Pool Players of The Brooke

The Pool Players of The Brooke Billiards Club (PPB) just completed its 2026’s 8-Ball Club Champion competition. The PPB held five 8-Ball qualifying tournaments on the following Saturdays: Oct 25, 2025, Nov 15 2025, Jan 31, 2026, Feb 28, 2026, and Mar 28, 2026. The PPB applied a point system during these tournaments where the PPB members earned points for participation, wins, and position achieved. Once all five qualifying tournaments were completed, the eight participants with the highest point totals moved on to the next level of competition. Thank you to the PPB’s Board for their sponsorship and Phelps L’Hommedieu for administering this event. Now let’s move on to the pool action. Quarter Finals: The top eight available point totals competed in the quarter finals held on Wednesday April 22, 2026 at 9:00 AM. This was a seeded competition where the highest point total competed against the lowest point total, the second highest point total will compete against the sec...

The Pool Players of The Brooke Billiards Club (PPB) held their 2026 Ladder Competition with 13 PPB Members participating. Tony “The Snake” Cardillo implemented and administered the PPB Ladder competition. The main reason for this competition was to increase head to head competition within the PPB Billiard Club. Each challenge on the Ladder was a race to four 8-ball match. The Ladder started on 09/15/2025 and ran until 04/03/2026 with the playoffs held on Tuesday 04/07/2026. The participants were Joe “Ball Breaker” Vidmar, Dick “Pocket Blocker” Dunbar, Mike “The Lip” Collins, Jerry Savage, Dick “The Visor” Titus, Jim Langseth, Russ “Longshot” Doering, Jim Samlaska, Lowell “8-Ball” Hegg, Tom Walter, Randy “Nice Try” Smith, Mark Erwin, and, Steve “the leave” Wiley. When the Ladder competition ended, Mike Collins, Joe Vidmar, and Dick Dunbar were the top three finishers in the regular season competition. These three competed in a playoff to determine the final positions and pr...