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Welcome to the 2007 Great Lakes Classic held, for the
3rd year, at the Blue Chip Casino in Michigan City, IN. Thanks
to the great staff and support people. And by the way, when you visit, you really must stop in at William B's. Without quesiton one of the best restaurants at any venue we attend. Just ask for the Chef's Special, whatever it is, you will love it. Tell Patrick, the manager and host, that you heard it here first!  After last month's event quite a few questions came in to the web site concerning tables. Yes, we get new Brunswick tables for each event. Yes, they are assembled on site. Yes, they always have new Simonis 860 cloth. In this case, the table used is the fabulous Brunswick Gold Crown IV. Our players expect to play on the best equipment and our sponsors provide the best. If you would like to find out more detail about these or our other excellent sponsors, go to the front page and click their link.   A Player's meeting starts each event. Here Jeanette Lee has the floor as she speaks to the other players.  After the meeting players still had a few things to discuss. Megan Minerich and Jeanette Lee talking things over.  Hors D'oevre's were available and some players even broke off into their own pow-wow. Can you imagine what you could learn about pool from; Jennifer Barretta, Melissa Morris, Melissa Herndon, Xiaoting Pan, Hsin Huang, and Ga-Young Kim.  Then it's time to go to work. BCA Hall of Famer, Ewa Laurance lines up the 8-ball. Yes, the nine ball followed right afterwards.  Wendy Jans of Belgium, options, options, options.  2006 Regional Tour Champion, Amanda Lampert.  Morgan Minerich sites a long shot. Successfully executed by the way...  Miyuki Sakai says, "Dai-mondai". Japanese for, "that darned 4-ball".  Finally the field was cut down to TV day. Semi 1 was 2006 Rookie of the year Xiaoting Pan against Kwikfire Kelly Fisher. Kelly tried to pull off a win,.....  But that darned ol' rookie kid just kept coming, and pulled off the win.  Semi 2 saw our most recent winner Ga-Young Kim using a little body english to try and gain advantage.  Helena Thornfeldt using exceptional skills, both mental and physical, pull off an exceptional victory.  That set the final stage for Helena and Xiaoting to battle for the win. Helena put in a great showing:  But Xiaoting stretched out quite a lead, resulting in her first WPBA victory.  No rest for WPBA players, as Helena gives an interview following the event.  And one final shot of a very proud Xiaoting Pan, our newest WPBA Champion, welcome to a very exclusive club. 
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