The Predator 9
Ball Tour presented by Tony Robles and Predator
Cues, made its 7th stop of the season at Comet
Billiards in Parsippany NJ. The event drew 62
players.
Top players included, Allen Hopkins, Karen Corr,
Julie Kelly, Mika Immonen, Shin Park, Shane Winters
& Warren Kiamco as well as the top ranked
Open, A, B & C/D players that always come
out to represent.
Stop #7 had it’s share of women. Nine to
be exact. Karen Corr won her first match against
Dave Deserio 9-2 and ran into a very hot Shane
Winters who defeated Karen 9-2. Karen’s
next match was against Bobby Blackmore who lost
to Warren Kiamco 9-5. Bobby was in dead stroke
and defeated Karen 9-6 for a rare early exit.
Liz Ford won her first two matches 9-6 & 9-0
before running into newly inducted Hall of Famer
Allen Hopkins. Liz lost to Allen 9-3 and Bill
Horne 9-6 but received $100.00 for the highest
finishing female. Meanwhile, Gail Glazebrook got
a bye in the first round and beat the always solid
Lionel Rivera 9-6 in the second round before falling
to the Iceman 9-1. She then gave Jason Michas
a run for his money before bowing out 9-5. Gail
received $100.00 for the highest finishing C/D
player. Congratulations ladies!
Mika was business as usual, taking care of the
bottom portion of the chart by defeating Julie
Kelly 9-6, Bill Gricenko 9-2, Gail Glazebrook
9-1, Jim Conn 9-1 and Warren Kiamco 9-8 to earn
a shot at the hot seat.
The Silent Assassin was taking aim defeating Jonathan
Castillo 9-1, Bora Jeong 9-4, Carmen Lombardo
9-2, Victor Nau 9-5 and the always dangerous Allen
Hopkins 9-6 to earn his shot at the hot seat.
The hot seat was all Tony who played a near flawless
match to beat the Iceman 9-5.
The Iceman was not to be denied as he defeated
Warren Kiamco 9-5 in the semifinal to earn another
opportunity with Robles.
In the final, Tony won the first two games and
missed a semi tough 2-9 billiard and lost the
next seven games in a row as Mika fell into dead
stroke. Mika missed only one shot from that point
on as Tony struggled throughout the match to pocket
a ball on the break allowing Immonen to earn his
first Predator 9-Ball Tour Championship.