TAR Studio
Las Vegas
Nevada
USA
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Friday-Sunday 23-25 September 2011
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Pool chalk purchase pays dividends for customer at The Pro Shop
A simple order for a couple of twin packs of Longoni's Blue Diamond Chalk earned a lucky customer at Pro9's Pro Shop an incredible bonus... At odds of 550 to 1, the first balls drawn for Friday's EuroMillions draw produced the Main Ball No.6 and Lucky Star No.6 to earn a fantastic 3 day Pay-Per-View prize for the lucky winner.
The epic race-to-100 match between two of the world's top Ten-Ball players for a cool winner-take-all cash prize of $20,000 finished the first day of play with South Dakota's Shane Van Boening leading by a slim 35-31 margin over Alex "The Lion" Pagulayan.
Alex won the lag and the first rack, but then trailed all the way to 7-4 down as Shane dominated the table. Pagulayan needed to make the match a bit more technical with more safety play to prevent Shane from just running racks, and that's exactly what he did, tying Van Boening up in knots with some supreme safety and position play, taking the Filipino a 15-11 lead, and then an 18-14 lead. Alex continued to lead, 25-22, 26-24, but this margin was not to last, and as the night ended, "The South Dakota Kid" ran-out a massive seven-pack (rumoured to be spurred on by an impromptu side bet offered to Shane for running out the remainder of the match, by "Dippy" Dave Peat). Running seven straight racks certainly made an impact on the first session's scoreline, as Van Boening finished ahead by a 4 racks - a useful margin on this tight pocketed Diamond table.
Taking place in the new TAR Studio located in Las Vegas, play continues through Saturday and Sunday featuring 3 high quality cameras with operators following all the action, with superb commentary by veterans Billy Incardona and Jay Helfert, and you can still buy PPV access to what is rapidly becoming the most talked about match in recent times.
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The first ball drawn from each group decided the lucky raffle winner!
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