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Drago wins EBSA Main Tour Playoff

Tony Drago yesterday won the EBSA Pro Tour playoff to put himself back into the World Snooker Main Tour for the 2009/10 season.

He beat Roy Stolk 5-4 after trailing 4-3 so has also showed he still has a bit of fighting spirit.

It is great to see Tony back into the highest echelons of snooker and I know from talking to him in January this year how much he still loves the game of snooker.

He said to me at the time that he would, “…never give up snooker for pool.” This was in reference to the success he has been having on the professional pool ciruit, the pool may now take a backburner again as he tries to re-establish himself amongst snooker’s professionals.

It will be great to see him back competing on the big tables.

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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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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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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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It was a great weekend that myself and Angela had last weekend at the first GB9 event of the season. It is always great to catch up with a large number of players on the circuit that we now regard as friends.

The circuit is thriving, and once again this has been proven by the amount of players that want to play on the GB9 Tour. Lee, Shir and now Mel are held in high regard and even if there are tantrums throughout the course of a weekend the GB9 team always deal with them professionally and the players respect them for upholding the laws consistently.

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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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All this hype about the Mosconi Cup got me thinking, has anyone posted any videos yet? So I thought I would have a look around the web and this is what I came up with.

Official Promo Video for Mosconi XV.

Some handheld work from the crowd in the arena!

So basically not much available at the moment from the 2008 version however there are a lot of videos from the previous editions. Once again last night Earl ‘The Pearl’ Strickland was at his controversial worst telling Mika Immonen he was ‘lucky’ after Mika beat him 5-0, he also proceeded to give ‘The Bird’ to a number of people in the audience.

Last year he had an issue with World 9-ball Champion Daryl Peach, some videos of this are below:

Inside Pool Magazine Interview

Last rack of controversial match

This shows the passion of the Mosconi Cup and why we all want to continue watching it! At CueSport TV we don’t have any Mosconi Cup videos but we do have some videos featuring Tony Drago and Mark Gray, both featuring in this years edition of the Mosconi Cup. I have listed some of them below:

• Tony Drago v Phil Burford GB9 Southern Masters 2008
• Tony Drago v Craig Osborne GB9 London Classic 2008
• Mark Gray v Karl Boyes GB9 Midlands Classic 2008
• Mark Gray v Steve Capaldi GB9 London Classic 2008
  
  
  

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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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