Piedad and Benoit/Lang head list of winners at Jersey Girl Billiards’ Rack Attack in CT

Ashley Benoit becomes first Jersey Girl competitor to bring home 3 of event’s 5 trophies You’d think that after all this time, we here at AZBilliards wouldn’t be surprised to see someone we’d never heard of win a ‘major’ event. We are not the informational gatekeepers for every body that wields a pool cue at […]

Why Break-and-Run Statistics Don’t Tell the Whole Story

Tournament data has a funny way of making 9-ball look like a predictable geometry exam: make a controlled break, land on the opening shot, roll through a handful of routine positional routes, and clear the table. But real pool rooms and real tournaments are rarely that tidy. A player who finishes a four-day event with […]

MacDonald goes undefeated, claims NWPA Tour stop #4 at Players Billiards in Kennewick, WA

There is a noteworthy dynamic at work in the Northwest Women’s Pool Association (NWPA) Tour, which held its most recent 25th anniversary tour stop (#4) this past weekend (July 17-19). Kathie MacDonald retained her position at the top of the tour’s member standings by going undefeated in the field of 35 entrants, at a $1,000-added, […]

Billiards Event Returns to Rocky Mountain State Games

Billiards has officially returned to the Rocky Mountain State Games (RMSG), Colorado’s Olympic‑style amateur sports festival produced by the Colorado Springs Sports Corporation, promoted by event commissioner Samm Diep-Vidal, and directed by USA Cue Sports national tournament director, Jose Burgos. This year’s Games featured more than 40 sports and took place during the third week […]

Race Is On: World Nineball Tour Confirms Qualification Cut-Offs For Reyes Cup And Mosconi Cup

The World Nineball Tour is delighted to confirm the official qualification cut-off events for two of the sport’s biggest team competitions, with places at the 2026 Reyes Cup and 2026 Mosconi Cup to be decided during the remainder of the 2026 WNT season. The 2026 US Open Pool Championship (25–30 August) will serve as the […]

Five Gold Medals Handed Out As Slovakia Top Medal Table

THE 2026 KAMUI European Youth Pool Championships concluded this evening at the Terme Olimia Resort, in Podčetrtek, Slovenia as the three 9-ball tournaments played out in the afternoon and the two team events in the evening. Individual golds went to Gabriel Aspholm of Sweden, Slovakia’s Mark Szabo and Iris Eijmberts of the Netherlands. The Team […]

Youth ECs Set For Final Day Medal Bonanza

AFTER EIGHT DAYS of play at the 2026 KAMUI European Youth Pool Championships, just one day remains and it promises to be a medal extravaganza. The three 9-ball finals plus the two Team championship deciders add up to a day of thrills, spills, joy and heart-break. It will also complete the medal table, currently being […]

Midwest Billiards & Cue Expo A Roaring Success: Van Boening Tops List of Event Winners

Big Dog Billiards in Des Moines, IA hosted their annual extravaganza and, as usual, it was a huge success. Owners Jim Landrum and Randy Hanson and their Executive Assistant Jeremy White welcomed the hundreds of pool players, fans and cuemakers to their beautiful room this past week to show their stuff. This 12th Annual $15,000 […]

“California Kim” Davenport goes undefeated to claim Stop #15 of the 4th annual Rack Race

Legends are often a combination of remarkable skill in a given arena (pool, for example), combined with a certain degree of story-telling, wherein the subject (Kim Davenport, for example) becomes a mix of real-life accomplishments over time, combined with attributes that can seem unlikely; perfect or untouchable, for example. Tall tales told by fans of […]

8-Ball Glory For France, Slovakia & Norway

THE 8-BALL FINALS at the 2026 KAMUI European Youth Pool Championships delivered high drama and glory as well as disappointment as Rachelle Enfroy (FRA), Mark Szabo (SVK) and Robin Hauge Pettersen (NOR) took home the gold medals. Enfroy defeated Julia Cabala of Poland 5-0 in less than 30 minutes, while Slovakia’s Mark Szabo defeated Haojing […]