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VENEZUELA TOPS OFF ARUBA

Oranjestad---The new pool room in Tanki Leendert was definitely to small for this event. Friday night over 50 people were VIP seated and another 50 had to watch via TV screens outside. A strong squad from Venezuela showed up full of confidence. Friday it was 10-ball WPA rules and Aaron The Baron send Aruba up 1-0 over Richard Manriquez 7-4, but from there it was all Venezuela with Diego Gomez beating Jorge Petrocchi 7-5, Gregorio Sanchez beating Ditto Acosta 7-2 and Victor Cucuzza beating Ryan Rampersaud 7-3 for a 3-1 lead. Richard Wolff brought Aruba back with a Victory over Luis Miguel Sanchez 7-6 and Allan van Aanholt did the same with a victory over Alexander Garcia 7-5 for the night to end at 3 a piece. Saturday it was turned to 9-ball, and Acosta was beaten again this time by Garcia 7-2, but Aaron repeat a 7-4 win over Manriquez and the combination Acosta / Franken took down Gomez / Gregorio Sanchez 7-5 for Aruba ta go up 5-4. From here it was only down hill for the Aruba squad, with Wolff going down against Luis Sanchez 7-3, Van Aanholt losing to Gregorio Sanchez 7-4, the couple Wolff/Van Aanholt also lost to Garcia/Sanchez 7-6 to put Aruba in a whole. Master Ryan came out strong from start but lost control and was beaten by Cucuzza 7-5. Jorge had it all in his hands but also give in to the junior Gomez 7-6. In the end Rampersaud / Petrocchi was completely beaten and lost 7-1 to Cucuzza / Manriquez. Sunday it was back to 10-ball in a do or die for Aruba and the six Aruba soldiers came out strong beating the six from Venezuela 7-2 in the team match-up. Next it was D-Gun Acosta that surprised Venezuelan star Gregorio Sanchez 7-1 to bring Aruba at 7-10. Richard The Wolffman looked like he had it under control at 6-3, but some un-characteristic mistakes made him pay with a 7-6 lost to Alexander Garcia, that brought Venezuela over the top. It was a well organized event by WWW.POOLINARUBA.COM with a lot of spectators and good cash circulation. Thanks to BUDWEISER BEER, HOPE CLINIC, BOC GASSES, AMAZONIA RESTAURANT and MARINA PIRATA for their sponsorship.

“FINAL COUNTDOWN” ARUBA VS VENEZUELA !!

 

12th january 2009

Oranjestad---Only twenty days are left before the challenge where the players from Venezuela will go heads up against the players from Aruba. Normally when a huge country like Venezuela goes against a small island like Aruba, the odds are on the Titans. In this case the islanders are very power-full when it comes to pool in this region. Richard Wolff was Pan-American bronze medalist on two occasions and winner of the Pan-American 9-Ball Grandprix 2004. Ditto Acosta is Pan-American Gold and Silver medalist, Aaron Franken is a Gold medalist, and Ryan Rampersaud has won Bronze in 2002. Allan van Aanholt was the runner-up at the recently Aruba International 10-Ball Classic and Jorge Petrocchi is a feared money player in this area. Venezuela is sending a squad that is leaded by two times Pan-American Silver medalist Luis Miguel Sanchez, Diego Gomez Pan-American Gold medalist Juniors 2005, Victor Cucuzza 3rd place finisher Aruba International 10-Ball Classic and Dark Horses Alexander Garcia, Richard Manrique and James Gutierrez who has all three won several local events. The venue is the brand-new pool-room at Centro Hubentud Tanki Leendert. Come and watch 10-ball action where you can go “all in”, if you want to…..

THE FIRST SOUTH-CARIB TEAM CHALLENGE!!

15th december 2008

Oranjestad---For the first time the players from Venezuela will go heads up against the players from Aruba, a la “Mosconi Cup”. This all started in 1999 when Jose Luis Perez won the Pan-American in Panama and repeated his success in 2000 on home soil. Before that Aruba players were sure they could beat any of their neighbours…. The official rivalry started in 2002 when in the finals of the Pan-American, home-town hero Ditto Acosta came back from 0-4 and 4-8 to beat Luis Miguel Sanchez 11-9. That set-up many money action between the two countries on the island of Aruba and in Caracas. Again in 2004 on Aruba ground at the 9-Ball Pan-American Grandprix, Richard Wolff meets Johnny Martinez in the finals and again an Aruban Hero rised to the occasion to win the championship. Over the years these types of matches went back and forth but never again an Aruba vs Venezuela final came up. January 30th, 31st and February 1st top Venezuelans players will land on the small island to meet the best of Aruba crop. Stay tune for the line-ups…..

