On January 14th and 15th Steinway Billiards in Astoria, New York hosted a Predator Tour event. The $500 added Open/Pro event had twenty one players competing and it was Jorge Rodriguez who won the event after taking down Jennifer Barretta in the finals.

Rodriguez was sent to the one loss side by Jeremy Sossei and then spent the rest of the tournament taking out those on the one lose side, seven to be exact. Jennifer Barretta had earned the hot seat and she would face Rodriguez in the finals. Rodriguez would continue his hot streak and take down Barretta, earning the first place win.

When the winners side final four competition began, Barrett won over Sean Morgan 8-6 while Sossei took down Raphael DaBreo 8-5. The two would go double hill before Barretta would earn the hot seat. At the same time, the action was getting hot over on the one loss side.

Rodriguez won a match due to forfeit and then defeated Zion Zvi 7-4 to face Morgan. Jerry Tarantola would defeat Rob Pole and Tony Robles would win against DaBreo which would put Rodriguez against Morgan while Tarantola would face DaBreo.

Rodriguez would win his match and then face Tarantola who had won his match. Rodriguez would win 7-5 and then face off against Sossei who he defeated 7-2. It was then time to face Barretta and Rodriguez would continue to be on top of his game and would win by earning an eight match winning streak and Barretta taking down only two racks.


- 2012-01-24