U.S. Bar Table Championships Underway

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U.S. Bar Table Championships UnderwayU.S. Bar Table Championships / Reno, NV
by Rick Davis
The Sands Hotel and Casino in Reno, NV, is host to the U.S. Bar Table Championships, which got underway Wednesday, February 28. The action started with 9-ball and will run through the weekend, when 8-ball will start up and carry through another few days.

Mason Makes it in Scarborough

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Mason Makes it in ScarboroughCanadian 30K Tour / Scarborough, ONT
by Willy Hermoza and Tony Butera

The Canadian 30K Tour’s event at Shooters in Scarborough brought 42 fine billiard players out to enjoy a weekend of 9-ball. Held February 24-25, this event saw a surprise in the finals when Terri Mason took first place over Chris Orme.

Cardenas Earns Senior Title

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Cardenas Earns Senior Title
Freindswoods Senior 9-Ball Tournament
Breakers Billiards

Breakers Billiards on NASA Parkway in Webster, Texas was the site of the second annual Friendswood Senior 9-Ball Tournament. Event promoter and director, Bill Tippit, filled the invitational event with 32 top seniors (55 and older), who represented more than a dozen communities in Houston-Galveston Bay Area.

Archer Defends Title at Turning Stone

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Archer Defends Title at Turning StoneTurning Stone Classic VIII

by Rick Davis

Starting the day on the one-loss side, Johnny Archer made his way through the gauntlet of matches to defend his title at the Turning Stone Classic, walking away with $8,000, the lion’s share of the $42,000 total purse.

Kim Wins Carolina Women’s Billiard Classic

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Kim Wins Carolina Women’s Billiard ClassicWPBA Carolina Women’s Billiard Classic

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Xiaoting Pan Goes on to Finals

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Xiaoting Pan Goes on to FinalsCarolina Women’s Billiard Classic

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Ga-Young Kim Advances to Finals

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Ga-Young Kim Advances to FinalsCarolina Women’s Billiard Classic

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Turning Stone Reaches Top Eight

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Turning Stone Reaches Top EightTurning Stone Classic
by Rick Davis

As Sunday afternoon arrives, the top eight remaining players will descend upon the Turning Stone Classic, all hungry for the championship title. Getting from the opening rounds to the final day has been a long road, and many top players did not endure the entire trip.

Xiaoting Pan

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Xiaoting Pan

Xiaoting "9-Ball Pool Queen" Pan

Xiaoting Pan has been dubbed 9-Ball Pool Queen by the press in Asia. Born in China February 25, 1982, she now resides in Shanghai, China and travels to the U.S. to play in WPBA events. She represented China in the Asian Games in December of 2006. In that same year, she was named the Women’s Professional Billiard Association’s (WPBA) Rookie of the Year.

Pan was runner-up at the WPBA’s inaugural event in 2007, the Carolina Classic, but took her first tour win at the Great Lakes Classic later on, besting Sweden’s Helena Thornfeldt 7-2.  In 2008, Pan won the GenerationPool.com Championship in Charlotte, NC by defeating Ga Young Kim in the finals.

Pan lists the Chinese Athletes Education Foundation as a charity affiliate. She is sponsored by Xing Pai and Mengnui Dairy.

Ga Young Kim

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Ga Young Kim

Ga Young “Little Devil Girl” Kim

Ga Young Kim was born in Seoul, Korea. She developed a strong passion for pool and ventured to the US to play pool professionally. In her first year, she made a huge splash on the Women’s Professional Billiards Tour.

Ga-Young Kim, the “Little Devil Girl,” first arrived on the U.S. scene in 2003 and turned pro the following year. She was born January 13 in Seoul, Korea, and now resides in Incheon, Korea.

Kim’s titles include the 2004 World Championships and the 2004 U.S. Open. She plays with a Southwest custom cue and practices roughly 30 hours a week.

Interview with Ga Young Kim at the GenerationPool.com Championships.