Amateur Winner Danny Sheldon and tour director Natalie Crosby
The KF Cue Tour kicked off their new season at Bankshot Billiards in Jacksonville FL on October 3rd and 4th. The $1000 Added Amateur event drew a strong 47 player field. This would mean the final 4 coming back Sunday morning to play the finals. The story on the day would be Danny Sheldon form Orlando. Sheldon would lose his first match 7-3 to local player Walter Blacker. From there he would go on to have strong wins over Jeff Swails 5-0, Dan Lavoie 6-4, Wesley White 5 -1, Todd Anderson 5-1, Aaron Bolling 5-3, Trevor Moore 5-3 and Lincoln Seiffert 5-2 to get to Sunday.
Sunday morning would see Mike Delawder take the hotseat with a hard fought 7-5 win over Chip Dickerson. While this was going on Sheldon would walk through Han Berber 6-0, following this up with a 5-2 victory over Chip Dickerson to make his way to his first KF Final. The finals would guarantee a new winner on the tour. The first 6 racks would be shared with the score tied at 3-3. Mike Delawder took the next two racks for a 5-3 lead that would prove to be his last as Sheldon would win 5 in a row for an 8-5 victory and his first KF Amateur Title. This was a great victory for Sheldon who won 10 matches in a row from the one loss side.
Payouts For Amateur Event
1st Danny Sheldon $600
2nd Mike Delawder $400
3rd Chip Dickerson $300
4th Han Berber $200
5th-6th Bobby Garza, Lincoln Seiffert $150
7th-8th Jimmy Bird, Trevor Moore $100
9th-12th Mike Hutcheson, Devon Storms, Aaron Bolling, Jimmy Garza $65
Top Junior Asher Le $20 Prize
The $1000 Added Open event, now taking place on Sunday, would see 48 players show up. This was the first time the Open event drew more players than the Amateur. The tour is trying to encourage its Amateur members to compete in the Open by offering them a reduced entry. Twenty two of Saturdays Amateur players showed up taking advantage of this.
Richard Broumpton, Jeff Scott, Mike Davis
Richard Broumpton was showing some fine form on the day, making his way through the winner’s side with wins over David Blalock "D.B", 7-0, Nicole Winters, 7-1, Bobby Livrago 7-5, Jimmy Sandaler 7-5 and Tony Crosby 7-5 to put himself in the winner side final where he would face Mike Davis. Davis' route to the final included wins over Thomas Oddo 7-1, Dave Grossman 7-6, George McLanahan "Red" 7-2, Qi Liu 7-6 and Butch Croft 7-2. The hotseat match would be a tight affair with Broumpton coming from 6-4 down to win the match 7-6. While all this was going on local player Dave Grossman was running through the one loss side with wins over Terry Watchell, Mike Delawder, Bobby Garza, Neil Fujiwara, Wesley White, Qi Liu, Tony Crosby, and George McLanhan before running into Mike Davis, who would put him out in 3rd.
The final would see Davis take the early lead 5-3 and 7-4. Broumpton would pull one back, but at 7-5 Davis would take the next two and the match 9-5 for his first KF Cue Tour win.
Payouts For Open Event
1st Mike Davis $750
2nd Richard Broumpton $525
3rd Dave Grossman $350
4th George McLanahan $225
5th-6th Butch Croft, Tony Crosby $125
7th-8th Jimmy Garza, Qi Liu $75
The Tour would like to thank Jeff Scott room owner and all his staff from Bankshot Billiards for hosting another great event. Our next event will be at Art of Billiard in Gainesville, FL. The Amateur event kicking off on Saturday 24th followed by the Open on Sunday 24th of October.
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