BEN NUNAN:   '2010 BIG GUN'

Congratulations to Ben Nunan who produced a super-human effort to win the inaugural 'Big Guns' tournament.
Ben was forced to come from the losers side after he was eliminated by Joel Younger in the semi final of the winners side.
Ben then went on to defeat Victoria's Jake McCartney, Queenslander Adam List and then got his revenge against Gold Coast local Joel Younger.... and don't forget, all these games happened on the Sunday!!!
Then, he had to go into the Grand Final and take on the Red Hot West Australian, Ron Kelly who had played excellent pool all weekend.
Because Ban came from the losers side, that meant he had to defeat Ronny twice (over 21 frames).
For those in attendance, they were treated to some of the best pool played by anybody, anywhere. Benny Nunan dismantled Ronny in the first final, hardly missing a shot and giving Ronny very little, if any opportunity... but the best was yet to come.
The final match of the tournament was going te be the best, Ronny gathered his thoughts and regained his composure and came back at Benny in the second best of 21. Both players were fighting very hard to capture the $10,000 first prize. After almost 40 hours of pool and hundreds and hundreds of frames over the weekend, it came down to the final frame of the tournament to determine the champion. At 10-10, Benny walked to the table, smashed open the balls, and that was it... good night nurse... Benny cleared the table and was declared the champion.
Well done to Ron Kelly, who played some of the best pool of his career this weekend, and he believes he still is not quite back to his best, so look out for next time.

I would like to officially advise all countries within the Oceania region that the 2010 Oceania Billiards & Snooker Championships will be held in Australia 20th – 28th March at the Mt Pritchard Community Club in Sydney.

It is intended that Test Matches are played between Australia and New Zealand, and PNG and Fiji on the Saturday 20th March followed by the Opening ceremony that evening.

Entries for the 2010 Anzac Weekend 8 Ball competition are now open. This year there is a $16,000 prize pool with $5,000 for first prize and $1,500 for the best novice. As always we have our $500 Friday night knockout competition as well.

Click here to download an entry form. Email completed entries to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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Prize Money
At this stage we have 16 pro players. So the minimum prize money stated at the start still applies.
1st: $10,000
2nd: $4,000
3rd: $1,000
4th: $1,000

Note: Once rebates, expenses and admin have been deducted, all remaining monies will be included into the prize money. This figure will not be known until the Sunday of the tournament.
No money will be left in the bank once this event has concluded.
As you have all trusted me with your nomination money, I would think that you all trust that I will distribute the monies honestly and truly.

Travis Crawley
Tournament Director.

WWW.BIGGUNS.COM.AU