Thailand's Ken Nanakorn kicks ass of Josh Dias, captures 1st Asian 10 Ball Crown

Thailand's Ken Nanakorn is the new Asian 10-Ball Champion

Thailand’s Ken Nanakorn nipped Josh Dias 5-4 to capture the 1st Asian 10-Ball Championship tournament at the Carouge Billiard Centre. In the early racks, Dias soared high like an eagle taking the lead with super precision pocketing and cue ball positioning. However, Nanakorn rallied to tie the score 4-4. In the final rack, a spectacular carom on the 10 ball by Nanakorn wrapped up the victory, turning his opponent Dias the mighty eagle into a skinned chicken.

In the battle for the 3rd place, China’s Liang Zi Yue defeated Filipino Joseph Sycip. Liang played brilliantly from the first rack until the fifth rack to demolish Sycip. The Philippine Billiard Club-Geneva would like to thank all the participants of the tournament and we would like to welcome the new players from Vietnam, Tony Truong and Steven Linh who played magnificently during the tournament.

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Now its time for Asian 10-Ball Tournament

The first ever Asian 10-ball billiard tournament in Geneva will be held on the 26th of October, Sunday at 2pm at the Centre Carougeois de Billard, 36, av. du Cardinal-Mermillod, 1227 Carouge. As usual, players from Thailand, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Japan and the Philiipines will compete in this new billiard discipline which has started to become a more popular game in the world of pool. Ten-ball is very similar to 9 ball. It is a rotation game, however it is more difficult, using ten balls instead of nine, with the 10 as the "money-ball"

This new game Ten-ball is preferred over nine-ball by some professionals because according to them, it is a call shot game. It is also slightly harder to pocket any balls on the breakshot with the more crowded rack , and performing a string of breaks and runs on successive racks becomes increasingly difficult to achieve (statistically). There is a possibility that ten-ball will eventually eclipse nine-ball as the most popular professional tournament game. For rules of the game, see: http://www.wpa-pool.com/index.asp?content=rules_10ball

We are inviting all our kababayans and other Asians to join us in an afternoon of fun and pool competition. A registration fee of 30 CHF will be charged for each participant. Participants are requested to be present 15 minutes before game time.

For information and registration, please call: Jerry Quinto at 079.2636832 or Rudy Guacena at 079.8197789 or e-mail us at pbc.geneva@yahoo.com