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MANILA, PHILIPPINES---FILIPINO dynamic duo Efren "Bata" Reyes and Francisco "Django" Bustamante will seek to bring honor and glory for the Team Asia when the much awaited Asia versus Europe Men’s 9-Ball Team Challenge gets underway, today, January 15 to 17 at the Sutra Hall, Rizqun International Hotel in Brunei Darussalam. Reyes and Bustamante, both ... Full story

MANILA, PHILIPPINES---REIGNING national champion Lee Vann “The Slayer” Corteza moved closer to the coveted title in the Predator World Tour at the Lloret de Mar in Girona, Spain, over the weekend. Corteza, who hails from Davao City, top player of Jonathan Sy’s Negros Billiards Stable defeated David Alcoberro of Spain, 8-7, in the Round ... Full story

MANILA, PHILIPPINES---REIGNING national champion Lee Vann “The Slayer” Corteza continued his winning ways to keep the Philippine flag high, however compatriot Jeffrey “The Bull” de Luna bowed out yesterday in the on-going Predator World Tour at the Lloret de Mar in Girona, Spain.... Full story

MANILA, PHILIPPINES---FILIPINO power-breaking Jeffrey de Luna went to work late Friday and relegated Morocco’s Roda Bolhaj, 8-5, to the losers bracket to follow the foot-step of compatriot Lee Vann Corteza in the winning column at the start of the Predator World Tour in Lloret de Mar in Girona, Spain. De Luna, dubbed as “The ... Full story

MANILA, PHILIPPINES---REIGNING World Cup champions Efren “Bata” Reyes and Francisco “Django” Bustamante will launch the Asian challenge’ campaign in billiards when the much awaited Asia versus Europe Men’s 9-Ball Team Challenge gets underway on January 15 to 17 at the Sutra Hall, Rizqun International Hotel in Brunei. Reyes and Bustamante, both playing under the banner of ... Full story

MANILA, PHILIPPINES---DESPITE her sterling performance in the year 2009, Rubilen "Bingkay" Amit could only finish in joint 10th with 728 points along with Fu Xiaofang of China. The Mandaue cue artists Amit, one of the top players of sportsman/ businessman Aristeo “Putch” Puyat of Puyat Sports only competed in two of the five (World Pool Billiard ... Full story

MANILA, PHILIPPINES---THE pool table is set for the first-ever intercollegiate billiards competition. This was bared yesterday by sportsman/ businessman Ceferino “Perry” Mariano, one of the BMPAP's prime movers who joined hand in hands with Raya Sports chairman Florentino “Yen” Makabenta, long-time billairds patron and Star Billiards Center president Sebastian “Baste” Chua and fellow BMPAP’s co-founder Jonathan “Bacolod” Sy to put ... Full story

warding photo from left to right: chief arbiter Mario Tolentino, BSCP chairman and Raya Sports chairman Yen Makabenta, BSCP 4th National Pool Championship winner Lee Vann Corteza, Negros Billiard Stable (NBS) president Jonathan Sy and BSCP president and Star Billiards Center president Sebastian Chua. MANILA, PHILIPPINES---READY and confident. That’s how Lee Vann Corteza describe ... Full story

MANILA, Philippines – Just like in other sports, there was a lot of drama in Philippine billiards. The year 2009 was indeed a banner year and 2010 might even be more colorful for the sport. It was a fruitful year when 2 of the 3 co-founders of the Billiards Managers and Professional Players Association (BMPAP) decided ... Full story

Past and Present champion: (men’s division) 2006 Alex Pagulayan 2007 Lee Vann Corteza 2008 Marlon Manalo 2009 Lee Vann Corteza (women’s division) 2007 Iris Ranola 2008 Zemonette Oryan 2009 Zemonette Oryan MANILA, Philippines -- Lee Vann “The Slayer” Corteza subdued reigning Predator International 10-ball champion Dennis “Robocop” Orcullo, 9-7, in ... Full story