Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Its the Beer !

For the past two years , the Asian 9 ball tour have been dominated by Taiwan. Some say its not that Tiawan is dominating or the Philippines have been playing bad but its just Chang Jung-Lin is playing exceptionally. He has won all the legs this year.

Incidentally the tour have been sponsored by Guinness since last year. They have been promoting the tour extensively and have come out with a lot of gimmicks just to entice the Asian crowd to see the best in Asia play 9 ball.

Unfortunately the Philippines is not sending its best players to the tour, which receives a wide coverage by ESPN in Asia. The Philippines best players would rather play money games in Manila's pool hall's while sipping an ice cold San Miguel Beer. With the exception of World Champion Alex Pagulayan,r the rest of the RP Guinness team is made up of veterans that have been always there but have come up short of winning the best tournaments in the world. Making it consistently in quarter, semi or even a final does not make them the best pool player in the world. You have to win one.

Up coming talent Joven Bustamante is raw. Guinness even sent out a press release that he goes to church in very tournament and hates the Filipino expats around the world that crowd the tournaments because he is stressed with them since he can understand what they say that adds up to the pressure. I saw him play in the TV table last weekend at Genting Highlands and lost so bad. He needs to focus and play his game, TV table and OfW's and all. !

Since the best 9 ball pool players in the Philippines are supported by San Miguel Beer they are not allowed to play in the Guinness 9 ball tour. There was a time that Two people will welcome you at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Manila on two giant posters, President Arroyo and Efren Bata Reyes holding an ice cold San Miguel Beer.

Who drinks black beer anyway in this islands?

Its in the beer, SanMig Light please !

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