Archive for May, 2008

We’re back for more!

After the BCA’s, Mike and I took a well needed four day trip to Arizona. The first two days we were there, it was record-breaking temperature highs of 110 & 108 degrees. Yikes! Oddly enough, when we left on Thursday to drive back, it was raining and hailing. Then, when we returned to the Riv, [...]


Final Four in the Predator 10 Ball Event

Out of 96 players from all over the world, the four left standing are:
Tony Drago who plays Marcus Chamat at noon, and
Jeremy Jones who plays Francisco Bustamante at 2p.m.

It’s been a thrilling 10 days of playing and sweating pool for me. You haven’t really experienced great pool until you’ve watched Francisco Bustamante play 10 ball [...]


What a Trooper!

I feel for poor Thorsten Hohmann who had a 9:30p.m. match last night against Great Britain’s Daryl Peach. Toasti had just spent the entire night before in the emergency room from a horrible bout of food poisoning. You could see him replenishing himself with Gatorade and also holding his stomach at times. Never once though, [...]


Day??? 2008 BCAPL First Half Wrap-ups

In the TAR pit, Alex and Shane duked it out in a winner-takes-all race-to-100 10-ball lollaPOOLlooza. It started immediately after Alex snapped off the World Pool Masters event Sunday night. Day 1 was a race to 30, day 2 was a race to 40, and they wrapped up last night.
Alex was NEVER ahead until the [...]