Kiamco finished second in 2009 in Galveston World 10-Ball Classic and scored the third in the 2009 Japanese Championship 9-Ball. Other Filipino pool wizard that the draw of 2008 4. Place WTBC Demosthenes Pulpul Plunk-plunk, 2006 Doha Asian Games 9-ball gold medalist Antonio Dave Ga-Ga, 2007 Manny Pacquiao International 9-Ball Champion, El Toro, Jeffrey De Luna, 2008 WPA World Junior finalist Jericho Bañares and Allan Cuartero. Which goes to the most difficult tournament of the year, “said Yen Makabenta, president of Raya Sports, the organizer of the WTBC. All players compete at a large central pool in the world has a quota, and all national and regional champions be here.

Unlike last year, the second edition of the Ten-Ball Championship will be a matter exclusively male, and you love Ouschan of Austria, wave last year making him lose firmness against male competition. From This year, players have their own world, 10-Ball Championship. Major foreign banks in the invasion of the Philippines is the champion of the World Ten Ball Champ Darren Appleton, Great Britain, current world No. 1 Ralf Souquet of Germany, and twice U.S. Open champion Mika Immonen of Finland.

They also have a lot of challenges from all points of the earth. Powerhouse countries such as Britain, Germany, USA, Chinese Taipei and host Mexico Fielding , the largest number of players in the competition, so that the years of the largest prize fund $ 262,000. United Kingdom wants to keep the world title with 10 players. Appleton also be members of the British contingent: 2007 World 9-Ball Champion Daryl Peach and Imran Majid, Scott Higgins, Craig Osborne, Karl Boyes, Jonni Fulcher, Richard Jones, Phil Burford and Chris Melling.

Ralf Souquet, 2008 World 8 – Ball champion and gold medal at the World Games that 9 German man-contingent. The other players are former world champion Thorsten Hohmann and Oliver Ortmann, Thomas Engert, Marko Vogel, Christoph Reintjes, Ralf mouth, and Benjamin Zobrekis Klaus Heimmerer.

The U.S. share of 9 players with former U.S. Open Shane Van Boening, the decorated former champion Johnny Archer, Corey Deuel, Stevie Moore, Charlie Bryant, Shaun Wilkie, Charlie Williams, Shawn Putnam and Oscar Dominguez. Chinese Taipei, to a central Asian will be from 9 am terrible player twice former World 9-Ball Champion Chao Fong Pang, money-DO King Ching-Shun Yang, twice world junior champion Ko Pin-Yi, Yu-Lung Chang, represented Po – Cheng Kuo, Tsung-Hua Cheng Lu Hui-Chan, Che-Wei Fu and Wang Hung-Hsiang. Five players reached the main Japanese Draw Hayato Hijikata, Yukio Akakariyama, Toru Kuribayashi, Naoyuki Oi and Satoshi Kawabata. Korea has four players in Young Hwa Jeong , Dae Woong Kim, Chul Woo Choi and Ryu Seung Mook.

China is three international activists: Jian-Bo Fu, Li-Wen, and Hai-Tao Liu represented. Immonen will be joined by Markus Java representation of Finland. Niels Feijen of the Netherlands, are fourth in the world, will be joined by compatriots Nick Van Den Berg and Lake Huidji.

Souquet and Hohmann managed to combine four racks to give them a slender lead at 6-5.

But then theFilipinos got lucky to take the 12th and tie at 6 all.

But the Germans gained some composureand tooke the lead the lead and looked like they were on their way to cause an upset.

Reyes and Bustamante, winners of the first inaugural staging of the event in 2006, then pulled off another Houdini act.

The match was riddled with a number of illegal breaks as both teams failed to send more than two balls pass the head-string. That slowed the game down and resulted in only few break and run-outs.

Reyes and Bustamante made the most out of it as they utilized their vast experience of playing under precarious condition.

