2004 Las Vegas Artistic Pool Open Championship

8-Ball Doubles Winners - After 256 teams played over two days in the 8-Ball Doubles Pre-registered Championships, Mo Huntin from Prairieville, La. and Raging Bull from Cleveland, Ohio were the last two teams standing and ready to compete in the finals. More..

Triple Play Winners! - The Triple Play Pre-registered Championship event concluded on Saturday with Pool Junkies, Robert Hall, Bolaji Kukoyi, David Rowell, and Brian King of Meridianville, Ala., defeating the Main Street Billiards Topgun, Don Daley, Larry Phillips and Mike McGovern of Algonquin, Ill. More..

9-Ball Doubles Winners - The Open 9-Ball Doubles Championships concluded with Chicks with Sticks from Enfield, Conn., Susan Balon and Dana Platt playing Aaron & Troy from Baton Rouge, La., Aaron Hogg Spelyng and Troy Dunn. The race was 14 (Chicks) to 30 (Aaron & Troy). More...

Sportsmanship Winners

Ladies 8-Ball - Dream Team from San Antonio, Texas.

Open 9-Ball - Nina's from Terre Haute, Ind.

Open 8-Ball - Racketeers from Robertsdale, Ala.

Referee of the Year

Jeff Champion - Bloomfield, CT

Tom “Dr. Cue” Rossman held the final APA Artistic Pool Challenge Thursday evening. Twenty participants were again randomly chosen to participate in the challenge.

“I was on a Southwest flight coming into Vegas for the tournament and I over heard two women talking about playing in the tournament they were a few rows up, well all of the sudden, another woman had a heart attack on the plane, the flight crew was asking if anyone was a doctor, and the two women talking about the pool tournament turned out to be nurses.

Artistic Pool Championship

Twenty-four of the most talented artistic pool players started competition Wednesday morning. Competitors from North America and Europe will be competing until Friday in the first 2004 Las Vegas Artistic Pool Championship at the APA National Team Championships.

Giving the Gift of Pool

8-Ball team, JV Kavanaugh from Long Island, New York gave their team captain, Tom “Pop” Meyers a nice surprise earlier this summer. “My team gave me a father’s day card back in June and inside the card they told me they had bought me a private lesson with Allison Fisher during the Team Championships,” said Meyers.

Artistic Pool Challenge #2

Tom “Dr. Cue” Rossman held the second APA Artistic Pool Challenge Tuesday afternoon. Twenty more players participated in the event and all twenty were hopeful to win and take home the APA Cuetec Cue.

Artistic Pool Challenge #1

Tom “Dr. Cue” Rossman held the first APA Artistic Pool Challenge Monday morning. Twenty participants were randomly chosen to participate in the challenge; competitors included men and women who were participating in the event as well as friends and family of those competing in the Championship.

Pro Point of View

Mike Massey talks to players about his professional career and life experiences surrounding pool that has affected his life. “I’ve had ups and downs, and my share of problems, but I got out of it, you learn how to fight certain battles in life,” said Massey.

Family Matters

Ralph, Darlene and Mandy Perez of New Orleans have made APA part of their family. Darlene and Mandy are the mother and daughter duo out here competing in the Ladies Division with the rest of their team.

Rockin’ Roosters

Steve Mynar, Warren Novak, Chris Mahoney, Kristin Lee, Matt Doehring, Jeff Fryer, Tom Shenton and Tom Stofko teammates of Rockin’ Roosters from Baltimore, Maryland are here for the first time playing 9-Ball.

Information Station

League Operator, Kim Pankonin helps players with match information during the 9-Ball and Ladies Division Team Championships.

Cinderella Story

“We placed fourth in our division, we went to playoffs and won; at that time we only had five players. From playoffs we went to the Money Cup, we were the underdogs but we were determined to go all the way, then we won the Money Cup.

Duchess Holds Court

Top-ranked WPBA superstar Allison Fisher (the Duchess of Doom) is on-hand throughout the National Team Championships signing autographs, performing exhibitions and providing instructional classes.

Ladies Ready to Compete

Ladies Division competitors, Kathy Mohr, Theresa Garcia, Stephanie Reinhard, Madie Mirabal, Janice Hamilton and Mercy Calazar, from Albuquerque, New Mexico are ready for their competition at the table and in the pictures.