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Team Sambajon

Team Santos "The Little Giant" Sambajon Pro-Am Qualifier
Hammerhead's Billiards Pub - October 11-12, 2008

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The International Pool Tour presents the IPT 2008 Pro Am Tournament, an innovative new concept in pool, where amateurs can qualify to play on a team with a pro! There will be a total of 16 qualifying tournaments held in the Chicagoland area. The top 6 players from each of these qualifying tournments will earn a spot on a team with the assigned pro, and advance to the Pro-Am Tournament held on November 8 & 9 at Palace Billiards in Villa Park, IL. A total of 16 teams will compete in a single-elimination winner take all format. Everyone competes individually and if anyone on your team finishes in first place, you win! The $50,000 prize fund will be divided evenly amongst the winning team, including a $2,000 bonus to the overall winner of the tournament. Click here for more information

About Santos Sambajon

Santos Sambajon is a member of the International Pool Tour and he is one of the highest ranked players in the World as well as a former Asian Champion. He dominated the 2004 World Summit of Pool, and was subsequently profiled for his skills and heart as a player on ESPN. In addition, he served as Efren Reyes’s corner man at the 2006 IPT World Open 8-Ball Championship Final. His credentials include winning numerous championship titles including the following highlights:

  • 2007 Blaze 9-Ball Championship
  • 2005 ESPN Skins Billiards Championship
  • 2005 Joss NE 9-Ball Championship
  • 2004 World Summit of Pool
  • 2004 Jay Swanson Memorial
  • 2003 New England 9-Ball Championship
  • 2003 Hard Times 4th Annual Summer Jamboree One Pocket
  • 2000 California Billiard Club Open One Pocket

Hammerhead's Billiards Pub

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105 W Main St
West Dundee, IL 60118
(847) 836-8099

Qualifier Results

The following are the top six players that qualified to play on Santos Sambajon's team:

1. Tommy Hernandez
2. Alen Friedrich
3. Bryan Woodward
4. Eddie Balderas
5-6. Ike Runnels
5-6. John Wolfe
Buy-in Spot: Dean Caprini

The International Pool Tour, or IPT, is the world leader in professional pocket billiards. The International Pool Tour is the largest pool tour in the history of billiards, and the best pool or pocket billiards and snooker players in the world are represented from more than 30 different countries. The IPT has six major professional pool tournaments in 2006 with qualification pocket billiards tournaments throughout the world for aspiring professional pool players. Such pocket billiard players as Mike Sigel, Allison Fisher, Karen Corr, Loree Jon Jones, Efren Reyes, Johnny Archer, Nick Varner, Corey Deuel, Gerda Hofstatter, Earl Strickland, Francisco Bustamante, and over 100 more of the greatest pocket billiard players in the world are fixtures on the 2006 International Pool Tour season.

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