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��☜Derby City Classic 5-9 Brumback repeats at Bank 5 Frost Wins One Pocket 6 Women’s Overall 6 Reyes Takes 9-Ball 7 Master of the Table 7

☜Mosconi Cup 18USA’s Dennis Hatch MVP

WPBA OB Cues Ladies Tour 22 Rusty’s Billiards, Arlington, Texas

Music City 9-Ball Open 33JOB Nashville Tennessee

Cover photo by Ricky Bryant

Money list1st John Brumback $10,0002nd Efren Reyes $5,0003rd Larry Nevel $25004-5th Rafael Martinez, Alex Pagulayan $1,3756-9th Chris Bartram $850

George Breedlove, Shannon Daulton, Truman Hogue

10-16th Bill Bailey $550Danny Harriman, Neil JacobsMichael Laney, Clent McColloughSteve Moore, Mark Slye, Jr.

A field of 356 bankers started the event, withall the big names.

John Brumback came through the field as he beat; ShannonDaulton, Rafael Martinez, Efren Reyes, George Breedlove,Glen “piggy banks” Rogers, Shane Van Boening, Sy Brown,

Baeu Runninger, Ed Deska, Scott Frost, andWilliam Hash. It was no walk in the park forJohn, as he had to get by Efren Reyes twicein the semi’s and the finals.For the second year in a row Brumback has

gone undefeated. With a field that size it isreally a feat. His banks and position playwere flawless.In the match he played against Scott Frost,

he won the lag as he did through out theevent and broke, ran out the first rack. Thatseemed to scare Scott as he began playingsafeties, hoping for a Brumback mistake, buthe was up to the task. It was a little harder but he won thematch anyway.You have got to feel for Efren Reyes as he has finished 2nd

three or four times in the banks. He gets his foot in the stirrup,but can’t swing up and ride.Larry “the truth” Nevel came in third with 4 byes in a row in

the 10th,11th,12th, and 13th rounds to finish 3rd after Efrengot by him in 14th round.


This annual event starts off the tournament season eachyear and keeps getting better. The venue was again atthe Horseshoe Casino Hotel and is scheduled there for

the next three years/Along with 9-ball, one pocket and 9-ball bank, there were

mini tournaments almost every night along with the ring bankpool game won by Chicago player Jack Johnson opening night;a straight pool challenge; a one pocket challenge and begin-ning this year, a female all around title.All of this finished up with three champions, Banks, One

Pocket, and 9-Ball, a Master of the Table was selected from thethree divisions and a Ladies All Around Player.Events were carried on live stream (USTREAM.com) on

several web sites.

12th Annual Derby City Classic

Winner Brumback and with checkabove and left, Efren who finished 2nd

Brumback Still the Best BankerBrumback Repeats as Bank Champion at the DCC


Melissa Little won the Women’s All Around, a newtitle for the DCC added this year. Melissa’s previousbest 2009 finish wasat the WPBA Nationals at

Seminole Hard Rock Casino last November, she finish 9thwith a $2350 payday.Winner of the DCC Women’s all Around receives $2000.

Bionickname: The Viper.She enters 2010 ranked fifth in the United States and 17th

in the world among professional women billiard players.But at age 39, Boulder native Melissa Little says she’s

nowhere done striking. She dreams of earning Colorado a na-tional championship title, and helping usher the sport into theOlympics.“I’m knocking on the door. I’m right there,” Little says. “It’sjust a matter of time. If my body can hold up, I promise Col-orado a championship.”She also wants to guide more women — and kids — into

the male-dominated sport, bringing it out of the stereotype of

In a marathon match that went on until after2:00 am Scott Frost took the one pocket title.Sylver Ochoa and Scott Frost had been

playing all day. Both started out with a 9-ballmatch in the morning and then played out therest of the one pocket tournament which endedin the early morning of the next day. Scott tookthe decision 3-2.Sylver took 2nd place. It was an impressive

showing, as Sylver always isclose to the top, he just hasn’twon it yet.Francisco Bustamante came

out 3rd after he was defeated bysylver ochoa in the semi’s.Nick Vita was tied for 4th

place. He had a very good tour-nament, with a 292 player fieldthat’s a very good showing.Corey Deuel was tied with

Vita with 5th place. Corey got knocked out by tournament winner Scott Frost in thesemi’s. Corey is also having a fine event with his strong suit coming up [9-ball], hewill be near the top once again.

One Pocket’s in the Freezer

Women’s All Around Title

1st Scott Frost $12,000 2nd Sylver Ochoa $6,000 3rd F. Bustamante $2,500 4th Corey Deuel $1,800 5th Nick Vita $1,800

dim bars and smoky nightclubs and into living rooms, familyvenues and even classrooms. She sees the table as a geometry,calculus and physics puzzle.Her resume makes her goals seem plausible. Little secured

three top-10 finishes with the Women’s Professional BilliardAssociation last year. She has competed full-time on theWomen’s Professional Billiards Associations Classic Tour forthe past 10 years, and represented the United States in fourworld championships.


Reyes takes homethe Bacon

finishing secondin Bank and first

in nine Ball.

The 2010 Derby City Classic wrapped up this 10-day extrava-ganza with a premier 9-ball finals between and . “The Rocket”and “The Magician” appeared in the Accu-stats arena to wow

fans with their moves. In the final match, Reyes was intrue form. The only errors to be found were his threedry breaks. His position was flawless and his kickingwas phenomenal. Reyes took the match 7-4 whenMorris broke in four balls and the cue ball in the finalrack. ��Of the 257 9-ball entries, Reyes came throughthe field after losing his second match to young player .Of the final six players two stood out as, what somewould think were underdogs. We never would’veknown it from their performances. 24-year-old re-

mained undefeated longer than any other player in the 9-ball event.Murphy lost to Reyes in round 10 and then again in round 11, the semi-finals, to finish tied for third/fourth. Local player did his best in hissemi-finals match against Morris, staying with him 3-3, then 4-4 beforethe rocket took off, taking the set 7-4 to meet Reyes in the finals. ��1st Efren Reyes $16,000�2nd Rodney Morris $8,000�3rd Shannon Murphy $4,000�4th Jeremy Sossei $4,000�5th Justin Hall $22506th Billy Bailey $2250

The cream of the crop rises to the top. This year, the top threeMaster of the Table awards all went to winners of the divisions.Reyes unofficially secured his well-deserved title as the Master

in round 10 after defeating Murphy the first time.

Reyes Redeems Himself at DCC 9-Ball

Derby City Master of the Table

Reyes top, redeems himselfafter placing secoond in Bankby winning the 9-Ball title andtaking home another check!

The Rocket finished second.

Master of the TableResults 1st Efren Reyes $20,000�2nd John Bromback $3,000�3rd Scott Frost $2,000

By Samm Diep - PoolTipJar.com

AxBilliards

Each year at the DCC, Bob Jewitt adds $10,000 from hisown pocket to host a Straight Pool Challenge. This yearthat added money included an additional $100 from

another donor. All the entries also return to the prize fund. The preliminary rounds drew 27 challengers. For $100 entry,

each player gets 12 attempts at a high run starting with ball inhand on a break ball, four a day over three days. The top threehigh runs for each day receive a pay out of $300, $200, & $100. Additional bonuses include $1,000 for high run overall,

$1,000 bonus for a run of 200 or more (provided by Greg Sulli-van and Diamond Billiards), and prize money from Accu-stats fora recorded run of 100 and 150 that occurs in the Accu-statsarena. All runs of 50-and-out will be allowed to continue. The top eight players with the highest runs throughout the

preliminary rounds advance to a single-elimination tournament.Among the field of eight, Ralph Eckert and Charlie Williamsmade their way to the finals. Eckert defeated Bobby Hunterand Alex Pagulayan while Williams defeated Beau Runningenand “Mr. 400” John Schmidt. In the first round, Schmidt defeated Stevie Moore 100-29.

