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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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Niels Feijen has today won the Paris leg of the EPBF Eurotour. Europe’s professional 9-ball pool circuit.

He beat Austria’s relative unknown Mario He 9-4 to pick up the €5000 first prize. The win also propels Feijen into the number 1 spot on the overall rankings.

Eurotour Complete Results

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With Mika Immonen playing some awesome pool in the final rack he potted Europe to Mosconi Cup victory and bagged himself the MVP in the process. Some memorable performances from Ralf Souquet, Niels Feijen who were unbeaten, laid the foundations for the second largest winning margin in Mosconi Cup history.

The European Team was made up of two reigning World Champions and the reigning US Open Champion and always looked too strong for the USA.

In fairness though the USA did not get the luck throughout the tournament, but take nothing away from the European team who potted the balls when they were presented.

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TEAM EUROPE 11 V 5 TEAM USA

EUROPE WIN THE MOSCONI CUP 2008

All matches race-to-5 racks, alternating break.

GAME 15 (DOUBLES): FEIJEN/SOUQUET 5 V 2 MORRIS/JONES

GAME 16 (SINGLES): IMMONEN 5 V 3 VAN BOENING

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TEAM EUROPE 9 V 5 TEAM USA

All matches race-to-5 racks, alternating break.

GAME 9 (DOUBLES): FEIJEN/SOUQUET 5 V 1 MORRIS/STRICKLAND

GAME 10 (SINGLES): DRAGO 2 V 5 VAN BOENING

GAME 11 (DOUBLES): IMMONEN/GRAY 5 V 4  ARCHER/JONES

GAME 12 (SINGLES): FEIJEN 3 V 5  MORRIS

GAME 13 (SINGLES): SOUQUET 5 V 2  VAN BOENING

GAME 14 (SINGLES): IMMONEN 5 V 3 JONES

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TEAM EUROPE 5 V 3 TEAM USA

All matches race-to-5 racks, alternating break.

GAME 5 (DOUBLES): FEIJEN/SOUQUET 5 V 3 MORRIS/VAN BOENING

GAME 6 (SINGLES): DRAGO 4 V 5 STRICKLAND

GAME 7 (DOUBLES): IMMONEN/GRAY 1 V 5  ARCHER/JONES

GAME 8 (SINGLES): IMMONEN 5 V 0 STRICKLAND

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You can watch live 9-ball pool and live snooker this weekend!

The Mosconi Cup returns for it’s 15th edition and starts tomorrow evening the 11th December live on Sky Sports. The European team (captained this year by Alex Lely) are the defending champions having won the trophy in Las Vegas last year. The tournament MVP last time out was Tony Drago and he will be looking to put on a similar performance as he will be playing in Malta, his home country.

The rest of the European team are Ralf Souquet, Niels Feijen, Mika Immonen and Englands own Mark Gray. European players currently hold all of the world titles and have also been successful in the majors this year as well, Ralf Souquet winning the US Open the highlight.

The US team is captained by Nick Varner and is almost an unchanged side from last year, Earl Strickland returns as the only ever present since this tournament started and is joined by Johnny Archer, Shane van Boening, Jeremy Jones and Rodney Morris.

If snooker is more your tipple then prepare to be mesmerised as the Uk Championships starts on Saturday 13th December from the Telford International Centre. Regarded as the second most prestigious snooker tournament after the World Championships Ronnie O’Suillivan will be on hand to defend the title he won last December.

Other contenders:

• Shaun Murphy (due some form after losing all first round matches this season.
• Stephen Maguire (World number 2 could do with a good run)
• Mark Selby (Looked poor in the Premier League final last weekend but has had a solid season)
• John Higgins (Always a good performer)
• Ryan Day (About time he won something)

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