{"id":2567,"date":"2009-09-08T21:19:37","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T02:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/?p=2567"},"modified":"2009-09-08T21:19:58","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T02:19:58","slug":"krystofiak-takes-shooting-star-classic-men%e2%80%99s-open-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/2009\/09\/08\/krystofiak-takes-shooting-star-classic-men%e2%80%99s-open-title","title":{"rendered":"Krystofiak Takes Shooting Star Classic Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Open Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Joining the ranks of the new Shooting Star Classic champs is Brad Krystofiak of Cambridge, Minnesota. Krystofiak soared through the field of 128 players in the Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Open division without losing a match. In fact, the only to get more than two games on him was runner-up Cullen Newton, in the final match of the tournament. The modest Krystofiak did not want to comment on his stellar performance claiming, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I got lucky a few times.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Krystofiak picked up his first title and a hefty $1,400. Not too shabby for his first return to pool after a two year break.\u00c2\u00a0 The top four players all came through the East side of their brackets until the end.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_440\" style=\"width: 450px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Men's Open Champion\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shootingstarclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Brad_Krysofiak_MOSChampion-440x400.jpg\" alt=\"Brad Krystofiak, Men's Open Champion\" width=\"440\" height=\"400\" \/>Brad Krystofiak, Men&#8217;s Open Champion<\/div>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"43\" valign=\"top\">1<sup>st<\/sup><\/td>\n<td width=\"228\" valign=\"top\">Brad   Krystofiak<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\" valign=\"top\">Cambridge,   MN<\/td>\n<td width=\"60\" valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"right\">$1,400<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"43\" valign=\"top\">2<sup>nd<\/sup><\/td>\n<td width=\"228\" valign=\"top\">Cullen   Newton<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\" valign=\"top\">Fridley,   MN<\/td>\n<td width=\"60\" valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"right\">$1,000<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"43\" valign=\"top\">3<sup>rd<\/sup><\/td>\n<td width=\"228\" valign=\"top\">Charlie   Garza<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\" valign=\"top\">Albert   Lea, MN<\/td>\n<td width=\"60\" valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"right\">$700<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"43\" valign=\"top\">4<sup>th<\/sup><\/td>\n<td width=\"228\" valign=\"top\">Ron   Latterell<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\" valign=\"top\">Sauk   Rapids, MN<\/td>\n<td width=\"60\" valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"right\">$500<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>All four singles division champions receive custom <a title=\"Delta-13 Rack\" href=\"http:\/\/www.executivebilliards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Delta-13 Elite racks<\/a> engraved with the event name, date, and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153CHAMPION\u00e2\u20ac\u009d along with their prize money.<\/p>\n<p>With support from our sponsors we were able to provide coin-free play on pro-cut 7\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Diamond Smart Tables for the entire weekend for only a $10 greens fee.<\/p>\n<p>Event Sponsors: <a title=\"Shooting Star Casino\" href=\"http:\/\/www.starcasino.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shooting Star Classic<\/a>, <a title=\"Tiger Products\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tigerproducts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tiger Products<\/a>, <a title=\"Delta-13 Rack\" href=\"http:\/\/www.executivebilliards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Delta-13 Rack<\/a>, <a title=\"Peters Billiards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.petersbilliards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peters Billiards<\/a>, <a title=\"PoolDawg.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pooldawg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">PoolDawg.com<\/a>, <a title=\"Predator Group\" href=\"http:\/\/www.predatorcues.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Predator Group<\/a>, and <a title=\"Simonis Cloth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.simoniscloth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Simonis Cloth<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joining the ranks of the new Shooting Star Classic champs is Brad Krystofiak of Cambridge, Minnesota. Krystofiak soared through the field of 128 players in the Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Open division without losing a match. In fact, the only to get more than two games on him was runner-up Cullen Newton, in the final match of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-tournament-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2567"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2570,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions\/2570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}