The 2013 US Open One Pocket Championship is just about in the books. 64 players started the tournament and it all came down to Corey Deuel from the loser's side playing undefeated Dennis Orcollo. Orcollo had blanked Corey earlier in the tournament by a score of 4-0 sending him to the loser's side to face Carlo Biado. Corey squeaked by Biado 3-2, setting up a rematch in the final with Orcollo. Winner side matches are a race to 4 and a race to 3 over on the loser side.
Orcollo is up 3-2 over Deuel at the time of this writing.
Meanwhile, the 10-Ball Championship continues into day 3. A few of the matches were delayed due to some pretty severe storms blowing through Las Vegas which knocked out the power, suspending play on some of the matches until the next day. A few notable matches were both Corey Deuel and Shane Van Boening losing in nail biters to Jin-Hu Dang of China, both by the score of 9-8 in a race to 9.
Charlie Williams also lost deep in the winner side in a close one to Denis Grabe 9-8. Earl Strickland got knocked out of the tournament over on the loser side by Shane Van Boening by a score of 9-5.
Someone I've had my eye on lately is Jonathan "Hennessee" Pinegar. I saw this guy play in a tournament in my hometown several years back and he's been showing up at lot lately at the bigger tournaments. This year at the US Open 10-Ball Championship, he lost 9-6 to Denis Grabe, but has torn through the loser side with wins of 9-1, 9-7, 9-6, 9-6, and at the time of this writing is up 7-5 over Karl Boyes of Great Britain in Round 6.
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