Results of billiard pool 10 balls Las Vegas Open on February 23: Dang Thanh Kien, Luong Duc Thien met "evil"

Taking place from February 23-26, the Las Vegas Open 2023 10-ball pool billiard tournament attracts a large number of Vietnamese players. To the south are Dang Thanh Kien, Luong Duc Thien, Nguyen Anh Tuan and Duong Quoc Hoang. Nguyen Phong Nam also registered and went to the US, but was not on the list of competitions. On the women's side were Huynh Thi Ngoc Huyen, Nguyen Bich Tram and Bui Xuan Vang. The girls started fighting from February 24 in US time.

Exemption from round 1, Duong Quoc Hoang entered the winning bracket and met Sawant Prathamesh. It was not difficult for Duong Quoc Hoang to win 4-1, 4-1 against an Indian opponent who lost to Nguyen Phuc Long at the US Open 2022.

After Nguyen Anh Tuan fell to the losing bracket due to a 4-3, 2-4, 4-3 defeat against veteran Puerto Rican player Alan Rolon Rosado, who reached the 1/16th round of the US Open 2021, Luong Duc Thien won. US host James Cabal 4-2, 4-3. A victory is not difficult to predict for Thien Luong when the opponent has not had any significant achievements in the international arena.

Unfortunately, after that, Luong Duc Thien clashed with Francisco Sánchez Ruíz of Spain, who had just won the 9-ball pool world championship. Francisco Sánchez Ruíz only has a forte of 8 and 9 balls, not 10, but still proved too strong when he won 4-2, 4-0.

Dang Thanh Kien opened with a victory over Jake Sollman 4-0, 2-4, 3-1. This result is in the forecast, because Jake Sollman is just a young American player with no reputation in the international arena, even playing poorly in the domestic tournament.

But in the first round of the winner, Dang Thanh Kien lost to Eklent Kaci of Albania 4-1, 4-3. This result is also not surprising. Eklent Kaci once won Nguyen Phuc Long and Duong Quoc Hoang at the US Open Pool Championship 2022 billiard tournament. This Albanian player playing 10 balls seems to be more powerful than 9 because he has just won the world 10 ball in 2021.

It is known that the Las Vegas Open is a tournament that provides scores to enter the Top 32 for the 10 ball World Championship in 2024. The tournament brings together 128 players, fighting 2 lives with a total prize money of 125,000 USD, nearly 3 billion VND. In the first round, the players hit 2 sets of race to 4, if they draw 1-1, they will hit a penalty. The players have to compete to win the right to pa. Win the set 1. Lose the set 2. All matches will apply the rule of winning and breaking.