PLAYERS TOUR PRODUCTIONS & STATEWIDE BILLIARDS

Sorry for such a late update everyone!  I have been having massive website and computer problems BUT they are corrected now thank goodness. 

The next tournament is only a couple of weeks away, lets hope we are getting the word out to more people so we have a bigger showing in the main event.  Players really need to show their support in order for the main event to continue in its current form. 

The mini event on Friday night was again a terrific showing.  We had 32 players come out to compete in this event.  The following people played:

Again we had some local APA and BCA players attend this event and played very well against some tough and seasoned players!

The finishes for this Friday night MINI event is as follows:

Finish                 Tourney Payout        Player Auction                    Player

1st place                     $350                    $520                    Jason Kirkwood 

Jason had to beat Bart Goode twice to take the tournament and did just that with some great play! Jason lost an earlier match to 6-7 against Tom Decker to move him into the 1 loss side.

2nd place                    $170                   $260                    Bart Goode

Bart Goode ran into a determined Jason Kirkwood after losing on the hill to Decker earlier in the evening.  Bart needed to win 1 set to take the tournament but fell to Kirkwood the first set 7-4 then again the 2nd set 7-3.  Goode played some great matches throughout the evening to win the chair but Kirkwood had other plans for how the mini tournament would end.

3rd place                      $80                    $125                     Tom Decker

Tom Decker almost didnt play in the tournament because he said he hasnt been playing enough to compete.  A friend convinced him to play!  He had some great matches including the match against Kirkwood where Tom showed talent and determination by taking the set 7-6 over Kirkwood!

4th place                       $60                  $75                         Richie Richeson

Richeson came through from the 1 loss side after losing his 2nd round match up to Juan Garcia 7-6! Both players showed amazing talent but in the end, the slow methodical approach of Garcia proved to throw Richeson off his game by just enough to allow Garcia to take the match.  Richeson made a long and hard comeback to make the final 4!

5th-6th place                 $40                  $50                   Houston Rodriguez

                                       $40                     $50                  Shane Roebuck

7th-8th place              $30                       $0                    Neil Dryfhout

                                       $30                       $0                    Mark Ozman

The main tournament turn out was fairly disappointing but, for our 2nd event, I'll chalk it up to people being unsure how the tournaments are run and if we actually pay what we say we will and for this weekend, another tournament ended up being posted after this one was set.  The tournament was held at a very popular place for pool players and many chose to attend that event!  Lets hope conflicts such as this dont happen often.

We had the following 11 players attend and compete for the $1500 added prize fund!  Yes folks, we still added the $1500 even with 11 entries!!

The field consisted of:

Jason Kirkwood

Richie Richeson

Houston Rodriguez

Bart Goode

Charles Wilson

Shawn Buckholtz

Eric Brown

Shane Roebuck

Juan Garcia

Mark Ozman

Jeff Richards

The finishes for this MAIN event are as follows:

Finish              Tourney Payout          Player Auction                      Player

1st place               $1200                        $325                       Jason Kirkwood

Kirkwood went undefeated in this event to take home the title!  Kirkwood played Richeson for the chair and defeated him 9-1!  This match along with many others of Richeson, Kirkwood, Goode, Rodriguez and others are available to view!  Make sure you check them out because we had some great match ups streaming live and now taped for your viewing pleasure!

2nd place              $800                          $175                      Richie Richeson

One of the highlights of the night was a match up that was not taped was the matchup between Richeson and Buckholtz.  This match was announced and as I was typing in scores to our online viewers of other matches being played, Richeson went WILD and won the set 9-0 in less than 15 minutes!  Yes folks I said it.............less than 15 minutes!  It was unbelievable and many of the people online were asking if the match was just called.  It was something else and Buckholtz showed a great attitude and had a terrific sense of humor about the whole thing by just laughing as Richeson put on a show running around the table talking to himself!

3rd place                $350                           $65                      Bart Goode

Goode showed that he is someone to watch out for and not to take lightly at the table.  He made a great showing this weekend and really showed everyone that he can hang in with the top dogs!

4th place                $140                            $30                     Shawn Buckholtz

Shawn played great all weekend but had the unfortunate timing of hitting Richeson in dead stroke then going on to play Bart Goode to advance.  Goode made his presence known and Buckholtz could do very little to stop Goode's game and his advancing to the next round.  Great effort by Buckholtz this weekend and some great shooting!

In addition to the mini on Friday and the main even Saturday and Sunday, we also offered a mini mini event for $10 entry!  This allowed spectators to join in the fun!  We also offered a beat the top player challenge where Jason Kirkwood or Richie Richeson could be challenged at a race to 2 9ball for $10.  If the challenger won, they received an autographed got action tshirt saying that the top player got their ass kicked at the Michigan Players Tour!  We took a picture of the 2 time winner of a t-shirt.  Anthony Sok of Hollands host room, Chalkys Que Stick Cafe' played Kirkwood numerous times and did defeat him and win to autographed t-shirts from Kirkwood!  The video of these challenge matches are also posted for viewing.  One of the tshirts is proudly framed and hung above the main counter at Chalkys!!

All in all it was a great weekend with a lot of terrific play even with the short field in the main event.  We were streaming live all weekend on one table where we played most feature matchups!  During the Richeson vs Kirkwood matchups, we had over 100 people viewing live online!!  What a great turnout!  We plan on having a feature table streaming live at each event going forward as long as there are no technical difficulties.  I want to thank everyone who viewed online, who participated and come to the website to check out our updates, pictures and videos.

Until the next one................Be well and shoot well!