The Winner of the DCC Banks event, John Brumback did just enough to win the $20,000 Master of the table title as well.
Rather than me regurgitate what has already been said read the great article below on Billiard Pulse:
John Brumback is Master of the Table in 2009 Derby City Classic
Shane van Boening is certainly the hottest prospect to have come out of the USA for a number of years and he continues to add the major titles to his resume.
This time he has won the 9-ball division at the Derby City Classic from a field of over 300 players.
In the final Van Boening beat Filipino Lee van Corteza 7-6 to lift the title.
Van Boening picked up $16,000 for his tournament win and en route to the final defeated last years winner Ralf Souquet and Canadian-born Adam Smith.
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.
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.
I have just had 6 days without access to the Internet thanks to Talk Talk, however I am now back and available.
Most of you that are in the know will realise that the 11th Annual Derby City Classic is underway in Elizabeth, Indiana (yes I know it’s not Kentucky, but the venue has changed to facilitate a larger tournament).
The annual ‘Hustlers Convention’ – a phrase I have blatantly stolen from Mika Immonen’s Blog – features tournaments in 9-ball, One Pocket and Bank Pool with every notable pro and road player converging on the hotel for 10 days of action.
This year you can watch live action from two sources:
The Action Report are streaming from the TAR Pit, with challenges and money-match ups. Some days are free others are PPV.
Likewise Accu-stats will be producing and streaming coverage of the main event, this is only available on PPV.
I have put the Action Report stream embedded below:
I hope everyone had a good Christmas, especially cue sport related. I am sure a myriad of players have received new cues or a new case or the latest gadget.
If you are one of them and are reading this blog then please send me a post and let me know what you got and more importantly what you think of it!
For a little blogging celebration of Christmas I have dug outa video featuring John ‘Mr 400′ Schmidt.
For many of our British visitors and viewers Straight Pool will be a completely new ‘game’ – this discipline of pool was the championship game of choice until the 90′s when 9-ball took over and has been immortalised in the film ‘The Hustler’. The idea is to run as many balls as possible until reaching a set target (usually 150 balls in tournament play).
One of the most highly regarded straight pool players of current times is John ‘Mr 400′ Schmidt, who as his nickname suggests has run over 400 balls continuously. There is a video clip below of John in action at the Derby City Classic.
