Stroker's Palm Harbor, Fl was the latest venue to host the $2000 added KF Cue Tour event.
The amateur event kicked of Saturday with a strong 52 player field. The weekend would be a break out one for Custom cue Builder Eddie wheat making his way to the hot seat with wins over Brian Irwin 7-6, Justin McNulty 7-6, Jim Sandaler 7-4 and then a 7-4 win over Bill Stoll which would guarantee him coming back Sunday morning to play the Mike Delawder on the winner side. Sunday would see 4 players come back among on the one loss side Mark Wathen would play Marc Shenandoah with Wathen going on to win this one 5-3 he would now face Delawder who had showed up late for his winners side match putting Eddie Wheat in hot seat without hitting a ball. Delawder quickly shrugged the forfeit off and would go on to beat Mark Wathen 5-3 and then take revenge on Wheat with an 8-2 win to take his 2nd event of the season.
Payout
1st, Mike Delawder $650
2nd, Eddie Wheat $450
3rd, Mark Wathen $350
4th, Marc Shenandoah $240
5th-6th, Jason Bowen, Bill Stoll $140
7th-8th, Wesley White, Mike Champagne $85
9-12th, Justin Mcnulty, Dennis Long, Louie Smith,Trey Jankowski
Sundays $1000 Added open event would see a very strong 43 players show up with some notable names which included Mike Davis, John Morra, Richard Broumpton, Justin Hall, Richie Richeson to mention a few. The surprise player on the day was Eddie Wheat who shrugged off an earlier loss in the Amateur final to make his way to his 2nd hot seat of the day with strong wins over David Boyd 7-2, Richard Broumpton 7-3, Louie Smith 7-0, Richie Richeson 7-4 to get to the final side to face Tony Crosby. Crosby made his way to the finals with wins over Bill Dunsmore 7-5, James Roberts 7-2, Casey Grove 7-3, Trevor Braymore 7-5 and then John Morra 7-4. The hot seat match would see Crosby take a 2-1 lead only to miss a 9 ball which would now swing the momentum back to Wheat who went on to play some great pool and take advantage of the mistakes that Crosby made to take this match with a 7-5 win.
With 43 players and a late start to the day this event would go into the early hours with Mike Davis getting stronger as the clocked ticked. Davis who had taken an earlier loss to Morra would go onto beat Richard Broumpton 7-0, Justin Hall 7-3, Richie Richeson 7-4, Dan Lavoie 7-4 and then a 7-4 win over Tour Director Tony Crosby to put himself in the final which would be a single race to 7.
Davis would go onto win his 2nd event of the season with a strong 7-1 win over Wheat.
We would like to thank Jose Del Rio Strokers room and his staff for hosting a great event and all our sponsors which can be seen at www.kfcuetour.com Please support our sponsors they are the people that make these tours work.
Our next event will be a $4000 Added amateur only limited to 128 players on 7ft diamond tables, this will run alongside the UPL $30,000 10-Ball Added event at Innisbrook resort and Golf Club, Palm Harbor, Florida check out www.kfcuetour.com or www.universalpoolleague.com for more info.
Payouts
1st, Mike Davis $700
2nd, Eddie Wheat $500
3rd, Tony Crosby $350
4th, Dan Lavoie $250
5th-6th, Richie Richeson, John Morra $130
7th-8th Justin Hall, Mike Fieldhammer $90
