World 9-Ball 2012 Live Update and Results

Here's World 9-Ball 2012 Live Update and Results! The World 9-Ball Championshiop is currently being held in Doha, Qatar from June 24- July 21.

A total of 128 of the best pool players from over 50 countries are vying for the total pot of $300,000, with $40,000 going to the eventual winner.

Earlier, according to ABS-CBN Sports report, Filipino cue artists Efren “Bata” Reyes, Francisco “Django” Bustamante, Dennis Orcollo, Ronato Alcano and Lee Corteza all won their opening matches in the 2012 World 9-Ball Championship at the Al Sadd Sports Club in Doha, Qatar on Monday.

Players for  World 9-ball champions include the Philippines Francisco Bustamante(2010), England’s Daryl Peach(2007), the Philippines Ronnie Alcano(2006), Germany’s Thorsten Hohmann(2003), Finland’s Mika Immonen(2001), Taiwan’s Fong Pang Chao(2000, 1993), the Philippines Efren “Bata” Reyes(1999), Germany’s Ralf Souquet(1996), Germany’s Oliver Ortmann(1995).

Updates will be posted here once it becomes available online!

June 27, 2012: from Philippine Inquirer

POOL maestro Efren “Bata” Reyes dumped Kuwait’s Bader Al Awadi, 9-2, Monday and led six other Filipinos into the round of 64 of the 2012 World 9-Ball Championship at the Al Sadd Sports Club in Doha, Qatar.

Reyes, still steady and deadly at 57, advanced to the tough knockout stage along with compatriots Francisco “Django” Bustamante, Ronnie Alcano, Lee Vann Corteza, Carlo Biado, Roberto Gomez and Antonio Gabica.

Bustamante, already enshrined into the billiards Hall of Fame like Reyes, bested Kuwait’s Abdullah Al Yousef, 9-4, while two-time world champion and last year’s runner-up Alcano survived American Hunter Lombardo, 9-8.

World No. 8 Corteza trounced countryman Marlon Caneda, 9-5, while the No. 12 Biado routed Czechoslovakia’s Roman Hybler, 9-3.

Gomez cruised to a 9-1 victory over Qatar’s Mohammad Saeed even as Gabica squeaked past Estonia’s Denis Grabe, 9-7.

Apart from Caneda, four other Filipinos, including the fancied former world No. 1 Dennis Orcollo, dropped to the losers’ bracket.