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IBSF World Snooker Championships 2026 - Yeshwant Club, Indore, India 🌍

Watch event on this playlist: The IBSF World Snooker Championships 2026 takes place at the Yeshwant Hotel, Indore, India, from the 12th until the 21st November 2026. Qualifying stages start on the 13th and the stage 2 players enter the arena on Monday 16th, all live streaming will be available here on my.cueballtalk.com my mobile App: UK World Cue Sports Mobile App and on our YouTube channel: UK World Cue Sports Promotions

Clint I'anson signs Sponsorship Deal

IWAN SIMONIS GROUP SIGNS SPONSORSHIP WITH BLACKBALL POOL STAR CLINT I’ANSON Recognized as one of the best Blackball players of his generation, the 2023 IPA World Champion is now partnering with Strachan and Aramith, official cloth and ball suppliers of the IPA Tour. PLAYER PROFILE Born in 1987 in England, Clint I’anson started playing pool at a very young age in his Dad’s arcade room. Himself a talented pool player, his dad saw his son’s potential and set up a pool room at home when he...

UK World Cue Sports Group - Mobile App

UK WORLD CUE SPORTS MOBILE APP Promoting Cue Sports Excellence Since 2019 Your Complete Global Destination For Cue Sport Lovers 8-Ball • 9-Ball • 10-Ball • Snooker • Billiards • Every Rule Set Covered STOP HUNTING FOR STREAMS. Cue sports fans constantly miss live matches because streams are scattered everywhere — by the time you find it, the match is over. The UK World Cue Sports Mobile App fixes that. Worldwide YouTube live streams go live in-app automatically the second subscribed...

JFlowers - Why are Professionals Switching to Carbon Fiber

Why are professional pool players switching to carbon fiber cues? See the performance benefits that make these shafts a standard.Many competitive players are moving away from traditional wood, opting for JFLOWERS cues instead. The analysis below explains why this shift is happening, focusing on the mechanical advantages of modern materials on the table.You will learn exactly why these shafts are stronger, straighter, and more consistent than your average equipment. Understanding these...

Are You using Genuine Taom Chalk?

THE EASIEST WAY TO CHECK IF TAOM V10 CHALK IS FAKE OR GENUINE! Our take Fake chalk is more common than many players realise, and this short shows how to check that your Taom chalk is genuine. Each genuine product carries a code that you scan as a QR code, or enter manually, using Taom's official app. A real code returns the product name and manufacturing date, confirming it was made in Finland. If the details do not match, or it will not verify, you have reason to doubt where it came...

News Eight Filipinos Make the Last 16 in Ho Chi Minh City as Taiwan's Twelve Are All Gone — Rees and Hibbott Contest Tonight's IPA Professional Final

Nov 14

Saturday evening roundup — Reggie Rutherford Evening all. The last 32 in Ho Chi Minh City is done and the draw has a very Filipino look to it. Plus finals tonight on the Isle of Man and in Warsaw. Ho Chi Minh City: half the field flies the same flag Eight of the last 16 at the Universal Open are from the Philippines. Taiwan sent twelve players into the last 64 and none are left, with the last three all beaten this afternoon. Vietnam had sixteen in the last 64 and is down to one, Luong Duc...

News Aranas Knocks Out Unbeaten Wu Kun Lin 10–9 and Earns a Shot at Yapp in Ho Chi Minh City — All Three Brits Fall in the Last 64

Nov 14

Saturday midday roundup — Reggie Rutherford Afternoon all. Ho Chi Minh City went to straight knockout overnight and the last 64 knocked out some big names. James Aranas had the best day of anyone. Also here: a bad night in Warsaw for Daniel Luton, the IPA professional quarter-finals and a snooker title in Karachi. Ho Chi Minh City: Aranas does it the hard way again Aranas came through the one-loss side on Friday and has now won four matches in two days. This morning he beat Wu Kun Lin...

News Wakelin Pulls Clear of Robertson 6–2 to Reach the Champion of Champions Final — Biado and Aranas Face Taiwan in Ho Chi Minh City's Last 64

Nov 14

Saturday morning roundup — Reggie Rutherford Wakelin one win from the biggest title of his career Chris Wakelin is into Sunday's Champion of Champions final in Leicester after a 6–2 semi-final win over Neil Robertson on Friday night — and the scoreline flatters nobody so much as the way he closed it out. Robertson had the better of the opening session, with breaks of 108, 69 and 53 in the first four frames, but it was 2–2 at the interval. The turning point came in frame five, when the...

WPA 2O27 Blackball World Championships announcement.

Nov 14

WPA announcement regarding 2027 World Blackball Championships. Which Country will be holding the event? Do you agree or disagree? Find out more

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News Razmi Fires a 134 on Day One of the Indore Worlds — Orcollo Bows Out 9–7 in Ho Chi Minh City

Nov 13

Evening all, Reggie here. The snooker worlds in Indore are finally producing results, and an Indian billiards champion has started with a century. In Ho Chi Minh City, Dennis Orcollo let a 4–1 lead slip and is out of the Universal Open. Also tonight: the new 10-ball champion gets a 5–0 lesson in Warsaw, Northern Ireland gets the next blackball worlds, and the IPA professionals are under way on the Isle of Man. INDORE — RAZMI STARTS WITH A 134 Rayaan Razmi didn't waste his first day at the...

