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Brian Morgan is a known English professional in the world of snooker being a player and coach. He used to be a World Under-21 Champion and became one of the top 32 players in the world rankings for numerous years.

In his career record, he was able to reach 16 in 1994’s World Championship. He also was able to qualify for tournaments in 1993, 1995, and 1997. By year 1996, he was able to take part in the finals of Asian Open when he beat Stephen Hendry. It happened before a close 9-8 loss against Ronnie O’Sullivan. During the same year, he also emerged as the winner in the Benson & Hedges Championship.

This entitled him to have a wild card place in the Masters. He was able to beat again Hendry during the 2000 Grand Prix. At the Irish Masters of 2004, he was also able to reach the last 16.

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Ben Woollaston, at the young age of 22 is already a professional snooker player. He is from Leicester. He started entering the professional tour for the 2004-05 season but he was not able to keep up with his place for the consecutive season’s tour. He was able to just regain it for the 2006-07 for his win at the European Under-19 Championship.

He was then given the award for the concessionary place for the tour of 2007-08. He was also able to reach the stages of the final groups of the Grand Prix in 2006 and 2007. He was able to enjoy more the 2006 tournament for there he won two matches compared to winning nothing in 2007.

He was also able to reach the final stages of the Welsh Open in year 2007 by beating David Gray. He was able to reach the second round where he then lost seven times to Stephen Hendry.

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Alfred Burden also known as Alfie is a popular English professional player of Snooker. He was born in December 14, 1976 and currently lives in London. He originally wanted to be a professional footballer but due to badly broken leg, his ambition was put to a halt. He was with the Arsenal F.C. during his schoolboy days and he spent with Swindon Town F.C. when he was badly injured.

He showed above average snooker playing skills and was able to qualify for the 1998 World Championship. It was in the 2006-07 season of the China Open that Alfie had his good streak of good luck for success. He was able to defeat Shokat Ali, Rod Lawler and David Gray just to get himself qualified for the tournament.

Last November 25, 2009, he was the winner of the IBSF World Snooker Championship in India. Due to this, he now earned a place at the upcoming 2010/11 professionals main tour.

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Another prestigious nine ball tournament is the Mosconi Cup. This always features one of the best ever players coming from Europe and the USA. It was founded after the name of the legendary pool player Willie Mosconi. This tournament was also always compared to the Ryder Cup. Competitions usually always run between the US teams and the Europeans. It started in 1994 and was held already in a variety of locations.

Their formal website features a lot of latest events and happenings about the tournament. Such includes rules and the format so that visitors and readers of the site will be well informed. There you can also get to know about the history of the tournament and its featured players.

It also has helpful links which can help a lot of people interact and share knowledge about the sport along with the sharing of other updates as well. Be heard and share your opinion at the Mosconi Cup site!

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Held yearly, the US Open Nine Ball Championship is a tournament that started way back in 1976 in Virginia. It is a race to 11, with double elimination; on the other hand, the finals competition is a race up to 13. It is known to be the longest running pool tournament worldwide.

It is also considered one of the most popular nine ball tournament composed of 256 players trying out for the prize money. There are actually two divisions which are for the Men’s and Women’s.

If you want a little trivia about the tournament, here are the popular players who have won in it already:

Mike Lebron was the oldest player at 54 to have won a title in this event.

Mike Sigel at 21 was the youngest.

Efren Bata Reyes was the first Asian winner for a title.

Earl Strickland was the player who had the most winning with a total of 5 times.

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The  International Pool Tour is known to be the biggest professional pool tour in the entire history of Billiards. This was founded by Kevin Trudeau in year 2005. It also renders the largest amount of money in the Billiards history with about $8 million allotted for its initial year when it first operated in 2006.

Most of the players for the professional pool and snooker games have already participated in the tour with representations of 30 countries worldwide. It holds six primary professional pool tournaments and they also gather up qualifying tournament rounds in the pocket billiard category. This is meant to encourage the aspirants of the sport.

The IPT holds very strict rules for every player to strictly follow as well. It has already featured the following high prize money tournaments like the IPT Ultimate 8 Ball, the IPT World Open 8-Ball Championsip, the IPT World Open 8-Ball Championship and many more.

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The 9-Ball World Pool Championship is a yearly international event which is organized by the World Pool-Billiard Association. Both the Men’s and Women’s divisions are the most popular in the tournaments. For nine years, 1990 to 1999, the tournament was managed alone by the World Pool-Billiard Association or the WPA. In 1999, Matchroom Sports tried being involved in the tournament but failed to push through.

What Matchroom Sports did was to organize their own match which was called the World Professional Pool Championship, where The Magician Efren Bata Reyes emerged as the big winner of the competition. It was held in Cardiff, Wales but not sanctioned by the WPA.

When WPA the professionalism of the tournament that Matchroom Sport held, they decided to let it handle officially the WPA World Pool Championship in 2000. The tournament offers a total cash prize of $400,000 which also includes $100,000 for the receiving tournament champion.

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Julie Kelly is an Irish pool player who began playing snooker where she had the highest ranking at No.7. She was born at Wexford where she began playing with her dad at age 15 by 1990. Since then, she began competing in the Women’s world circles.

After she won a lot of Irish snooker title along with winning the World Plate Snooker Championships, she was recognized as the best female Irish snooker player. She then moved to playing pool when she joined the snooker tour in the US by 1998. She became a professional player by 1999 and began her first professional pool event in Valley Forge. It was in 2000 when she won the World Ladies 9-Ball Championship event in Canada.

Her most recent achievement in pool include bagging the 3^rd place in WPBA San Diego Classic, 2^nd place in WPBA Florida Classic, along with three more accomplishments in the sport.

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Yes, he is The Dazzler of the billiard world. Daryl Peach is a professional British pool player born in England on March 8 1972. He was the first ever male British pool player to have won the WPA World Nine-Ball Championship competition. It was that time when he beat Roberto Gomez, a Filipino pool player. From then on, Daryl Peach ensured that his name will be in line with among the greatest players of pool.

He was able to win a total of 5 titles in the British 9-Ball Championships and he is a member of the 2007 Mosconi Cup – Team Europe. They were the ones who had the very controversial match with American, Earl Strickland. At present, Daryl is ranked to be at No. 4 of the world’s greatest by the World Pool Billiard Association. With just 4 major events in his track, he is a potential contender for the best of the best in the years ahead.

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Johnny Archer, or also known as The Scorpion is a popularly known American billiard player who was born in Georgia on November 12, 1968. He was named The Scorpion just simply because of his zodiac sign which is Scorpio. Not to mention that his sponsor is Scorpion cues, which is also a signature model.

He began playing the sport at age 12 and all his amazing accomplishments allowed him to be recognized as the Billiards Digest Player of the Decade. He was able to win two WPA World 9-Ball Championships in which he won over fellow American player Bobby Hunter in 1992. His other accomplishments are already too many mention but you can be pretty sure you will get to see it when you check the net.

No doubt, he is considered to be one of the greatest pool players of all time from around the globe. Truly a threat to many other players of pool!

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