Captain's Tournament
- 16 April 2024
- By Steve Duckman
This past Tuesday night we held a cash Captain/Co Captain scotch doubles 8 ball tournament at Brickyard North Hollywood. An impressive 10 out of 13 teams participated.
With 4 tables and a 1 minute shot clock from the get go, we were able to finish our Race to 2/ Race to 1 format by midnight.
At the end of some impressive shooting by some very strong pairings our top 3 finishers were,
in 3rd Place, winning $40, The Sooeeze's Ray and Gee.
In 2nd Place, taking home $70, Break Like the Wind's Matthew and Brenden.
Our undefeated 1st Place, $110 winners were, Stroke of Genius' Al and Jose.
Thank you to Brickyard for allowing us to host the tournament and an extra special thank you to the anonymous donor of $100 towards the $220 total cash payout.
8 Ball at The Crest
- 21 March 2024
- By Steve Duckman
This past Saturday the Los Angeles Pool League held it's first fundraiser of the Spring 2024 season, an 8 ball tournament at the Crest in Long Beach where a total of 15 league and non league members came out to compete for the top 3 cash prizes!!!!
A big thank you to the Crest staff for hosting us and an even bigger thank you to it's owner, Michael Romero, who not only donated $100 in prize money but also provided a keg of Modelo for the league to sell to all patrons wanting draft beer from tournament start until closing time.
Between our portion of registration fees, draft beer sales and tip jar, we raised $360!!!!
A special thank you to Tod Davenport for keeping the keg flowing and the tip jar overflowing. Also thank you Arturo Carrillo for co hosting and keeping the Challonge bracket updated and the tournament, from start to finish, running smoothly!!!!
Congratulations to Brenden Quigley, Patrick Yacoub and Laurie Jow; our 1st, 2nd and 3rd Place Winners, who shared the $250 in total prize money.
Our next tournament fundraiser open to all league and non league members is the Johnny Cochran Memorial Greased Lightning on Sunday, April 21st at the Eagle LA. $20 Registration begins at 12 noon with a 1pm Start time. This is a double elimination 8 ball tournament where every player is on a 15 second shot clock. Super fast!! Super fun!!
I hope to see all of you there!!!
Steve Duckman
V.P. and Fundraising Chair
Members Meeting and Awards Party
- 03 March 2024
- By Saeromi Kim
Dear Members,
Please join us in celebrating last season's achievements and the start of our new season on Tuesday, March 5 at Crown City Billiards (formerly Jerry's) at 1312 Lake Ave, Pasadena. As previewed in our last email, our new season will start on March 12. We will likely send out schedules and rosters by March 8.
Members' meeting at 7pm
Mandatory for captains, open to all LAPL members and new prospects. Please attend if you are still looking for a team for spring season. We have 12 confirmed teams and potentially one or two more forming.
Per our bylaws, please submit any new motions at least 48 hours in advance to the BOG at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. We will discuss and vote during this meeting.
Awards Party at 8pm
2 tables will be open for free play for 2 hours, starting at 8pm.
Each attendee will be gifted 1 free raffle ticket and 1 drink ticket. Raffle tickets will also be on sale so you can cash in on all those gift certificates (or end up with that random raffle gift that will sit in your closet for decades)! Please note that no food will be provided; however, feel free to bring any small bites if you are inclined.
As per usual with a slight change, last season's captains are expected to bring a gift (or gift certificate) worth $20, and for this season, the league will add ten $20 gift certificates for the awards party raffle. Some teams have already pre-paid, which is appreciated. If overpaid (40 instead of 20) please consider donating the surplus to the league or we can reimburse you.
For Captains
Please remember to bring your registration fees and new team rosters with names, phone numbers and emails. At the last Members' Meeting, the board and members discussed and voted to change membership registrations to $100 up front, and $20 weekly during the regular season and playoffs, similar to other leagues. In this way, people will pay to play each week, and people who don't play as much will pay less. At the meeting we will discuss weekly payment methods such as using Zelle and Venmo. Finally, as a BCA league we collect $20 per player to be registered in BCA at the start of every new calendar year. This money goes directly to BCA.
In sum, please calculate and bring $100 team registration plus $20 per player in your team.
A big THANK YOU to the current board for all the (voluntary!) blood, sweat and tears involved in making all this happen. Big thanks as well to Arturo who has done so much for the league for many years.
Cheers,
Saeromi, Steve, Jon, Al, and Bryan