(Photo credit: Erwin Dionisio) Congratulations to Roberto Gomez for prevailing in a hill-hill thriller to win the 2025 International Open One Pocket. Justin Hall finished 2nd in a final match that had surprising big swings, but Justin’s path to the finals featured some prior big swings too; sometimes that’s how things roll! It was a […]
This much anticipated challenge match between Fedor Gorst, one of the highest ranked pool players in the world, and Oklahoman One Pocket specialist Chip Compton was billed as a classic contrast in styles, a young shooter versus a top mover, and it did not disappoint. It was a race to 24 over three days (8/16/24) […]
By Mary Kenniston Photos courtesy PoolActionTv Buffalo’s Billiards in Jefferson, LA – just outside New Orleans – is firmly establishing itself as the high dollar one pocket venue on the planet! Over this past weekend, owner James Leone (“Buff”), his manager, Steve Tesvich (“Bullseye”) and his staff hosted the latest One Pocket Champions Challenge. Featuring […]
$10,000 added Racks on the Rocks One Pocket 2022 Congratulations to Fedor Gorst for winning the Omega Racks on the Rocks $325 One-Pocket event against a strong field of 24 competitors. Gorst sailed through his first three matches without losing a single game – it was a winner’s side races to 4 format — before […]
By Mary Kenniston Photos courtesy PoolActionTv Owners Jim Landrum and Randy Hanson welcomed hundreds of pool players, fans and cuemakers to Big Dog Billiards in Des Moines, IA this past week to show their stuff at their Seventh Annual Midwest Billiards & Cue Expo. Presented by Diveney Cues, Big Dog Billiards and PoolActionTV.com, the $18,000 […]
By Mary Kenniston Photos courtesy PoolActionTv All year long, One Pocket aficionados look forward to the biggest tournament of the year! Held in Jefferson, LA, a suburb of New Orleans, players and fans stampeded to James Leone’s Buffalo’s on Bloomfield for the Seventh Annual Buffalo’s Pro Classic. Local sponsors for this year’s event – Buffalo’s, […]
By Mary Kenniston The Ninth Annual $5,000 added Big Tyme Classic One Pocket Championship was held over the last few days in Spring, TX – a suburb of Houston. Hosted by owners Billy Sharp, Mark Avery and Jim Henry, the local sponsors were Star City Amusements and Jim Stinson of AM, Inc. Thirty players put […]
Efren ‘Bata’ Reyes & Danny Smith square off in the finals Arguably one of the best of all time, and not ready to cede to the next generation quite yet, Efren Reyes prevailed against a tough field of six younger stars of One Pocket in Accu-Stat’s most recent Make it Happen tournament. The format was […]
Alex Pagulayan cruised through the field of 123 players undefeated to claim the 2013 Tunica Southern Classic Banks title. While Pagulayan is a veteran player with numerous major tournament championships to his credit, his finals opponent in the Banks division was a young player just beginning to leave his mark on the pro circuit — […]
The late ‘Hollywood Jack’ The Hollywood Jack Memorial One Pocket was rescued this year and held in Bellflower, California at Hard Times Billiards over the 4th of July weekend! The One Pocket play was spectacular all weekend as fans filled the room and many more watched online to see who would earn the title. Matches […]
Sylver Ochoa, with the Pool Action TV live stream crew in the background Photo courtesy Shawn Smith Sylver Ochoa came out on top of a field of 42 players at the T-Town One Pocket Classic tournament that wrapped up at Magoo’s Billiards in Tulsa, Oklahoma last night. Sylver followed up his second place finish in […]
Photo courtesy Ricky Bryant The Magician topped a field of 88 of very strong players to capture the inaugural Galveston World Classic One Pocket tournament. The Filipino and American players were very well represented at this event, with the conspicuous absences mainly from the European and Asian camps, which are not so well known for […]