Over 300 tables! Nearly 15,000 participants! MORE THAN $1.1 million in payouts! This year’s APA World Pool Championships tournament (October 21st – 30th) is setup to be a Guinness World Record breaker. Due to the 2020 event being cancelled for COVID, this is the culmination of two years’ worth of the APA league, so this record tournament may never be topped! We have been proud sponsor of the APA Championships for over a decade and this tournament is our favorite time to connect with our…

We’ve been having an AMAZING time at the APA World Pool Championships so far! Here’s what we’ve been up to from setting up the booth to getting down on the Las Vegas strip. There are still a few days left but you can check out the pictures from our adventure so far in this post! As we arrived at the Westgate Hotel for the World Pool Championships, it was quiet; like the calm before the storm. We could feel the excitement start to rise as hundreds of pool tables were set up and…

It’s that time of year again for PoolDawg to make our annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas, the Mecca of pool (and fun), for the APA - World Pool Championships! This event is literally THE WORLD’S LARGEST POOL TOURNAMENT, as verified by the Guinness Book of World Records, and our team can’t wait to see everyone out there! The big show kicks off on Thursday, August 9th and runs ten days with the final championship matches concluding on the 18th. If you are attending, be sure to come…

Imagine the excitement... You’ve played your way through qualifiers, besting the local competition. You’ve now made it to Vegas for the National Championships where over 2,000 of the country’s best players are standing between you and your goal. After several days of high-fiving friends, sweating every roll and finessing your way through the intense competition in a room filled with over 260 pool tables, you’ve finally made it the Finals. There is just one match left standing between…

I've known this was in the works for some time, but the other day Liz Ford and the APA made it official.  Liz is now the proud owner of the Green Mountain APA serving Addison, Chittenden, Franklin, Lamoille and Washington counties in Vermont. As most of you know, Liz has been a friend of PoolDawg for years, helping us out with copy writing, lending a hand in our trade show booth from time to time and of course imparting her wisdom to all of our customers via her Dawg Training monthly…

If you've been to our booth at one of the big billiards events, you know we love to give away freebies (henceforth referred to as "swag").  Catalogs, stickers, keychains and of course our popular PoolDawg Master Chalk.  For next month's BCA Nationals and for August's APA Nationals though, we'll be adding to our repitoire of swag (please excuse the awful picture.  I can't take photos and only have a garbage camera phone to work with): Now before you say that…