Moore scratched at 12 giving Schmidt a chance at the tableand it was all he needed. He ran 100 and out and was thengiven the opportunity to continue his run. He finished at 171,missing a 3 ball in the side pocket to end his run. Schmidt willreceive an additional $1,000 for the overall high run of thetournament and $1,000 courtesy of Accu-stats for his run inexcess of 150 when he returns to comment the match.

DCC Independent Events

In the following round, Schmidt wouldfind the tables turned when he scratched.Williams ran the set outwinning 100-73 and contin-ued his run to125 receiving a$500 bonus from Accu-statsfor his 100+ ball run. Thetwo-hour finals matchbetween Williams and Eckertdid not go as smoothly as theyhoped. Both players werefeeling the pressure. Therewere several missed balls and ahigh run of 39 by Williams,who got the job done in theend. Results1st Charlie Williams $2,5002nd Ralph Eckert $1,7003rd John Schmidt $1,1004th Alex Pagulayan $1,1005th Corey Deuel $7006th Bobby Hunter $7007th Stevie Moore $7008th Beau Runningen $700

By Samm Diep - PoolTipJar.com

AxBilliards

The DCC Bank Pool Ring Game organized by GradyMathews saw a new winner this year. Brian Gregg was de-throned by first time participant, Jet “The Hungry Hound”Johnson. After the match, the emotional Johnson embracedhis mentor Freddy “The Beard” Bentivegna who proudly ex-claimed, “That's my protoge!” The six players bought in for $1,500 each. This year, along

with Shannon Daulton, Gregg, and Truman Hogue, we saw thelikes of Harry Platis, David Fricks, and Johnson. The winner-take-all ring game kicked off at 8 o'clock with several timerunner-up Daulton in the lead for the first half. Platis, Frick,and Hogue took early exits. With three players left, Daulton and Johnson were tied with

the lead. Together, theyeliminated Gregg. In thefinal round, Johnsonpulled ahead with thehelp of some open tablesand nice position play.“This was the most spec-tacular performance by afirst time bank poolplayer,” said Mathews. Even Gregg embraced the elated Johnson saying, “I guess I

can give Superman a hug.” Johnson takes home the total purseof $9,000.

Williams Wins Straight Pool Challenge

Johnson Takes Down Daulton in DCC Bank Pool Ring Game


The second annual FatBoy 10-Ball Challengecrowned a new champion, “The Magician” EfrenReyes. Reyes went undefeated in the 16 player

$5,000 added invitational event. The format was single-elim-ination, $500 entry, race-to-15 10-ball.As the field quickly shrank, the final two men standing

were Reyes and Virginia state champ, Brandon Shuff. Reyes,feeling pretty comfortable from his many matches on theAccu-stats table, quickly jumped to a 6-0 lead against Shuff. Neither player was at top gear but still strung together

several impressive shots for the packed audience. Reyes con-tinued to pull ahead until the score was 13-5, when Shuffmade a small comeback. Unfortunately, his efforts were notenough. Reyes got on the hill and closed out the set, 15-8.Bracket/payouts1st Efren Reyes $6,500 2nd Brandon Shuff $3,2503rd Shannon Murphy $1,625 4th Johnny Arch $1,625


Reyes Relentless in FatBoy Challenge

One Pocket Hall of FameThe Class of 2009

Tuesday January 26th 2010 the 6th annual banquetwas held at the Derby City Classic. Jose Parica(top right) was inducted into the One Pocket Divi-

sion along with Rudolf “Fats” Wanderome. Both reallyearned their spots. Jose had adopted the USA as his homemany years ago and has been a top player ever since.Fats on the other hand was a hustler first and then after

the movie “the hustler” he became a pool celebrity. Hedrew more attention to our game than all the championsput together. He died in 1996 and his widow and nephewaccepted his award.

In the bank pool division Glenn “Piggy Banks” Rogers was theinductee. Rogers who hails from Chicago along with so manygreat bankers; Freddy “the beard” Bentivegna, Leonard “bugs”Rucker and James “youngblood” Brown.

The Lifetime Pool in Action inductee was Harry Platis (right) asuccessful Seattle Wa. Lawyer who also gambles in pool. Harryhas spent a lifetime backing players, made loans to players and ifthere is action he wants in.The banquet was the best ever and was held in the Legends

Restaurant and Bar at the Horseshoe. Next year in the legendsthey will have a Johnston City reunion. You may see people youhaven’t seen in years and years. Make your reservations early.


by Tom Ross

Contributing Writer

More Two Rail Position

Last month we looked at a couple ofposition shots and discussed thevalue of two-rail shape for the

next ball over choosing one-rail positionto get there. In that discussion we uncov-ered some exceptions to a widely estab-lished rule which espouses the value ofsimplicity in our choices and discoveredthat sometimes the more complex choiceworks better. This month we haveanother example of the same principle,again illustrating that breaking the sim-plicity rule can work to serve up more ac-curate position play. When we watch professionals, the one

aspect of their play that tends to standout most sharply is the accuracy of theircue-ball control and position play. Andsometimes it seems that they’re hittingevery shot with perfect or near-perfectspeed. Though they can and often doplay with surgical precision, one reasonthat pros appear to possess such keenspeed control is that they know how tomake choices that will accommodatespeed errors while still yielding thedesired angle for the next shot. Often,the path for the required position angleon the next ball, regardless of precisionwith speed, is found using two rails. In the diagram we have a shot on the 7

ball with the 8 and 9 at the other end ofthe table. Note there are two 9 balls, onethat goes into corner pocket A and onethat goes into corner pocket B. We shallexamine position on the 8 ball for bothshots and the most reliable way to get theposition we need. Let’s begin with therun out that ends with the 9 ball goinginto corner pocket A.Before shooting the 7 ball, a careful

player would look at the 8 to determinethe best angle for that shot to move fromthere to good position for the 9 ball. Inthis case landing straight in on the 8 ballwould work out fine since a soft follow

shot would roll the cue ball forwardtoward the left side of the table for aneasy shot on the 9 ball. That positiontrack for the 8 ball is shown by thedotted line path along the right, side rail.Note that if the shot is hit well, the anglefor the shot on the 8 ball is perfect fromthe time the cue ball rebounds off of thesecond rail and rolls toward the 8 ball onthe desired position track. The shooterhas a three-foot margin for error withspeed if he hits the second rail in theproper spot. The shot is played with anear center-ball hit, a touch of right-hand english and a moderate punchstroke to move the cue ball to the rightoff of the 7 ball. If the shooter misses thestraight-in track, he should err on theside of the line toward the right side railwhere the angle will leave a slight cut tothe left, allowing for a follow shot to theleft side rail and a bounce from theretoward the 9 ball.

If we have the layout with the 9 ballthat goes into corner pocket B, the re-

quired position re-quires only a slight ad-justment. For thatshot we want the cueball to come out of the corner a littleshorter to move along the solid-line pathfor a cut angle that moves the cue ball offof the 8 ball and toward the right side rail.In order to make the cue ball wrap out ofthat corner closer to the pocket, the shotrequires a lower hit, or a snappier punchstroke, or a little bit of both. Note againthat the cut angle which moves the cueball toward the right side rail off of the 8ball is there from the time the cue ballhits the second rail, again giving theshooter a margin for speed error of atleast three feet, a range that should becomfortable for a player at virtually anyskill level.Set up the balls as they are in the

diagram and practice both shots. You willsee that the difference between the twohits is slight, yet distinct enough to feeland remember. In both cases your targetis the spot that you want to hit on thesecond rail. Study the shot until youknow the two exact spots to hit on thesecond rail and then make a consciousand deliberate choice for the target onthe second rail that corresponds to theshot you’re playing. It should not takelong to develop the necessary feel forboth shots. After nailing down the two-rail position tracks, try each shot withone-rail position from the top short railto see which is easier for the run out.Going one rail for either shot you willfind that, since the cue ball crosses thedesired position track, your speed must benearly perfect to stop in the exact spotfor the desired angle. And then, like thepros, you will see the value in choicesthat allow for variations in speed whilereliably serving up ideal position.

