IPT Qualifier B Underway in Atlanta

IPT Qualifier B Underway in AtlantaThe second International Pool Tour 2006 season qualifier began this morning at The Pool Room in Marietta, GA. This much-anticipated event began Friday morning and will wrap up on Sunday.The room, owned by John Dulong, is spacious and roomy, with a dozen Olhausen tables in action. An enormous bar dominates one end, with coffee and donuts being administered to the 48 entrants. Collared pool players brush up on their 8-ball games with each other while waiting for the draw.“It’s absolutely spectacular. There are fifty pool players in a room by nine thirty a.m. The best players from all over the world are here, dressed extremely nice,” asserted Mike Janis, owner and operator of the Viking Cue 9-Ball Tour. Check out the IPT Qualifier B photo gallery.
Janis is in town because he organized a “qualifier” for the qualifier, in which one winner won the $2,000 entry fee into this weekend’s event. “We did qualifiers all week long. It’s been phenomenal,” he reported. “We had players come in from all over the country to play the qualifiers. Tony Piazza from Colorado won. He’s extremely happy, for he got his two thousand dollar entry fee paid into the tour card qualifying event, and everybody else seemed thrilled with it.”Incredibly, the field seems even tougher than the first one at Derby City. Many of the same players returned, such as George Breedlove, Tang Hoa, Imran Majid, Frankie Hernandez, Shane Van Boening, Dave Hemmah, and Vilmos Foldes, who was runner-up in Louisville. Adding more depth to the toughness factor are action men Cliff Joyner, Scott “The Freezer” Frost, Marco Marquez, and Bernardo “King Kong” Chavez.Visit the IPT for the latest news on their ongoing qualifying event.Visit InsidePOOL Magazine for the latest news from the sport of billiards and pool.

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