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The Siberian Express Steamrolls To The Crown

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Russia’s Ruslan Chinakov claims the Molinari Players Championship with an emphatic 16-6 win over the Philippines Lee Vann Corteza in New York City. By Ted Lerner – WPS Media Officer Photos by JP Parmentier/WPS (New York City)– Employing an absolute monster break shot, combined with some seriously solid potting and pattern play, Russia’s Ruslan Chinakov handily won both his matches today, including an emphatic 16-6 finals win over the Philippines Lee Vann Corteza, and captured the inaugural Molinari Players Championship at Steinway Billiards in New York City. Chinakov’s success on Tuesday represents the biggest win of the 23 year old’s career. Since he began his international career at the tender age of just 13 years old, the young Russian, a veritable pool prodigy since the very beginning, has been a fixture on the pro scene around the world. At 15 years old he won the WPA Jr. World 9-ball Championship. He also captured two straight Kremlin Cup titles. And he’s had many solid finishes in tournaments globally. But this week’s win in the Big Apple […]

Final Four Look To Take The Big Apple

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It’s Appleton vs. Corteza, Chua vs. Chinakov as the Molinari Players Championship heads to the final day. By Ted Lerner – WPS Media Officer Photos by JP Parmentier (New York City)–As a regular at the top of the pool world, Darren Appleton has found himself in a more than a few tricky situations, funny positions on the table, and emotional roller coasters that are unique to pool at the professional level. But late Monday night in New York City, the multi-world champion simply could not stop shaking his head in disbelief at his latest position, which actually didn’t look too shabby indeed. That’s because after two matches and a hard day’s slog on the table, the Englishman found himself in the semi-finals of the Molinari Players’ Championship, the very 8-ball tournament he conceived, and has spent the last few months promoting. Sure the ultra-competitive Appleton wants to win, but deep down he found he really didn’t have a desire to take the crown, –after all the hospitable Englishman is the host here–and has actually been […]

There’s A New Kid In Town

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20 year old American Billy Thorpe upsets two world champions to storm into the final 16 at the Molinari Player’s Championship in New York City. By Ted Lerner – WPS Media Officer Photos By JP Parmentier/WPS (New York City)–For several years up through 2015, Billy Thorpe made a name for himself on the American pool scene as a dashing young talent with a hot stroke who dared to play—and win– ridiculously high stakes money games. Then in 2016 the then 19 year old decided he wanted to transition into being a real pro, and for the last year he has slugged it out with the big boys in tournaments big and small, attracting attention from pool fans eagerly looking for the next great American player. Thorpe did create some noise in 2016, but history will surely show that it was in New York City on a cold Sunday in January, 2017, when the brash Dayton, Ohio native truly arrived as a professional, and stamped his mark as possibly that next great American pool player. Playing […]

Larsson Leaves Little Doubt

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Wheelchair world champ shines along with Brits, Filipinos and Finns on a tough Day 1 at the World Pool Series in New York. By Ted Lerner – WPS Media Officer Photos By JP Parmentier/WPS (New York City)–England’s Darren Appleton promised his fellow players that his new World Pool Series would give the players exactly what they’ve always wanted; a players’ centered tour with rules and a setup designed to test the world’s best pool players to the limits of their skills. If the results of Day 1 of the tour’s first event, the Molinari Players Championship, are any indication, that promise has already been fulfilled. Long races, pockets at a stingy 4.25 inches, breaking outside the center box, having to “take what you make” on the break, 3-foul rule, shootouts on hill-hill matches, and single elimination; these tweaks to traditional 8-ball rules all came together Saturday to prove that the world’s most popular cue game can truly be a hardcore test of pool. In a long grind of a day at New York’s famed Steinway […]

8 Ball Takes Center Stage With The World Pool Series

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Jayson Shaw is the hot favorite as the sport’s newest pool tour gets ready to kick off in New York City. By Ted Lerner – WPS Media Officer (New York City)–It’s common at big international pool tournaments wherever the greats of the game come together, that a buzz of anticipation courses through the hotel lobby or the arena where the players gather the day before at the players meeting. But at Steinway Billiards in the Astoria, Queens section of New York City on Friday night, that buzz had some noticeable extra juice to it. That’s because the newly formed World Pool Series, a four event tour that begins Saturday and will play out over the course of 2017, seems to have all the ingredients to finally offer long suffering professional pool players something they haven’t had in a long time; a player centric tour with a solid plan for growth. The fact that it’s all been put together by one of the game’s greatest and most respected players, England’s Darren Appleton, has surely boosted players’ […]

2017 World Pool Series: 1st Series

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Ruslan Chinakhov (RUS) gewinnt 2017 World Pool Series: 1st Series im Finale gegen Lee Vann Corteza (PHI) mit 16-6. Den 3. Platz belegen Johann Chua (PHI) und Darren Appleton (GBR). Am kommenden Samstag, den 14. Januar 2017 startet in New York das erste Event der neugegründeten World Pool Series. Die World Pool Series wurde vom ehemaligen 9 Ball Weltmeister und US Open 9 Ball Champion Darren Appleton aus Großbritannien ins Leben gerufen. Darren Appleton und sein Team haben den Anspruch formuliert Pool Billard in den Staaten wieder ein wenig Professioneller zu gestalten und legen den Fokus deutlich auf erhöhte Ausspielziele, ein ganz gutes Preisgeld sowie u.a. einige Anpassungen in Form eines Shoot-Out’s bei Gleichstand. Auch der Gebrauch des Jump-Shots wird deutlich eingeschränkt, pro Partie darf jeder Spieler lediglich zweimal zum Jump Queue greifen, sehr interessant wie wir finden. Es wird bei allen vier Events 8 Ball gespielt und die Ausspielziele fordern einiges von den Teilnehmern. Bereits ab der ersten Runde wird auf 13 Gewinnspiele gespielt und ab der Runde der letzten 16 wird auf 15 […]