Archive for December, 2005

IPT Announcement - Dates, Locations, and Event Information for 2006 Tour Card Qualifying Tournamentswww.internationalpooltour.com (http://www.internationalpooltour.com/)The entry fee for each tournament is $2000. Each tournament will be a Double-Elimination competition with races to ten. The Two players from each tournament who will win tour cards will be the winner of the winning side and the winner […]

pool Cues, pool Sticks and Cue Sticks
Ask any great player and they’ll tell you that the most import piece of equipment that a pool player can own would is a pool cue. The modern two-piece pool cue has been around for over a century. The pool cue actually started as a mace […]

Team USA Wins Mosconi Cup 11-6Shawn Putnam 4-5 Mika Immonen Finland’s Mika Immonen kept European hopes alive at the 2005 Mosconi Cup, and he completed a tense victory over Ohio’s Shawn Putnam to reduce the deficit to 4 points in the race-to-11 tournament. Team USA still needed just one point to complete victory, while the […]

Team USA on the Hill at Mosconi CupU.S. skipper Johnny Archer, partnered by Jeremy Jones, took Team USA to the brink of Mosconi Cup glory as they scored a victory over Thorsten Hohmann and Raj Hundal of Europe to move to the hill in the race-to-11 competition. Things started brightly for the Europeans as they […]

Team USA Leads 6-4 After Day 2 of Mosconi CupIt’s 6-4 Team USA at the halfway stage of the 2005 Mosconi Cup as they won the Friday session by 3 matches to 2, leaving themselves in the driving seat as they home in on their 12th Mosconi Cup. Four of the five matches went hill-hill, […]