Tag: Ewa Laurance

The big news in the first round of the International Pool Tour’s latest multi-million dollar 8-ball tournament will be the debuts of young superstars Chia-Ching Wu of Taiwan and Jasmin Ouschan of Austria, both looking for a big piece of the record-setting $3 million purse. The eight-day 8-ball ev…

Karen Corr is on a roll. Last month at the Florida Classic, she knocked off Allison Fisher in the final, and this month, at the Midwest Classic, she defeated the other Fisher, Kelly, in a final that tested the bladder control of many an audience member. With three titles so far in the 2006 season, C…

Jim Rempe’s loss is Keith Bennett’s big, big gain. Hall-of-Famer Rempe has pulled out of the first event of the International Pool Tour’s season, leaving a space for a shocked and elated Bennett, who finished tantalizingly close to the cut at several tour qualifiers. “It was unbelievable,” sai…

Allison Fisher, "The Duchess of Doom," fended off some hungry foes and battled some personal demons, but managed to pull off her 46th Women's Professional Billiard Association tournament win at the Great Lakes Classic stop of the WPBA's 2006 season, March 8-12 in Michigan City, Ind. Fisher suffer…

Ewa Laurance won the second annual Women's Trick Shot Challenge, organized by Matt Braun's promotional company Billiards International and held at the ESPN Zone in Las Vegas, Nev., on Oct. 4. Laurance beat Allison Fisher, 10-7, in the final match. Both semifinals and the final match were taped fo…

The BCA Open 9-Ball Championships, the first of the year’s three "majors" in pool, has yielded some big surprises in the early going in Las Vegas this week. After three days of play, the ranks of the undefeated on the men’s side had narrowed to Johnny Archer, Thorsten Hohmann and the largely unknown…

With an 8-7 win at almost midnight Friday night at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville CT, Jeanette Lee is the new Ladies Trick Shot Champion Lee started the event with an 8-4 win over Loree Jon Jones, and then watched as Ewa Laurance defeated Ming Ng 9-5 to set up the match in the finals. Then …

The 8th Annual Sorvino Asthma Foundation's "Pro-Celebrity Pool Tournament" will take place Aug. 21-23 at the Venetian Casino Hotel in Las Vegas, Nev. The celebrities scheduled to attend are: Paul Sorvino, Mira Sorvino, Jerry Orbach, Hulk Hogan, James Tolkan, David Brenner, Pat Cooper, Joe Piscopo…