Written By: Jack Borenstein Patrick Guigui is on a crusade to revive snooker in Canada. Not many individuals following a sport as a teenager would make it their mission to bring it back to prominence more than a decade later. but that’s exactly what Cote St. Luc’s Patrick Guigui, 43, […]
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Written By: David Lazarus, Staff Reporter – CJNews.com Patrick Guigui sets up a snooker shot. MONTREAL — Watching Patrick Guigui prepare for a shot on the expansive green baize surface of a regulation size snooker table at Le Skratch, a billiards hall in a nondescript strip mall on Montreal’s West […]
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A Guide to the Rankings System in Snooker The start of the 2010/11 season saw a major change to the way that the rankings in professional snooker are calculated, introducing a rolling-ranking system whereby the official ranking list is now updated after each event. To confuse things however, whilst the […]
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A Guide to the Rankings System in Snooker The start of the 2010/11 season saw a major change to the way that the rankings in professional snooker are calculated, introducing a rolling-ranking system whereby the official ranking list is now updated after each event. To confuse things however, whilst the […]
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After spending over 15 years living in different parts of America, I realized that snooker definitely has plenty of room to grow in this country. It does have a national association as well as a national championship, however, the amount of players and activity has never really taken off. Hopefully […]
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In a city where hockey is a way of life, you can still see how snooker has its place here. Former professional from Quebec, Alain Robidoux, continues to play the game 30 years later. Montreal has a long history of snooker players and fans that date back over 50 years. […]
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St. Laurent resident Patrick Guigui (left) is on a mission to raise the profile of professional snooker in Canada. With this in mind he successfully pursued the opportunity to host the International Billiards & Snooker Federation Under 21 World Championships. They will take place July 12 to 23 at The […]
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2011 host of IBSF World Championships New Snooker Academy Opens Snooker coaching program developed Patrick Guigui remembers the snooker boom of the 1980’s in Canada. Snooker clubs everywhere, a waiting list to get a table to play on, tournaments every weekend full of players and spectators. In 1989, Patrick went […]
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Snooker Canada announces partner hotel for Snooker Festival **********FREE Airport Shuttle*********** Tournament dates : April 24-27 Awards Evening with Legends of the Game: April 26 All Rooms have a separate room with an couch that opens into a bed (Plus either a king size bed or 2 double beds) […]
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Snooker Canada is very proud to announce that it has recently teamed up with West Island Community Shares, a non profit organization that helps raise funds to several charities in the West Island of Montreal. It seems fitting to work with them because the inaugural snooker festival will take place […]
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