After the main 14.1 & 3c events - Efren Reyes challenges Torbjorn Blomdahl and Raymond Ceulemans!

by Ira Lee

The theme of the weeklong extravaganza of world-class pool and carom is the convergence of billiard disciplines. For whatever reason, the two billiard worlds have diverged over the years - and I think that a great way to bring the two spheres back together ...

2012 WPBA Masters Champion Ewa Laurance

By NYC Grind Contributor, Alison M. Fischer
After going fourteen years without winning an event on the WPBA Tour, Ewa Mataya Laurance was not a favorite to win the WPBA Masters at Soaring Eagle Casino. However, as fans, media, and commentators saw over the course of the event, ...

Story and Photo by Ted Lerner


(Doha, Qatar)—With a super cool demeanor and a red hot stroke, Yukio Akagariyama (赤狩山幸男)of Japan won the 2011 World 9-ball Championship, defeating the Philippines Ronnie Alcano in a tense and scintillating finals match on Friday night, 13-11.

Akagariyama won the title with a brilliant display of pressure packed 9-ball before a cheering partisan crowd of close to 1500 people, most of them Filipinos, at the Al Sadd Sports Club in Doha, Qatar.

The victory capped what has been a tremendous recent surge for the 36 year old. Back in May Akagariyama made ...