My favorite tournament of the year- The Viper Invitational tournament- held on Saturday, February 17 at my sponsors The Wynkoop Brewing Company in LODO Denver- 40 players came to duke out the $400 added handicapped tournament- when the smoke cleared it was Sacramento's Mark Haddad taking down the Two-time World Champion Ga Young Kim- The format was C's went to 3, B's went to 5, and A's went to 9- I lost to 2-C's. I was not a easy tournament can you imagine giving up 6 games to 9. My hat goes off the the players that got in the money!
1st place Mark Haddad
2nd place Ga Young Kim
3rd place Jay Hlavachek
4th place Majed Addulax
5th & 6th Jeremy and Bruce
and my lovely highest finishing female was Shannon Vogel
Happy New Year!!
Happy New Year to everyone! 2007 is year to set some goals and go after them!! I know I am. My goals for this year are to get healthy once and for all. I have already started physical therapy to help re-build strength in my bi-cep. As you all know I had surgery last year almost to the date. My bi-cep tendon was almost removed from the bone. So now, I have to re-build that strength by going to physical therapy. I am playing well these days but after a long session I get real soar. I am determined to get stronger everyday! Last week I received a shot of codisone in my tail bone-ouch! I would not wish that pain on anyone, including on my arc-rivals-!! But with all of this in the long run I should be in full throttled mission to get my ranking back in the top-16!
On New Years Eve I spent most of the night at my sponsors The Wynkoop Brewing Company performing challenge matches with the patrons. Towards mid-night it got a little crazy so I went home and on the way home watched the awesome fireworks presentation at Coor's Field.
This last week I had a exhibition for the Colorado Woman's Chamber of Commerce at the Denver Athletic Club- The night was filled with lots of pool playing. About 40 people stopped in and we had a 16 player tournament. Race to one, single elimination. The top two winners Melissa (Not me) and Rochelle received gift cards thanks to Brunswick Home & Billiard located here in Colorado. They all had a blast and played really well for not playing all the time like us regulars!! I was very proud of everyone that participated. Thanks everyone!!
Chat with you all soon,
Viper-