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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...

Can't Make It To Ossett? Watch The UK World Pool Grandmasters LIVE

Our take The UK World Pool Grandmasters 2026 was staged at the White Rose Pool Club in Ossett on 29 and 30 August, and this trailer sets out how fans who could not get to West Yorkshire were able to follow it live. The format is worth understanding before you watch any of the coverage. A field of 32 played on Rasson Apollo tables across two days. Saturday was all about whittling the draw down to the final eight, with Sunday from 10am reserved for the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final...

News Four Brits Left in Arequipa as Shepherd Meets Stephens for a Heyball Semi Spot — Higgins Edges Wilson 5–4 and Peggy Li Gets the UK Final

Nov 07

Afternoon all, Reggie here. The snooker gets its turn later. First, a job that's going to be decided on the other side of the world before most of us have had our tea. The Pan American Heyball Open reaches finals day in Peru, and four of the last eight in the men's draw are British. AREQUIPA — FOUR BRITS IN THE LAST EIGHT Friday night's last 16 at Coliseo Arequipa went very kindly for the travelling party. Jordan Shepherd, Lee Stephens, Craig Brown and Stephen Ellis all came through...

News Cherokee’s $112k 8-Ball Teams Final Hits Tonight — Wilson Leads Higgins 3–2 Mid-Final — IPA Grand Final Opens in Bolton

Nov 07

Morning all, Reggie here. Saturday is already loud. At Harrah’s Cherokee the richest league pool match on the books goes tonight for $112,000. In Nanjing, Kyren Wilson and John Higgins are trading punches in the International Championship final — Wilson 3–2 up and into frame six as this goes to press. And in Bolton, Britain’s blackball amateurs have broken off in their biggest weekend of the year. CHEROKEE — $112,000 ON THE TABLE TONIGHT Ultimate Pool USA’s National Grand Finals hit...

News Higgins Crushes Chang 9–2 and Books Wilson Final — Bustamante Beats Van Boening for Cherokee 10-Ball — IPA Amateurs Tip Off in Bolton

Nov 06

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Evening all, Reggie here. This morning John Higgins was only 4–1 up on Chang Bingyu in Nanjing. By the time the evening session shut the table, the Scot had finished the job 9–2 and lined up Kyren Wilson in Saturday’s International Championship final. Over in North Carolina, the last of Cherokee’s invitational trophies has a name on it — Joven Bustamante — and Britain’s blackball amateurs are hours away from their biggest weekend of the year in Bolton. NANJING — HIGGINS BLOWS CHANG AWAY...

News Warsaw Locks In Landmark Parasport Pool Euros as Higgins Leads Chang 4–1 — Cherokee Women's Open Breaks Off

Nov 06

Morning all, Reggie here. We've lived in Nanjing and Cherokee all week, so I'm starting somewhere else: Poland. The World Pool-Billiard Association put out word this morning that Europe's para-billiards elite are heading to Warsaw next week for a championship that actually changes how the calendar looks. Then it's North Carolina, where the women's open finally breaks off, and Nanjing, where John Higgins has the morning half of his semi-final against Chang Bingyu under control. WARSAW —...

News Wilson Steals It on the Black and Seals Nanjing Final 9–6 — Song Yun Do’s Yanggu Run Ends as Seven Koreans Lock the Main Draw

Nov 05

Evening all, Reggie here. This morning’s Nanjing semi-final was still hanging at 5–5 when I left you. By the time the tables cooled in China, Kyren Wilson had turned a 5–3 deficit into a 9–6 win, and Fan Zhengyi’s week was over. Further east, Yanggu’s final three-cushion qualifier sorted the 32 for Friday — and the teenage run that lit up the early rounds finally hit the wall. NANJING — WILSON COMPLETES THE COMEBACK Wilson is into his 20th ranking final, and his first International...

