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2/7/2009
9-BALL
Ultimate Billiards
4112 Okeechobee Rd.
Fort Pierce, Florida 34947
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Ultimate Billiards in Ft Pierce, FL hosted their first ever KF event and another record-breaking field turned out. The $1,700 added event attracted 112 entrants over the 2 days. The $1000 added Open event kicked off with 47 players, and Richard Broumpton doing all the damage. Broumpton went through to the finals undefeated with wins over Johnny Reaves 7-5, Javier Chirino 7-2, Cal Mcgann 7-3, Doug Johnson 7-3, and Curtis Kelley 7-3, putting him up against Eddie
Cabrera for the hot seat match. Cabrera was also having a breakout event, beating several of the top players in the field, including wins over Han Berber 7-5, Gail Grecar 7-1, and Bill Dunsmore to put him up against Broumpton for the hotseat match.
This match proved to be a tight affair, with Broumpton edging a 7-4 win to take the hotseat. He would now wait the winner of the one loss side where Josh Lewis was a man on a mission. Lewis had lost his first round match to Prescott Buckwold 7-4, then went on to record 9 very impressive wins beating the likes of Han Berber 7-6, Mike Destefano 7-3, Doug Johnson 7-3, Tony Crosby 7-4, Bill Dunsmore 7-5, Curtis Kelley 7-6 and Eddie
Cabrera to put himself in the final, leaving Eddie Cabrera with a fine 3rd place finish.
The Finals was all Broumpton. Broumpton had recently switched to the new line of Concept Cues, which tour director Tony Crosby and billiard pro Corey Deuel have been developing, It proved to be the right Concept for Broumpton, as he dominated a one sided final besting Lewis 9-2 in the single race final and take his first KF Cue Tour win with the $800 winners purse.
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Final Results |
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1st |
Richard Broumpton |
$800 |
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2nd |
Josh Lewis |
$600 |
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3rd |
Eddie Cabrera |
$450 |
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4th |
Curtis Kelley |
$260 |
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5th-6th |
Jason Richko |
$150 |
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Bill Dunsmore |
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7th-8th |
Tony Crosby |
$100 |
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Mark Coats |
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9th-12th |
Jeff Hughes |
$65 |
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Gail Grecar |
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Randy Epersen |
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Doug Johnson |
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Tony Pete Ultimate KF Cue Tour Amateur Winner
Ultimate Billiards in Ft Pierce, Fl hosted the $700 added KF Cue Tour Amateur event. The
Open event on the previous day drew a record field of 47 players and, as always, the Amateur event went one better by drawing a massive 75 players. The Amateur is proving to be a big success and is now drawing a large field of Ladies and junior players taking advantage of the big entry fee discounts.
Ultimate Billiards also proved itself to be one of the leading rooms in the
state of Florida to host an event of this size. With its 20 9 ft pool tables, this
made the event run very smooth.
Mark Wathen would be the man to take the hotseat on this day, beating George Saunders 6-4,
proving why he is a big threat in the Amateur division. Wathen made his way through to his 2nd final of the season. Newcomer Tony Pete was causing problems on the one loss side, having lost to Wathen on the winners
side 6-4. Pete battled his way to the finals with a hard fought 5-4 win over Adam Wheeler, followed by a 5-3 win over Ed Kiess,
and a 5-2 win over Josh Lewis. He then went on to face Raymond Linares, another player who’s game is
rapidly improving. This match would go right down to the wire, with Linares playing strong pool only to fall short in the last game, at 4-4.
Linares made a very tough 7 only to leave himself in a worse position on the 8 and hand the match to Pete, leaving Linares in 4th spot. The semi-final would see
Pete dominate the match with some fine safety play and left George Saunders kicking at balls the whole match,
sending him out in 3rd place.
Wathen lost momentum as he sat around for nearly 2 hours
waiting for the Final, and it showed, as Pete was gathering momentum on the one loss side. Pete dominated the
final, taking advantage of a sluggish Wathen to win the match and his first KF event 8-3. The only consolation for Wathen is he jumped to
#1 for the tour points leader, displacing Ted Lepak.
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Final Results |
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1st |
Tony Pete |
$600 |
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2nd |
Mark Wathen |
$400 |
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3rd |
George Saunders |
$300 |
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4th |
Raymond Linares |
$200 |
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5th-6th |
Josh Lewis |
$175 |
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Jim Sandaler |
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7th-8th |
Dave Balderson |
$125 |
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Ed Kiess |
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9-12th |
Justin Gilsinan |
$80 |
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Richie Ruthven |
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Adam Wheeler |
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Johnny Aquilar |
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13th-16th |
Buzzy Thompson |
$50 |
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Jessie Langston |
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Miguel Rengifo |
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Jesus Borjas |
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Top Women |
Bettina Chase |
$20 |
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Shanna Lewis |
$20 |
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Top Junior |
Taz Naravane |
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This was another fantastic event with Ultimate Billiards putting on a great show in hosting the KF Cue Tour. The tour would like to thank all our sponsors and players for making this very exciting event
happen. KF Cues is the title Sponsor and has provided a great base for the tour in its first year. Visit
www.kfcuetour.com for more info and to see our list of sponsors.
Our next event will be at Strokers 2 in Tampa on the 21st-22nd of February
and we look forward to seeing all of you there.
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