Billiards Jamaica's "King Of The Hill" is Everett Austin
Everett Austin from Mystix Sports Bar won the "King Of The Hill" 8 Ball Pool Tournament held at Hot Shots Sports Bar on December 12th & 13th
2009 , where he defeated Ewart Hall 3-1 in a best of 5 final.
Austin came into the tournament as a past 2 time "B" class champion who has been consistent after competing in open tournaments for most of the
ranking competitions held this year. This time he stamped his class by beating some of the leading ranked players including Hall who is the reigning
number 1 player for the year 2009 and the 2nd ranking player of the year Noel "School Boy" Blagrove. Going into the finals both Austin & Hall had
similar wins in the semi finals as Austin defeated Blagrove 3-1 and Joe McLeod of Chelsea losing by the same margin 3-1 to Hall. Austin received
$60,000 cash plus trophy donated by Pool Table & Billiards Supplies, while Hall received $20,000 cash plus trophy donated by Barco Caribbean
Limited. Noel Blagrove picked up the 3rd place $10,000 cash and trophy prize donated by Chalcass Trophy Limited after beating veteran player Joe
McLeod.
In the finals Austin won the 1st & 2nd racks with some tactical playing by both players in both games. The third game Hall won convincingly with a
flawless to make the score 2-1. The fourth game game Ewart the chance of equalizing when he attempted to sink the 8 ball in the side pocket only
to find the edge of the pocket and missing . This brought delight to the face of Austin who had 3 balls to sink which he did confidently and pocketed
the 8 to win a very memorable championship. This was the penultimate ranking tournament #12 and was successfully organized by Billiards
Jamaica.Com who coordinated a first ever two day tournament finishing at record time 10:00PM.
Billiards Jamaica would like to thank our sponsors Markham Betting Company ,Tads Record Inc , Pool Table & Billiards Supplies, Barco
Caribbean Limited and Chalcass Trophy Limited. We would also like thank all the players who supported this tournament and helped to
make it such a success!
