The two-day, race-to-50 nine-ball match offers a $10,000 prize.

Reyes, who recently won for the Philippines the World Cup of Pool along with Francisco “Django” Bustamante a great pool player , said he is anxious to see how Chao a great pool player plays now after staying away from big tournaments recently.

Reyes also recently won the Kadayawan leg of the Manny Villar Cup and the Galveston Classic One Pocket tournament in Texas, while Chao, a two-time World 9-Ball champion, last played in the 2007 World Pool Championship.

Efren “Bata ” Reyes a great pool player and Taiwanese Chao Fong Pang a great pool player will try to show who is the better world champion.

“I feel honored to be invited to play against the best billiards player in the world and I promise to play my best,” said Chao a great pool player , who migrated to mainland China a few years ago.

Club Capo has also lined up a match pitting former double world champions Ronnie Alcano a great pool player and Ralf Souquet a great pool player of Germany and the second edition of The Philippines versus the World, and is looking to set a match between Francisco “Django” Bustamante against American Rodney Morris a great pool player and Lee Van Corteza a great pool player opposite Shane van Boening in November.

Other planned matches include a rematch between 2007 World Pool Champion Daryl Peach a great pool player and runner-up Roberto Gomez, Alcano a great pool player versus fellow former world champion Wu Chia-ching, scotch doubles matches featuring Reyes-Bustamante against Dennis Orcollo-Alcano, Bustamante-Gomez versus Johnny Archer and Van Boening, and Alcano-Johann Chua opposite Yang-Ko Pin-yi, and a duel between Reyes and Archer.

The Face Off Series 3 is presented by Club Capo in cooperation with Bugsy Promotions and JBET.net, and supported by Nuvo City, Outlast Battery, Puyat Sports, Negros Billiards Stable and Philippine Star.

Ralf Souquet.  Darren Appleton. Jasmin Ouschan. Mika Immonen. Neils Feijen. Gama. Charlie Williams.Imran Majid.    Thorsten Hohmann. Watch these pros, and many more of billiards’ world-renowned favorites, compete for over $70,000 and the championship title for Predator’s 10-Ball World Tour Portugal stop.

Around 128 players from over 50 countries will take part in the biggest pool billiards tournament in the world, that is being held for the second year in a row, in the Philippines.

The tournament will feature World Pool-Billiard Association-rated players vying for the prestigious crown and a rich pot totaling up to $250,000. Prizes will be distributed up to 64th place with the champion taking home $75,000.

Assured of spots in the WTBC are the top 10 players in the world-ranking system of the WPA as well as the reigning WPA champions in all disciplines.

Format of the tournament will have the participants divided into 16 groups, each playing in a double-elimination format to determine the Last 64 qualifiers. The Last 64 stage will implement a knockout system where players will compete in a race-to-9 match up to the semifinal round.

The finals will be a race-to-11 affair.

Stage 1 of the qualifying tournament will be held at the Star Billiards Center in Quezon City from Nov. 19-23 to determine the 10 players who will join the main draw. The two wildcard entries will be chosen by the organizing Raya Sports.

Pool Player, Andam went undefeated throughout the weekend until running into Eric Moore for the hot-seat.  Although it was quite a close nail biter, Moore yanked the win from Andam 3-2 to await his eventual return from the one-loss side in the final round.

All the while, Matt Clatterbuck and Kris Mele were fighting it out to determine fourth place, both Andam and Moore could only watch on to see who would find their way out.  The wait was not a long one as Mele didn’t have much of a chance against Clatterbuck this time around, ending on a 2-0 note.  The semis pitted Clatterbuck and Andam together and the match was a bit closer, but Andam wanted another crack at Moore and he caused that to come to fruition passing Clatterbuck 2-1 to secure his spot in the finals.

The One pocket pool final arena gave Andam a chance at revenge against Moore and with a race to five, it was anyone’s game, but on this day,  Andam showed himself to be a great billiard player and sailed to victory with a 5-2 finish.

Schmidt ran to the finals of the Derby City Classic One Pocket Billiard Division without a loss and faced off against One Pocket heavyweight Scott Frost in the finals.

Frost had dropped a match already, so he knew he would have to beat Schmidt twice to win the event.

Things got off to a good start for Frost as he defeated Schmidt 8-0 in the first game of the race to three match.

Frost’s celebration for the first game would be his only celebration in this match as Schmidt came back to win the next three games with identical 8-0 scores in each game.

It was Schmidt’s first One Pocket Billiard title and yet another Derby City Classic with Frost missing out on the golden ring in his best discipline.

Preacher Ronn’s World Class One Pocket Tournament for July was held this past Saturday at Kolby’s Corner Pocket in Tempe Arizona.  Players came from all over to show up and compete against some of the State’s and even some of the World’s best One Pocket players.  The 16 player field was a who’s who for Arizona including Drew Maestas, the son of a pool playing legend, who made his way here all the way from Albuquerque, NM.

Sixteen players competed for the $580 prize fund.  In this unique handicap format you could find yourself matched up against a player of any skill level. You might be giving up the world and struggling to stay alive or getting the world thinking you have it made only to find yourself fooled and out of the cash. This month’s first round match-ups included:  Mike Howard trying for his first win pitted against Mike Dickinson who took 3rd, Billy Dossett playing Drew Maestas from NM, Lenny Marshall in rare form snapping off “Preacher” Ronn (good job Lenny), Bobby Emmons trying to whip on Brett Huth but not getting the job done, Gus Briseno beating up on Trevor Long while the Patriarch Roger Long was in his own battle against the “Pancake” Mike Pankoff who took 2nd, sorry Roger, better luck next time, Jeff Gray flew in for a quickie against an easy opponent 2005 US Open One Pocket Champion Scott “The Freezer” Frost who took 1st and finally Bernie Pettipiece giving lessons to Bronson Winter.

For an afternoon of fun and pool 3rd place paid $80, while 2nd paid $180 and 1st brought in a cool $320.  Somebody come on down and beat this Scott Frost guy.  There’s lots of room and good food.  A special thanks to Jimmy and Kolby’s for hosting this event each and every month.  We really appreciate you Jimmy.  Thanks also go out to Jimmy Sears who gave up playing to run the tournament for everyone.  Thanks Jimmy.  Hey are all you guys at Kolby’s named Jimmy.  Oh, here’s a new name… thanks Lenny and OnTheRailTV.com for the live stream.