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Nine British Players Make German Open Last 32

May 22, 2009 / The_Teach / No comments

We are continuing, as a nation, to make a massive impact on the Internetional pool scene. The German Open concludes tomorrow with nine of our original 16 entrants still standing in the last 32 knockout stage.

Those players include past Eurotour winners and two world champions. Daryl Peach, Darren Appleton, Karl Boyes, Imran Majid, Craig Osborne, Ricardo Jones, Phil Burford, Mark Gray and Chris Melling. These true brits are joined by an honorary Brit in Tony Drago as well.

On the plus side only Imran Majid and Phil Burford have drawn each other so we have a chance of getting 8 players through to the last 16, this would have been unimaginable 5 years ago, but through hardwork and dtermination I would say that we have the best players in Europe at the moment, if not the world.

Updates throughout the day tomorrow complete draw here: http://www.eurotouronline.eu/

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Dynamic German Open Underway

May 22, 2009 / The_Teach / No comments
Recent World Pool Masters Champion Darren Appleton

Recent World Pool Masters Champion Darren Appleton

The Dynamic German Open started yesterday with a field of around 256 of Europe’s best pool players including the likes of Darren Appleton, Daryl Peach, Ralf Souquet, Nick van den Berg and Tony Drago.

€40,000 in prize money is up for grabs with the winner receiving €5,000 and vitally important ranking points, the German Open is one of 7 rounds in the EPBF Eurotour and the EPBF rankings act as qualifiers to International events.

You can find the action Eurotour Online

The action continues until tomorrow afternoon when a winner will be crowned. The two hottest players on the tour this year are Ralf Souquet and Niels Feijen but after his recent World Masters win Darren Appleton will be looking for another title.

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Predator International 10-ball Well Underway

May 15, 2009 / The_Teach / One comment

The 9th Annual Predator International 10-ball Pool championships, being held at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, is well underway.

The event won by Tony Drago in 2008 is a favourite amongst pool players and has once again attracted a very high quality field of international pool playing stars.

The tournament is split into two sections the double elimination concluded last night and play will resume today from the Last 32 single elimination stage. The defending champion is through on the winners side and is joined by a whole host of British players, including Darren Appleton, recent winner of the World Pool Masters.

The last 32 Draw is as follows (British players in Bold):

  • Gomez (PHI) v Williams (USA)
  • Schmidt (USA) v Alcaide (SPA)
  • Drago (MAL) v Orcollo (PHI)
  • Folan (GBR) v Luat (PHI)
  • Deuel (USA) v Peach (GBR)
  • Majid (GBR) v Hohmann (GER)
  • Van den Berg (HOL) v Morris (USA)
  • Kiamco (PHI) v Takenaka (JAP)
  • Immonen (FIN) v Ortmann (GER)
  • Moore (USA) v Souquet (GER)
  • Putnam (USA) v A. Fisher (GBR)
  • Gama (POR) v Archer (USA)
  • Boyes (GBR) v Ouschan (AUT)
  • Robles (USA) v Cha (KOR)
  • Appleton (GBR) v Dominguez (USA)
  • Pagaluyan (PHI) v Facquet (FRA)

One interesting point to make is that three female players have made it through on the losers side to qualify for the knockout stages. Britain’s Alison Fisher, Austria’s Jasmin Ouschan and Korea’s Yu Ram Cha.

Updates over the weekend.

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Eurotour Italy Open

March 26, 2009 / The_Teach / No comments

The Eurotour returns to action today for the Italian Open from Castel Volturno. Many of our top British players are in action including Darren Appleton, Imran Majid, Karl Boyes and Daryl Peach.

What I wanted to mention though was that the Eurotour are once again providing a live stream of the main match table. You are now required to login to be able to view the stream, however, I will point out that the login page is not secure. Name, Address and Phone number are required alongside email address, why I don’t know. Surely name and email address would have sufficed. I just hope they don’t start spamming me with loads of rubbish I am not interested in.

You can be creative however if you don’t want to pass on your full details, for example, a full zip code is not required.

