One-Pocket Field Whittled to Six; Deuel Back in Action

One-Pocket Field Whittled to Six; Deuel Back in ActionBustamante and Reyes tag team Parica and remain unbeatenIn a grueling day in Derby City One-Pocket divisional play, six-stroking souls shaped up on banks, got low and squinted before thinly slicing elegant multi-rail safeties, and analyzed stack after tie-up after cluster. Billiards players Efren Reyes and Francisco Bustamante stand tall over the field, both having convincingly and consecutively beaten Jose Parica and sent him out of the tournament with a five-way tie for seventh place. Reyes then bested wily foe Shawn Putnam while Bustamante was finishing the Filipino fratricide, a 3-1 loss for Parica that was more stinging than the bagel Reyes handed him a round earlier on the Billiard Club Network table live. They will return tomorrow to finish what they started, as the second of three pieces to the all-around title puzzle will be completed at the ninth edition of the Classic.Derby City Classic image galleryDiscuss the Derby City Classic
Efren is definitely cementing his shot at a third all-around title in four years and a third straight DCC one-pocket title. Last year’s winner, Jason Miller, lost a scratch-ridden first game facing Niels Feijen but rallied with awesome offensive skill and great patience in employing to take the next three games. Miller caught the buy for the tenth and final round of the night. Joining them will be perennial favorite Cliff Joyner, who faded Chicago foe Ike Runnells 3-1 and Detroit’s Kim Bennett by the same score. The intense and inventive Joyner had to wade through the style of one-pocket the two cautious Midwestern cities favor, as balls piled up in ugly and close formations at the top of the table.While the surprising Thorsten Hohmann fell in the ninth round to the exhausted yet resilient Scott Rabon, Mike Davis kept the hope of an underdog champion alive. Davis plays a completely wrongheaded style of one-pocket by his own admission, firing foolishly at banks that sell out and making them anyway. He knocked off stout Texan David Gutierrez by beating him in two straight rounds, the peculiarities of the redraws pitting them in back to back contests that Davis fired out of. He immediately went to the $10,000-added Straight Pool Challenge, where his 151 is still tops, to try to better it.Rabon’s amazingly long day, having played non-stop since about 11:30 in the morning, came to an end at the hand of Mike Surber. Thanks to a set that lasted nearly three and half hours, Rabon was thrust into matches immediately to catch up. Surber, a high finisher in every one-pocket tournament he shows up for, is still relatively unknown, but the craps dealer from the Biloxi, MS, area will surely leave his mark in Louisville this year.The draw for those final six players will occur in the morning tomorrow, as well as the second draw for the 9-ball field. Currently, Corey Deuel is playing one-pocket against Reyes in the tournament room, getting 10-7 in a race to ten games. Deuel is fresh off breaking down another ring game, this time run by Jay Helfert in The Chapel. More details on action at the DCC will come from the source for inside information on the greatest billiards players in the world, so stay tuned to insidepoolmag.com.

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