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Be part of the UK’s premier event for the leisure and entertainment industry—EAG Expo 2026, incorporating Social Immersive Entertainment Expo and London Casino & Gaming Show.
This expanded showcase brings together cutting-edge innovation, high-value networking, and unparalleled business opportunities across the sectors redefining the future of entertainment.
Save the date: 13–15 January 2026 | ExCeL London
There's no time like the present to start planning ahead so get the dates in your diary and ensure you kickstart 2026 with a visit to the show, where you'll be sure to connect with industry leaders and friends old and new, discover the newest trends and have the ultimate opportunity to see, touch and try the very latest product offerings.
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2025 BCA Hall of Fame Tickets on Sale Now!
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St. Augustine, FL – The Billiard Congress of America will host its 2025 Hall of Fame Banquet on Saturday, November 22, at 5:00 PM at the Renaissance Resort at World Golf Village during the International Open.
This year’s ceremony will honor Carlo “The Black Tiger” Biado, celebrating his outstanding career, including the 2025 World 9-Ball Championship, 2024 World 10-Ball Championship, and multiple international titles.
Tickets are $95 per person or $760 for a table of eight. Seating is limited, and the event is expected to sell out.
Last December, Alexandra Palace was electric as Team Europe outclassed Team USA 11–6 to lift the Mosconi Cup once again. From the roaring walk-ons to the final rack, the atmosphere was unmatched – a true clash of continents.
Now, the biggest rivalry in pool is back in London for 2025. Team Europe will look to defend their crown on home soil, while Team USA arrive hungry for revenge and determined to silence the Ally Pally crowd.
Posted By admin on Monday, September 01 2025 @ 08:52:46 UTC (323 reads)
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2025 LiveSB.io US Open Pool Championship - Day 4 Report
DAY FOUR: GORST CHARGES INTO LAST 16 AS BIADO BOWS OUT | 2025 LIVESB.IO US OPEN POOL CHAMPIONSHIP
2025 LIVESB.IO US OPEN POOL CHAMPIONSHIP
World No.1 Fedor Gorst stormed into the Last 16 of the 2025 LiveSB.io US Open Pool Championship on day four, keeping his title defence firmly on track, while reigning world champion Carlo Biado suffered a heartbreaking exit at the hands of Denis Grabe.
The 2025 LiveSB.io US Open Pool Championship — the 48th edition of the World Nineball Tour’s most prestigious major — continues at the iconic Harrah’s Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey, from 18–23 August.
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Unrivalled Ball Control
Unrivalled Ball Control
Ball speed and positioning are key in billiard. It is even more true when it comes to Snooker, English and Chinese pool.
These cue sports require woollen napped cloths to achieve consistent and advanced shots.
To talk about it, we interviewed Gareth Potts, multiple Chinese and English 8-ball World Champion.
In this third of 6 episodes, Gareth Potts demonstrates what a Strachan cloth allows you to do.
A napped cloth “The characteristics of a napped cloth is that the direction of the wool fibers run one way. When you rub your hand down, it's really smooth. And then when you rub your hand back, it's really sharp. You can really feel those fibers and what those fibers allow the cue ball to do is get the maximum amount of grip out of the cue ball.”
Strachan’s superior nap “All of the Strachan range has napped cloth. All of the different models that they produce has the napped cloth, which of course has the grip and control that is required from the cue ball. The finer the nap is shaved down, the faster the cloth will run, but it allows the cue ball to grip inside those fibers. It allows the spin rotation to really grip the friction. And of course, that allows the cue ball for you to pot as for me as a professional pool player allows me to put the cue ball wherever I like. It also allows you to do some pretty incredible things with the cue ball.”
PRO9 has established an outstanding reputation as Europes No.1 source for information on American Pool in the UK and Europe.
Upcoming tournament details, prompt match reporting, exclusive images by talented photographers, superb articles by expert pundits, active pool related forums, player profiles and a very sophisticated membership - basically, an incredible information resource for the American style game in Europe.
Since it launched, PRO9 has become compulsory reading, not just for the UKs pool players, but to hundreds and thousands of pool obsessives from around the world every single day.
PRO9s members range from professional pool players, cue-sports enthusiasts, club managers, tournament organisers, pool fans and aficionados, as well as various "movers and shakers" in the cue-sports field, including entrepreneurs in the wholesale and retail sector, as well as magazine editors and television sports promoters.
Growing more and more popular every single year, PRO9 is the best placed vehicle for the promotion of your pool club, billiards brand, associated products, services and opportunities in the truly massive pan-European billiard market.
If you qre reading this, you should check out www.Pro9.co.uk for yourself! Please use these logos and text in your links to www.Pro9.co.uk - thank you.
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