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IPT North American 8 Ball Open
Venetian Hotel
3355 Las Vegas Blvd
South Las Vegas
Nevada 89109
USA
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30 July 2006

The $450,000 Final is set for Las Vegas.

It will be Europe versus Asia at the finals of the International Pool Tour�s North American Open 8-Ball Championship. �Marvelous Marlon� Manalo and Thorsten Hohmann "The Hitman", the last two standing out of the original two hundred, will play each other at 1 p.m. Sunday afternoon at The Venetian. Be sure catch game-by-game online coverage of this historic event.

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No one knew going into the day where they would end up when it was over, but Marlon Manalo looked like a sure thing as he amassed four wins and only one loss. Evgeny Stalev, Ralf Souquet, and Efren Reyes were slow starters and fought hard for the wins they put under their belts today. Hohmann also started off tentatively but came to a smashing conclusion. And Dennis Orcollo looked strong throughout, making it impossible to predict Sunday's lineup.

Again, it all came down to the final round, where no one knew for certain if new Filipino sensation Orcollo or former world champion Hohmann would advance to play Manalo, who cemented his spot in the previous round, in Sunday�s finals. But when Hohmann scorched Manalo 8-1, it was a done deal.

Orcollo matched up with Evgeny Stalev on the opposite table and struggled through, winning 8-5 over the streaky Russian. And, last to finish Saturday evening, Efren Reyes and Ralf Souquet had an epic hill-hill battle in which �The Magician� pulled off another win.

While two spots remain unclaimed, four places were determined by Saturday�s matches: Stalev earned $40,000 for sixth place, Souquet took $50,000 for fifth, Reyes won $65,000 for fourth, and Orcollo received $80,000 for third. With the incredibly large difference of $251,000 between first and second places, both players will be playing at their very highest levels.

Click here www.internationalpooltour.com for tournament results, statistics, pictures, and stories from the IPT North American Open 8-Ball Championship!

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