Opening Fixtures

The full schedule for the 2016 Winter/Spring Season will be posted online tonight or early tomorrow morning. It has been an enormously difficult task getting everything organised, making sure we have 20 weeks and ensuring teams play each other within their divisions home and away. Huge thanks to Oz for working tirelessly on the fixtures and also to Ronan and Bernard for their input.

Here are the fixtures for the opening week:

Shenanigans @ Bulldog Runners

Dolce Vita Sweet Life @ Fat Albert's Scandal

JR BBQ The Ace @King Bar Kings

JR Pub Troyjans @ Scrooge Pub Phoenix

Upper Deck Loose Cannons @ Shenanigans Boomtown Rats

Bull & Barrel Ballistics @ JJ's Zzyzx

Bulldog Estyle @ JR Pub All Stars

Scrooge Pub Wonky Triangles @ Dolce Vita Angry Birds

Sin Bin Potato @ 3 Alley Seoul Misfits

3 Alley Seoul @ Seoul Pub FUTA

JJ's The Pain @ Sin Bin Tomato

The very best of luck and fair play to all teams.

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Written by Dominic Johnson

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Published: 11 January 2016

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The Banquet and The Big Weekend

This Friday, December 18th, sees our end of season celebration with the traditional banquet.

The Details:

2015 Summer/Fall Season Itaewon Pool League Banquet

December 18th

Crown Hotel

From 7:00-10:00pm

This banquet is free to any member who has played 3 weeks of the IPL 2015 Summer/Fall Season. Those who have played 1-2 weeks will be charged 15,000won and non-members can join in the festivities for 30,000won.

Please join us for great food, trophy presentations, a few laughs, a great raffle and free alcohol.

The Championships:

The weekend culminated in the finals of the Championship A. Many, many congratulations to Shenanigans Boomtown Rats for finally getting their hands on the 'Erickson' Cup after a brilliant second set of singles against the valiant Bulldog Estyle. Across town Bull & Barrel Rising Stars took third after shaking off a dogged fightback from Scrooge Pub Wonky Triangles.

Championship A

Champions: Shenanigans Boomtown Rats

Runners Up: Bulldog Estyle

3rd Place: Bull & Barrel Rising Stars

Championship B

Champions: Dolce Vita Sweet Life

*Runners Up: Phillie's Pheasants

*3rd Place: Bulldog Miss. Q

(* Woodstock Al Korea were disqualified from Championship B and both Pheasants and Miss. Q have been promoted up a place)

Our 'Big Weekend' also featured our final tournament of the year. 50 players came out to try to win some cash and gain some individual glory at the End of Season Single's Money Tournament. The 25 players sorted into the Upper Bracket treated us to high quality thoughtful pool that included 11 special games. Close to midnight, the brilliant Jun Bongon claimed first place with a decisive and very tense victory over the talismanic Paul Riddle. In the lower bracket the competition was no less fierce as Seol Hee 'Kiwi' Jung proved that, despite being the only bird with no wings, she could still soar past her captain, Bernard 'Eagle' Condrau.

Many thanks to all those who made it a great event, especially Bernard, Ronan, Lenny and Russell.

The full results are as follows:

Upper Bracket:

1st Place: Jun Bongon (Bulldog Estyle)

2nd Place: Paul Riddle (Bull & Barrel Rising Stars)

3rd Place: Dabu Kavanagh (Sin Bin Tomato)

4th Place: Seh Chul Park (Scrooge Pub Phoenix)

5th - 8th Place: Okjin Son (Shenanigans Boomtown Rats), Carnival Lee (Scrooge Pub Phoenix), Matt West (Bulldog Estyle) and Dan Kang (3 Alley Seoul Misfits)

Lower Bracket:

1st Place: Seol Hee Jung (Dolce Vita Angry Birds)

2nd Place: Bernard Condrau (Dolce Vita Angry Birds)

3rd Place: Bekzod Mamadaliev (Bull & Barrel Ballistics)

4th Place: Jeff Vandeweerd (Scrooge Pub Wonky Triangles)

5th - 8th Place: Raja Khan (Woodstock Al Korea), Nick Kellerman (Shenanigans), Tom Jones (Bulldog Estyle) and Jeff Trageser (Fat Albert's Scandal)

Congratulations to all those who left the event with their wallets bulging.