That said the actual quality of the stream is good, at times I am getting buffering so they could have a bandwidth issue on site as I can’t imagine that my 6.5meg download is too little. It is live all weekend, however, I believe you are not able to watch the final due to a Eurosport contract.

There will be some great matches coming up over the course of the next three days so stay tuned, one thing to make it more user-friendly would be commentary, at the moment this is not available. I suppose multi-languages watching could be the problem.

http://www.eurotouronline.eu/

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Appleton Misses 14.1 Repeat

February 1, 2009 / The_Teach / No comments

Britain’s Darren Appleton, who, over the last 12 months has been in the form of his life, last night missed out on repeating the Straight Pool title he won last year at the Derby City Classic.

His opponent on this occasion, Danny Harriman, is well-known for his 14.1 prowess and took a commanding lead in the race-to-100 match.

Appleton never really got going and eventually capitulated 100-41.

To keep the British theme going Darren also reached the last eight of the 9-ball.

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Schmidt Wins DCC One Pocket Division

January 31, 2009 / The_Teach / No comments

Renowned mostly for his 9-ball and Straight Pool John Schmidt has beaten Scott Frost to lift the Derby City Classic One Pocket division 3-1.

The 9-ball division is drawing to a cose with 50 players still competing in round 7.

The straight pool event is down to the last four with some British interest still battling away, World 10-ball Champion Darren Appleton would play World Straight Pool Champion Thorsten Hohmann of Germany in the semi-finals and John Schmidt (told you his game was 14.1) playing Danny Harriman.

The final is at some point today but results are a bit sketchy due to the size of the event and the time difference.

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Gray, Valentine and Petty win in Solihull

January 12, 2009 / The_Teach / No comments

I have just spent a great weekend in Solihull at the GB 9 Ball Tour, the Midlands Classic was the years first event and the action was always going to be serious.

40 new players joined the tour this year through the qualification tournaments and they battled across 3 tournaments with £11,000 prize money.

The Pro Event finished early Sunday morning with Michael Valentine coming out an 11-5 victor over Darren Appleton to lift his first GB9 title. The match took just over two hours as both players struggled with the break.

On the adjacent table former European Junior 8-ball champion, Steve Petty, beat hot favourite for the Challenge Tour this year, Anthony Ginn, 11-9 to lift his first title – both players in their first full season on the tour.

In the main event on Sunday Mark Gray went one better than last year when he lifted the title over an improved Daryl Peach, 11-5 (Peach, our reigning 9-ball World Champion was beaten in the Pro Cup first round by Chris Cowie). Gray moves to number 2 in the rankings but is still 30 points behind Imran Majid.

The next event takes place in March at Rileys Croydon for the Southern Masters.

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CueSport TV to Broadcast British Professional 9-ball Pool in 2009

November 29, 2008 / The_Teach / No comments

PRESS RELEASE:

CueSport TV to Broadcast British Professional 9-ball Pool in 2009

CueSport TV, the Internet Pool & Snooker Channel, have today announced that the company will be once again offering recorded broadcasts of all of the GB 9 Ball Tour events in 2009.

The coverage provided by CueSport TV in 2008 was unprecedented for a national 9-ball pool tour with 9-ball pool videos being available in the main schedule and on-demand. Throughout the course of the 2008 season viewers were able to watch 9-ball pool matches featuring a host of professional pool players including Darren Appleton, Daryl Peach, Tony Drago, Imran Majid, Karl Boyes, Raj Hundal and Pat Holtz, the majority of which are returning for the 2009 season.

Managing Director of CueSport TV Ltd, Pete Williams had this to say, “The GB 9 Ball Tour, through the hard work and dedication of Lee Rigby and Shirley Ang, has become a recognised tour throughout the world due to the quality of the organisation, the star players on offer and the coverage that my company has been able to offer. 2008 saw us serve video to 11,000 unique viewers per month from 110 different countries. It made massive sense for us to continue to cover the GB 9 Ball Tour for 2009 and drive both the tour and it’s standing within the International pool community forward. Especially due to the fact that the tour and the UK have two reigning World Pool Champions in Daryl Peach and Darren Appleton.”

Changes to the coverage will occur in 2009 with CueSport TV planning on providing multiple camera coverage of the main match table and live 9-ball pool action through the live function of the channel player.

