Anna Kostanian's semi final Billiard match at the GenerationPool.com 9-Ball Championships last month vs. Xiaoting Pan was televised on ESPN today.

After the successful Generationpool.com Open (former BCA Open) Jasmin Ouschan, who stayed between the events for training sessions in the USA, went to the 2nd event in this month the Great Lakes Classic in Michigan City.

Office pools for the NCAA basketball tournament or Oscar contests are fun, right? Not according to the Journal of Consumer Research. A recent study suggests that betting on the outcome actually reduces people’s enjoyment of the events. Authors Naomi Mandel and Stephen M. Nowlis (Arizona State University) explore this phenomenon, and why these contests are so common.