Seeded fifth among the 32 teams from 31 countries, Bustamante and Reyes opened their bid with an 8-3 dismantling of inexperienced Qatari duo of Bashar Hussain and Mohammed Ali Bin Ali. They followed it up with an 8-5 triumph over Italy’s Bruno Muratore and Fabio Petroni.

In the quarterfinals, Reyes and Bustamante absolutely demolished England’s Darren Appleton and Imran Majid, 9-1.

The Germans pair made it to the finals by the following route of results in the earlier rounds by beating Hong Kong (8-0), France (8-4) and Holland (9-7) and the Orcollo-Alcano pair, which won over Thailand (8-4), Russia (8-3) and Poland (9-5).

Dragon Promotions revived event is in its 4th consecutive year alive with help of industry giants such as Predator, Ozone Billiards, Brunswick Billiards, Simonis Cloth, Master Chalk, Aramith Balls, Accu-Stats and the Laser Rack. Comet Billiards will host this year’s event which will start play on August 24, 2009 and end August 29. The greatest straight pool players from around the world will arrive on USA’s east coast again to New Jersey, and attend this prestigious event to play for the coveted title of World Straight Pool Champion.

The format for the event will be 48 players round robin race to 100 the first 3 days. Half the field will be cut and the final 24 will play a double elimination board race to 150, with the #1 seed in each group from round robin getting a bye first round. 16 players will make it out of the double elimination board and advance to the final stage single elimination race to 200 points.

Please visit the completed brackets with scores here (please note that this event is now single elimination). You will find that Pin Yi Ko has moved on to face Karl Boyes. Shane Van Boening bested Marlon Manalo and now faces Chin Shun Yang, Darren Appleton dominated Marcus Chamat 11-5, Feijen ended the run of De Luna and Imran Majid now must face old friend Daryl Peach.

The stage was set for a dream ending to the men’s 9-ball tournament at the World Games, with Kaohsiung native Ching-shun Yang playing for a gold medal in his home town.

The 31-year-old Yang has a long list of 9-ball titles to his name during an illustrious career, winning gold in the 2001 World Games and the 1998 and 2002 Asian Games, but he was desperately hoping to clinch a major international title at home and seemed poised to fulfill his dream Sunday.

Germany’s Ralf Souquet, however, had little interest in sentimentality. Showing the same clinical form he displayed throughout the World Games, Souquet dispatched Yang with relative ease, 11-4, to win the gold medal.

Yang, who said Saturday he had never been as nervous at any tournament in his career as he was at the World Games, looked shaky from the start and failed to raise his level of play throughout the match.

He made a mistake in the very first game and quickly trailed 2-0.

Down 2-1, he was given a temporary reprieve when Souquet made his only mistake of the day, a scratch on the break, to pull even, and then cleared the table on his break to take a 3-2 lead.

But in the sixth game, Yang committed a foul while trying to pot the 1 ball, a mistake that was the beginning of the end.

He scratched off the break in the seventh game, scratched when trying to sink the 2 ball in the eighth game, played a bad safety shot in the ninth game, and didn’t pot any balls on his break in the 11th game.

Souquet took advantage of those mistakes and his own clinical breaking and shotmaking to win seven straight games and take a 9-3 lead.

Yang broke the run by potting a nine-ball off the break in the 13th game, one of the few times he broke well on Sunday, but it had little effect in derailing the 1996 9-ball world champion, who won the final two games and the tournament.

“The key was the sixth game,” a disappointed Yang said. “If I had sunk the 1 and cleared the table, I might have had a chance to widen the lead. It was just one mistake, but it decided the match.”

Yang acknowledged that Souquet was a tough, experienced foe against whom he could ill afford to make any mistakes, and he knew that once the German opened a sizable lead, the match was over.

The Kaohsiung native, nicknamed the “Son of Pool, ” also bemoaned his own troubles on the break. “I played my breaks too conservatively, and they didn’t turn out well.”

(from azbilliards)