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Wang Can (pool Player)
Wang Can (born 10 February 1994) is a Chinese professional pool player. Wang has represented China at the World Cup of Pool with playing partner Dang Jinhu. He reached the quarter-finals at the 2014 event, losing to the pair of Albin Ouschan Albin Alois Ouschan (born August 14, 1990, in Klagenfurt, Austria) is an Austrian pool and billiards player. Ouschan was the 2016 WPA World Nine-ball Championship winner, as well as the runner-up in 2014. He also won the 14.1 Continuous European ... and Mario He. Titles * 2014 WPA World Team Championship References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Wang, Can 1994 births Chinese pool players Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nine-ball
Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with at each of the four corners and in the middle of each long side. Using a cue stick, players must strike the white cue ball to nine colored billiard balls, hitting them in ascending numerical order. An individual game (or ) is won by the player pocketing the . Matches are usually played as a to a set number of racks, with the player who reaches the set number winning the match. The game is currently governed by the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA), with multiple regional tours. The most prestigious nine-ball tournaments are the WPA World Nine-ball Championship and the U.S. Open Nine-ball Championships. Notable 9-Ball players in the game include Luther Lassiter, Buddy Hall, Earl Strickland and Shane Van Boening. The game is often associated with hustling and gambling, with tournament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pool (cue Sports)
Pool is a classification of cue sports played on a table with six pockets along the , into which balls are deposited. "Pool billiards" is sometimes hyphenated and/or spelled with a singular "billiard". The WPA itself uses "pool-billiard" in its logo but "pool-billiards" in its legal notices. The organization compounds the words to result in an acronym of "WPA", "WPBA" having already been taken by the Women's Professional Billiards Association. Normal English grammar would not hyphenate here, and the term is actually a Germanism. A general rules booklet on pool games in general, including eight-ball, nine-ball and several others. Each specific pool game has its own name; some of the better-known include eight-ball, blackball, nine-ball, ten-ball, seven-ball, straight pool, one-pocket, and bank pool. The generic term pocket billiards is sometimes also used, and favored by some pool-industry bodies, but is technically a broader classification, including games such as snooke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Cup Of Pool
The World Cup of Pool is an annual international single-elimination tournament for doubles teams in nine-ball pool competition. The event has been dominated by the Philippines and China, with both nations winning the event on three occasions. History The tournament is held annually, at various locations, and was first held in 2006 in Newport, Wales. The tournament is hosted by Matchroom Pool. Format There are usually 32 participating teams, representing 31 nations (the host nation is represented by two teams, A and B) composed of two players each. The participating nations do not have to go through a qualifying tournament in order to join, as they are selected by the organizers. Sixteen teams are seeded; they will face the unseeded teams at the first round. The individual matches are with alternating , which are to seven racks for Round 1 and 2, nine racks for the quarterfinals and semifinals, and eleven for the final. The rules used are World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dang Jinhu
Dang may refer to: Music * "Dang!" (song), a 2015 song by Mac Miller from ''The Divine Feminine'' * "Dang!", a 2018 song by GreatGuys from ''Trigger'' People * Dang (surname) with origins in both Asiatic and Indo-European languages * Dang, a pseudonym of animator Dan Gordon * Dang Ngoc Long (born 1957), Vietnamese guitarist Places * Dang, Uttar Pradesh, a village Uttar Pradesh, India * Dang, Iran, a village in Fars Province, Iran * Dang (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Gujarat, India * Dang district, India, a district in Gujarat, India * Dang District, Nepal, a district in Lumbini Province, Nepal * Dang Valley, a valley in western Nepal Other * Dang, a minced oath for "damnation" * , the Communist Party of Vietnam See also * "Dang Me "Dang Me" is a song by American country music artist Roger Miller, and 1964's Grammy Award winner for Best Country & Western Song. It was Miller's first chart-topping country hit and first Top Ten pop music hit,Ruhlmann, William. [ AllMusic.com: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 World Cup Of Pool