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News Wilson Wipes Out Fan's Lead With a 102 and an 84 to Level 5–5 in Nanjing — Blomdahl Misses Yanggu's Main Draw by a Single Point

Nov 05

Afternoon all, Reggie here. When I left you this morning, Kyren Wilson and Fan Zhengyi were 2–2 at the interval in Nanjing and I promised you a scrappy one. By the end of the session Fan had pulled clear to 5–3. Forty-odd minutes into the evening session, Wilson has wiped that out, and the first International Championship semi-final is level going into the business end. Over in Korea, the three-cushion qualifying is finished, and one of the greats won't be in the main draw. NANJING: WILSON...

News Oscar Dominguez Wins Four Matches in a Day and Climbs Off 0–3 to Take the Cherokee Shootout — Wilson and Fan All Square in Nanjing

Nov 05

Morning all, Reggie here. Yesterday morning we left the National Shootout at the last-16 stage, with Brennan having seen off Archer again and Waddingham due to meet Atencio. By the time Cherokee went to bed, the whole thing was done and dusted — and the man holding the trophy was not one of the names on the posters. Meanwhile in Nanjing the first International Championship semi-final is a slow, scrappy, tactical arm-wrestle, and the three-cushion big guns finally get their cues out in...

News Chang Dumps World No.1 Zhao With a Century Blitz as Higgins Reaches His 95th Ranking Semi — Souvanthong Double-Dips for the Joss NE Open

Nov 04

Evening all, Reggie here. Midday we left you with Wilson against Fan in Thursday's first International Championship semi-final. The evening session in Nanjing has finished the job: Chang Bingyu has dumped world number one Zhao Xintong, John Higgins has put Marco Fu away, and Friday's other semi is a proper generational scrap. Away from China, Bucky Souvanthong has double-dipped his way to another Joss NE title, and UK blackball's amateur pathway hits its Grand Final this weekend in Bolton...

News Schoolboy Song Yun Do Keeps Climbing in Yanggu as Jeong Sung Il Runs 35 in Ten — Huons Topple Crown Haitai and Wilson Meets Fan in Nanjing

Nov 04

Afternoon all, Reggie here. While most of you were asleep, Korea got through a full day of three-cushion qualifying and a top-of-the-table team league match, so that's where we start. Yanggu: the schoolboy is still going The third qualifying round (PQ) of the UMB World Cup in Yanggu has finished. That's 48 matches, 16 groups of three, and only the 16 group winners go on. Of everything in it, the story I keep coming back to is Song Yun Do. Korean magazine Billiards & Sports describes him...

News Brennan Bests Archer Again as Atencio Sinks Styer — Waddingham Meets Atencio in Cherokee Shootout Last 16

Nov 04

Morning all, Reggie here with the coffee on and the Cherokee scoreboard still warm. We've spent the best part of a week staring at Nanjing, so let's start somewhere different. Overnight in North Carolina the National Shootout, the TV-table invitational at the Ultimate Pool USA Grand Finals, got through all sixteen of its opening matches, and a few of the old guard didn't make it out of Tuesday. Cherokee: Brennan does it to Archer again The one I had circled was Johnny Archer against...

News Higgins Wins the Class of '92 Decider as Maguire Misses the Blue and Ding Punches the Table — Marco Fu Is Back as O'Sullivan Draws Murphy

Nov 03

Three deciders, one missed blue and a 32-year rivalry that still has some fight in it. Tuesday's afternoon session in Nanjing finished the International Championship last 16, and it did it the hard way. John Higgins beat Mark Williams 6–5, Ding Junhui got Stephen Maguire 6–5 on the colours, and Marco Fu edged 18-year-old Wang Xinbo 6–5 for his first ranking quarter-final in almost six years. Fan Zhengyi's 6–4 win over Liam Davies was the closest thing to a quiet match. Away from China, the...

News Aaron Hill Clears the Table With a 140 and Still Goes Home — Vafaei Reels Off Four Straight to Sink Si Jiahui as Chang Bingyu Lines Up Zhao

Nov 03

NANJING — The morning session of the International Championship last 16 is done, and the man who played some of the best snooker of it is on his way home. Aaron Hill trailed Zhao Xintong 3–0 after the former world champion opened up with a 131, then hit back with a 103 and a 140 clearance in the next four frames. At 4–3 down he had a chance in the eighth, broke down on 41, and a foul from a simple red proved to be his last shot of the match. Zhao won 6–3. Per RTÉ, the 24-year-old Irishman...

