Pool Players of The Brooke

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 ...

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...

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...

The Pool Players of The Brookes’ Billiard Club (PPB) hosted an 8-Ball Singles tournament on Saturday November 16, 2024 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 second in a series of five PPB 8-Ball tournaments used for qualifying into the PPB’s first 8-Ball Club Championship. Tournament Director was Joe Giammarino. The following field of fifteen players showed up to compete in the game of 8-Ball singles. Lowell “8-Ball” Hegg, Randy “Nice Try” Smith, Dick “You’re Not Going To Like This” Dunbar, Tony “The Snake” Cardillo, Bill Webster, Joe “Ball Breaker” Vidmar, Dan “Rambo” Sollin, Fred “The Baker” Dianda, Rodger “Pocket Dodger” Beard, Russ “Long Shot” Doering, Steve Wiley, Phelps “Montana” L’Hommedieu, Dominic “The Doctor” Borland, Dave Parker, and Ted Duma. Results: 1st – Randy “Nice Try” Smith – Never Lost! 5 Wins 0 Losses ...

The PPB would like to thank Sun City Oro Valley’s Billiard Club, Robert Dufur and SCOV’s billiard team for their pool table prowess, camaraderie, and friendly competition. Another big THANK YOU goes out to Tony Cardillo PPB’s Travel Team Captain for organizing this event. On Saturday November 09, 2024 the SCOV’s Travel Team ventured up to HOA1’s Catalina Recreation Center for an 8-Ball Team Challenge sponsored by Stone Canyon Painting (Thank you Alex). Tony “The Snake” Cardillo was the tournament director. We were competing on four beautiful 9 foot Diamond Pro-Am pool tables for temporary ownership of a traveling bronze plaque that has been in the PPB’s possession since November 2021. Our team was made up of 4, 2 player teams and SCOV also had 4, 2 player teams. Our 2 player teams were drawn from the following list of PPB cueists: Fred “The Baker” Dianda, Dominic “The Doctor” Borland, Tony “The Snake” Cardillo, Lowell “8-Ball” Hegg, Dick “The Visor” Titus, Rich “Hide the Salami...

The Pool Players of The Brookes’ Billiard Club (PPB) hosted an 8-Ball Singles tournament on Saturday October 26, 2024 in HOA1’s Catalina Recreation Center (CRC) Billiards Room. This was the first of five Club Championship 8-Ball Tournament qualifiers. The PPB thanks Oregano’s Italian restaurant and Rich “Hide the Salami” Adinolfi for sponsoring this tournament. The format of this 8-Ball Singles Tournament was double elimination. Tournament Director was Joe Giammarino. The following field of 16 players showed up to compete in the game of 8-Ball singles. Lowell “8-Ball” Hegg, Dick “You’re Not Going to Like This” Dunbar, Tony “The Snake” Cardillo, Bill Webster, Joe “Ball Breaker” Vidmar, Les Goins, Dan Solin, Fred “The Baker” Dianda, Jack “Crash” Hoverter, Rodger “Pocket Dodger” Beard, Dave Parker, Warren “Willie” Henderson, Dick “The Visor” Titus, Dominic “The Doctor” Borland, Phelps “Montana” L'Hommedieu, and we welcome Lon Federwitz one of our newest PPB members. R...

The Pool Players of The Brooke Billiards Club (PPB) would like to thank Quail Creek (QC) Billiards Club, Travel Team Director Dennis Desmond and their members for the friendly competition, camaraderie and for hosting our billiard club. Thanks also go out to the PPB’s Tony “The Snake” Cardillo for organizing this event. On Saturday Oct 12, 2024 the PPB Billiards Club traveled down to Quail Creek for an 8-Ball Team Challenge. We would play in Quail Creek’s billiard room equipped with familiar 9 foot Diamond Pro Am pool tables just like our tables. The PPB teams were Dave Parker/Lowell “8-Ball” Hegg, Tony “The Snake” Cardillo/Randy “Thin Man” Smith, Joe “Ball Breaker” Vidmar /Jack “Crash” Hoverter, and Gary “One Rail” Barlow/Phelps “Montana” L'Hommedieu. The format was simple. Each of our teams would play each of their teams 3 games of 8-Ball with each game worth 1 point for the winning team. There were a total of 48 points in the match. The PPB was on fire in the firs...