Happy Easter! & some Suzi love!

Suzi Blu is an artist I just adore!  Check out her blog.

I’m fixin’ ta sell some of my art that to fund the upcoming trip to Vegas for the BCAPL National 8-Ball Tournament.

Happy Easter! & some Suzi love!

Suzi Blu is an artist I just adore!  Check out her blog.

What’s this have to do with pool, you ask?  Well, I’m fixin’ ta sell some of my art that to fund the upcoming trip to Vegas for the BCAPL National 8-Ball Tournament, that’s what it has to do with pool.

Just because I can…

Passing this along... just because I can.  This was posted on a blog that I follow, but I read so many, I forgot which one.  But she had seen it on another blog, who saw it on another blog... and so on and so on...
ENJOY!

MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON from Dean Fleischer-Camp on Vimeo.

Vegas 2010…

So, the BCAPL National 8-Ball Championship was held in Vegas from May 12 to May 22… 

Tony played in the 9 Ball Challenge:

We played the Master Scotch Doubles Division together…

MSD… not a pleasant outcome.  Don’t even think either of us had our minds in Vegas for our first match.  Our second, our brains finally showed up and went hill-hill, but lost.

I played a couple of mini-tournaments, got second in one.  Tony wasn’t allowed to play minis because he’s a Grand Master.  This made Tony a cranky feller, he loves playing the mini-tournaments.  All I’ve heard about Vegas Nationals for the past 7 years is about how smooth the tournament is run and how much fun ($$ making) the mini-tournaments are.  Neither was shown to me!  ‘Nuff said on that subject.

I went 2’n’Out in the Open Women’s Singles and played in the Second Chance Tournament… 1’n’Out in that.  :)  Played better and against a better player in the 2nd Chance than in the main event.

Tony had a tough draw for his first single’s match… He’s a Grand Master and that division allows Pros to play in it.  Drew Shane VanBoening first and lost 4 – 7.

Next, he won against Richie Cunningham.  It was a nail-biting hill-hill match, but Tony pulled it out.

He then lost to James Davis, Sr.  I was unable to watch this match because I was playing my first match in another room.

OB Cues Mixed Open Teams was next up…

They fought hard and ended up in 97 – 125 place.  Not bad, but they should have (and could have) done better.  Should have won the thing, but that’s just my opinion.  ;)

We did very little sight-seeing, but a LOT of walking.  We stayed at Circus Circus across the street from the Riviera and that walk is longer than you think, especially when you go back and forth 100 times a day.   But we had a blast, played some good pool and had fun with good friends!

Can’t wait until next year!!