Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 21-22 April 2012

Report by Malcolm Beehre : The event was run trialing a new deviation to the dreaded foul and miss rule.  All snooker rules stayed the same except if a player was snookered and failed to hit the ball on, his opponent could place the white anywhere on the table for his next shot,thus eliminating a lot of time and deliberations. NB : All other fouls committed were dealt with as normal.

Each match in Section play was two frames only and the qualifiers were determined by the number of frames won and not by the number of matches won.   Continue reading »

Hosted by the ABSA and held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 14-15 April 2012 Continue reading »

Hosted by the ABSA and held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 14-15 April 2012 Continue reading »

Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 31 March to 01 April 2012

Semi-finals : W Carey bt G Moreton 605/200, R Milicich bt B Good 385/292.

Final : W Carey bt R Milicich 463/352.

Highest Break : W Carey (77)

Hosted by the Auckland Pool Assn : 31 March to 01 April 2012

A relatively small but very strong field of 36 for the Men’s Event and 5 in the Women’s.  There was a lot of 6/0 matches in the Men’s Post-section play with no upsets in the qualifiers for Post-Section play.  Continue reading »

Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 24-25 March 2012

Report by Malcolm Beehre : Most certainly the strongest field we’ve had for a number of years with some players wondering if they had entered an A-Grade by mistake !  Some of the resurgence in snooker can probably be contributed to the amount of snooker now being played on Sky TV.  Continue reading »

The ABSA and APA Committees have both agreed to have included in the tournament conditions for all events, the banning of the use of cell-phones for receiving, calling or texting during the playing of a match.

ABSA PENALTIES :
Snooker (loss of frame)
Billiards (loss of 75 points)

APA PENALITES :
All pool events (loss of frame being played).

SO REMEMBER TO TURN YOUR CELL PHONES OFF WHILE PLAYING

Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 03-04 March 2012

Semi-finals : P Stocker bt J Ifa 458/226, A Shekaktar bt R Milicich 491/445.

Final : P Stocker bt A Shekaktar 482/404

Highest Break : P Stocker (65)

Held at the ACBS Clubrooms (hosted by the APA) : 02-04 March 2012

Report by Malcolm Beehre : A very strong field of 31 for this event with no-one a clear favourite to take the title.  Continue reading »

Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 18 February 2012

A field of 18, which included the return of Fale Pakieto, Aaron Shaw and John McMillan who haven’t played tournaments here for a number of years.  Only five winners in Section Play was Ligzxiao Zhu with a +10 differential. Continue reading »