Born William Jopling Marshall, Jr. in Bedford, Virginia, January 20,1926, but better known in the pool world as ‘Willie Jopling’, Marshalldied suddenly in his home early in the morning of November 24, 2009.

Bill Marshall was a veteran of WWII, a career graphic designer and a family man, whoput those priorities ahead of pool, although he played at a competitive level. The nameWillie Jopling became synonymous with trick shots as under that moniker he wrotepopular instructional columns for several pool and billiard magazines for many years.Early on in his pool career he became enthralled with trick shots and the game of One Pocket, and it was these two disci-plines that his columns focused on. He self-published an instructional book on Trick Shots which also included a largesection on One Pocket shots, which may have been the first published One Pocket instructional work. Recently he hadpublished two One Pocket instruction videos which were well received in the One Pocket community.

He was a close friend to many great players, including the late Eddie Taylor, and many of his columns mixed in personalanecdotes along with his excellent pool advice, which added to the popularity of his writing. He was a regular at every USOpen Championship in his home state of Virginia, but also traveled every year to the Derby City Classic to enjoy the poolaction, catch up with his many friends and to sell a few books and tapes to help pay his way. He was still contributingcolumns, and still enjoyed getting out for a little pool until his death.

Courtesy onepocket.org


Trick Shot Icon“Willie Jopling” Dies

Rail-First Stroke Shotby Robert Byrne

From “Byrne’s Complete Book of Pool Shots”

with permission

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With draw and left sidespin, it ispossible to hit the rail first,make the 1-ball, and bring the

cueball back to the right end of the table.You need a very good draw stroke toexecute this shot. The big strokers love it.

With the same spin on the cueball, aball-first hit will send the cueball in the di-rection of the dashed line.


by “The Monk”

Contributing Writer • www.monkbilliardacademy.net

Stop! Lets do it right.

For the latest Event News


The first thing most pool playersdo is pick up a cue, and walk tothe table and begin playing. This

is their introduction to pocket billiards.Then they fumble along learning thingshere and there from players just likethemselves. For the first time, you can doit right. You can acquire knowledge,apply that knowledge into skill develop-ment and train for that career as a player.The Monks’ dream of being able to

coach millions of students throughoutthe world with the incredible Monk 101material has finally come to fruition. In asmall set of Islands in the South Pacific,The Monk created an easy stepby step training program. Now,for the first time ever an onlinecoaching service will help stu-dents build their skills andreach their dreams. The Monkreveals in his teachings that we needRight Thinking, Right Action and RightMind Development. He has taken this formula and created

the most effective online coachingprogram ever offered. This intensivetraining will take you from beginner toworld class. Video streaming is used to enhance

this interactive training program.TheMonk Masters University is presented inthree parts. In the Bronze Level you will build a

storehouse of knowledge through the in-tensive instructional material provided insixty interactive classes. Let’s do it right.The Monk expertly helps you build theRight Thinking mind set. Upon graduation,you will receive an Associates Degree. In the Silver Level you must turn your

acquired knowledge into Skill Develop-ment. Knowledge does not pocket a ball,skill does. The Lesson book has beenconverted into an animated presentationof over 165 lessons. You simply click onthe cue and the shots will be performedin an accurate and precise manner.Through these interactive lessons you

will always know what right action to take.Also featured in the Silver Level is TheMonk Four Points of Power program. Atthis point you will be taught to releasethe things that have always held youback from the freedom to perform. TheSilver Level is Right Action. Upon grad-uation, you receive a Bachelors Degree. In the Gold Level you will embark

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by Eric “The Preacher” Yow!

WPA Masse World Champion

An Interesting Rail Jump

For more information on Eric Yow! Cues, [email protected] or visit Joe

Nielsen’s Billiards at www.JOERACKEM.com.

Recently I was doing an Exhibition of Eric Yow’s TrickShot Madness at a Youth Seminar entitled “ConfrontingOur Culture” in Middle Tennessee. The seminar was

put on by the Gainesboro Church of Christ and held at thelocal middle school. I was brought in as the entertainment aswell as a guest speaker to bring a message immediately preced-ing the keynote speaker. When I travel with my show, Ialways pack a punch with laughter and inspirationalstories. Having performed at churches, schools, and evenin the Montgomery County Juvenile Courtroom, mymessage is one that teens and adults alike need to hear. Atthis seminar, our focus was on teens dealing with the diffi-culties of adolescence in a world and culture saturatedwith evil. I use my words and my pool cue to illustrate in-spirational and biblical messages, life lessons of love andfaith to help the listener become motivated to be strongand overcome difficulties.In “Trick Shot Madness,” I will illustrate concepts such

as overcoming obstacles by demonstrating numerous jumpshots in both talented and comedic manners. I use the EricYow Cues to shoot amazing jump and masse shots. Crowds lovethe masse shots that illustrate a change of direction that somany people’s life desperately needs. In Gainesboro, I was working with some teenagers before the

show and showing them what a little creativity can do for themat this stage in their lives. You’ve got to think outside the boxand aim to do more than others around them have done. Strivefor excellence should be a daily motto. So I walked to the tableand thought for just a moment about a new shot that had neverbefore been executed. It all starts with, “will this work?” Iplaced the balls on the table in a fashion fairly close to what isdiagrammed for you, elevated the Eric Yow Masse Cue, andshot it with confidence. While the onlookers thought it wascompletely unreasonable to assume you can walk to a table andwork magic, I believe the Yow Cue did exactly that. I made allbut one of the balls on the table and have since perfected thisgreat shot! It’s amazing what you can do if you put your mindto it!For this shot, place a ball near the side pocket and close to

the left pocket point. Freeze a ball directly above it with itstangent pointed at the left corner. A third ball will be placedwith its tangent pointed at the opposite corner. Then a fourthball will be positioned so its tangent points across to the otherside. The fifth ball in the cluster is the helper ball which thecue ball will strike. On a table with large side pockets it can goin the same side, otherwise set it so it banks to the far corner.

Masse so that it strikes the firstball with power then hugs the railto pocket a ball in the corner.With this shot, you and your EricYow Masse Cue are clearly “JustShowin’ Off!”


2010 Mosconi CupUSA Wins ShowDown on the Strip

The Mosconi Cup once

again has proved to be the

best pool event in the

USA bar none.

Once again the Ameri-

can team overran a much

more powerful European

team Made up of world

champions and the odds

makers had them at big

numbers to retain the cup.

