Great Southern Billiard Tour Kicks Off 2010 Season January 9

The Great Southern Billiard Tour kicks off the 2010 series January 9, 2010 at the POOL Room Sports Bar in Duluth, GA. The Great Southern Billiards Tour has been steadily increasing in size and popularity over the last few years and is on its way to becoming the premier tour throughout the South.

The Great Southern Billiard Tour kicks off the 2010 series January 9, 2010 at the POOL Room Sports Bar in Duluth, GA.

The Great Southern Billiard Tour was founded and is operated by Shannon Daulton and Marge Cooper. Their dedication to the sport of billiards is a major factor in the success of the tour. The tour has become a favorite of pool room owners and players due to the low fees and player-friendly prize funds.

The POOL Room Sports Bar in Duluth, GA is a popular tour stop and will be hosting as many as eight (8) stops on the Great Southern Billiard Tour in the 2010 season. The action this week will be streamed on the Great Southern Billiard Tour channel at Ustream and at the Great Southern Billiard Tour web site.

Monday Sweeps Great Southern Tour
Great Southern Billiard Tour / Sanford, NC

by Lea Andrews

Sam Monday, an extremely familiar face in the late rounds of the Great Southern Billiard Tour, went undefeated November 7-8 through a talented field to earn his first win on the tour this season. Monday and 71 other players gathered at Speakeazy Billiards in Sanford, NC, for the $1,500-added event.

AA-ranked Monday breezed past A-ranked Larry Faulk 11-2 to arrive in the hot seat match versus B-ranked Scott Johnson, who’d gone hill-hill 7-8 against A-ranked Eric Charlton, who was racing to 9. Cruising to victory once again, Monday allowed Johnson just two games to claim the hot seat.

On the left side of the bracket, Chuck Cuneo eased by James Blackburn 7-2 to face Michael Fuller, who’d ousted room owner Jimmy Bullis 11-6. Getting past Fuller 7-7, Cuneo moved on to Faulk and moved on 7-7 once again to the quarterfinals. Meanwhile, B-ranked Kevin Boggs edged out last stop’s winner Adam Pendley 7-10 to face another previous winner, B-ranked Brad Shearer, whom he held to 2 games. Boggs didn’t fare as well against the next former winner he faced, Charlton, who advanced hill-hill 9-6 to meet Cuneo, who’d been on a west-side mission to the finals since falling to Boggs in the first match he played. Cuneo wasn’t about to stop, and he moved decisively past Charlton 7-4 to face Johnson, managing to hold him at bay 7-6 to face Monday.

On the way to the finals, Monday had given up, on average, not even two games per match. Cuneo, therefore, did very well to manage four games in the only set of the true double-elimination finals. Cuneo’s valiant effort earned him second place, while Monday’s stellar play all weekend earned him first. Another winner, Terri Faulk, earned $50 as the highest-finishing lady.

Sam Monday, an extremely familiar face in the late rounds of the Great Southern Billiard Tour, went undefeated November 7-8 through a talented field to earn his first win on the tour this season.

Results:
1st Sam Monday $1,000
2nd Chuck Cuneo $500
3rd Scott Johnson $400
4th Eric Charlton $200
5th Kevin Boggs $125
Larry Faulk
7th Brad Shearer $75
Michael Fuller
9th Jack Miller $50
Adam Pendley
Jimmy Bullis
James Blackburn

Great Southern Billiard Tour / Spring Hill, FL

by Lea Andrews

A-ranked player Dan Dennis made an undefeated run through a field of 32 to emerge the winner of the $1,500-added Great Southern Billiard Tour event, defeating Cliff Tyler in the finals. The June 6-7 event was hosted by Rocky McElroy at Capone’s, his room in Spring Hill, FL.

Dennis made quick work of his winners’ side final four match, sending Cliff Tyler west with a score of 9-2 and going on to face Dan Whitten, who had bested Jason Richko 9-6. Whitten’s score got reversed on him in the match for the hot seat, and he joined the one-loss side.

On the left side of the bracket, A-ranked Albert Howe, who had allowed Bill Stoll just three games in his last match, met AA-ranked Jimmy Dempsey, who’d just bested Nolan Lane 11-3. In this match, it was Dempsey who was held to 3, and he finished in seventh. Unfortunately for Howe, he carried the three-game trend into his next match, falling to Tyler 9-3. Meanwhile, Rich Schau, who’d had a strong 11-2 win over Bart Rich, met Louie Smith, who’d had a 9-8 win over Bobby Moore. A-ranked Smith managed to get to the hill against AA-ranked Schau but he came up short of the win, finishing in seventh with a score of 11-8. Schau backed up that win with an 11-6 win over Jason Richko, but he couldn’t close out the win against Tyler, marking up six games and taking fourth.

In the one-loss semifinal match, Whitten was shooting for a rematch with Dennis, but so was Tyler. The men both fought hard for it, taking the match hill-hill, but Tyler sunk the final 9 and moved on to the finals.

Tyler needed to take both sets of the true double-elimination finals to win, but Dennis was ready for him, and he wasn’t going to let Tyler level the playing field by taking the first set. Dennis took the final game in the hill-hill match for his first win on the Great Southern Billiard Tour.

A-ranked player Dan Dennis made an undefeated run through a field of 32 to emerge the winner of the $1,500-added Great Southern Billiard Tour event, defeating Cliff Tyler in the finals.

Results:
1st Dan Dennis $1,000
2nd Cliff Tyler $500
3rd Dan Whitten $300
4th Rich Schau $150
5th Albert Howe $70
Jason Richko
7th Louie Smith $30
Jimmy Dempsey