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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP COMES TO POT BLACK! (16/07/2010 @ 18:16:17)
The World Ladies Snooker & Billiards Championship will contested at Pot Black Sports Bar during April 2011. The event, which runs over 6 days and comprises 7 events, will take place between Friday 8th and Wednesday 13th April 2011. As well as the main Snooker & Billiards Championships, there are also Junior, Senior, Doubles and Mixed Doubles categories. All the top players are expected to enter, including world number 1 Reanne Evans, who is currently competing alongside her male counterparts on the World Snooker Professional Main Tour.
Further details will be posted here as they become available.
 STEVE DAVIS NIGHT - REPORT (10/02/2010 @ 19:56:57)
6 times World Champion Steve Davis provided an outstanding evening of entertainment at The Pot Black Sports Bar on Saturday. Playing in front of a sell out crowd, Steve played some great snooker, but was pushed to the final black on two occasions - once by Saffron Walden champion Adam Ingram, and also by 11 year old Newmarket junior player Kurt Brewer, who doubled the black ball to rapturous applause in what was one of the highlights of the evening!
Steve finished off with some trick shots and funny stories from the snooker world, and spent another hour signing autographs and chatting to anyone and everyone before he left. Steve is the ultimate professional and we thank him for a fantastic evening.
 The problem we have now is how do we follow this next year??? Your suggestions are welcome...
KEN LOCKWOOD WINS HANDICAP COMPETITION (11/01/2010 @ 15:23:14)
Ken Lockwood has won the first Pot Black Handicap Tournament, which was played on Bank Holiday Monday over the Christmas break.. As well as £110 first prize, the win also gives Ken the opportunity to play a frame against Steve Davis during his exhibition here on 6th February.
STEVE DAVIS EXHIBITION CONFIRMED (22/09/2009 @ 03:36:35)
SATURDAY 6th FEBRUARY 2010
AN EVENING WITH
STEVE DAVIS
 Tickets available now!
ENGLAND CALL FOR MUMFORD (05/09/2009 @ 10:54:40)
BURY Pot Black Sports Bar manager Phil Mumford has received the call to play billiards for England in the forthcoming Home Internationals, which take place this weekend in North Wales. It is the first time in the history of the Home Internationals that billiards has been included alongside snooker, which has taken centre stage for more than 25 years. Teams from England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man will compete over a week at Prestatyn, North Wales.
Mumford, the 2008 European Champion and European number 1, has been selected for the two-man England A team, with former UK Professional Champion, Roxton Chapman, from Peterborough. THE 'WHIRLWIND' TAKES A BREAK AT SPORTS BAR (01/02/2009 @ 19:34:14)
Snooker fans enjoyed a 'legendary night' at Pot Black Sports Bar, in Bury St Edmunds, on Monday, when one of the sport's top names whirled into action.
Jimmy 'Whirlwind' White MBE helped to officially relaunch the club, in Eastgate Street, playing nine frames against a few select members and Chris Pike, the lucky winner of a Bury Free Press competition.
 FANTASTIC: Pot Black owner Andy Goodridge and management team Phil Mumford, Claire Gibbons, Jimmy White and Bury Free Press competition winner Chris Pike
"It was a legendary night," said club owner Andy Goodridge. "Jimmy was fantastic. He hit three century breaks. He played nine frames of snooker – he gave everyone a 50 point start and nobody could beat him." One of the frames was raffled for Jimmy's chosen charity, the Royal Marsden Hospital, raising £220. Following the success of Monday's event, Andy said he was planning to get another big name to the club. "Everybody kept saying Steve Davis. We shall see. We hope this is the first of a series of nights, with not just big names in snooker, but probably darts and pool as well," he said ANDY BACK AS BOSS AFTER 20-YEAR BREAK (26/12/2008 @ 19:36:15)
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26 December 2008 Golf professional Andy Goodridge is hoping to prove he is just as comfortable potting as he is putting – after taking over the snooker club where he once cleaned tables.
The former golf county junior champion and ex-county golfer has taken over Pot Black snooker club, in Eastgate Street, Bury St Edmunds.
"I once had a 96 break, so I'm fairly good at snooker as well. I'm happy with either green," said the fully qualified PGA golfer. The takeover of Pot Black marks a returns to the club for 41-year-old Mr Goodridge after an absence of 20 years. "As a 20-year-old I used to clean the tables at Pot Black, working for Chris and Yvonne Barnet. Then I went upstairs to work for Bury Bowl as assistant manager for four years before setting up the Bury Golf Range in 1992, which I still run." Mr Barnet died 12 years ago and when Mrs Barnet decided she wanted to retire, Mr Goodridge decided to return to the club. "I've been looking for a challenge for some time. Its great to be back – it is exciting times," he said. Staff from Pot Black have been kept on, although Mr Goodridge has appointed a new manager in European billiards champion Phil Mumford. The club is currently undergoing a refurbishment of its function room, restaurant, 24 snooker/pool tables and sports bar but has remained open throughout the work. It is set to relaunch on January 26, with Jimmy 'Whirlwind' White coming along to play a select few players and sign autographs. Tickets for the night start at £20 and are available by ringing 704231. |
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