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Pool Players of The Brooke’s 2025 Membership Appreciation Happy Hour

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The Pool Players of The Brooke’s Billiard Club (PPB) held their annual Membership Appreciation Happy Hour event on April 1, 2025 in the Mountain View ballroom from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM. PPB Founder Dominic “The Doctor” Borland was the Membership Appreciation Event Committee Chairman and also Master of Ceremonies. As the PPB Members entered they were presented with a PPB engraved commemorative ball point pen. Over one hundred members and spouses attended. Dominic “The Doctor” Borland started the event by issuing a heartfelt welcome to our members and their spouses. He also introduced attending sponsors Leah Kari of Leah Kari Solutions and Dorothy Moore, Lauren Moore, and Jim Bilwacks of The Moore Advantage Group. Shannon Morgenstern representing the Arizona Pain Care Center appeared later in the event. Then Dominic introduced PPB President Dick “Pocket Blocker” Dunbar who delivered a welcome and more sponsor recognition. Next, Founder and designated PPB Historian Joe “Fast ...
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Gary Barlow’s Long Overdue Title!

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The Pool Players of The Brookes’ Billiard Club (PPB) hosted an 8-Ball Singles tournament on Saturday March 29, 2025 in HOA1’s Catalina Recreation Center (CRC) Billiards Room. Thank you PPB for sponsoring this tournament. The format of this 8-Ball Singles Tournament was double elimination. This is the fifth and last in a series of five 8-ball tournaments used to qualify for the finals of the PPB's first annual 8-Ball Club Champion of the Year award which will be held in April 2025. Tournament Director was Phelps L’Hommedieu. The following field of sixteen players showed up to compete in the game of 8-Ball singles. Dick “Pocket Blocker” Dunbar, Tony “The Snake” Cardillo, Bill Webster, Joe “Ball Breaker” Vidmar, Dan “Rambo” Sollin, Steve Wiley, Phelps “Montana” L’Hommedieu, Dick “The Visor” Titus, Jack “Crash” Hoverter, Mike Collins, Dominic “The Doctor” Borland, Gary “One Rail” Barlow, and Fred “The Baker” Dianda, Lowell “8-Ball” Hegg, Tom Walter, and Roger “Rack’Em” Roc...
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Joe Vidmar - Hard Work Pays Off!

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The Pool Players of The Brookes’ Billiard Club (PPB) hosted an 8-Ball Singles tournament on Saturday February 22, 2025 in HOA1’s Catalina Recreation Center (CRC) Billiards Room. Thank you PPB for sponsoring this tournament. The format of this 8-Ball Singles Tournament was double elimination. This is the fourth in a series of five 8-ball tournaments used to qualify for the finals of the PPB's first annual 8-Ball Club Champion of the Year award which will be held in April 2025. Tournament Director was Phelps L’Hommedieu. The following field of sixteen players showed up to compete in the game of 8-Ball singles. Dick “Pocket Blocker” Dunbar, Tony “The Snake” Cardillo, Bill Webster, Joe “Ball Breaker” Vidmar, Dan “Rambo” Sollin, Steve Wiley, Phelps “Montana” L’Hommedieu, Dave Parker, Dick “The Visor” Titus, Jack “Crash” Hoverter, Les Goins, Jim Langseth, Mike Collins, Dominic “The Doctor” Borland, Gary “One Rail” Barlow, and Fred “The Baker” Dianda. Results: 1st – Joe Vid...
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Pool Players of The Brooke (PPB) vs Green Valley Recreation (GVR)

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The PPB would like to thank Green Valley Recreation’s Billiard Club and Tom Keller, GVR’s Travel Team Coordinator for their pool table prowess, camaraderie, friendly competition and a nice luncheon after the match at the Coyote Grill. Another thank you goes out to Tony Cardillo PPB Travel Team Director for organizing this event. On Saturday February 8, 2025 the PPB’s Travel Team ventured down to GVR for an 8-Ball Team Challenge. The competition was being held in the GVR’s old golf cart garage converted into GVR’s new pool room which has 10 9 foot Diamond ProAm pool tables. The PPB and GVR have a long history going back to our first match on October 13, 2016 when the GVR taught us a big lesson! In fact the first 4 times we met GVR in competition they kept teaching us. The PPB did eventually learn their lesson as they have defeated GVR the last 4 times they’ve competed. We were competing for temporary ownership of a Traveling Bronze Plaque that has been in PPB’s possession sin...
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Dave Parker Takes the Long Way to the Title!