The 2014 World Cup of Pool The World Cup of Pool is an annual international single-elimination tournament for doubles teams in nine-ball pool competition. The event has been dominated by the Philippines and China, with both nations winning the event on three occasions. His ... was the ninth edition of the tournament. The event was once again held in England, this time at the Mountbatten Centre, Portsmouth, from 23 to 28 September. The 2014 event was sponsored by Betway. Prize fund *Winners (per pair): $60,000 *Runners-up (per pair): $30,000 *Semi-finalists (per pair): $16,000 *Quarter-finalists (per pair): $10,000 *Last 16 losers (per pair): $5,000 *Last 32 losers (per pair): $3,000 Participating nations *Seeded teams: *# (Dennis Orcollo & Lee Vann Corteza) *# (Niels Feijen & Nick van den Berg) *# (Wang Can (pool player), Wang Can & Dang Jinhu) *# A (Darren Appleton & Karl Boyes (pool player), Karl Boyes) *# (Shane Van Boening & Earl Strickland) *# (Chang Yu-lung & Hsu Kai L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albin Ouschan
Albin Alois Ouschan (born August 14, 1990, in Klagenfurt, Austria) is an Austrian pool and billiards player. Ouschan was the 2016 WPA World Nine-ball Championship winner, as well as the runner-up in 2014. He also won the 14.1 Continuous European championship the same year. Ouschan is a multiple time Austrian champion in 8-ball, ten-ball and straight pool. Ouschan alongside partner Mario He won both the 2017 World Cup of Pool, 2019 World Cup of Pool and reached the final of the 2018 World Cup of Pool. They would lose 10–3 to the Chinese team of Wu Jia-qing & Liu Haitao. He won the WPA World Nine-ball Championship for the second time in 2021, beating Omar Al-Shaheen 13–9 in the final. He won the International Open in 2021, defeating Dennis Orcollo 13-6 in the final. Titles and Achievements * World Championships ** WPA World Nine-ball Championship (2016, 2021) * World Cup of Pool (2017, 2019) - with ( Mario He) * European Open 9-ball Championship (2022) * Internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario He
Mario He (Born 3 August 1993, Rankweil, Austria) is an Austrian professional pool player. He is a former winner of the European Pool Championships, and winner of both the 2017 and 2019 World Cup of Pool events alongside Albin Ouschan. Career He has won six Euro Tour events, the first in 2016, at the North Cyprus Open 2016, and later the 2017 Austrian Open, and in 2018 both the 2018 Veldhoven Open, and 2018 Klagenfurt Open, and 2019 Veldhoven Open and 2022 Italian Open. With six victories overall, He is in the top 6 winners of Euro Tour events. He was set to represent Europe for the first time at the 2018 Mosconi Cup, however, he withdrew from the team, due to a failed drugs test. Having previously reached the final of the 9-ball 2011 European Pool Championships, He won the 2012 European Pool Championships in 8-Ball defeating Artem Koschowyj of the Ukraine in the final. He won the final in an 8–0 whitewash. In 2017, alongside Albin Ouschan, He won the 2017 World Cup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Team Championship (pool)
The World Team Championship is a pool World Championship for national teams sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA). the event founded in 2010 by the WPA and was held every two years until 2014; the event was revived in 2022. History The first edition of the World Team Championship was contested in 2010 in Hanover. The British team of Darren Appleton, Daryl Peach, Imran Majid, Karl Boyes and Mark Gray won the tournament in the final against the Philippines. The next two editions of the championship were contested in Beijing. The third edition in 2012 was won by the Chinese Taipei team of Chang Jung-lin, Fu Che-wei, Ko Pin-yi and Chuo Chieh-yu defeating Japan in the final. The third event in 2014 was won by the Chinese team of Liu Haitao, Wang Can, Fu Xiaofang, Liu Shasha and Dang Jinhu defeating the Philippines in the final. The fourth event in 2022 was contested in Klagenfurt. It was won by the team Philippines of Carlo Biado, Johann Chua and Rubilen Ami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 Births
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Chinese Pool Players
Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of various ethnicities in contemporary China ** Han Chinese, the largest ethnic group in the world and the majority ethnic group in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and Singapore ** Ethnic minorities in China, people of non-Han Chinese ethnicities in modern China ** Ethnic groups in Chinese history, people of various ethnicities in historical China ** Nationals of the People's Republic of China ** Nationals of the Republic of China ** Overseas Chinese, Chinese people residing outside the territories of Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan * Sinitic languages, the major branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family ** Chinese language, a group of related languages spoken predominantly in China, sharing a written script (Chinese c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