Aruba Pool Federation FEBIAR donated a table to Imelda Hof

10th december 2008

Oranjestad--- Aruba Pool Federation FEBIAR donated a table to Imelda Hof (orphan home). The idea is for our top-players to visit this foundation on monthly basis with the goal to teach these special kids how to shoot and enjoy the game of pool.

RICHARD “THE WOLFFMAN” THE BIG 2008 WINNER !!

8st december 2008

Oranjestad---The legendary Richard Wolff, a seven times World Championship participants, did it again. He proved to be the most consistent player on the island. He might have started the year slow, but he got hot at the right time and managed to keep the pace for three consecutive months. He won 3-in-row and manage to keep D-Gun Acosta with 15 points behind him till the end. Acosta won the last stop but the other man in the finals was The Wolffman, who had enough points by reaching the finals. A total of 10 events were held for the BALASHI BEER ARUBA POOL TOUR 2008. Also the FEBIAR ranking had The Wolffman finished first. poolinaruba congratulates Richard Wolff with a well deserved win and Balashi Beer with a great Pool Tour. Next local event is the Aruba vs Venezuela Team Challenge January 30 and 31st.

HUT PREDATORS BULLDOZED 2008 KOTC

Oranjestad---The team that went pretty easy over Classic Johnson for the Aruba National Championship finals for teams, also did about the same in Curacao. Fifthteen teams from Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao and Trinidad & Tobago visited Curacao for a long week-end. It was a lot of fun, party and for sure a lot of pain on the pool tables. Hut Predators that won the event in 2005 and 2006, lost the finals in 2007 to Maishi Tigers from Curacao. This year these teams took the same route and met each other in the semi-finals at the winner-side. But before that the Hut Predators beat Curacao Warriors 5-0, went with 5-2 over Barracuda from Aruba, and again 5-2 over Biesheuvel from Curacao. Sunday morning the team from Aruba beat Maishi Tigers 5-2 and at night after the Tigers came back from the losers round they were beaten 5-1 in the finals. Hut Predators lifted the trophy for the third time, but for the first time they managed to win two big ones in one year.

Team Price Ceremony

 

Panamerican 10-Ball

 

HUT PREDATORS TOO HOT TO HANDLE !!!!!!

10tt November 2008

Oranjestad---It’s only there six title in nine national team championship. The Hut Predators, a team formed in 1992, that could not win a title in all 90’s started the new Millenium with a big 2000 title, and went on to steel the show back to back to back in 2002-2003-2004. In 2005 and 2006 they settle with a King of The Caribbean title but 2007 they won the National again and this year they demolished a favorite and virgin Classic Billiards. Wednesday it went 5-0, Thursday the same 5-0 was handed to the Chocolate City Warriors and Friday in their house again a 5-3 win ended the Classic dream. MVP’s Fredley Tromp and veteran Edwin Chirino went 5-0 between the semi’s and the final’s. Captain D-Gun Ditto Acosta guided his team against Master Ryan Rampersaud squad with no fear or hesitation. Matching up the best Classic players with his own best soldiers. At the end it was clear that The Hut Predators are a strong force who destroyed the team that never lost a match in 2008 Classic Johnson. Next is King of The Caribbean in Curacao, where the Hut predators are going for there first double crown ever. They have been in the finals of KOTC all three times and won it twice.

“COOL CAT” DANNY STEELS THE SHOW IN PARADISE

1st september 2008

Thirty-two (32) players from eight (8) countries competed in the Caribbean Mercantile Bank Aruba 10-Ball Classic this past weekend. The Caribbean Billiards Union event sanctioned by CPB, was also a qualifier to the next year’s (2009) Predator International 10-Ball Event to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, organized by Dragon Promotions. Well known Pro Players such as Leo Campos from Peru - South America, and Ike Runnels both living in Chicago, USA were among the early favorites to win the Event but it seems that the “Pool Gods” had other plans in mind.

At the end, Ramesh “Danny” Gokhul representing Guyana but residing in the U.K. and local Aruban Hero Allan Van Aanholt were to dispute the Finals.. Allan “Zero-Thunder” went unbeaten throughout the tournament, sending Ike Runnels in the 3rd round, and then sending “Danny” to the one-loss side during the Semi-Final. But "Cool Cat" Danny Gokhul had other plans and worked his way to the final spot to match once again with Zero Thunder.

Cool Cat came out with a big 10-3 win against the Thunder and the with the cash prize of $3000 USD. Allan got $1500 USD for his runner-up effort, with Victor Cuccuza from Venezuela making it to the 3rd spot and collecting $750 USD. In 4th place and from Aruba, Mr. Ransley "Psycho" Tromp cashed $500 with an unexpected surprise knock-out of Ike Runnels for the Title run. The Psycho-Man had sent a message to all present on Saturday night when he eliminated 3-Time CPB Panamerican 9-Ball runner-up Luis Miguel Sanchez from Venezuela.

