Tag: Barry Behrman

(Editor's Note: Behrman is scheduled to be moved out of ICU and into a rehab facility Tues., March 1) Feb. 25 — Longtime promoter and poolroom owner Barry Behrman remains in serious condition in the Intensive Care Unit at Sentara Leigh Hospital in Norfolk, Va., three weeks after being found unres…

The start of the 40th U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships is almost three months away, and the full $75,000 in added money has been accounted for, according to Accu-Stats Video Productions owner Pat Fleming. In a July 27 release, Fleming added that the World Pool-Billiards Association (WPA) is satisfied …

[caption id="attachment_2964" align="alignright" width="150"] Behrman (l.) with 2003 Open runner-up Jose Parica.[/caption]Here’s your chance to chew the fat with one of pool’s most celebrated and controversial figures — U.S. Open 9-Ball Championship promoter Barry Behrman. Behrman will make himse…

Filipino star Francisco Bustamante went undefeated though a field of 45 to win the 2005 Masters 9-Ball Championship at Barry Behrman's Q-Master Billiards in Virginia Beach, Va., July 26-31. Bustamante beat a mixture of big names and no-names as he charged to the final. Notable matches included a …

Chesapeake, Va. - Whether its natural disasters or continued trouble with the law, embattled U.S. Open promoter Barry Behrman just can't seem to right his ship. On Oct. 10, a judge found Behrman guilty of violating probation a second time since his conviction last year on illegal gambling charges…

Hurricane Isabel has hit land, with the eye of the storm centered just south of Ocracoke Island, N.C., and about 70 miles southeast of Chesapeake, Va., the site of the currently-delayed U.S. Open. While the Chesapeake Conference Center, where the event is being held, has closed for the day, their ou…

WITH WHAT U.S. Open promoter Barry Behrman has been through in the past three years, the threat of a hurricane must seem like a minor nuisance. Nonetheless, Hurricane Isabele, which is expected to rattle the eastern seaboard in the next two days, will cause the 28th running of the U.S. Open to sh…

IT'S UNLIKELY that the Chesapeake Convention Center, site of the upcoming U.S. Open 9-Ball Championship, will ever look better to pool promoter Barry Behrman than it will look when the 28th running of American pool's premier tournament kicks off next Monday, Sept. 15th. Behrman, who has spent the…