I am very pleased to announce I qualified into the last 64 of the World 8 Ball in China along with my good friend Mick Hill. The opening cermony for the main event is quite incredible and the fans from China are simply awesome. Here are some photos of the parade before the event starts. This is the podium where we were available for photographs for the public. The streets…

On the 19th December 2015, I went to Toddies Bar in Chester-le-Street with Jack Whelan to perform an exhibition challenge match.  This new format we tried worked out awesome and is a sure fire way for any venue to raise money towards the cost of the exhibition. Basically, the way the exhibition works is, myself and Jack played 5 sets of pool matches all first to 3 (Best of 5s)…

Massive shout out to Jason Owen who has kindly provided me with one of his world famous 8 Ball Break Cues. This cue changes the whole concept of how you break with the weight balance more at the front of the cue rather than at the back. At present I have a few snooker tournaments coming up and once they are out of the way I will be practising with…

So this week I am off to Gibralta to play in the Gibralta Open where I play Martin O’Donnell. These games are pretty tough as it is a short run to 4 frames so anything can happen. Should I get through a couple of rounds Eurosport will be televising the event from 11th to 13th December 2015. Martin is currently ranked 92 and recently got to the last 128 of…

You may or may not have seen yesterday the draw was done for the German Snooker Masters. I have to win two games to qualify. My first opponent is none other than Joe Perry who is currently ranked number 10 in the world. I am practising daily and would love to put in a great performance against Joe and looking forward to the challenge.