French multimedia company Kozoom have announced that european sports broadcaster Eurosport will be showing 3 one-hour shows of the 9th Predator International 10-Ball Pool Championships, starting in July and running thru August.
The first semi-final with Dennis Orcollo and Warren Kiamco was shown Friday, the 17th, at 23:00 CET. Second semi-final featuring Ralf Souquet and Alex Pagulayan will follow on monday, the 3rd of august at 19:15 CET. The final will be shown the next monday, august 10th, also at 19:15 CET.
SPEARHEADED BY THREE former world champions, two former world No. 1s and the reigning women’s world titlist, the Philippine billiards squad to the 25th Southeast Asian Games aptly deserves the “Dream Team” tag.
Hall of Famer Efren “Bata” Reyes and fellow ex-world titlists Alex Pagulayan and Ronnie Alcano should easily mow down the opposition in the biennial SEA Games set Dec. 9 to 18 in Vientiane, Laos.
Dennis Orcollo and the veteran Django Bustamante, both of whom have held the premier spot in the international pool circuit, are the other big guns in the men’s squad assembled by the Billiards and Snooker Congress of the Philippines.
Reigning world 10-ball women’s champion Rubilen Amit leads the women’s squad that includes Iris Rañola and Mary Ann Basas.
The BSCP is so confident of its players, it issued a challenge to PSC chair Harry Angping to form his own billiards team and pit it against the “Dream Team.”
“This is the team that he (Angping) shooed away while practicing at the Rizal Memorial, [the one] he doesn’t want to support,” said billiards president Arturo Ilagan.
“Maybe we could put a prop bet that if his team-he can import foreigners-wins, we’ll give him the BSCP, but if he losses, he will support all the Filipino athletes and then resign.”
from (sports.inquirer.net)
Pool legend Efren “Bata” Reyes will compete with other top-notch billiard players as the 9th leg of the Manny Villar Cup takes place in Iloilo on July 30.
Reyes will be fighting for the P300,000 top prize with fellow former world champions Ronnie Alcano and Alex Pagulayan, former World No. 1 Dennis Orcullo and Francisco “Django” Bustamante, and former leg winners Warren Kiamco, Gandy Valle, Ramil “Bebeng” Gallego, Rodolfo “Boy Samson” Luat, Roberto “Superman” Gomez, and Lee Van “The Slayer” Corteza.
The Iloilo leg of the Villar Cup will run until August 2.
“I hope my fellow Illonggos will enjoy seeing our world-class billiards players playing in front of them, and to those who are aspiring to become one of them, may this provide them inspiration,” Sen. Manny Villar, the main sponsor of the tourney, said in report posted on BilliardPhilippines.com.
The Villar Cup has also allotted six slots for players residing in Iloilo and the nearby provinces.
There will be a qualifying tournament, which will also serve as the Western Visayas Regional Villards Billiards Championship, a day before the main draw.
(from abs-cbnnews.com)
Alejandro (Alex) Salvador Pagulayan, (born 1978) is a Filipino-Canadian pocket billiardist. His nicknames are “The Lion” and “The Killer Pixie”. He was born in Cabagan, Isabela, Philippines and was raised in Toronto, Canada. In 2004, Pagulayan returned to the Philippines. He is known for his relaxed demeanor during competition, and is a crowd favorite, well-liked because of his comedic interaction with the audience.