Great Plains 8 Ball Results

2011 Great Plains 8-Ball Shootout Results

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Womens Regular 8-Ball Singles
1st - Kelli Finke
2nd - Chris Williams

Open Masters 8-Ball Singles
1st - Pat Wancewicz
2nd - Cole Foster

Womens Masters 8-Ball Singles
1st - Julie Guzman
2nd - Becky Minshall

Open Regular 8-Ball Singles
1st - Kim Elder
2nd - Mark Hunt

Open Team
1st - Gotta Have It
2nd - Skyline Bar And Casino

Womens Team
1st - BCuz We're Here
2nd - Charlie's Angels

Womens 9-Ball Singles
1st - Sara Stevens
2nd - Kelli Finke

Open 9-Ball Singles
1st - Cole Foster
2nd - Rex Yoder

2011 Great Plains 8-Ball Junior Shootout

Open Majors Singles
1st - Matthew Vlcek
2nd - Tanner Schmidt
3rd - Josh Burger

Open Minors Singles
1st - Cody Beltz
2nd - Ismael Zambrano
3rd - Lee Schenaman

Male Youth Singles
1st - Sean Rink
2nd - Taylor Cobb
3rd - Colton Rezabek

Female Youth Singles
1st - Trina Barmore
2nd - Monique Saunsoci
3rd - Eryn McConnell

Cappy's 8BallRun.com Week 2 Recap

Well after a nice 6-0 start, we drew the other team that won all 6 the first week...SV 8 Ballin'

Chas and my dad both shot a 50, Chas & I both had an ERO...here is the end of my ERO run.

I typically shoot rather quickly, but paused at this point to decide the best way to make the two balls that had the preferred pocket blocked!

I managed to get perfect shape on the 14, to get me near the foot rail to get out.

I seem like it would be easy from here...except I deadended my follow through on the 9 ball shot to make the 8 about as difficult as I could!

I still had a good chance at the 8 ball, and dropped it...

Chas's opponent played a safety in his first game, he had to kick the duck 8 in...he was happy to get a 2nd chance. He rattled it the first time..here is a diagram!

And the video...





I think the other team (and my team) may complain if I start with FLASH photography! :)

We again won 19 out of 25 games, but managed to lose 3 out of the 6 games in one round and lose it.  5-1 tonight, 11-1 overall!

Our team is psyched to play together, some of us are saving up for VNEA Vegas and all of us are ready to win Midwest! 

Chas told us about a funny ass commercial with Jamie Pressly and Axe ball scrubber...none of us had seen it, so I loaded it on my Droid and we took a break in during round 3 to watch it. Here it is for those that missed it like me...

2009 City Pool Re-cap

The 10 days of Lincoln's city tournament were up and down, luckily ending on a high for the weekend.

Started off playing a rated 9 ball tournament, masters had to win 4, A had to win 3, and the rest had to win 2 games. My first match was against the eventual winner of the tournament, he needed 3 games and I needed 4 games. He made a 9 on the break and ended up beating me 3-3...somehow. My next match was against a 2, and he snapped the 9 the first game...making me win the next 4 straight and I failed. Out of the 9 ball, I played a mini tournament and won $25 on a $5 entry, 8 person tournament. The finals were against a team-mate, but he got $15.

Our masters team didn't do well, it was bracketed and as the 6th place team in the league...we got an "easy" match in the 11th place team in the league. Throughout the whole match, the runouts were a plenty... Our team had 4 (2 were mine) and the other team had 3. We built up a 13 point lead with 3 games left when they broke and ran for a 10-1. Now the lead was 4 and 2 games left with my game up... I broke and ran and missed my nudge on the 10 ball leaving myself a backcut for the runout and team match win. Then this happens...






My opponent gets ball in hand and runs out...now were are up 1 with a game left. And this is the situation the final two players were in...




Probably the same safety that I woulda played...but it ended up costing us the match with the bank luck going their way!




Our master team then managed to win one match, before losing out the next day for $150 payday. My wife had been at the tournament site the whole day and was still interested in playing a scotch doubles tournament at 8 (or 8:50 as it was) that night. We discussed going to the casino, but decided to play instead. The women break in the scotch doubles 9-ball and my wife fired the 9 in on the break while I was in the bathroom in our first match. The next 3 matches went that way until we found ourselves down 0-2 in a race to 3. We played great together and pulled it out to get to the final 4. Our next match was probably the best team in the tourney, and we again fell behind 0-2. This time a couple poor safeties got us the match in 3 straight games. The finals were a bruisin at 3-0 and we took the title!! Definitely had a blast...and got $160. Great ending to the weekend...here's a picture I took of the bracket!! :)

2009 Great Plains Tournament

Our team played in an open handicapped tournament today at Pershing Auditorium here in Lincoln. We started off really hot, beating up on the first team we played pretty handlely (Rumored to be Iowa team champs). But we played pretty well. Then we lost to the next team we played...but gave them a nice head start, giving them the first 5 8 balls. We had a couple hour wait so we headed to Duggan's for some grub and caught some 3 card monte...this guy is from Omaha and has some pretty good slide of hand! He took a few buck and put on a profitable show for himself.





In the loser bracket, we won our first match easily, then started off horribly with 6 straight losses out of the 16 game format. Then we went on to win 7 straight back to make a good match of it. Our last player played a perfect safety with his 5 ball, blocking him from the stripe.





Then he managed to get a hit with a lucky, but good kick off the titty... er corner of the pocket.



That was the end for us in that tournament...that kick shot cost our team $60 minimum since we missed cashing by one team win. All-in-all it was a fun day though.

2009 Heartland Tournament

Our team started off badly losing 2 out our first 3 matches. But this made us eligible for the "Second Chance" Tourney. There were 22 two-time losers eligible for this tournament...we won 3 matches and ended up getting 3rd for a $60 payout.





After this we took off to pick up our kids from the grandparents. It was now midnight already!! Our first match was at 9am...needless to say my wife and I are now tired of pool!

I got pulled over on my way to get the kids and got lucky with just a warning! Got home with the kids at around 2:30 am....not sure I wanna do this again, but it was fun.

Gibby's GI Tournament

Played in the Fall Classic 9 ball tournament in Grand Island this weekend with my wife...I shot well, but my wife drew last years womens champ the first round and it went downhill for her.

Squeezed a small money match in while waiting in the tournament...and I maintained my AzB King Nebr title. Not as good of new in the Fall Classic in Grand Island....which drew a couple ringers from Iowa and Colorado. Race to 7/6 double elim...

I won my first match 7-5, then lost 4-7..messing up a couple easy runouts. In the losers bracket I won 6-4, 6-3, 6-2. Then I got down 4-5 and broke and ran to make to hill-hill. The last game was mostly a safety game, then I had the first chance to get out. I missed the 6 in the side, and my opponent ran out...this will eat me for a while since this woulda got me into the money. Basically at least a $40 miss! Here's the layout...




EDIT: Found out that K. Sabin, the one I missed this shot against...ended up getting 2nd and $450, plus $500 for the calcutta.  Grrr..