$350 each was given to 5th place finishers Ike Runnels and "young gun" Anthony Wever from Curacao. Anthony who was just crowned CPB Panamerican 9-Ball Junior Champion in Nicaragua last week surprised 2002 Panamerican Champion Roland “Ditto” the D-Gun Acosta in the one-loss rounds with a great come-from-behind win.

A total of 16 players from Uruguay, Peru, Venezuela, Guadeloupe, Curacao, U.S.A and the U.K traveled to face off against 16 local players. Thanks to all sixteen players that visited the island and special thanks to Caribbean Mercantile Bank, Classic Billiards, Iwan Simonis and the official tournament cue Poison. It was obvious that the players had a lot of fun since they kept playing after the finals till the early morning…. with loud music in a female City.

 

ZERO-THUNDER BACKED UP HIS NAME !!!!

27th august 2008

Oranjestad---There wasn’t a thunder that could hit Allan van Aanholt this week. For the second time this year, he came up big with a strong run through a tough field at the Aruba 10-Ball Nationals. On Sunday a group of 32 please arrived on time at the Classic Billiards. All started with the hope to finish first and some of them are big favorites. On Tuesday only eight were left 4 in-front and 4 in losers round. D-Gun Acosta came out strong pumping up Errel Tromp with a 7-0 whitewash in no-time. Allan also started out with a 4-0 lead on The Wolffman, and finished up 7-2. The other side of the brackets saw Aaron the Baron kicking out The Dutchman 7-4, Rifleman Jansen taking down Gio The Rock 7-3. Next Jansen overcame Errel with 7-2 and The Baron eliminated The Wolffman 7-5. The other-side had a strong fight going on, but at the end Allan beat Acosta 8-6. Back to the “do or die” section The Baron escaped with a 7-6 over The Rifleman. That gave The Baron enough strength to also overcome Ditto Acosta 7-5 to set-up the final of Aruba first ever 10-Ball Nationals which was a repeat of the 2008 9-Ball Nationals. At the end the result was the same but before that, Zero-Thunder showed class taking an 8-0 lead to finish it of 9-3. The tall kid from Chocolate City is now a big hero and deserves a lot of credit for his run on Tuesday over the trio that has dominated pool for a long time. THIS WEEK-END IS THE ARUBA 10-BALL CLASSIC AND ZERO-THUNDER WILL LEAD THE ARUBA GROUP TO FACE OFF AGAINST TOUGH TALENTS FROM THE U.S.A. - PERU - GUYANA - JAMAICA - URUGUAY - VENEZUELA CURACAO

THE RIFLEMAN GUNNED DOWN CHOCOLATE CITY !!!!

25th august 2008

Oranjestad---The number #4 stop of the popular BALASHI Aruba Pool Tour was another shock, when Arie Jansen win his first major event. Jansen that started the year pretty slow, geared up at this stop making his way, knocking down strong players. In the end he met fellow team player D-Gun Acosta and in a battle that The Rifle always kept under control he overcame Ditto Acosta with 9-6. It was the APT 10-ball stop and again the APT ranking got a nice shook up. Go to ranking for an update. All Arubians are set for the big ARUBA 10-BALL CLASSIC this week end. Players from South America and the Caribbean are already coming in looking for action. The first 10-ball event in the region ever will host players from Uruguay, Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Guyana, U.S.A., Curacao, Jamaica and Aruba. A field of 48 players are expected in the Usd $3,000 added event.

YOUNG-GUN ANTHONY WEVER JR. MAKES HISTORY

23th august 2008

YOUNG-GUN ANTHONY WEVER JR. MAKES HISTORY, WINNING GOLD MEDAL FOR CURACAO AND THE DUTCH ANTILLES AT THE PAN-AMERICAN BILLIARD IN NICARAGUA. ARUBA PLAYERS AND POOLINARUBA WANT TO CONGRATULATE ANTHONY FOR HIS TOP PERFORMANCE AND WISH HIM A LOT OF SUCCES FOR THE FUTURE. "HE IS REPRESENTING CURACAO AT THE ARUBA 10-BALL CLAISSIC, SO IF YOU MISSED HIM IN NICARAGUA YOU CAN CATCH HIM HERE"

A MONTH AWAY FROM THE BIGGEST LATIN-CARIBBEAN 10-BALL EVENT EVER !!!!!

4th august 2008

Oranjestad--- Upcoming August 28th to the 31st - Aruba will host the #2 Caribbean Billiard Union Tour stop. This time a 10-ball event that will add $3,000 American dollars in cash prizes. A field of 48 players are expected and USD $125 is the inscription Fee. Classic Billiard is the venue and Caribbean Mercantile Bank NV one more time will be the main sponsor, for a summer International pool event. The best players of the south will match up with the best Caribbean players including stars from Jamaica, Guyana, Curacao, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Aruba. Locally we will have three qualifiers so stay tune for more info.

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