In 2011 during the World Ten Ball Championship at the World Trade Center in Pasay, I interviewed local legend Rodolfo "Boy Samson" Luat, who was competing in one of his last major tournaments before ...

Efren "Bata" Reyes and Francisco "Django" Bustamante have been to Malacañang a number of times before. Yesterday, however, was the first time the two world champions played billiards with the ...

The Philippines has always had a giant inferiority complex. We Filipinos like to berate ourselves for being lousy at everything. We moan about our sluggish economy compared to our neighbors. We ...

The sport of pocket billiards has been in the doldrums in the Philippines for a long time. The decline has been slow but unmistakable. I remember when I first started playing pool in 2000. You'd go to ...

Pool player Roberto Gomez showed why he earned the monicker "Pinoy Superman" by topping the 3rd Manny Pacquiao 10-ball Open Billiards Tournament held in General Santos City. Gomez kept his undeafeated ...

FOUR Filipino billiard heavyweights extended their winning streaks in the ongoing Manny Pacquiao International 10-ball championships yesterday at the Star Billiards Center in Quezon City. Former ...

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines, which once served as the mecca of pool, is now home to the country’s first-ever professional billiards league. With hopes of reviving the long-dormant pool ...

FILIPINO billiards aces Efren “Bata” Reyes, Francisco “Django” Bustamante, Dennis “Robocop” Orcollo and Rubilen “Bingkay” Amit came together as one solid unit Tuesday night to blank Team Croatia made ...

Once again, a Filipino world champion. Dennis Orcullo of the Philippines scuttled Neils Feijen of the Netherlands, 10-3, to rule this year’s World 8-Ball Championship at the Fujairah Exhibition ...