I understand there needs to be a profit made, but maybe an initial fee of 9, and the next hours is 5, or 3, something along those lines as people who are playing are also drinking and consuming food. Rented out the table for 3 ish hours and two sticks, ended up having a pretty hefty bill after that, which is on my own accord since, I agreed to pay those prices. The pool tables were in good condition and reasonable for the price (at best) I do wish the drinks had a price next to them though. The bartenders were extremely nice, helpful and attentive. The food was great, like actually pretty great, had the mozzarella sticks and a burger, spending less than 10 bucks on bar food and being full is rare.ĭrinks were reasonable in relation to their strength, their assortment of long Islands is something to try (average of 8 ish dollars for one). 1 in bar billiards, and many more trophies in the years ahead – 2025, 2029, 2033…….Flag as inappropriate Place has pretty great ambient, surpringly clean for bar, much cleaner and nicer in comparison to anything I've seen or been. We wish Mark all the best for his future as the World No. We are the one-stop shop for your game room makeover Pool Tables Bar Stools Pool Cues Shuffleboards Furniture This Week's Deals Don't miss these special offers. A bit of Dutch courage is certainly needed for that! “Ĭoincidentally, his wins have come in four-year intervals (2013, 2017, 2021) “and the President of Jersey Bar Billiards told everyone it probably wasn’t worth turning up in 2025 as they knew who would win.” ![]() Becoming world champion is not all celebration though, as he explains, “ The worst part of being champion is the tradition that, after giving a winner’s acceptance speech, you have to get up and sing karaoke. Mark received an engraved decanter for his success this year – another trophy to add to the cabinet of glassware he has at home – and a very special miniature billiard table trophy that is presented to the winner, and on which his name now features three times. It is solid white in the game of pool, but in carom billiards, one player may play with a spotted or even a yellow cue ball. “In the final I beat a Guernsey-based player called Trevor Gallienne, who had won the Championship three times before.” This is the ball a player strikes with a cue. and amazing to win for a third time” he says. ![]() “ The billiard table we use at the Oracle Club is mine, and if I’d realised how long we would lockdown for I probably would have taken it home for practice, to give me something to do!” Inevitably, last year’s World Championship was cancelled but this November he joined 108 other competitors on Jersey for the 2021 tournament, and won again. ![]() When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020 and the UK went in to lockdown, Mark was unable to play. I also won the pairs tournament at the 2016 World Championship with the England Captain.” “That was quite a match” he says, “ and to beat one of the game’s greatest players meant a lot. In 2017 he beat Kevin Tunstall, who holds the record for the most Championship wins (6), to win his second title and achieved the highest ever break in a final, scoring 20,760 points by playing the table out. Six years later, and he was celebrating the first of three World Championship wins. One of the England players spotted my potential and encouraged me to keep competing.” Mark says, “I first played at the World Championship in 2007 and got to the semi-final in the pairs competition and the plate competition (for those who get knocked out in the first-round of the main tournament). The World Championship, which was created in 1981, is hosted on Jersey each November. Since then they’ve played at a number of pubs and clubs around Oxford and are now based at the Oracle Snooker Club in Abingdon, where they spend hours practicing and competing in local and county leagues, plus national tournaments. The pub didn’t have a billiard table but the two men pulled a team together and found a home at another local – the Tandem. Mark started play bar billiards back in 2004, encouraged by a friend at his local pub in Kennington, who taught him the game. ![]() Mark Trafford, Bar Billiards World Champion, with his trophies
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