Helen Hayes, Ladies Winner & Charlie Bryant
Charlie "Hillbilly" Bryant cleaned up at Bradley’s N Billiards in San Antonio, Texas at the seventh stop on the 09 Lone Star Billiards Tour event held September 25th-27th. Hillbilly dealt two striking blows to Jui Lung Chen, sending him to the loser’s side, then sending him home with second place in the final match by a score of 9-6. This is his third consecutive victory on the Lone Star Billiards Tour which houses some of the best players around including Sparky Ferrell, James Davis Jr. "Bastrop Jr.", Sylver Ochoa, and many, many, more. This event, like all events on tour was $1,000-added and drew 61 entrants to compete for a first prize of $1900.
Winners’ side final four played out with Hillbilly sending Fred "Scooter" Goodman west 9-4, as Chen was sending Sam Manaole over 9-2. In the first of their two meetings, battling for the hot seat, Hillbilly prevailed over Chen 9-5, and then awaited his return.
Meanwhile, west on the Lone Star bracket, Bobby Gonzalez was working his way back to meet up with Goodman. He shotdown James Garcia and Robert Almarez 7-4 from among the event’s final 12. Zaid Thweib defeated Sylver Ochoa 7-3, and Frank Ferrer to 7-4, met up with Manaole. It ended up a Goodman and Manaole showdown to advance to the quarterfinals; Goodman with a 7-4 win over Gonzalez, and Manaole with a 7-3 victory over Thweib. Manaole emerged victorious over Goodman 7-4 who fought an awesome battle after a very early tournament loss. Chen didn’t waste any time with Sam Manaoli running through him like a hot knife through butter 7-1. But things took a turn when it became a Bryant-Chen showdown for the big cash. Hillbilly took it to him 9-6 and added another notch to his Lone Star Cowboy belt with a total of 5 wins this year.
A concurrent ladies’ event, which drew 10 entrants, saw Helen Hayes defeat Yvette Reyes 5-3 in the finals to take home the first place prize of $150. Reyes picked up $50 for her second place finish. Cristina Delagarza finished third.
Congratulations to Ken Lewis who won our Anthrax 2 Cue raffle sponsored by Poison Cues!
We would like to thank Bradley’s and our tour sponsors Poison Cues, Delta 13, and Cue Reach for all of their support. The next stop will be November 6th-7th at Casper’s Billiards in beautiful San Leon, Texas.
For tour and travel info visit: www.lonestarbilliardstour.com.
We look forward to seeing you on the Lone Star Tour Trail!!!
1st place Charlie Bryant $900.00
2nd place Jui Lung Chen $500.00
3rd place Shane Manaole $350.00
4th place Fred Goodman $250.00
5th place Bobby Gonzales $120.00
5th place Zuid Thweib $120.00
7th place Robert Almarez $80.00
7th place Frank Ferrer Jr. $80.00
9th place Sylver Ochoa $60.00
9th place Justin Rios $60.00
9th place James Garcia $60.00
9th place Lanny Hennin $60.00
13th place Ismail Ramirez $40.00
13th place Dave Parker $40.00
13th place Andy Jethwa $40.00
13th place Jacob Jiminez
