Archive for November, 2009

Dene O’Kane misses World Record of holding the World Snooker Masters Title four times

Posted on Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

O’Kane lost the final match of the World Snooker Masters Championship against Welshman Darren Morgan, by a whopping 6/0 in Hyderbad, India.  Had O’Kane won this match he would have been the first in history to hold the title four times.

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Notice of Annual General Meetings

Posted on Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE AUCKLAND POOL ASSN INC to be held at the ACBS Clubrooms, 713 Mount Albert Road, Royal Oak, Auckland on Wednesday 02 December at 6.00 pm

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE AUCKLAND BILLIARDS & SNOOKER ASSN INC to be held at the ACBS Clubrooms, 713 Mount Albert Road, Royal Oak, Auckland on Wednesday 02 December at 6.30 pm Continue reading »

APA League Final Results are in !

Posted on Monday, November 16th, 2009

Included here is the 2009 APA League End of year results

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Clubs NZ North Island Snooker Pairs

Posted on Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Held at the Howick Club : 10-11 October 2009

Gerry Cronin and Sanjay Kumar 2009Once again the Howick Club Inc put on a great event for the 2009 Clubs NZ North Island Snooker Pairs Championship. Continue reading »

NZPA 2009 National 9-Ball Championships

Posted on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Held at the ACBS Clubrooms (hosted by the APA) : 30 October to 01 November 2009

The tournament was run under a new dress code trial and the reaction received was overwhelmingly in favour of it.  Malcolm Beehre said, “I personally did not receive one adverse comment and some players were adamant that it should be applied to all of our tournaments.” Continue reading »

ABSA Junior (U21) Snooker

Posted on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Held at the ACBS Clubroom : 26 October 2009

This event was contested by seven young enthusiastic players who always appeared to be in a hurry to play the next shot, and with little fear of the consequences. Continue reading »

ABSA Open B-Grade Snooker

Posted on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 25 October 2009

Section play was a one-frame round robin, and one-frame snooker always produces some surprises.  Because scores were not kept and qualifying was based on wins, there were two secitons that required play-offs to see who qualified and they were both different situations.

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ABSA Women’s Open Snooker

Posted on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 24 October 2009

With a field of eight, two sections of four played a one-frame round robin to determine the eight placings based on performance for Post-Section play.

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