The 2024 APA World Pool Championship will once again be held in the PoolDawg Championship Arena! It’s that time of year again… APA VEGAS, Baby!!! With more than 400 pool tables, nearly 16,000 participants, and over $1.3 MILLION in cash payouts, the APA World Pool Championships in sunny Las Vegas is the World’s Largest Pool Tournament! Teams representing nearly every state across the USA, and four countries, are preparing to descend in the heart of Mojave Desert and create a billiards…

We did it! We survived the LARGEST Pool Tournament of all time! Yes, the APA World Pool Championships was a blast and just as crazy as you’d expect. There was a record number of people and more side tournaments than we could count! Two weeks chalk full (😉) of pool, cues, and good times! Please enjoy this recap of our time out in Vegas! Here you can see a small sample of how over 300 tables got setup! We were just a little preoccupied with our own project to help out... Setting up 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…

The question of the BCAPL Nationals and whether or not we'll be there gets asked quite a bit around this time every year.  The answer?  We'll be there in spirit. I suppose that answer requires a bit more explaining, so I'll give you the details.  Unfortunately PoolDawg will not have a booth at the BCAPL Nationals event this year.  It sucks, because there are always lots of people we know and are friends with that play in this event, but there's only so much…

For the first time in many, many years, PoolDawg will not have a booth at the annual BCA Pool League show in Las Vegas.  The reason for our absence?  Frank. See, times are tough, so Frank wanted to audition to be the new Travelocity Roaming Gnome.  Sort of a moonlighting gig.  We didn't have the heart to tell him that he wasn't a garden gnome, so we let him take care of our travel arrangements this year.  He talked with his gnome pals who wholeheartedly agreed…