30th Nov 2008 - 14.1 Straight Pool Event...

Sunday 30th November

14:1 Straight Pool Tournament

On Sunday, Mickey Flynn's hosted one of the UK's first ever 14:1 Straight Pool competitions.

For those of you who have never played before, Straight Pool is a very popular game across Europe and Asia played on a standard American pool table. The object of the game is to pocket as many balls as you can, in any order, in any pocket. The player at the table leaves the last ball on the table, the other balls are re-racked and then the last ball is pocketed, using the cue ball to break the pack up. Each ball is worth 1 point and the game is played first to 100 points.

A star studded field turned up for this exciting event. Snooker star Tony Drago, European No.1 Mark Gray, UK No.1 Imran Majid, Captain of Team Europe Alex Lely, Dutch Legend Rico Diks as well as home favourites Mickey Lambert and Ricardo Jones were amongst the 32 names in the draw.

Results...

Quarter-Finals

Mark Gray 8:2 Anthony Ginn

Tony Drago 8:4 Chris Buckmaster

David Walsh 8:4 Adam Clarke

Imran Majid 8:3 Alex Lely

Semi-Finals

Tony Drago 8:4 Mark Gray

Imran Majid 8:6 David Walsh

Final

Tony Drago v Imran Majid

Following a long hard day of pool, the two players in the final really earned their share of the prize fund. Snooker star Tony Drago and UK No.1 Imran Majid fought through an incredibly tough field to be the last men standing and decided to share the loot.

Thanks to all the players and the staff at Mickey Flynn's for helping make this an exciting and very enjoyable event!