For the most part the USA team was an unknown quantityas we had two rookie team members; Dennis Hatch and OscarDominguez. Shane Van Boening was only a second Yearplayer. Our only seasoned players were Hall of Famer JohnnyArcher and Corey Deuel.Team USA started with a bang grabbing the first point of the

event. Then ending the day with a 4-1 advantage. Souquet gotthe only point of the day as he got by Dominguez.Playing for the cup isn’t like any other tournament. New-

comer, (voted in by the fans on an Internet poll), DennisHatch lead the team into the arena with tears in his eyes.After the opening round Dennis said,” it wasn’t like any

other tournament when you are playing for country and team.”The big upset of the day was Shane Van Boening getting by

the world’s number 1 player Mika Immonen 6-3. A sign ofthings to come. Two years ago the USA had a 4-1 lead after thefirst day, then lost the cup. Could the Americans keep it going?By the end of day two USA had a 7-2 lead.Dennis was having his personality come to the front as he

leads the team as cheerleader with chants of USA, USA! He ishaving the time of his life in his first Mosconi Cup.Europe’s only win that day came in the Thorston Hohmman

match when he beat Corey Deuel 6-4.The best match of the day came in the archer/Appleton

came in that set. Appleton had a 5-1 lead in a race to 6 andlost to the hall of famer 6-5. That was a lot harder than itsounds as they use alternate breaks. Darren was probably readyto walk of the dock when it was 5-5. He had the break in thematch game and came up dry. Not only that but he left anopen shot on the 1-ball and Johnny Ran out from there. You

could hear his young son yelling,” go daddy” Through out thematch. That kid could be his number one fan. Archers win was a real stab in the back of the Europeans.So we start day 3 with the USA leading by a score of 7-2.The crowds have been wall to wall for this event. On the

morning of day 3 I was to meet Jerry Forsyth for breakfast inthe tournament area. There were 40 or 50 people lined up atthe door to get in and this was 7:15 in the morning for seatsand the place didn’t open till 10:30. I have never seen lineslike this at any tournament ever.Europe had to win a lot of points today to have any chance

of victory, Thorston Hohmman said,” As you look at each indi-vidual on our team, we’re all world champions but the US areprobably the strongest team they’ve had. Maybe on paper wewere the favorite but I knew America would be strong.”Europe gave a mighty shot as Souquet/Immonen defeated

Van Boening/Dominguez 6-4. Next match up was Feijen-Hatchwith Feijen getting off to a 4-2 lead. Hatch felt like he wasleading his country to battle and came storming back to takethe match 6-4 moving the USA team to the hill with a 6-0 win.After the match said, “I’m loving this; this is the best experi-ence of my life, win or lose, and I can’t say enough, I love it.It wasn’t over yet as Hohmman took out Archer 6-1. USA

still needed 1.Next up was the captain choice and it was a rematch of the

first set. Souquet against Van Boening. With Shane’s grandfa-ther, who taught him how to play, cheering him on along withDennis. Van Boening took the match 6-2 to give the USA theMosconi Cup once again. The cheering was almost deafeningas the crowd chanted USA, USA.

times of joy and times of less joy, the offenseand the defense, the easy shots and the notso easy ones, realizing eventually that everyshot should be your favorite shot!Let’s move on to the cultural side for my life, humor. Re-

cently a person at one of my shows asked if they could buy mylines, the funny little things I was saying,they were funny sincethis person was the only one laughing. I was humbled to givemy lines away with the hope that this person would makesomeone laugh somewhere…someday…somehow! Since then, I have developed a rather lengthy list of Dr.

Cueism’s which will be used in future articles to accent a pointof instruction or provide entertainment value. Word of caution,some of the Cueism Humor has residual effect! If you don’tlaugh when you first read it, be prepared to wake up early in themorning busting out in laughter…exactly 2½ weeks from theday you were first exposed to it. If you still don’t get it, pleaseask the person next to you! There, I just gave you the first 2Cueisms – reflecting the entertainment value of my presentmessage. Laugh and enjoy, always…on your personal billiardand life journey to victory!

by Tom Rossman • [email protected] Writer


Great News Discovery and Dr. Cueism Humor

After checking my sources, I have great news, the ballswill continue to roll in 2010 with beauty, vision, andpromise, displaying their artistic colors and sounding

their joyful click! Ah, yes a thing of beauty is a joy forever. Thisline is from the epic poem, Endymion, by John Keats, 1818. I always struggled with poetry other than the famous Roses

are Red, Violets are Blue mantra we are familiar with; however,I thought I would take a shot at Keats since it seemed to relateto our sport!

“And now at once, adventuresome, I sendMy herald thought into a wilderness:There let its trumpet blow, and quickly dressMy uncertain path with green that I may speedEasily onward, thorough flowers and weed”

Yes, the adventure of our billiard journey, game options un-limited in nature, nail biting matches, special events, practicerituals, discipline to understand winning even when the finalscore shows otherwise, left and right brain training, makes indisguise, artistic pool, new friends and not so new friends, and somuch more, a wilderness of sorts! But then, the magnetic appealof it all umbrellas our travel over the green cloth! The pure sat-isfaction of the experience moves smoothly onward through


It’s Not a Resolution. It’s a Movement.by Samm Diep

Contributing Writer • blog.SammsPocket.com • House Pro at Table Steaks East in Aurora,CO

It’s that time of year again! It’s our chance to turn over anew leaf and start the year with a fresh, clean slate. Blah,blah, blah… Unfortunately, over 90% of New Year’s resolu-

tions are not kept each year. This year will be no different.That’s why I’m not asking you to make a resolution. I’m plead-ing with you to start a movement. Let’s work together torebuild our dying pool community, one player at a time, onepool room at a time. Will you please join me?

10 ways to make our Billiard Worlda better place for everyone

#10 Have a sense of humor.Miss a shot? Don’t get pissed off.Laugh it off. Have a better attitude for yourself and your peers.Believe me, if Efren can do it, so can you. No one wants to playwith a whiner or a jerk. Work on having a more positive, pro-ductive outlook. You’ll be amazed at how it can attract betteroutcomes.#9 Introduce outside friends to pool. Our sport can only growif the participation grows. We have the power to influence ourfriends and neighbors to also enjoy the game. Bring new peopleto your favorite pool room and make it a positive experiencefor them. Bonus points for every new friend that gets addicted!#8 Take up writing. If you don’t already have one, start ajournal or a blog. Track your progress and measure your im-provement. What better way to document your development?Blogs are free. You can pick up a small notebook and a pen forunder a buck. It’s never too late to start and there’s no excusenot to.#7 Respect your opponent. Done shooting? Get out of the way.Miss position? Oh well, deal with it. The whole world doesn’tneed to know where you meant to leave the cue ball. Lose amatch? Shake your opponent’s hand and move on. It’s not nec-essary to tell them how lucky they got. None of that matters.The match is over. Now prepare for your next one. Win amatch? Shake hands and go check the board. You don’t need totell your opponent what they did wrong. I’m sure they alreadyknow. Stay in your seat when it’s not your turn and give thesame respect that you would expect.#6 Share your knowledge. Don’t keep it to yourself. If youlearned something that worked for you, pass it on. You don’tneed to be “that guy” that goes around telling everybody whatthey should do, but tell a story about how a change helped youimprove. It may work for your friends too.#5 Take better care of the equipment. The next time you’re atthe pool hall, set the chalk blue side up, don’t set food or

drinks (or cigarettes in some towns) on thetable, don’t sit on the pool table, do notshoot object balls with your cue (only thecue ball), treat the equipment as if it were your own. Roomowners are reluctant to spend money maintaining equipmentbecause they think pool players can’t respect it. Let’s showthem we can. Be aware of your actions and don’t be afraid toremind others to do the same.#4 Pay it forward. I don’t care how cliché this phrase gets. Ienjoyed the movie and I love the concept. Be a better personand be kind to others, not because you expect something inreturn but because we want to make the world a more pleasantplace to live. Let’s start with our own pool world.#3 Spend money. Do your part to help replenish our strugglingbilliard economy. Support your local pool room. Practice forhours. Eat lunch there. Buy a drink or two. Tip your server.Find ways to cut corners without cutting out pool.#2 Improve your pool game. If you can’t afford to take a poollesson, buy a book, borrow a video, surf the net. Billiard re-sources are becoming more widely available each and every day.There is absolutely no excuse for anyone to not be able to learnmore and improve if they really want to. That’s the key, youmust want it. Feel free to contact me personally if you needhelp locating free or close-to-free pool tips.#1 Remember why we’re here. Last, and definitely not least,we’re playing this game because we love it. Don’t ever let thatslip your mind. Appreciate every single opportunity we have atthe table. Make it a pleasant experience for you and for thosearound you. Have fun!If you enjoyed this article, take it with you and share it with

at least one other person. Let’s start a movement! Let’s worktogether to improve our pool community!

