Pool Cue News and Review

Another event, another title for Shane “The North Dakota Destroyer” Van Boening. Shane took down Shaun “Cool Shirt” Wilkie 13-7 after losing to him earlier in the tournament at the 2008 Super Billiards Expo. Wilkie simply couldn’t stay awake as Shane lulled him to sleep with his solid game and complete lack of life drama. No drunken outbursts, no getting caught behind the Riv buying an 8 ball, nothing I tell ya. He just goes out, does his thing and leaves with a plaque and a big novelty check (or a fistful of fanned 20s depending on how classy the event is).

Come on man… give me something to write about! I can’t stand all this humble, nice guy crap. Where’s the drunken, or better yet, coked out smack talk? I need material. Damn you Van Boening!! By the way, congrats on another solid win kid.

Another year, another interview from Inside Pool with Blair Thein and his bizarre quest to bring pool, poker and MMA to TV. For those not familiar, Blair has an idea to get a bunch of pool players together to play some pool and poker, then beat the crap out of each other MMA style.

Props to the guy for trying to come up with something creative and devoting 4 years of your life to it, but I just can’t see a few weeks of training turning into entertaining fighting. What’s more likely is that once they’re done playing pool, they’ll get into the cage and have a fight that looks something like this:

I’ve seen pool players fight and it really isn’t pretty. I do wish Blair the best though. It could work on a channel like Spike or G4. Plus, Blair scares me and I don’t want him to mess up my beautiful face.