News Aranas Drops Two Racks All Day as He and Biado Escape the One-Loss Side in Ho Chi Minh City — Connecticut Charity Shoot Raises $12,180

Nov 13

Afternoon all, Reggie here. Two Filipino world champions were one loss from going home in Ho Chi Minh City this morning, and both are now through to the last 64. Carlo Biado and James Aranas were close to flawless on the one-loss side. Also in this one: three Japanese players and two Brits make the cut in Vietnam, the IPA Grand Final festival starts on the Isle of Man, a 20-year-old charity tournament in Connecticut beats its target, and there's a Maltese whitewash. HO CHI MINH CITY — BIADO...

News Kubalski Takes Wilk's 10-Ball Crown 5–4 in an All-Polish Final as Tähti Stops Luton — Wilson Routs Zhao 6–1 in Leicester

Nov 13

Morning all, Reggie here. Poland's parasport pool players gave the home crowd in Warsaw a proper final last night, and the defending champion came off second best. In Leicester, Kyren Wilson's winning run reached 14 matches with a 6–1 hammering of the world number one. Plus a busy Friday: the IPA Grand Final opens on the Isle of Man, qualifying starts at the snooker worlds in Indore, and America's best amateurs gather in Las Vegas. WARSAW — KUBALSKI DETHRONES WILK Marcin Kubalski is the...

News Brit Daniel Luton Knocks Out Henrik Larsson to Reach the Wheelchair 10-Ball Final in Warsaw — Zhao and Wilson Set Up a Leicester Rematch

Nov 12

Evening all, Reggie here. There's a British player in a European final tonight, and it's not in Leicester. Daniel Luton knocked out the 16-time European champion Henrik Larsson on his way to the wheelchair 10-ball final at the para-pool Euros in Warsaw. In Leicester, Zhao Xintong and Kyren Wilson set up a rematch of last year's quarter-final. Plus a home-crowd scalp in Ho Chi Minh City, a title defence in Korea and bar billiards in Jersey. WARSAW — LUTON INTO THE WHEELCHAIR 10-BALL FINAL...

Official IBSF World Snooker Championships 2026 - Yeshwant Club, Indore, India 🌍

Nov 12

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News Birkirkara Bocci Go Unbeaten to Win Malta's Blackball Regional Knockout — Mhet Vergara Wins Nine Straight on the Loss Side in New York

Nov 12

Afternoon all, Reggie here. Lunchtime takes us somewhere we don't get to often enough: a club final in Malta, where a blackball team went through a whole knockout without losing a match. There's also a loss-side marathon in New York, round two under way in Ho Chi Minh City, finals day for the 10-ball in Warsaw, and Group Two getting going in Leicester. MALTA — BIRKIRKARA BOCCI TAKE THE REGIONAL KNOCKOUT Birkirkara Bocci are the Malta Blackball Pool Federation's 2026 Regional Knockout...

News Home Player Hoang Thai Duy Edges Orcollo Hill-Hill in Ho Chi Minh City — Murphy Goes 10–0 in a Day to Reach the Leicester Semis

Nov 12

Morning all, Reggie here. Vietnam has another giant-killing to talk about over breakfast: Hoang Thai Duy knocked Dennis Orcollo onto the one-loss side 9–8 in Ho Chi Minh City this morning. In Leicester, Shaun Murphy finished what he started on Wednesday afternoon and did not drop a frame all day. There is also a women's title in Maine, the para-pool Euros in Warsaw and a correction on Indore. HO CHI MINH CITY — ORCOLLO PUSHED TO THE LOSS SIDE The last twelve first-round ties of the...

News Chang Bingyu Takes Down the World Champion 4–3 as Murphy Whitewashes O'Sullivan — India Names 22 for the Indore Snooker Worlds

Nov 11

Evening all, Reggie here. Leicester had a day it will not forget in a hurry. Shaun Murphy whitewashed Ronnie O'Sullivan 4–0 in the afternoon, and within the hour the world champion was gone as well: Chang Bingyu beat Wu Yize 4–3 to set up tonight's Group Three final with Murphy. Elsewhere, India names its 22 for the snooker Worlds that open in Indore tomorrow, the pool tour signs up FargoRate in time for the Mosconi Cup, and Warsaw's parasport Euros are under way. LEICESTER — CHANG TAKES...

