Stocker, Paul

Year of Birth:

Achievements:

• 1992 : Winner : NZBSA North Island Billiards Championship
• 1993 : Runner-up : “Barton McGill” Open Billiards
• 1993 : Runner-up : NZ Masters Billiards
• 1993 : Winner : NZBSA North Island Billiards Championship
• 1994 : Winner : NZBSA North Island Billiards Championship
• 1996 : Winner : NZBSA North Island Billiards Championship
• 1996 : Winner : NZBSA NZ Billiards Championship
• 1998 : Winner : NZBSA North Island Billiards Championship
• 1998 : Runner-up : NZBS NZ Open Billiards Championship
• 2000 : Winner : NZBSA North Island Billiards (hosted by ABSA)
• 2001 : Winner : NZBSA North Island Billiards (hosted by ABSA)
• 2001 : Winner : NZBSA NZ Open Billiards
• 2003 : Winner : “Barton McGill” Open Billiards
• 2004 : Winner : “Barton McGill” Open Billiards
• 2004 : Winner : NZBSA North Island Billiards Championship
• 2006 : Runner-up : Barton McGill” Open Billiards
• 2009 : Runner-up : ABSA Open Billiards
• 2009 : Runner-up : Barton McGill Open Billiards
• 2009 : Winner : NZBSA North Island Billiards (hosted by ABSA)
• 2009 : Runner-up : NZBSA Billiards Championship
• 2012 : Winner : ABSA Open Billiards

Other achievements:

• 1988 : Winner : Counties Open Billiards
• 1989 : Runner-up : Hawkes Bay Open Billiards
• 1991 : Runner-up : Waikato Open Billiards
• 1992 : Winner : Hawkes Bay Open Billiards
• 1992 : Runner-up : Counties Open Billiards
• 1993 : Runner-up : Counties Open Billiards
• 1994 : Winner : North Harbour Open Billiards
• 1994 : Winner : Hawkes Bay Open Billiards
• 1994 : Runner-up: Counties Open Billiards
• 1994 : Winner : Waikato Open Billiards
• 1996 : Winner : Hawkes Bay Open Billiards
• 1996 : Winner : Jim Couper Open Billiards
• 1997 : Winner : Hawkes Bay Open Billiards
• 1998 : Hawkes Bay Open Billiards
• 1999 : Runner-up : Hawkes Bay Open Billiards
• 2000 : Winner : North Harbour Open Billiards
• 2000 : Winner : Counties Open Billiards
• 2000 : Winner : Hawkes Bay Open Billiards
• 2000 : Runner-up : North Harbour Open Billiards
• 2001 : Runner-up : North Harbour Open Billiards
• 2001 : Runner-up : Hawkes Bay Open Billiards
• 2001 : Winner : North Harbour Open Billiards
• 2002 : Winner : North Harbour Open Billiards
• 2003 : Runner-up : North Harbour Open Billiards
• 2003 : Runner-up : Jim Couper Open Billiards
• 2004 : Runner-up : North Harbour Open Billiards
• 2004 : Winner : Capital City Open Billiards
• 2005 : Winner : Hawkes Bay Open Billiards
• 2006 : Runner-up : Hawkes Bay Open Billiards
• 2008 : Runner-up : Hawkes Bay Open Billiards
• 2009 : Winner : Hawkes Bay Open Billiards
• 2010 : Winner : Hawkes Bay Open Billiards

Further Information :

Started playing billiards in 1984 and that year won the Hawkes Bay B-Grade Billiards and then went on to win the A-Grade as well.  To date (August 2011) Paul has a total of 19 A-Grade titles.  Paul has won the North Island Billiards Championship on nine occasions, and the Hawkes Bay Open Billiards also nine times.  Other tournament victories are North Harbour Open (4 times), Counties Open (2 times), Barton McGill Open (2 times), NZ Open (1 time), Jim Couper Open (1 time), Capital City Open (1 time) and Waikato Open (1 time).

Highest tournament break is currently 196, scored in the Quarter-finals of the 2009 NZ Billiards Championship.

Biggest Thrill : My greatest achievement is when I won the NZ Billiards Championship in 1996, beating Peter de Groot of Canterbury in the Final.  I have also been runner-up at the NZ Championship event in 2009.