Welcome to the Welsh Pool Association website. The WPA play under blackball rules and have in excess of 10,000 registered players from more than 80 interleague teams throughout Wales. The WPA also spans to international level pool with representation from our Mens, Ladies, Youths, Seniors and Specials teams. Running alongside the interleague programme are the Mens, Youths and Seniors Welsh Open Tour events.
The Welsh Festival of Pool at Trecco Bay kicked off at 7pm on Wednesday 23rd November with the Mens Doubles.
Another successful Festival. Team bbc would like to thank all players for participating and supporting the event and hope that you will continue to do so as we look to make it a bigger and better festival for Welsh pool players in the years to come.
Many of you will have seen Cuesport TV there filming; unfortunately they were unable to stream live as Parkdean would not allow it but there was plenty of pool recorded and Im sure Pete Williams will let us all know when it is available for viewing.
Thank you to Alan Williams for refeering and also a very big thanks to Paul Bebb for assisting on the top table and for keeping his cool when all around him were losing theirs.
Click "Read More" for event summaries and results!
The 2011 World Rules WOT starts again on Saturday 19th November 2011 at Rileys Pool Club, City Road, Cardiff. Event 3 was won by Tom Price after beating a host of top players to lift his first Welsh tour title..
Entries are now being taken and an entry form can be printed off on the home page of wpa8ball.com. The draw will take place on the day for both the Club event and the main tour.
If you wish to enter on the day the costs are as follows:
Juniors and U21s - Club £10 Tour £15 (No A Internationals allowed)
Everyone else - £40 Includes Club and Tour (No A Internationals allowed in Club)
There is a forum on wpa8ball.com to register your name.
The players listed below are seeded in the draw based on event 3 overall ranking:
1) Ryan John
2) Kristian Phillips
3) Craig Marsh
4) Tom Price
5) Huw Salmon
6) Simon Ward
7) Ben Davies
8) Russell Burgess
These players will only keep their seeded position upon payment of their fees.
So a lot of money up for grabs over the weekend and hope to see some new faces entering this popular tour.
Hope you all have a successful season and look forward to seeing you at event four on Saturday 19th November 2011.
The Jersey Festival is unquestionably the most famous, successful and eagerly anticipated English Pool event of the year...any year!
24 previous Festivals in some of the best known hotels on the island has helped make Jersey the biggest and longest running event of its kind in the World with many people returning year after year
There are numerous reasons why people do so, but undeniably top of the list, as most regulars will confirm, will be the special camaraderie, and ebullient atmosphere that not just prevails but dominates the week and it's something in the refurbished surrounds of St Helier three star Mayfair Hotel that we invite everyone to be a part of in 2012.
The Universities Pool Council is pleased to announce the details of its programme for
the coming season with competitions to decide the champions at individual, team and
representative level. With many previously strong teams losing key players due to
graduation and the expected participation from new teams, the season ahead looks
to be wide open.
The season kicks off with the UPC Nine-ball Championships over the weekend of
25-27 November 2011 in Riley's in Liverpool. Defending champions University of
Manchester will be in attendance with the primary aim of retaining their silverware,
however they will face stiff competition from a variety of angles.
The third event of the season got underway at Rileys pool club, Newport this weekend, and as usual there were plenty of surprise results. Congratulations to Tom Price who beat Kristian Phillips 8 4 in the final. Tom beat some quality players in the draw, as he beat Ben Davies 6 2, Jamie Morray 7 3, Ryan John 7 3 and Kristian Phillips in the final 8 4.
This was the first tour title win for Tom and puts him in the top 8 seeds for event 4 draw in November.
Here are the results from the Last 16:
Last 16
Andy Corten 6 2 Zach Wilkinson
Rich Gifford 5 6 Jamie Morray
Simon Ward 6 2 Wayne Smith
Ben Davies 2 6 Tom Price
Kristian Phillips 6 2 Paul Hawkins
Ryan John 6 0 Steve Richards
Mark Bowen 6 0 Luke Sanges
Craig Marsh 6 3 Oly Bale
Quarter Finals
Tom Price 7 3 Jamie Morray
Craig Marsh 7 3 Mark Bowen
Simon Ward 6 7 Kristian Phillips
Andy Corten 5 7 Ryan John
Semi Finals
Kristian Phillips 7 2 Craig Marsh
Ryan John 3 7 Tom Price
Final
Tom Price 8 - 4 Kristian Phillips
So the third event ends with a new face in the final. This now being a qualifying tour to gain selection to the Welsh world rules team for 2012, anything could happen in this quality field of players.
The following players will now be seeded for event 2:
1) Ryan John
2) Kristian Phillips
3) Craig Marsh
4) Tom Price
5) Huw Salmon
6) Simon Ward
7) Ben Davies
8) Russell Burgess
Our club tour final was between Andy Corten and the talented Zak Shepherd. Andy was always the stronger player as he ran out 5 0 to win the third club event and his second appearance in the final. The club event is open to players who have not played for Wales A in the past 2 years or any professional pool player.
I would like to thank Martin and his staff at Rileys Newport for their support during the day. The tour will be back at Newport later in the year.
If you wish to enter the 2011 tour please call or drop me an e-mail on Tel: 07854 918403 E-mail waynerhino@aol.com
Look forward to seeing you all at tour 4 in November.
The Jersey Festival is unquestionably the most famous, successful and eagerly anticipated English Pool event of the year...any year!
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