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The OB Cues Ladies Tour held their 1st stop of the 2010year at Rusty’s Billiards in Arlington, Texas and many players,and fans were on hand to help kick off the new season. Forty-eight players were chomping at the bit to get their game on in-cluding many new faces and new members for the tour. If youhave never been to an OB Cues Tour stop, you really need tocheck it out. The hospitality from our host site was the bestever. Our supporters provided refreshments and encouragementall weekend. As the brackets were being drawn, right out of the gate for a

1st round match was 2008/2009 OB Cues Regional TourChampion, Lisa Marr vs. Amanda “The Natural” Lampert.Over the years, these two top tour players have been paired upin competition but it is usually in the finals of a tour stop. Alleyes were watching this hard fought battle and it was Amandataking the match in a tough 7-5 win. But Lisa, always a fighterto the end, knew she had a long day in store for herself if shewanted to win, so she rolled up her sleeves and won her next 4matches to continue to the Main Event on Sunday.One big surprise for the day was none other than Angela

Garza from San Antonio. Angela, who has never played on theOB Cues Ladies Tour, decided she would start this year andwhat a wise choice it was, as she won every match on Saturday,earning her spot as one of four players remaining on thewinner’s side of the bracket. Winner’s side matches on Sundaywere local Ft. Worth player Tara Williams vs. Michelle Cortezfrom Austin, TX and Angela Garza vs. Jennifer Kraber, bothfrom Austin. Even though the Austin contenders played theirbest to try to get to the hot seat, it would be Tara vs. first-timetour player, Angela to play for the rockin’ chair. In the hot seat match, it was Tara Williams, a tour veteran

and previous tour stops winner vs. newcomer Angela Garza.For her first OB Cues tour stop, Angela seemed calm and col-lected and ready to take on anyone whom she faced. It would

Williams Bursts Bubble of Cinderella Story

appear that the tableswere not cooperatingfor either player andthe rolls were prettyevenly spread out.Whoever best capital-ized on the other’smistake would be victo-rious and Angela securedher spot in the finals with a score of 7-5.In the semi-finals, it would be Tara vs. Amanda. These two

know each other’s game and the crowd knew the match wouldbe a grudge match. Again the pool gods were not favoring oneplayer over the other, coming down to a hill-hill match. Unfor-tunately for Amanda, she came up short on an 8-ball shot andTara was able to close out the match to force a rematch.In true double elimination format, Tara would have to defeat

Angela twice and that is exactly what she did. Tara was solid asa rock and pretty much kept Angela in her seat for bothmatches. Tara scored a first set win of 7-1 and a final set win of7-0 and her 1st win of the 2010 season. Awesome job, Tara!Also congratulations to Angela for an great tournament.Angella when asked at the end of her finals match, if she willbe back for another tour stop. She was beaming and gave a re-sounding, “YES, indeed—I am coming back for sure.”

Special thanks to Rusty’s Billiard for hosting this event as well bighugs and thanks to OB Cues for their sponsorship and donation oftwo cues.

Payouts, 48 Players - $2000 Added1st Tara Williams $7502nd Angela Garza $5503rd Amanda Lampert $4054th Lisa Marr -$2655th/6th Michelle Cortez, Jennifer Kraber $1507th/8th Orietta Strickland,

Lisa-Henderson Major $105

2nd Chance, 21 players - $310 payout1st Monica Anderson $1202nd Melinda Bailey $803rd Corina Campbell $504th Julie Stephenson $305th/6th Jennifer Pavlovick & DeAnn Bray-Warner - $15

From left to right: AmandaLampert, Tara Williams, and

Angela Garza

place finishers of each flight played one matchwith each other in order to determine first andsecond place for the tournament, the secondplace finishers of each flight played for thirdand fourth place, etc. Finals matches wereplayed to 35 points.There was excellent play throughout the

preliminaries, with one of the most watchedmatches being the hill-hill nail-biter betweenPedro Piedrabuena and Alain Hernández, atop young player from Mexico. In a matchfilled with excellent and creative shot makingthroughout, each player missed the matchpoint by a hair 5 or 6 times until Pedro finallyconverted for the win. With this victory Pedroremained the only undefeated player in hisflight. At the end of the preliminaries, Pedro,Luis Avila and Miguel Almaraz were the onlyundefeated players.The Semi-FinalsThe semi-finals began Saturday afternoon

with the following players qualifying: MiguelAlmaraz, Pedro Piedrabuena, Luis Avila,Sonny Cho, Guillermo Sosa, Jamil Isreal,John Lee, Bong Kim, Erdem Kilicoglu,Mazin Shooni, Roberto Rojas, Javier Terán,Soon Hong, Peter Banyai, Salvador Diaz andFrancisco Palafox. In addition, Michael Kang


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see Eight-Ball Billiards page 30

Fifty one billiard players from across theUnited States, Mexico, Turkey andSouth America converged on Eight Ball

Billiards in Maywood, California for the 2009USBA International Open Three-CushionTournament, the eighth USBA Tour tourna-ment of the year. There was no shortage of fire-power, with 17 “A” players and plenty of otherstrong talent. This was one of the strongest fields of

players in any tournament in the UnitedStates this year. Top rated players included three-time United States National Champion andcurrent Pan-American Champion PedroPiedrabuena, United States National ChampionsMazin Shooni and Sonny Cho, EcuadorianChampion Javier Terán, Mexican and Pan-Amer-ican Champion Luis Avila, and Mexican Cham-pions Guillermo Sosa, Roberto Rojas and MiguelAlmaraz. Players were vying for $20,500 in prize

money, with first place paying $5,000.The PreliminariesDuring most of the first two days of the

three-day event, the players played a six flightround robin preliminary, with 25 pointmatches. The players were placed in threeflights of nine and three flights of eight, withthe top two players from each flight advancingto the semi-final round. The top four thirdplace finishers from the remainder of the fieldalso advanced. In addition to these16 playerstwo more spaces in the semi-finals were filledby an auction and a raffle, the proceeds ofwhich were all added to the prize fund. Thissemi-final field of 18 was divided into twoflights of nine players, each of which playedanother round robin, with 30 point matches.The order of finish in the semi-finals was de-termined by the win-loss record, then average,then points for, then points against. The first

Javier Terán Wins at Eight-Ball BilliardsInternational Open Tournament

Pedro Piedrabuena,Javier Teran andLuis Avila


Thursday evening was a special night at the PendennisClub in Louisville, KY. Tom “Dr. Cue” Rossman per-formed a dazzling display of artistic pool shots and en-

tertained a very responsive audience of Pendennis Clubmembers and 3 Cushion billiard players and fans. The mag-netic humor and unique character-like antics of “Dr. Cue”created spontaneous laughter and special “table trotter”moments in billiard history. Paul “Professor Q Ball” Frankel, promoter of the USBA 3

Cushion Regional Qualifier, also performed some of his specialmagic for those inattendance andkept each personleaning closerand closer to hisamazing cardtricks. Prior to the

evening’s enter-tainment festivi-ties Paulpresented aspecial acknowl-

edgement plaque to Tinker Zimmerman, wife of Thom Zim-merman, a long time member of the Pendennis Club andpassionate player of 3 Cushion Billiards. Thom passed away re-cently and will be missed by all both on and off the table. The event coverage was Live Stream by Steve Elzinger and

Mike Christenson given many of the event players an opportu-nity to showcase their billiard skills to viewers around theworld that started promptly at 10:00AM on January 22nd witha full field of 24 players and a growing number of spectators to“enjoy the roll”.The 1st day of this spectacular event witnessed great play

and a series of close matches. Jim Shovak of New York had abeautiful run of 9 points in his win over Chris O’Brien fromBoston, MA. Jim won the high run for the tournament with hisdazzling display of poise and focus. After O’Brien’s wide scoring differential in his loss against

Shovak, Chris gained some special confidence in a close foughtand exciting game victory over Greg Warren by a slim 1 pointmargin 20 – 19. In 2 other tight matches Gary Eake was de-feated by Steve Anderson 20 – 18 and John Anderson returnedthe favor to Steve by the same 2-point margin. Day 2 produced some amazing 3 Cushion shots and matches.