News Biado Opens 9–3 in Ho Chi Minh City as Home Player Nguyen Manh Duc Knocks Aranas to the One-Loss Side — Korea Cuts Its Year-End Prize Money

Nov 11

Afternoon all. We'll start in Vietnam, where the Universal Open has now played four of its five first-day sessions and the locals are giving the visitors a hard time. After that: a prize-money row in Korea, a correction to my diary for the IPA Grand Final, a women's Chinese 8-ball final in Qinhuangdao, and Leicester, where Murphy and O'Sullivan break off at 1pm. HO CHI MINH CITY: BIADO ON HIS WAY, ARANAS DROPS The second seed got going in the 10am GMT session. Carlo Biado, the world No.2...

News Robertson Answers Jones's 133 With Three Frames on the Spin to Book Wakelin — Pakistan Cleared to Travel for the Snooker Worlds in Indore

Nov 11

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Good morning. Here's the Leicester result I promised you: Neil Robertson, the last man invited, is into Friday's semi-finals. After that there's an India–Pakistan story from the amateur world championships, the first racks in Ho Chi Minh City, and Korea's newest pool partnership. LEICESTER: ROBERTSON TAKES THE LAST THREE Neil Robertson beat Jak Jones 6–3 in last night's Group Four final at the Mattioli Arena. He meets Chris Wakelin in the first semi-final on Friday at 7pm. Robertson was...

News Trump Loses Another Decider as Jak Jones Beats Him 4–3 in Leicester — 18-Year-Old Channoi Leads Robertson Until an 80 Rescues Him

Nov 10

Good evening from Reggie. The Group Four final in Leicester has only just broken off, so tonight's main story is the afternoon. Judd Trump went the distance in Leicester again and lost again, and an 18-year-old from Thailand gave Neil Robertson a proper fright. Snooker — Champion of Champions, Group Four (Leicester) Jak Jones 4–3 Judd Trump Jak Jones has made a habit of beating Judd Trump on big occasions. The Welshman beat him 13–9 in the 2024 World Championship quarter-finals and 6–3 in...

News Ruysink Calls Him "Justin Bergman 2.0" as the 2019 Hero Returns for Orlando — Robertson and Trump Chase a Friday Date With Wakelin

Nov 10

Seven years after he helped Team USA lift the Mosconi Cup in Las Vegas, Justin Bergman is going back — and his captain reckons the player turning up in Orlando is an upgraded model. Johan Ruysink, back in charge of the Americans, has given his returning man a nickname: "Justin Bergman 2.0". Speaking to the World Nineball Tour ahead of the team announcements, Ruysink called Bergman one of the best movers of the cue ball in America, which matters in a format where the white has to be left for...

News Wakelin Sends His Old Practice Partner Selby Home 6–2 in Leicester — Yapp and Biado Take the No.1 Race to Ho Chi Minh City

Nov 10

Good morning. I promised you the Leicester result: the defending champion is out, beaten in his home city by a man he used to practise with. After that, Vietnam, Korea and a hill-hill final in Mississippi. LEICESTER: WAKELIN ENDS SELBY'S DEFENCE Chris Wakelin is the first man through to the semi-finals of the Champion of Champions. He beat Mark Selby 6–2 in last night's Group One final at the Mattioli Arena, so Selby will not become only the second player to defend this title. Wakelin had...

News Tom Cousins Takes Cherokee's National Open on the Hill a Week After Losing the Shootout Final — Wakelin Sinks Hawkins to Meet Selby

Nov 09

Evening all. One loose end from North Carolina got tied up in the small hours, and it was worth the wait. Then it is over to Leicester, where the Champion of Champions has one survivor, one upset and a group final on the table as I type, and on to Korea, where a 7-point run in the last set won a round of the PBA Team League. CHEROKEE: COUSINS GETS HIS REVENGE ON THE HILL Tom Cousins is the National Open champion at the Ultimate Pool USA Grand Finals. He beat Tyler Styer 6–5 in a hill-hill...

News Shepherd and Splawn Split the Spoils in Louisville as Selby Opens His Leicester Defence — Merckx Takes World No.1 From Cho

Nov 09

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Monday lunchtime, and there's a lot going on. Selby walks out in Leicester at 1pm, a three-cushion world No.1 has changed hands in Korea, and Indore is three days away. Before all that, a weekend in Kentucky that finished with a handshake rather than a final. Louisville: Shepherd and Splawn shake on it Jersey Girl Billiards took its second annual Get Spooked Split Bracket weekend to Railyard Billiards in Louisville from 31 October to 2 November, and it ended with the two finalists, Jason...

News Harjeet Singh Wins Three 8–7 Deciders for the IPA Amateur Title — Moreira Takes Brazil's Tour Card

Nov 09

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Good morning. Monday's roundup starts in Bolton, where the IPA's amateur season came down to the very last ball, then hops to southern Brazil for a tour card settled in a decider, before snooker's invitational week gets going in Leicester and the pool circuit packs its bags for Vietnam. BLACKBALL: HARJEET SINGH SURVIVES THE HARD WAY IN BOLTON Harjeet Singh is the IPA 2026 Amateur Series Grand Final champion, and he will not have many nerves left this morning. The Royal Sports Lounge event...

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