News Fefilova-Styer Wins the Cherokee Women's Shootout as Cho Myung-woo Chases Jaspers' 2008 Record in Yanggu — Zhao Leads Hill in Nanjing's Last 16

Nov 03

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Tuesday morning, 3 November 2026 Morning, all. Nanjing's last 16 broke off at six this morning, and I'll get to it. But we've had snooker at the top of this page for days, so today I'm starting in North Carolina, where the biggest week in American league pool is under way and one of the best women in the game has already won a title. Then it's Korea, where the world number one is chasing a three-cushion record that has stood since 2008. Peru, blackball and India are further down. Pool...

News Craigie Pots the Re-spotted Black and the White Follows It In — Zhao Survives as Maguire Knocks Out World Champion Wu Yize

Nov 02

Monday evening, 2 November 2026 Evening, all. At lunchtime I said Nanjing's 11:30 GMT session was only just getting going. It finished as one of the strangest afternoons of snooker I can remember. The world number one went through after his opponent potted the winning ball, and the world champion is on his way home. Further down there's a billiards title in Sydney, two 16-year-olds making their mark in Yanggu and the Korean team league, so stick around. The in-off that handed Zhao the...

News Wang Xinbo, 18, Fires Back-to-Back Centuries to Knock Out Neil Robertson — Ding Flukes the Yellow and Survives Zhang Anda on the Final Black

Nov 02

Monday lunchtime, 2 November 2026 Afternoon, all. This morning I asked who'd get through between Neil Robertson and Wang Xinbo. It was the 18-year-old, and it wasn't luck: Wang made two centuries in a row and closed it out with an 84. Ding Junhui had a much bumpier morning, but he's still in the International Championship after a deciding frame that lasted more than 40 minutes. Wang sends Robertson home Wang, ranked 105th, beat the world number three 6–4 in the last 32 in Nanjing. Last...

News Felix Vogel and Jiang Teng Win Their First Euro Tour Titles in Gandia — Un-Nooh Makes a 147 and Still Loses to Mark Williams

Nov 02

Monday morning, 2 November 2026 Good morning, all. I promised you the Gandia champions, and we have two first-time Euro Tour winners. Felix Vogel ran away with the men's final and Jiang Teng won hers on the very last rack. Overnight in Nanjing, Thepchaiya Un-Nooh made a maximum in the first frame against Mark Williams and still lost the match. Vogel takes Gandia, 12 months after his junior world title there Felix Vogel beat his fellow German Luca Menn 11–4 in the Revora Spanish Open final...

News Wakelin Misses the Yellow on a 147 and Still Edges Long Zehuang 6–5 — Vogel v Menn and Kaplan v Jiang Teng Decide the Last Euro Tour Titles of 2026

Nov 01

Sunday evening, 1 November 2026 Good evening, all. Chris Wakelin came within one yellow of a maximum in Nanjing this afternoon, and he still needed every frame to get past Long Zehuang. Over in Gandia the last Predator Euro Tour stop of the year is down to two finals, both breaking off around now. So it's a busy Sunday night. Wakelin's near-147, and a decider anyway The 2024 Nanjing runner-up beat Long Zehuang 6–5 in the last 64 of the International Championship. Per snooker.org, Wakelin...

News Fan Zhengyi Sinks Judd Trump in a Scrappy Nanjing Decider — Ina Kaplan Ends Pia Filler's Gandia Run as Szewczyk Also Falls

Nov 01

Good afternoon from the Cueball Talk news desk. Judd Trump is out of the International Championship. Fan Zhengyi beat him 6–5 in Nanjing this morning, and the deciding frame was full of mistakes from both players. In Gandia the quarter-finals were just as unkind to the big names. Pia Filler, who won $100,000 in Doha last weekend, lost 9–5 to fellow German Ina Kaplan, and Wojciech Szewczyk went out to Spain's Iker Andoni Echeverria. All times below are GMT. NANJING: TRUMP LOSES A NERVY...

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