By InsidePOOL StaffWith the worst power outage in history yesterday that affected the entire Northeast, The Big Apple tournament is still scheduled to go o­n this weekend.This $20,000-added event, held at Master Billiard in Queens, NY, is drawing the top names in the field from all over the world.  As the International Challenge of Champions event finished last night in an incredible sudden-death final game between Canada's champ John Horsfall and Francisco Bustamante, with "Django" coming out the winner of the $50,000 prize, most of the players who came to the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, CT, left early this morning to converge in New York.
U.S. Open champ Ralf Souquet; Efren "The Magician" Reyes, who was the most recent inductee to the BCA Hall of Fame; and newly crowned Champion of Champions Francisco Bustamante will be joining some of the best 9-ballers in the world in Queens for the Big Apple tournament.  The tournament is scheduled to begin today at noon and go through the weekend, with the finals o­n Sunday, August 17.Major tournament sponsors are Benedict Min, the owner of Master Billiard, and Joel Shapiro.  This is a World Pool-Billiard Association-sanctioned event and is the third stop o­n their 2003 WPA World Tour.  It is also sanctioned by the UPA.  There will be a total of $38,250 in prize money and will pay out the top 16 places.Visit InsidePOOL for the latest in the world of billiards and pool.
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