Irish Pool

Irish Pool – Irelands 32 County 8-Ball Pool Tour recently held its first event of Irelands 8-Ball Challenge Tour 4,000 series at the beautiful Arena 7 venue Letterkenny when 32 players from throughout different counties took part with young Ben Moran (Tyrone) claiming his second tournament victory over the weekend at the Donegal venue by winning Event 1 of Irelands 4,000 8-Ball Challenge Tour.

The tour was suppose to be limited to 32 players but a lot more interest was shown this year with extra players looking to join the 2010 Irelands 8-Ball Challenge Tour 4,000 Series with the following three players of Conrad Mc Cann, Robert Weatherup and Dwayne Timlin unable to attend the first event but all three players have asked to get staying in the five event series and are still willing to pay the full entry fees.

This was put to all other Challenge Tour players before the first tournament cued-off in the Letterkenny venue with all players agreeing by saying this would be good for the tour to have extra players involved.

All players also agreed, that the extra money taken in for the 4,000 Challenge Tour should be paid-out to the top three players on the Challenge Tour Rankings after the five events are finished.

All players who have signed up for the 2010 Irelands 8-Ball Challenge Tour 4,000 series will be playing for 4,000 over five events with the following breakdown of prize-money paid-out at each tournament winner 350, runner-up 200, semi-finals 75 each and -finals 25 each with the extra entry fees taken in paid to the top three ranked players on the series.

The young Fintona player carried his great run of form through to the next day playing superb pool throughout the tournament to lift the Event 1 title and the 350 first prize defeating some good players on route to victory starting it all off in the last-32 defeating Adam Mc Mackin (Beragh, 7-4) and followed that up with wins over Stephen Johnson (Lisburn, last-16, 7-5), Niall Mc Menamin (Fermanagh, -finals, 7-2), Gerald Elliman (Belfast, semi-finals, 7-5) with the Fintona player rounding of the day with a brilliant 8-5 victory in the final over top N. Ireland snooker player Mark Nugent from Keady, Co. Armagh to secure his second major title victory at the Letterkenny venue.

A great achievement for the new Co. Donegal champion which moves this young Fintona player into number one on both tournament rankings which is Irelands 32 County 8-Ball Pool Tour and Irelands 8-Ball Challenge Tour 4,000 Series.Challenge Tour results are listed below

Prelim Round:
Ronnie Boyle 7-2 Declan Mc Conville

Last-32:
Ronnie Boyle 7-5 Billy Gorman
Chris Beattie 7-4 Keith Ferrell
Mark Stockton 7-5 Colette Henriksen
Shaun Donnelly 7-5 Niall Mc Daid
Seamus Doyle 7-2 Mickey Early
Paul Corrigan 7-6 Connor Mc Aleer
Mathew Campbell 7-2 Adam Gibney
Mark Nugent 7-6 Richard Comiskey
Gerald Elliman 7-3 Sean Judge
Kieran Summerville 7-5 Michelle Rooney
Daryl Beattie 7-2 Luke Quinn
Benny Quinn 7-6 Cathal Mc Erlean
Niall Mc Menamin 7-5 Barry Cunningham
Paul Heaney 7-4 Jordan Gorman
Stephen Johnson 7-6 Brian Curtis
Ben Mc Moran 7-4 Adam Mc Mackin

Last-16:
Ronnie Boyle 7-6 Chris Beattie
Mark Stockton 7-4 Shaun Donnelly
Paul Corrigan 7-4 Seamus Doyle
Mark Nugent 7-4 Mathew Campbell
Gerald Elliman 7-6 Kieran Summerville
Daryl Beattie 7-6 Benny Quinn
Niall Mc Menamin 7-5 Paul Heaney
Ben Mc Moran 7-5 Stephen Johnson

-Finals:
Ronnie Boyle 7-3 Markstockton
Mark Nugent 7-2 Paul Corrigan
Gerald Elliman 7-3 Daryl Beattie
Ben Mc Moran 7-2 Niall Mc Menamin

Semi-Finals:
Mark Nugent 7-4 Ronnie Boyle
Ben Mc Moran 7-5 Gerald Elliman

Final:
Ben Mc Moran 8-5 Mark Nugent

NEXT CHALLENGE TOUR EVENT:
The next Challenge Tour Event will take place on Sunday 25th April 2010 played the next day after the Co. Monaghan Open 8Ball Championships.

SATURDAY 24th April: Co. Monaghan Open 8-Ball Championships

SUNDAY 25th April: Irelands 32 County 8-Ball Challenge Tour — (Event 2)

VENUE: To Be Confirmed

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