Middle Round Gets Exciting at IPT Billiard Tournament

Middle Round Gets Exciting at IPT Billiard TournamentThe third round of billiards action was peppered with excitement in several different areas of the tournament room. Down 7-2 against Dimitri Jungo of Switzerland, Thomas Engert exhibited some struggling as Jungo played strong, scoring four break and runs. Engert cleared the table and cut the 8 into the corner but missed, and it froze to the rail. After Jungo played safe, Engert was forced to play a two-rail kick with tons of english. He just missed contacting the 8 and scratched, handing Jungo the win.IPT World Open 8-Ball Championship ForumsVisit the IPT World Open 8-Ball Championship Image GalleryFellow German Ralf Souquet was handed his first loss of the day by Niels Feijen 8-3, but Oliver Ortmann crushed Efren Reyes 8-2, breaking and running the first five racks in a row. A bit of a dispute marred the match, as several referees arrived at differing opinions of a hit by Ortmann.
“I made, like, five in a row, and then I was up, like, seven-two,” Ortmann clarified. “We had a tough situation where I had two fouls in a row—it was a safety, a solid with the cue ball frozen to the rail, and I thought I could hit it right. The ref told me it was a good hit, and afterwards the other ref said it was not a good hit. It was a double-hit, so he called the foul. He overruled the first ref. But what can I do? They are the bosses. If I think it would have been a foul, I would have called it, because I am a fair player, but I didn’t think so. Anyway, he scratched on the break afterwards, and I ran out.”Americans Danny Harriman and Charlie Williams have yet to win a match today, and Corey Deuel has only one win. Deuel and Karl Boyes played in the third round, with a 20-minute safety battle marking the match. It was then that one audience member began clipping his fingernails, though he stopped when Deuel stopped the match and approached him.Francisco Bustamante has only won one match as yet, as David Alcaide just bested him 8-6 in the third round in another controversial match. At 6-each, a ref called a dubious foul on Bustamante, saying that while bridging over the 4 ball for the 12, Bustamante touched the 4. Alcaide received ball in hand, ran out, and then broke and ran the final rack to win 8-6.“It was six-six,” Alcaide described. “Bustamante had two balls left, and they were pretty close, so when he shot the ball, the referee called a foul that he touched a ball he was not supposed to touch and then he got very upset about it. From the position I was in, I could not see if that actually happened—I just had to go with what the referee said. The ball in hand took me to seven-six and then I broke and ran to win. If the referee saw a foul, I assume he was right, and it was a foul.”Alex Pagulayan has won two out of three matches, defeating Mick Hill 8-1. Two players have perfect records for the day: Dennis Orcollo, who just dealt Williams his third loss 8-6, and Rodney Morris, who pounded Hui-Kai Hsia in the third round 8-3.“I played a real good match, that’s probably one of my best matches of the event,” Morris stated. “I played real solid. I’m three and oh—the first two I went hill-hill and the guys made mistakes at the end, but this one I didn’t need no one to help me out. I played real good. I’m breaking the balls good and running out, my concentration is getting better.”Quick LinksPlayer StatsPrize Money Breakdown Round 5 GROUP 79K. BoyesF. BustamanteH. HsiaC. DeuelR. MorrisD. AlcaideGROUP 80R. SouquetM. ImmonenC. WilliamsN. FeijenD. OrcolloD. HarrimanGROUP 81E. ReyesM. HillT. EngertO. OrtmannD. JungoA. Pagulayan

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