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AZ Billiards News
Majendian & Ditoro The Sharp Shooters
Owners Joe Penna and Howie Salstein and their staff at Sharp Shooters Billiards in Miami, FL welcomed players and fans to their $4,000 added Seniors One Pocket Classic. Presenting sponsors were Sharp Shooters and PoolActionTV.com. To qualify for this event, players had to be 65 before the end of 2026. Players included BCA Hall of […]
Bourgeois goes undefeated to claim Moneyball Productions’ Split Bracket at Hot Shots
Kendrick Ray, Blake Wallace and Shug Wright make up Final Four bracket Baton Rouge, LA’s Joey Bourgeois, Jr. is what’s known in the trade as a ‘journeyman’ pool player; defined as “skilled and experienced by means of an apprenticeship of some kind, and thus qualified to work in the trade for wages.” He’s the kind […]
Changezi Rises to the Challenge in Colorado
Houston’s Shahram Changezi has won Event 2 of the 2026 United States Snooker Association (USSA) National Tour, after winning the 2026 Wiraka Colorado Snooker Open at the Hampton Inn & Suites in Boulder, Colorado. Changezi started the event as one of the early favorites to take the title, and he came through his group in […]
Bustamante goes Undefeated to Win Stop on Sullivan Open Pool Tour out of Wayne, NJ
They call him ‘Django,’ with the ‘d’ apparently silent. You don’t get many pool nicknames that are first-person, singular verbs, but this is one of them. In the Romani (Indo-Aryan) language, it means “I awake.” The word came to use in the Philippines when, in the 1990s, a legendary, Romani jazz guitarist by the name […]
Dupuis goes undefeated to win his second NE Pool & Billiards’ Hall of Fame 9-Ball Open
Massachusett’s Joe Dupuis has been on something of a ‘renaissance’ tour lately. In the past two years, he’s brought more money home from the tables than he’d earned in the four years prior to the most recent two. These past two years, actually only 18 months, have earned him more than he earned in what […]
The World Nineball Tour arrives in Chinese Taipei next January as the prestigious World Pool Masters returns alongside the Fullcan Sports Chinese Taipei Open, delivering an electrifying nine days of world-class nineball in Taipei City. The landmark double-header will see Matchroom and Fullcan Sports join forces to showcase two of the sport’s biggest events on one […]
Martin returns, comes from the loss side to win Carolina Billiards Circuit Stop #3 in Cary, NC
It’s been just over two years (Jan. ’24) since Justin Martin has recorded a cash payout in a tournament with us here at AZBilliards. He adjusted that fact for us when he came from the loss side this past weekend (May 23-24) to win Stop #3 on the Carolina Billiards Circuit. The $2,000-added, Open event, […]
Tadaravičius Claims First Junior Title With Nxt Gen London Triumph
Lithuania’s 15-year-old rising star Ąžuolas Tadaravičius captured his maiden junior title on the World Nineball Tour after a dominant 9-3 victory over two-time champion Jack Beggs in the NXT GEN London final. Tadaravičius produced a composed and clinical performance to defeat one of the junior circuit’s most successful players, securing the biggest win of his […]
Filler Reclaims His Crown to Become The First Two-Time UK Open Champion
Joshua Filler delivered one of the most dominant performances ever seen in a Matchroom Major final, dismantling Poland’s Wojciech Szewczyk 13-1 to reclaim the UK Open title and become the first player in history to win the prestigious title twice. The German star lived up to his nickname “The Killer”, producing a ruthless display from […]
Souto Avenges UK Open Final Defeat as Shaw, Filler and Szewczyk Reach Semi-Finals
Jonas Souto gained sweet revenge over defending champion Aloysius Yapp to book his place in the semi-finals of the 2026 UK Open Pool Championship, joining former champion Joshua Filler, home favourite Jayson Shaw, and Poland’s Wojciech Szewczyk in the final four. The fifth edition of the UK Open Pool Championship continues at the Brentwood Centre […]