Each player kept one eye on the victory circle to garner a spotin the semi-finals and the other eye on the table. As the gamesrolled on it was evident that Dan Kolacz from Buffalo and

Brian Haff from Chicago were playing for a perfect 5 – 0 recordin the prelims, while 6 players set their individual win-lossstages at 4 – 1. This latter list of players included Gary Scharf,Ed Friedman, Bill Johnson, and Max Fisher. The other 2players with 4 – 1 records gave the Pendennis Club a specialtreat in one of the greatest matches of the day with GregWarren defeating Jim Shovak in their prelim match with bothplayers averaging over 1.2! The top 2 third place finishers from the 4 brackets would

join the other 8 players in the race to victory. John Andersonand Tom “Dr. Cue” Rossman earned those places.The 1st round of the semi final matches started off with a

loud roar, as Rossman found a consistent cueing pattern with avictory over the smooth stroking Haff by a score of 25 to 15.Kolacz remained the only undefeated player as he coasted to adetermined win over steady Anderson by 5 points. In the finalmatch for Day 2 Scharf defeated Friedman by a score of 25–19.

Matches started on Day 3 at 9:30AMThe semi-final match play on Sunday, January 24 was poetry

on green felt as the 10 final gladiators of 3 Cushion shiftedgears into a focused high. 2 brackets of 5 players each pro-duced 3 players from each for the final playoff matches. Thetop 4 players after the last ball stopped rolling received freeentry to the USBA Nationals in Tacoma, WA February 17 – 21,2010 Place photo in of winnersDan Kolacz (bracket E top finisher) played Max Fisher

(bracket F top finisher) to determine the overall USBA Re-gional Qualifier Champion. Displaying brilliant play, Kolaczmaintained a smooth and steady movement around the table ashe entered the winner’s circle with a 25 – 15 win over Fisher. Jim Shovak (2nd place finisher in bracket E) challenged

Brian Haff (2nd place finisher in bracket F) for 3rd and 4thplace honors. Both players showed great determination to win;

Pendennis Club USBA Qualifier

Jim Shovak, Max Fisher, Dan Kolacz and Brian Haff

Event promoter Professor-Q-Balldoes his card tricks for the crowd.


Changing of the Guard

On March 1st, the USBA willbegin a new phase with the in-stallation of the new Board of Di-rectors. I was pleased to see somany new names on the ballot ofpeople who want to promote thegame we all love.With this changing of the

guard, it’s time to thank thosewho are leaving the Board fortheir contributions both officialand informal to billiards. This in-cludes George Aronek whoserved as Tournament Director atNationals and other events, andas Director and USBA President.Charles Brown is also taking awell-deserved rest after similarduties including Director,newsletter editor, and PresidentIn the past four years, the

USBA has made good progress inadvancing 3-cushion in the US.We have had a first-everwomen’s championship, juniorchampionships, and a continuingsuccess in the annual Nationals.The USBA Tour has broughtnew members into the organiza-tion and provided competitionsfor players where they can gainexperience. The Shot Contestprogram has introduced carombilliards to new players,mostlyfrom the pool world, in fun, easytourneys.In the next four years, there is

a lot to do. The current programshave to continue and grow, andnew programs have to be devel-oped. The USBA also needs your

help. While new ideas are good,action is better. Run a tourna-ment. Show a pool player ourgreat game. Make contact withcarom players who might notspeak your language so well. Finda location for a Shot Contest inyour area. President-elect DennisDieckman, Secretary JimShovak and all of the Boardcannot do the needed work ontheir own. Please help.

Bob Jewett, USBA President

however, Shovak got an early lead and never looked back. Shovak made the final point to winby a final score of 25–12. Haff received comfort in his loss with a berth in the Tacoma event freeof charge. Brian also won a beautiful carom cue donated by Samurai Cues, Inc. in an event raffle.In a valiant effort to make the final top 4 places, Bill Johnson finished 5th overall and

Jonathan Anderson finished 6th. Positions 7 thru 10 were in order Scharf, Rossman, Warren,and Friedman. Many of the semi-final matches were won by 5 points or less, which produced anexciting adventure among not only the players, but also the fans in attendance.When the final ball stopped rolling and the event curtain closed, all players shared a wonder-

ful time in special camaraderie with their fellow carom friends. Each enjoyed the roll and expe-rienced many special moments in billiard history! A special thanks goes out to the historicPendennis Club for allowing all the 3 cushion players, fans, and friends of the game take resi-dence in their private setting for 4 awesome days in January of 2010. Special thanks to our sponsors, Samurai Cues, Simonis Cloth, Pendennis Club, Bob Watson,

Dennis Dieckman, James Barnett, Stanley Lombardo and Tweeten Fibre.To all the scorekeepers and players that helped out a personal thank you.

Overall Positions1 Dan Kolacz2 Max Fisher3 Jim Shovak4 Brian Haff5 Bill Johnson6 Jonathan Anderson7 Gary Scharf8 Tom Rossman9 Greg Warren10 Ed Freidman

above, Raffle winner Brian Haffwith donated “Samurai Cue” prize.

left, Dr. Cue demonstrated trickshots for Pendennis members andtournament attendees.


and Alain Hernández joined the field through the auction andraffle.Sunday began right where Saturday left off with intense

action in virtually every match. Throughout the day spectatorssaw Guillermo Sosa fire a 30 point game in 14 innings for a2.143 average and Luis Avila and Alain Hernández eachscored 30 points in 15 innings for a 2.000 average! Sosa andCho each had high runs of 12. But once again, it was PedroPiedrabuena who was involved in a key match in his group todetermine the match-ups for the finals. Going into the lastround of the semi-finals Pedro and Luis Avila, who were bothin flight B, were the only undefeated players in the tournament.In that last round, they played to see who would win theirflight and play for 1st place against the winner of flight A ofthe semi-finals. In a very exciting match, Pedro out-pointedLuis 30 to 26 in 21 innings to keep the only perfect record forthe tournament, a grand average of 1.355, and become thewinner of his flight. Meanwhile, in flight A, Javier Terán couldonly sit and watch the key remaining match in his flight thatwould determine whether or not he would play for 1st place inthe finals. With all of Javier’s semi-final games completed hesat at 7 and 1 with a 1.194 average. The key remaining matchin his flight was between Almaraz and Cho. Miguel had a 6 and1 record and needed to win in 29 innings or less to beat Javier’saverage and win the flight. But it was not to be. Miguel wonthis match with Sonny 30 to 22, but in 38 innings, giving hima grand average of 1.146, Teran was the winner of flight A.The average for all players in the semi-finals for Group A was.985 and for Group B it was 1.038.Rankings From Semi’sRanking Player Record Avg Final(A-B)1 Pedro Piedrabuena 7 - 0 1.355 B - 12 Javier Teran 7 - 1 1.194 A - 13 Luis Avila 6 - 1 1.421 B - 24 Miguel Almaraz 7 - 1 1.146 A - 25 Guillermo Sosa 6 - 2 1.394 A - 36 Roberto Rojas 5 - 2 1.107 B - 37 Mazin Shooni 4 - 3 1.044 B - 48 Salvador Diaz 5 - 3 0.981 A - 49 Alain Hernandez 4 - 4 1.076 A - 510 Francisco Palafox 3 - 4 1.011 B - 5