The first tournament of the 2009 season, The Midlands Classic, takes place over the weekend of the 9th-11th January at Rileys, Solihull. Viewers can watch 9-ball pool matches from this tournament during the course of the following week.

About CueSport TV Ltd

Launched in October 2007, CueSport TV is fast becoming an internationally recognised Internet broadcast platform specialising in Pool, Snooker and Billiards. The company has rights to exclusive programming from across the UK and Europe. In 2009 the company will be working towards offering more live events from international broadcasters as well as the current events in it’s portfolio.

The channel player that the company serves Windows Media video through is unique in that it serves multiple bit rate files allowing individual users to control the quality of the video they are watching dependent on their own Internet connection.

Contacts

Pete Williams – Managing Director

Email: pete.williams @ cuesport.tv (remove spaces)

Phone: +44 (0)7842 600912

Web:

http://www.cuesport.tv

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A Quick Round-Up

October 12, 2008 / The_Teach / No comments

Whilst out in the Isle of Man I didn’t really have chance to catch up with the goings on all over the world in terms of Cue Sports.

Last week there was a lot of action with some fantastic results for the sport.

The first one is Ricky Walden’s first World Ranking title in defeating Ronnie O’Sullivan 10-8 in the Shanghai Masters last Sunday. This is great news for the 25-year-old Walden, who we caught up with in winning the Belgium Open the week before. It looks like a solid move in the right direction for the Chester born world number 35, and this win has put him provisionally at number 17. Kicking on for the rest of the season will be his priority and a spot in the elite top 16 beckons.

The second result I must mention is the World 10-ball Championships. This event featuring the world’s best pool players was held out in the Phillipines with over 30 countries represented. In addition it had live TV coverage in Asia and a $400,000 prize fund. So why does nobody outside the industry realise that Britain has another world champion?

That’s right, Pontefract’s Darren Appleton won the title 13-11 against Chia-Ching Wu of Taipei. It is one of the most deserved wins on the curcuit and CueSport TV would like to offer our biggest congratulations to Darren on his victory.

Appleton is one of the hardest working professionals on the pool circuit and is becoming feared in every corner of the globe, this win cements his status as one of the top players in the world. He is a very likable character that truly believes in the sport he plays. He works so hard on the table and has put in many hours over the last couple of years honing his skills on the larger American tables (his background is of course English Pool). Once again well done Darren!

This win means that Britain now has two of the four available world titles and Europe has all 4!

  • World 9-ball Champion: Daryl Peach – England
  • World 10-ball Champion: Darren Appleton – England
  • World 8-ball Champion: Ralf Souquet – Germany
  • World 14.1 Champion: Niels Feijen – Holland

With this is further solidifies the UK’s position within the global pool scene, we now have two world champions, the European number 1 and at the time of writing England have reached the semi-finals of the World Cup of Pool, global domination is certainly on the cards, and the future also looks bright with the likes of Phil Burford, Jayson Shaw and Thomas Ainsworth-Smith making there way up the rankings as well.

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A 9-ball Match of Epic Proportions

August 22, 2008 / The_Teach / No comments

Back in October 2007 when CueSport TV had not even officially launched we went off to Bilston, West Midlands to record a £10,000 per-man 9-ball challenge match between two of the UK’s most decorated pool players.

The players in question were Darren Appleton and Tommy Donlon.

Due to problems with software and then with tape corruption this match was only recently completed. It is a match of epic proportions with both players battling with both the conditions and their own stamina throughout. The edited version, which is now available on pay-per-view, lasts 3 hours and 12 minutes from start to finish. We have created the programme in such a way that it means you get no TV adverts but can still move from section-to-section as you please.

So how much does it cost to watch this epic match?

Just £4.00 (Eur5.00, $8.00) – this single price gives you full access for 365 days so you can come back to sections or the entire match whenever you want.

To purchase the match you need to login to CueSport TV in the usual manner (left side panel). Once you are logged in click on Login again and the drop-down menu appears with the Appleton v Donlon match in it. Then just follow the instructions to checkout with PayPal.

 Darren Appleton v Tommy Donlon 9-ball

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