3.28.2001...The Super Billiards Expo 2001 is the largest show in the world that is open to the public consumer.  The show opened on Friday, March 23, at 10:00 am and ran through Sunday March 25, at 9:00 pm.  There are several events that are included in this great pool extravaganza.  The night before the show opens, it started out with a celebrity charity event that benefited the junior players scholarship fund, to the tune of $4000.00.  Not too shabby.  Over the course of the weekend, the show brought in an astounding 6000 attendees and over 2000 players that participated in some form of tournament play.

On Friday, the show opened at 10:00 am with 121 vendors present to sell there wares.  The American Cuemakers Association had their usual block of booths, including such cuemakers as myself (Ted Harris), Jerry  McWorter, Mike Capone, Rick Chudy, Dan Janes (Joss), Richard Black, Samsara, Andy Gilbert, Dan Dishaw, Jeff Prather, Tim Scruggs, Keith Josey, Ernie Martinez, Jacoby, and more.  Outside of the ACA block was yet another 81 booths, selling everything from cues to tip shapers, cases, clothing , and magazines, to wood & supplies for cuemaking.  Everything & anything a pool nut was looking for could be found at this show.  As far as I know, every vendor at the show did well.  I know that for myself, it was the best show ever for me, since I began my trek. There was so much cue repair for me to do, that I worked 42 hours straight from Friday morning to try and get it done, then 11 hours more on Sunday.  All after sleeping only  5 hours from Wednesday morning.  My wife Kathy & I were cramming trying to get the cues ready for the show.  We must have worked 20 hours a day for a month.  We were still working on the cues when the show opened, and continued to get them done right up until 5:00 pm on Friday.  By 6:00 pm we were sold out.  Whew!

Allen & Dawn Hopkins, of Allen Hopkins Productions, the producers of the event, said they would like to thank everyone that attended the show.  “Every event we had set a record for us.  There were more attendees, vendors, and players than ever before.  Next year, we look forward to an even bigger show.  We are going to promote it all year.  In the past, we have begun promotions in January preceding the show, but now we are going to accept entries, and promote the show from this day forward.  We will be putting much more time into it, and we know that will make it an even bigger and better show than ever before.  We look forward to seeing you all at next year’s show, and thank you all for your continued support.”

The winner of the Allen Hopkins Productions $250.00 cash raffle was Joyce Hugh.  Allen Hopkins Productions would also like to thank Viking Cue Mfg. and Pool & Billiard Magazine for their sponsorship.
The show had numerous competitions going on throughout, including the WPBA Players Championship, Amateur Women’s Players Championship, Association for P.O.O.L. league competition, Amateur Open Players Championship, and the Junior Player’s Championship.  The results are listed below. 

WPBA Players Championship.
48 Players.  $60,000 purse
1^st place…$7500.00…Karen Corr
2^nd place…$5500.00…Jennifer CHen
3^rd place…$4500.00…Vivian Villareal
4^th place…$3500.00…Helena Thornfeldt
5^th place…$2500.00…Jeanette Lee
6^th place…$2500.00…Gerda Hofstatter
7^th place…$2000.00…Julie Kelly
8^th place…$2000.00…Allison Fisher
9^th place…$1500.00…Monica Webb
10^th place…$1500.00…Ewa Laurence
12 place…$1500.00…Laura Smith

Amateur Women’s Players Championship.
128 players.
1^st place…$1000.00…Irene Moser
2^nd place…$600.00…Gina Kim
3^rd place…$500.00…Shannon O’Hanlon
4^th place…$…500.00Lois Scalfone
5^th place…$400.00…Geannie Seaver
6^th place…$400.00…Doona Rooney
7^th place…$400.00…Shannon Wannamaker
8^th place…$400.00…Juliette Houtz
9^th place…$275.00…Pauline NgWu
10^th place…$275.00…Malei Haacke
11^th place…$275.00…Joan Thole
12^th place…$275.00…Kim Smith
13^th place…$275.00…Jinny Willis
14^th place…$275.00…MaryAnne Kowach
15^th place…$275.00…Nicole Monaco
16^th place…$275.00…Jamie Schaver  

The Association for P.O.O.L. had several tournaments as well.  The Association gave away over $40,000.00 in prize money for all of their events.  They had the Dream Team Tournament consisting of 72 teams  @8players per team=576 players.
1^st place…$8000.00…Malibu II from North Carolina
2^nd place…$4000.00…Dream Team I from Ohio

They also had several handicapped tournaments;
Singles 6 & 7’s=64 players
$4480.00 total purse
1^st place…$1200.00…BJ Ussery from North Carolina
Singles 4 & 5’s=128 players
1^st place…$3600.00…Eric Tanack from Ohio
Singles 2 &3’s=16 players
1^st place…$400.00…Mike Janssen

Amateur Open Players Championship.
800 + players
1^st place…$5000.00…Darren Everett
2^nd place…$2000.00…Jason Kirkwood
3^rd place…$1500.00…Kim Bennett
4^th place…$1500.00…Chris Loar
5^th place…$1000.00…Mike Miller
6^th place…$1000.00…Fred Wenker
7^th place…$1000.00…Tom Jaggers
8^th place…$…1000.00…Gary Horner
9^th place…$750.00…Robert Madenjian
10^th place…$750.00…Kevin Clark
11^th place…$750.00…Mike Painter
12^th place…$750.00…Greg Canby
13^th place…$750.00…Jerry Hager
14^th place…$750.00…Jeremy Melber
15^th place…$750.00…Bobby Legg
16^th place…$750.00…Shane Morrow

  Junior Players Championship
92 players total for both divisions.
Players received products donated for the prize fund. 
18 & under…
1^st place…$4000.00 scholarship…Joshua Brothers
2^nd place…prizes…Peter Licibello
3^rd place…prizes…Jordy Palmer
4^th place…prizes…Greg Weigh
14 & under…
1^st place…prizes…Shane Winters
2^nd place…prizes…Kyle Kleis
3^rd place…prizes…Jordan Schrader
4^th place…prizes…Jordan Labbe  

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