The Finals Championship MatchThe exciting match between Pedro and Javier to determine

the tournament champion got off to a quick start. Pedro scored1 in the first inning, 9 in the second inning, 2 in the third and1 in the fourth. Javier’s scores in those innings were 4, 0, 2 and3. So at the end of four innings Pedro was in front 13 to 9. Butthen things changed. Javier left Pedro several difficult positions

and Pedro went scoreless for the next four innings, but thenscored 4 in the ninth inning. In those same innings, Javierscored 10 points, including a run of 5 in the ninth inning. Atthe end of nine innings, Javier led 19 to 17. The players bothwent scoreless in the tenth inning. But in the next five inningsJavier scored 14 points, while Pedro scored only 8. At the endof the fifteenth inning, Javier led 33 to 25. The sixteenthinning proved to be the last, with Pedro scoring 1 point andJavier scoring the last 2 to close out the match. Pedro hadachieved a remarkable average for the match of 1.625, butagainst Javier’s consistent play and his game average of 2.188,it just was not good enough. At the conclusion of this matchthe large crowd showed the players their enthusiastic apprecia-tion for their outstanding play with loud and lasting applause.The first place prize of $5,000 went to Javier Terán, second

place prize of $3,000 to Pedro Piedrabuena, third place prize of$2,000 to Luis Avila, and $1,700 for fourth place to MiguelAlmaraz. 18 places were paid in all.Javier Terán and Guillermo Sosa each averaged 2.188 in

their finals match and split the $100 prize for best game.Piedrabuena and Shooni each had high runs in their finalsmatch of 9 and split $100.Final Matches

Player Pts Innings Avg HR1st/2nd Pedro Piedrabuena 26 16 1.625 5

Javier Teran 35 16 2.188 93rd/4th Luis Avila 35 16 2.188 7

Miguel Almaraz 9 16 0.563 4 5th/6th Guillermo Sosa 33 35 0.943 4

Roberto Rojas 35 35 1.000 7 7th/8th Mazin Shooni 32 32 1.000 9

Salvador Diaz 35 32 1.094 6 9th/10th Alain Hernandez 35 37 0.946 4

Francisco Palafox 33 36 0.917 4 11th/12th Sonny Cho 28 55 0.509 3

Peter Banyai 35 55 0.636 313th/14th Michael Kang 22 32 0.688 4

Erdem Kilcoglu 35 33 1.061 6 15th/16 Soon Hong 34 65 0.523 6

Sponsors:-Iwan Simonis-Aramith (Saluc)-Adam Cue Company.USBA Tour Sponsors: David Levine, Jim Shovak, Bob Jewett,Professor-Q-Ball (Paul Frankel),Creative Billiard Shirts, Marty Is-serlis, Michael Kang, Andrew Janquitto,Dean Harrell, PedroPiedrabuena, Robert Byrne, Tom Resk, Sonny Cho, Mazin Shooni,Dr.Cue Promotions (Tom Rossman), Bruce Warner, Bob Watson,Mike Walo, Jim Watson, Tommy Thomsen, Tom Haskin, JamilIsreal, Bob Roach, Mike Melloy, Don Sperber, Norm Brust, EdFriedman and Pat Young.

8-Ball Billiards from page 27


Robert Byrne has a new book, “Behold MyShorts - The Best of Robert Byrne”.To see him in his polka-dot shorts, go to:http://www.thonline.com/store/bookBrowse.cfmTo view his new book’s Press Release, go to:http://www.usba.net/BreakingNews/Byrne PressRelease-11-2-09.pdf

The Principles of Defenseby Robert Byrne

Contributing Writer • from Byrne’s “Advanced Techniques in Pool & Billiards” with permission

In this shot most beginning and intermediate players would simply hit the white thin, trying to make thecueball hit the first rail near a. The trouble is that the white gets banked from b to c and will be close to thered, at least, if you miss. Better here is a soft spin shot. Hit the white fairly full with maximum left english

The white travels at moderate speed to the first rail spinning like a top, following the diagrammed path, stop-ping near the red if you miss. The white is zigzaggeddown the table as shown. Spinning the cueball is alsogood here because it enlarges the target on the third rail.

More Winners of USBA Regional Qualifiers

December 5-6, 2009 Carom Cafe, Flushing, NY- (above) Min Jae Pak and Douglas Lee winthe Carom Cafe Qualifier

December 4-6, 2009 Dick Takano Memorial-Neal Olson and Mark Hansen Winthe Tacoma QualifierTacoma Elks Lodge, Tacoma , WAMark Hansen -2nd place (left)

December 4-6, 2009Hall of Fame Billiards, Warren, MI- (above) Jae Hyung Cho and Felipe Razon Win the Hall of Fame Qualifier

January 23-24, 2010World Class Billiards, Peabody, MASix players showed up at World Class Billiards in Peabody, MA for a USBA Regional Qualifier.Jim Watson (right) from New York won the event and was the only player who qualified into theUSBA National Championship next month. Bob Page had a brilliant high run of 11 points.

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These are two almost alike shots requiringforce-follow strokes. Shot #1 has the cueballclose to the long rail so that means it is easier to hug the rail to gointo the corner and pickup the 2nd & third rails for the score onthe red.On shot #2 the cue ball is farther away from the long rail. This

means that the cue ball must be struck a little bit harder to rev itup for the action at the corner to take place. On both shots theyellow ball must be struck with 100% full with a slightly elevatedforce-follow stroke on the cue ball. “Things of beauty are a joyforever.”

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Show the Ball Who’s Boss

US Billiards RegionalQualifier

US Billiards, Houston, Texas hosted a regionalqualifier. The event had seven players enteredin a round robin in the preliminary and no

one went undefeated. With 5 wins and 1 loss JuanSauz come in 1st place. Three players tied with 4 winsand 2 losses with Jose Mario Juarez at 2nd with 97total point, Lan Vo came in 3rd with 96 total point,Ellis Lawrence came in 4th with 92 total points. VinhTrieu came in 5th, Kiet Nguyen came in 6th, and LocThan came in 7th.The top four played Final Round on Saturday, and

once again Juan Sauz was the TOP player, Jose MarioJuarez come in 2nd, Ellis Lawrence 3rd, and Lan Vo 4th.The Regional Qualifier at US Billiards finished on a good

note and we still have a lot to learn. On behalf of Bao Cao and US Billiards, I would like to

thanks all players who came travelled far to make this Quali-fier a great success. A special thanks to Jim Shovak andPaul Frankel for there guidances.

Mario Juarez,Juan Sauz,Ellis Lawrence, Lan Vo

is a $500 entry, so that is $4000 to thewinner. This year, Johnathan Hen-nessee, defending Music City 9-Ball

Open Champ, won the Midnight Madness defeating JesseBowman in the final.

Raffle Prize WinnersRandy Oliver Alex Brick Custom Cue and CaseJohn Young Nick Varner Cue and CaseMichael Rice OB2 ShaftJennifer Livingston Delta 13 Rack

Open Division1st Sparky Ferrell $28602nd Jesse Bowman $17153rd John Gabriel $11454th Tommy Dalfonso $7605th/6th Manny Chau / Josh O’Neil $490 ea7th/8th Claud Marrier / Gabe Owen $285 ea

Ladies Division1st Karen Corr $6802nd Amy Chen $4903rd Grace Babcock $2704th Kim Jones $1905th/6th Tina Hess / Amanda Townsend $150 ea

One more point of interest, this might be the last year for thisevent, as JOB’s long time owner, Jim Blaylock, has the club upfor sale, but if we are lucky, the new owner will continue thetwenty-three year tradition.


