $500 added event drew a full field of thirty-two women players in a double-elimination 8-ball format on 7-foot bar boxes.
Linda Cruz (Chicago, IL) took an undefeated route to the finals. In the hot-seat match, Cruz clipped Amy Latzko (Orland Park, IL) 5-3. Earlier in the A-bracket semi-finals, Cruz dispatched Cindy Snidlebush (Sterling, IL) 5-2, while Latzko eclipsed Kathy Koon (Chicago, IL) 5-3. In the B-side bracket Kassy Werner (Glendale Heights, IL) eliminated Tammi Cox (Peoria, IL) at 7th place by a 4-1 margin, while Kim Tarter (Decatur, IL) ousted Kay Reimer (Joliet, IL) 4-3 at the same placement. In the B-side quarterfinals Werner and Tarter continued on by dispatching into 5th place respectively Kathy Koon 4-2 and Cindy Snidlebush 4-1. In the loser’s semifinals Tarter whitewashed Werner 4-0, but Kim was no match for Amy Latzko, as Latzko ended Kim Tarters run at 3rd place by a 4-1 margin. The tourney finals almost went to a second set, but Linda Cruz kept her undefeated march to the title alive in route to a 5-4 defeat of Amy Latzko!
By virtue of Kim Tarter being the highest-finishing ACS member in the event, she qualified for a free 9-ball singles entry into the 2008 ACS Nationals in Las Vegas – courtesy of the ACS. The ACS wishes to thank sponsors McDermott Handcrafted Cues, Championship Billiard Fabric and Nick Varner Signature Cases for their support in donating “Value-In-Kind” product for this and all stops on the McDermott All American Tour. Sponsorship opportunities are still available for the 2007/2008 All American Tour by contacting the ACS.
The Tour continues on the weekend of November 17-18, when one event will be showcased - a $800 added 8-ball event at the Hinsdale VFW in Hinsdale, NH (contact Jimmy Brooks at 802-254-5514). Further information, entry details and schedules for the 2007/2008 McDermott All American Tour are available at www.americancuesports.org (http://www.americancuesports.org/).
The ACS is a non-profit, national organization dedicated to heightening the interest and awareness of cue sports through the support and sanctioning of organized competition throughout the United States.

Final Results:
1st Linda Cruz (Chicago, IL)
2nd Amy Latzko (Orland Park, IL)
3rd Kim Tarter (Decatur, IL)
4th Kassy Werner (Glendale Heights, IL)
5-6th Cindy Snidlebush (Sterling, IL)
Kathy Koon (Chicago, IL)
7-8th Kay Reimer (Joliet, IL)
Tammi Cox (Peoria, IL)