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The Pool Players of The Brookes’ Billiard Club (PPB) hosted an 8-Ball Singles tournament on Saturday January 25, 2025 in HOA1’s Catalina Recreation Center (CRC) Billiards Room. Thank you PPB for sponsoring this tournament. The format of this 8-Ball Singles Tournament was double elimination. This is the third in a series of five 8-ball tournaments used to qualify for the finals, which will be held in April, of the PPB's first annual 8-ball Club Champion Pool Player of the Year award. Tournament Director was Phelps L’Hommedieu. The following field of sixteen players showed up to compete in the game of 8-Ball singles. Lowell “8-Ball” Hegg, Randy “Nice Try” Smith, Dick “Pocket Blocker” Dunbar, Tony “The Snake” Cardillo, Bill Webster, Joe “Ball Breaker” Vidmar, Dan “Rambo” Sollin, Steve Wiley, Phelps “Montana” L’Hommedieu, Dave Parker, Dick “The Visor” Titus, Jim Samlaska, Bob “O” Ogle, Jack “Crash” Hoverter, Les Goins, and Roger “Rack’em” Rock . Results: 1st – Dave Parker ...
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Pool Players of The Brooke vs Voyager Billiard Club

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The Pool Players of The Brooke’s Billiards Club (PPB) would like to thank Voyager’s Billiard Club (VBC), Ted Beery and Voyager’s billiard team for the friendly competition and cordial luncheon at Fat Willy’s Clubhouse after the 8-Ball team challenge. Another big THANK YOU goes to Tony “The Snake” Cardillo, PPB’s Travel Team Captain for organizing this event. On Friday January 10, 2025 the PPB’s Travel Team with the Traveling Bronze Plaque in hand ventured down to Voyager for an 8-Ball Team Challenge. We were competing on four nine foot Olhausen pool tables for temporary ownership of a Traveling Bronze Plaque. The PPB has had possession of this plaque since January 13, 2023 when the PPB defeated the VBC 27 to 21 at Voyager. Our team is made up of four, two player teams and Voyager also had four, two player teams. Our teams consisted of Joe “Ball Breaker” Vidmar and Lowell “8-Ball” Hegg, Dominic “The Doctor” Borland and Phelps “Montana” L'Hommedieu, Dave Parker and Tony “Th...
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Pool Players of The Brooke (PPB) vs Rincon County West Billiards Club (RCW)

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The PPB would like to thank Rincon County West Billiards Club (RCW), Bob McKenna, and RCW’s billiards team for their camaraderie, and friendly competition. Another big THANK YOU goes out to Tony “The Snake” Cardillo PPB Travel Team Captain for organizing this event. On Saturday December 14, 2024 the PPB’s Travel Team ventured over to RCW’s billiard club for an 8-Ball Team challenge. We were competing on four 9-foot Connelly pool tables for temporary ownership of a Traveling Bronze Plaque. The PPB team was made up of 4, 2 player teams and RCW also had 4, 2 player teams. The PPB teams consisted of Dave Parker and Russ “Longshot” Doering, Dick “Pocket Blocker” Dunbar and Jack “Crash” Hoverter, Joe “Ball Breaker” Vidmar and Lowell “8-Ball” Hegg, Tony “The Snake” Cardillo and Bob “O” Ogle. The format was simple. Each of our teams would play each of their teams 3 games of 8-ball with each game being worth 1 point for the winning team. There were a total of 48 points in the m...
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