Ine Helvik

Hi!

OK,  so it has been a while since I posted something, I will try to post something more often than this. It has been kind of quiet in the poolworld, and I have been very busy with the poolhall and my shop.

Anyway, I played and was the TD in a ranking torunament for Norwegian Elit players this weekend and I was two and out. Not very much to write about other than that in my second match I played really good. I was trailing 6-0 and went up to 8-8 and then missed the final 9….  Anyway, I broke and ran 2 times (alternate breaks) and ran the table 2 more times to tie the match, not leaving my opponent much. He went on to get 9th place, way to go Lasse Høyvik:) (playing for my club offcourse)

This was my first opportunity to really try my new break cue. I just recieved a FURY SR break cue with a 10 piece shaft and it is extraordinary. I love it! I will have it in my shop shortly, I do not think it is properly released yet. And I have the pink one… I think this is the first pink item I have owned ever. But I like it:)

Next week I am off to Luxembourg to play the Ardennen cup. I play in both womens and mens division, looking forward to it. Tournament updates will come.

Have a good weekend!

Ine

Today is a day for preparing. I have now booked my flights to Helsinki in august to play the Womens Finnish 10-ball open and announced for Ardennen cup in june.  I like days like this, I can feel the thrill of the tournament already. I can not wait to play!!

I guess that with my friend Line playing in Beijing Open and Olav playing the junior championships in Lillehammer, I needed to do something aswell:) I do not get enough tournaments now, I have my local clubtournaments once a week and a big ranking tournament coming up in the end of may. At least now I have something to look forward to:)

I wish my friends the best of luck. You kan follow Olav and Line on on their blogs or at biljardforbundet.no on the forum.

Have a great weekend! Mine will consist of fitting a pooltable tomorrow together with my husbond and sunday I will be back in the poolhall. Hope for some more sun in between jobs:)

Ine

So, tomorrow it is time for the Fury cup again. Both me and my husbond will play and I am the tournament director aswell. The cup consists of four tournaments over the year and the finishing top eight after four tournaments will have the opportunity to play a final tournament with quite good prizes.

We start at 12:00 and so far we are 17 people playing. If anyone wants to join you need to come at 11:30 sharp:) Thats when I open the poolhall.

The event will be streamed here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/billard-tv-live-from-stavanger

Offcourse I will let you know how I am doing. This being a handicap tournament it is quite hard competition, but winning is the goal:)

Have fun tonight!

Ine:)

I am back home and look back on a terrific EC. I did not do as good as I hoped, but 9th in 8-ball, 17th in Straight pool and 9-ball is not so bad after all. 10-ball I ended on 25th, not to happy with that.

The closing ceremony was great, we had an awesome live band and good food. It was a good ending of a good championship. In the mens division there was 16 different people taking medals ogf 16 possible. The standard of play is getting very high.

Live broadcast on Eurosport was also something new and exciting. I hope this will go even further and allow the womens final to be shown aswell. Next year in Luxembourg maybe?

I want to thank the team for a terrific week. All players have done an incredible job on and off the table and more medals will come, I am sure. Thank you Monica for getting my 10-ball break back into place:)

Good luck to Line, Monica, Jasmin, Ina and Marika in the Phillipine open! I am happy I will stay at home for a while:) Next tournament is in a few weeks here in Stavanger.

All the best

Ine

Line Kjørsvik playing against Jasmin Ouschan in the semifinals 9-ball. You can see the setup for the cameras.

Nick Van Den Berg playing against Mario He in teh finals 9-ball. It was kind of crowded in the venue:)

Today I am watching the semifinals and final in the mens 9-ball division. Eurosport 2 is broadcasting live! I am in front row:) tune in folks!

Ine:)