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Written by Dominic Johnson

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Published: 13 December 2015

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New Season and Announcements

The 2016 Itaewon Pool League Winter/Spring Season is soon to commence and our organisational meeting will take place next Wednesday at 7:30pm in Scrooge. Teams wishing to sign up for the new season will need to provide their captain's full contact details, a team name and the bar they intend to play their home games at and a deposit of 100,000won with team fees to be paid in full (350,000won) by the 3rd week of the season. The season will start on the 13th of January.

Details:

2016 Itaewon Pool League Winter/Spring Season Organisational Meeting

at Scrooge Pub

January 6th at 7:30pm

To help with the promotion of the league we are, once again, featured in Groove magazine this month. Please check out the excellently written article by Liam Ring in print or online. There are also some excellent pictures taken by Nick Bruneau. Click this link.

And finally to help you get fully prepared for the new season we have been sent details (by Jonathan Soderholm) of a fantastic new pool hall called 'The Color of Money' in Ilsan. The club is run by Peter Cho, a professional 9-ball pool player and it has 8 Min tables that kept in excellent condition. The club does a decent burger, has San Miguel on tap and sells a range of top quality accessories and pool cues. More importantly Peter and his business partner Jean Koo offer pool lessons to help you cope with the rigours of facing the stiff competition thrown up by the IPL each week. These lessons are very reasonably priced and Peter is even willing to come to Itaewon to help out players from beginners to advanced. It's a brilliant opportunity to improve your game ahead of the regular season. Please feel free to check out the club and look it up on Facebook. With a name like 'The Color of Money' how can you go wrong.

Details:

The Color of Money

031-907-3579

010-9323-2838

204-6 Bd. La Festa

Jang Hang Dong

Ilsan Dong Gu

Goyang-shi, Kyunggi Do

(La Festa area is accessible by bus or from Cheongbalsan Station - Line 3)

Happy New Year to all and let's play some pool.

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Written by Dominic Johnson

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Published: 31 December 2015

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The Final

This Sunday, December 13th, sees the climax of the IPL Summer/Fall 2015 season with the final of Championship A taking place at Shenanigans. If you head over to JJ's you'll be able to witness the battle for 3rd place. It should be a great end to the season and, as always, the very best of luck to all teams.

Wednesday night was an extraordinary one. In Championship A the tension could be felt all across Itaewon as Shenanigans Boomtown Rats defeated Scrooge Pub Wonky Triangles in a contest that had many titanic battles and included the Rats obliterating the bar's stock of Heineken. Across town an even more memorable match was taking place with underdogs Estyle downing Rising Stars in game that went all the way to the final black. The game was also noteworthy for a terrific display of sportsmanship from Paul Riddle and the Rising Stars who allowed time for Matt West to arrive and take part in the game. It just highlighted what a great group of people we have here in the league.

In Championship B the final was won by the always popular Dolce Vita Sweet Life as they extinguished the challenge of Woodstock Al Korea. The match was full of incident and had a touch of controversy but ultimately sport was the winner. Many congratulations to Jim and his team. In Bulldog, Phillie's Pheasants celebrated a fine season, and looked resplendent in their new shirts, to claim third place.

The fixtures are as follows:

Championship A:

Final: Bulldog Estyle @ Shenanigans Boomtown Rats

3rd Place Playoff: Scrooge Pub Wonky Triangles @ Bull & Barrel Rising Stars (at JJ's)

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Written by Dominic Johnson

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Published: 11 December 2015

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