Madison, Tennessee’s premier billiard club, JOB Bil-liard Club, hosted the 23rd annual Music City 9-BallOpen held January 13-17, 2010. Alex Brick Custom

Cues, Diamond Billiard Products, Simonis Cloth, Nick VarnerCues and Cases, and Joe Salazar Cues sponsored the event.Host Jim Blaylock and Tourna-ment Directors Steve McDonaldand Peg Ledman had a busyweekend as 109 open divisionplayers and 29 ladies divisionplayers showed up for the competi-tion that was held on 7-footDiamond Smart Tables with SimonisCloth. Now with twentyeightDiamond Bar Tables, JOB’s pro-vides the perfect venue for theevent, handling a large number ofplayers with ease.This year all the action was covered by live streaming from

Cue and A Promotions. Ray Hansen’s Big Truck Show did agreat job providing fans everywhere with live pool action fromJOB’s. Check it out at: ustream.tv/channel/bigtruckAction got kicked-off Wednesday night with a 9-ball, race-

to-7, single elimination mini tournament. With 33 playersentered, Tommy Dalfonso came out on top with SparkyFerrell finishing 2nd. (and Sparky was just getting warmed-up)The main tournament format is 9-ball, race-to-11, double

elimination in the open division and race-to-7 in the ladies di-vision. This tournament is also a full double elimination event,but unusually, this year neither division went the full tworounds in the finals. In other words, the Champs went unde-feated the entire event.In the open division, Sparky Ferrell claimed his first Music

City 9-Ball Open Title defeating Jesse Bowman in the final.Sparky went undefeated thru the field for the win and seemeddetermined this year staying fully focused all weekend. JohnGabriel from Tulsa had a great tournament also, finishing astrong 3rd.In the ladies division, WPBA touring pro, Karen Corr, went

undefeated through the field to win over Atlanta’s Amy Chen.This was Karen’s second year in a row to do such. Also, GraceBabcock, former WPBA touring pro, played a great tourna-ment finishing 3rd.On Saturday night, JOB always has Midnight Madness at

this tournament. This always proves to be a great event as it is8 players in a single elimination, race-to-11, winner take all. It

2010 Music City 9-Ball OpenMadison, Tennessee

above, Sparky Ferrell, Open Division winner and left,

Karen Corr, Ladies Divsion winner

tension in your handsat all, beyond the bareminimum you need toavoid dropping the stick. Even if yourgrip is already quite light, try for thisfeeling. Get the feeling in both hands asyou move into your ball address. Keepthe feeling in your grip hand once youtouch the table and through to the com-pletion of the shot. Don’t interfere withthe swing.Even with the lightest of grips, there is

still some tension, as you have to bendand hold one or more fingers into yourgrip position. You may find you can sim-plify your grip and soften further by re-ducing the number of fingers cradling thecue. It’s not hard to make an argumentfor trying a one-finger grip. If you’re grip-

ping as your hand swings,there will be unconsciousmicro-movements in yourfingers, hand, and wrist.More fingers, more move-ment.

The idea is to have your grip hand beas soft and relaxed as possible, somicro-movements, clenches, twists, andother unnecessary funny businesssimply don’t happen.We’re not trying tomake a clean swing transition occur –we’re trying to allow it.

To get this feeling in your hands, rubthem, stretch them, clap, wash them,whatever. We’re not trying to be limpand numb – your grip hand should berelaxed but highly aware. Anything youcan do to bring a feeling of softness, of nomuscle, of no movement in the grip handis probably good. Get soft. Play hard.


Cloud Handsby Tom Simpson • PoolClinics.com

Contributing Writer

It’s no secret that I’m not a pro player.I’m a pretty good amateur, like mostof my readers and students. I feel this

is an advantage for me, as I can relatewell to the problems and obstacles we allmust face as we strive to improve.Because the focus of my work is helpingpeople become much better players, I’malways experimenting with ways to sim-plify or improve physical form, clarify un-derstanding, and provide productive waysto go at the learning curve.

With a great deal of background andexperience in effective body use (through20 years of aikido and bodywork prac-tices), I’m deeply curious and constantlyinvestigating possible ways to improveboth my game and that of my students.As “crash test dummy”, oc-casionally I hit on some-thing that really works.Lately, I’ve been workingwith an idea that has made adramatic difference for meand for several advanced players whohave tried it. I call it “cloud hands”.

In my experience, a good percentage ofour misses happen at the transition at theend of the backswing. It’s very difficult tomake a smooth, perfect transition frompulling the cue back to swinging itforward. Often, we get a little loop orslight angle change at that moment, andthe result is a miss.

The standard advice is to play with alight grip. Any real tension or grippingengages muscles in your hand, forearm,and on up into the upper arm. Engagingmuscles that aren’t necessary detractsfrom your fluidity. This is one of thereasons shooting hard is difficult – you’reprobably going to use more grip pressure.

Try gripping really hard and see whathappens to your stroke.

Because of this, my advice has alwaysbeen to grip as lightly as you can. I think“grip” is an unfortunate word choice, as itimplies firm grabbing and that’s not at allwhat we want. “Cradle” might be a betterchoice. Golfers have a wonderful analogyfor how firmly to grip the club: grip it likeyou’re holding a baby bird in your hands.If you’re gripping the club hard, youwon’t have enough fluidity in your armsto hit that 300-yard drive. Similarly, Idon’t think you can grip a pool cue toolightly. The grip is what connects us toour instrument, what enables the cue toserve as an accurate extension of ourbody and our intent.

I’ve found that when I’m in stroke,the stick will tend to actually slideforward in my grip hand after the hit.This indicates I’m not gripping and I’mnot interfering with the free, fluid flow ofthe stroke. The stick is doing its job, asmy muscles and bones throw the stickand then let it flow forward.

However, even with a light grip, wecan still be victims of tension and unin-tended movement in the hand and arm.Any extra muscling adds or subtracts “hitweight” from your stick. Let the stick dothe work, and you’ll be a lot more consis-tent. So how do we accomplish this?Cloud hands.

As you approach a shot, imagine yourhands are as soft as clouds. There is no

…imagine your hands are as soft as clouds.


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Contibuting Writer

An aggressive move here playsthe break-out before the shotis made in the corner. Some-

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Darrell Paul Martineau, 5916 Bar Harbour Ct.,Elk Grove, CA 95758

For more information Ph. 916-684-4535 e-mail dpmuniverse @ comcast.net

Web page www.3cushion.us/

All of my systems have a standardized {HIT} system.There are twelve {Hits} These hits, meaning howmuch object ball is hit by the cue ball, are numbered

0 through 12. 12 being the full ball. Numbers 3, 6, and 9 areone quarter, one half and three quarters respectfully. The “Hit“values never change and can be used for every shot on thetable. The system tells you what hit to use.This system segment is called The Ten System SegmentIt will require you to learn Diamond angles and Cue Ball /

Object Ball angles, but it is really worth your time since a greatnumber of shots can be made with this knowledge.The graph shows that one corner is 10 and the other corner

is 8. These are 4 to 5 rail shots starting with the side rail. Thegraph shows you one of the shot patterns. See article 41, 42,43,44 and 45 in Professor Q Ball’s last five editions for more onthe 10 system.We are now going to the side rail first to perform this system

segment. Using this method will give you a big ball in thecorner area and miss any kisses plus give position for the nextshot. All you need do is to subtract the Cue Ball / Object ballangle from the number you wish to hit on the end rail. In this

example shown in graph 46 the QB/OB1diamond angle is 5 subtract 5 from 8 andthat give you a three hit.Use the standard cuing shown in the graph.To go to 9 or 10

use the same hit but change the cuing as shown in the graph. Next Article: I will begin to show how to play the Cross

Table shots.If you have any questions you can always e-mail me and I

will answer you.If you would like articles and graphs 1 through 25 about PocketBilliards {POOL} please send $20.00 for a bound copy shippingis included.Articles 26 through 45 and graphs for Caroms are $20.00 Ship-ping is included.D. P. Martineau, 5916 Bar Harbour Ct., Elk Grove CA 95758For more information on this system and my books, tapes, DVDs orlessons on Pool or Carom Billiards please call me at 916-684-4535or e-mail dpmuniverse @ Comcast . net web page http://www.3cushion.us/

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