Results and Musings from Final Semi-Pro of the Season.

From left to right John Leblan Fred Lapointe
Photo courtesy of poolstream.tv

Yesterday Justin "Killer" Miller and I  took to the road once again, this time to challenge ourselves at a Semi-Professional Tournament at Le Skratch Laval. 55 players with each class from B and up were represented in this $1000 dollar added non handicapped event. These are great tournaments to test your game against some top players as well to rail-bird some fantastic matches, especially if your at an intermediate level like myself.

For my first round I drew a Semi-Pro player who I had never met before, Carol Audet. A very well mannered player who causally shoots lights out with very solid fundamentals making the game look easy at times. I was playing a solid match keeping it close at 4-4 with some solid safety play getting ball in hand and running out. Then I tried a kick shot and the cue ball jumped off my tip and impact upon inspection a chunk of my tip peeled off leaving it useless. Luckily I had a spare shaft, however I am used to my 314 and all I had left was my Z'2 shaft which to me is night and day in feeling. Usually I only pull out the Z'2 for snooker matches preferring the smaller tip. So needless to say this through me for a bit of a loop; not that I was going to win this match, but it was a turning point for me. I went on to lose 9-5 then 7-1 to the most recent AA tournament winner Eric Levesque who's break was working well and basically ran out most of the set on me. My road partner Miller had a good outing wining two matches one against AAA Alain Caya only losing to top ranked Semi-Pro's Jonathan Hebert and Richer Francoeur. 

We left shortly after Miller was eliminated because of hunger and a storm front was blowing in. However the nice people at poolstream.tv  posted all the results. Fred Lapointe from Trois-Rivieres Qubebec was the eventual winner with John Leblanc from Gatineau placing 2nd. 

1er Fred Lapointe
2e John Leblanc
3e Pat Déry
4e Dany Normandin
5-6
Éric Claude
Anas Abrouq
7-8
Jonathan Hébert
Jason Hubert
9-12
Carol Audet
Michel April
Éric Croteau
S. Vandal-Petit
13-16
Richer Francoeur
Éric Fleury
Rinaldo Buttarazzi
Marcel Gilbert
17-24
Steve Roy
Luc Leduc
Francis English
S. Mercier
L. Richard
C. Kham
C. Douros
J. Miller
25-32
David Deschênes
Armand Fradette
Christian Harvey
Pierre Garant
S. Cousineau
D. Legault
Y. Bathalon
M. Harraq
33-48
Éric Horth
Christian Nadeau
Sébastien Binette
Marc-André Roy
Angelo Buttarazzi
Luc Paquette
E. Lévesque
D. Morel
J-P Martin
R. Campbell
P. Otis
D. Byrne
M. Nadeau
G. Remon
A. Caya
M. Moreau
49-64
Étienne Briand
Éric Cloutier
M. Noé
D. Sumun
S. Boudreau
M. Chiasson
P. Jubinville