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    2013 Colorado Springs $1000 Added Open Tournament Photo Gallery

    We’ve got some great pictures from our 2013 $1000 Added Open Tournament held alongside our Junior National Qualifiers on April 20, 2013! Click on an image to enlarge, share each on Facebook or download your favorites!

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    Help Send Young Billiard Athletes to College

    Help the Billiard Education Foundation (BEF) raise funds to award more in academic scholarships to the winners of the upcoming 25th Annual Junior National Championships in July 2013! About BEF The Billiard Education Foundation (BEF) was formed in 1993 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity dedicated to promoting a lifelong love of pool and building the next generation of players through youth programs and academic scholarships. How To Donate To donate, simply choose a membership level [...]

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    NEW – Legends and Champions Photo Gallery March 2013

    We got some great new photos in from our Legends and Champions event held in March!  Flip through and download!  Enjoy!

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    Str8 Shots Qualifies Six Juniors for the 2013 Nationals

    On March 23rd, despite the biggest snow storm of the year and highway closures, the Str8 Shots team and Felt Billiards staff gave a packed house of pool fans and players a warm place to spend their Saturday. Headed by Mark Cantrill, the Legends & Champions Pool Tour treated the mile high city to an unforgettable engagement. 8-time world champion and hall-of-famer Nick Varner was joined by two-time world champion Thorsten Hohmann of Germany for [...]

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    Legends & Champions Clinic Photo Gallery

    Click on an image in the Legends and Champions Pool Tour clinic gallery below to enlarge and download it.  Please be patient as each image is quite large and may take some time to load.  To download images click on the “Download” link in the lower right hand corner of the image after it loads in the larger window. Now you can share any image on www.Str8-Shots.com on social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter, [...]

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A Guide To Buying A Pool Cue

Apr 17, 2013

By Rita Rova· Tell Us What You Think

Having the perfect cue is essential for the perfect billiards game. Without one, no matter how precise a shot you are, you will probably never get the balls to go to the right pockets, if you get them to go to any pockets at all. The market offers so many options today and as the price is not exactly low, you will have to be sure that what you are buying will provide you with [...]

Top 5 Tips For A Great Pool Break

Top 5 Tips For A Great Pool Break

Apr 8, 2013

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Taking the opportunity to make a great pool break can offer many benefits, including being able to position balls in favorable locations around the table. It also offers opening players the advantage of being able to choose their ball type. However, playing a good break takes far more skill than simply hitting the cue ball with a powerful shot, and if players want to improve their game, the following five tips will help. 1. Control [...]

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Str8 Shots Qualifies Six Juniors for the 2013 Nationals

On March 23rd, despite the biggest snow storm of the year and highway closures, the Str8 Shots team and Felt Billiards staff gave a packed house of pool fans and players a warm place to spend their Saturday. Headed by Mark Cantrill, the Legends & Champions Pool Tour treated the mile high city to an unforgettable engagement. 8-time world champion and hall-of-famer Nick Varner was joined by two-time world champion Thorsten Hohmann of Germany for [...]

Legends and Champions Visit the Mile High City to Raise Money for BEF Juniors

Str8 Shots Brings World Champions Nick Varner & Thorsten Hohmann to Colorado Springs & Denver for four days of Clinics, Exhibitions, & Fundraisers February 22, 2013 (Englewood, CO): The Legends & Champions Pool Tour treats Colorado billiard fans to a unique engagement, courtesy of Str8 Shots. The tour brings eight-time world champion and hall-of-famer Nick Varner and four-time world champion Thorsten Hohmann to the mile high city for a four-day extravaganza dedicated to raising money for [...]

WPBL Brings up Allegations of Fraud

The WPBL has made a release stating that their contractor in Las Vegas allegedly committed fraud. Below is the release sent out from the WPBL. WPBL DUPED BY LAS VEGAS CONTRACTOR Press Release The WPBL has made a release stating that their contractor in Las Vegas allegedly committed fraud. Below is the release sent out from the WPBL. Over the past few months the World Professional Billiard League has experienced several setbacks arising from construction [...]

USBA to SBX in 2013 — Official Press Release from the United States Billiard Association

The United States Billiard Association (USBA) has announced that it will hold the 2013 Three-Cushion National Championship tournament at the Allen Hopkins Super Billiards Expo (SBX) from April 3 to 7, 2013, at the New Jersey Convention and Expo Center in Edison. The SBX is the premier billiard convention and trade show on the east coast, featuring professional and amateur pocket billiard events as well as hundreds of cue makers, table manufacturers, cloth manufacturers, retailers [...]