![]() A look at the talent gathered today at Steinway represented a who’s who of pool’s greats. With its offensive nature, 8-ball can be highly unpredictable, however, especially at the pro level. The fact that English 8-ball is the Scotsman’s original cue game should serve notice to the rest of the field. Shaw lives only one hour away from New York in Connecticut and is brimming with confidence. Shaw lit up the pool world in 2016 and began 2017 right where he left off by taking the Turning Stone Classic last week. It’s no surprise that the betting favorite coming into the Molinari Players Championship is Scotland’s Jayson Shaw. The WPS is organized as a tour, with rankings points from earlier events carrying over to later events and determining entrants and seeding’s, and even who qualifies for the following year’s tour. The total prize fund for the four events will be around $425,000 with $85,000 of that being added money. The next three events, The Aramith Masters Championship, The RYO Rack Classic Championship, and the Predator World Series Championship, tentatively also scheduled to be held at Steinway, will be held in April, July and September respectively, with the final event being billed as the Grand Finale. 119 players from 35 countries will be slugging it out in 8-ball for over $100,000 in prize money. The first event of the new 8-ball tour, The Molinari Players Championship, kicks off at Steinway Billiards in New York City on January 14 and concludes on Jan. The fact that it’s all been put together by one of the game’s greatest and most respected players, England’s Darren Appleton, has surely boosted players’ belief that this tour will be a major part of their future as players. That’s because the newly formed World Pool Series, a four event tour that begins Saturday and will play out over the course of 2017, seems to have all the ingredients to finally offer long suffering professional pool players something they haven’t had in a long time a player centric tour with a solid plan for growth. ![]() But at Steinway Billiards in the Astoria, Queens section of New York City on Friday night, that buzz had some noticeable extra juice to it. Maybe some of them can even qualify for the tour.(New York City)–It’s common at big international pool tournaments wherever the greats of the game come together, that a buzz of anticipation courses through the hotel lobby or the arena where the players gather the day before at the players meeting. They are going to be able to learn more, watch the best players. We want to tap into that and be that brand. But they don’t have a tour to look up to, to follow. Everyone all over the world plays 8-ball. It’s bigger than snooker,” Appleton said. “8-ball is the most recognizable game, the most global game. The World Pool Series also aims to build a bridge to the amateur game, especially in the United States, where millions play the game on a daily basis. This partnership will help the WPS to grow so that in subsequent years even more tournaments can be added to the tour schedule and more fans from around the world can enjoy top class professional pool on their mobile phones and PC’s. Unilad has a Facebook following of over 18 million fans, 32 million monthly unique visitors to the website and over 3 billion video views a month. Launched in 2014, UNILAD is one of the biggest global platforms for breaking news, shareable and relatable content. After its initial event in January, the WPS decided to offer all of its events free of charge on its live stream feed online.Īlso, the WPS has partnered with Internet powerhouse UNILAD, who have agreed to take the WPS stream feed and broadcast it live via their massively popular Facebook platform. The World Pool Series has committed itself to organic growth that hopes to draw in more sponsors and fans from around the globe. The total prize fund for the four events is estimated to be around $425,000 with $85,000 of that being added money. All WPS events are sanctioned by the World Pool Billiard Association(WPA), the governing body of the sport of pool. ![]() ![]() In its first season, the World Pool Series(WPS) consists of four separate 8-ball events to be played throughout the course of 2017. The main idea behind the World Pool Series is to create a player-centric tour that offers regular competitive and earning opportunities for professional players from around the world. It was founded by multi-world champion Darren Appleton and his partner, Manny Stamatakis, the owner of Steinway Billiards in Queens, New York City. The World Pool Series(WPS) is a professional pool tour based out of the United States that began in January, 2017.
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