It was an ex­cit­ing end to a dom­i­nant per­for­mance by Grand Mas­ters, which saw them take top place in the fi­nals of the 8-Ball Pool League host­ed by the Pyra­mid Sports Bar in Gas­par­il­lo on Sun­day (Feb­ru­ary 8).

The score­sheet re­flect­ed the re­silien­cy of Grand Mas­ters as their open­ing play­er suf­fered a de­feat to the play­er from Sikar­i­oz Bil­liards Club. This ini­tial set­back on­ly seemed to bol­ster the ef­forts of the team, and they pro­duced a tru­ly mas­ter­ful per­for­mance to win the next three games con­sec­u­tive­ly and take vic­to­ry in the ‘best-out-of-five’ fi­nals.

Elat­ed Grand Mas­ters cap­tain, Ganesh Boodram, praised the team ef­fort be­hind the vic­to­ry, “Our en­tire team played con­sis­tent­ly through­out this league and re­al­ly pulled through in the tough match­es. The qual­i­ty of the teams in this tour­na­ment was high, and we had to be on our A-game to make it to the fi­nals. I am proud of our ac­com­plish­ment and look for­ward to this mo­men­tum tak­ing us to vic­to­ry in fu­ture tour­na­ments.”

Start­ed in Oc­to­ber 2025, the Pyra­mid 8-Ball Pool League saw ten teams from across the coun­try bat­tle in a round robin for­mat, which then tran­si­tioned in­to a page play­off for­mat across two group­ings com­pris­ing of the first to fourth and the fifth to eighth placed teams.

Pres­i­dent of Bil­liards Sports Or­gan­i­sa­tion of T&T (BSOTT), Rea­gan Low Chew Tung, and cap­tain of the third-placed Ri­valz team, gave recog­ni­tion to the qual­i­ty of the tour­na­ment.

He not­ed, “I would like to thank the man­age­ment of Pyra­mid Sports Bar for host­ing this com­pe­ti­tion, as this is one of the best venues for pool in the coun­try. Tes­ti­mo­ny to this is the fact that BSOTT re­cent­ly host­ed the Mas­ter’s Cup here, which saw the top 16 play­ers from across the coun­try bat­tle to be crowned the best. The qual­i­ty of the ta­bles, the am­bi­ence, and the hos­pi­tal­i­ty ex­tend­ed make this a must-vis­it venue for any fan of pool.”

“I al­so see this as a chal­lenge for oth­er venues to fol­low pat­tern and play their part in in­vest­ing in the de­vel­op­ment of this sport. Fur­ther to this, we need the cor­po­rate sec­tor to get on board and as­sist the prodi­gious bil­liards tal­ent in Trinidad and To­ba­go to make it to the in­ter­na­tion­al stage – there­by cre­at­ing one more plat­form for our na­tion to shine. BSOTT stands ready and will­ing to part­ner with any­one that wants to play a part in mak­ing this a re­al­i­ty,” Low Chew Tung added.

Own­er of Pyra­mid and na­tion­al A-ranked play­er, Shakar Beep­han, was elat­ed with the re­sponse of the pool com­mu­ni­ty in terms of en­ter­ing the tour­na­ment and sus­tain­ing a high qual­i­ty of play through­out.

Beep­han thanked the teams, as well as sup­port­ers and his staff, for mak­ing the tour­na­ment a suc­cess­ful one. Beep­han made spe­cial men­tion of the spon­sor­ship of Roti Mas­ter of Freeport, which added to the suc­cess of the com­pe­ti­tion. He al­so not­ed that the next com­pe­ti­tion would be a 10-Ball event, which would be ex­pand­ed to in­clude the elite na­tion­al play­ers.

Bring­ing a spec­tac­u­lar end to the fi­nals was the prize-giv­ing func­tion, which saw the dis­tri­b­u­tion of $30,000 in cash and tro­phies to the top six teams.

Tak­ing a cen­tral role was cor­po­rate spon­sor and own­er of Roti Mas­ter, Ashraff Ho­sein: “I have al­ways loved this game, and I felt that it was my du­ty to lend my sup­port to this top-class com­pe­ti­tion. This sport is in­ter­na­tion­al recog­nised, and this tour­na­ment showed that the game had changed in­to a struc­tured and pro­fes­sion­al com­pet­i­tive sport. It was es­pe­cial­ly great to see so many young play­ers, and we all need to sup­port them and help them reach the in­ter­na­tion­al stage.”

Fi­nal Re­sults Pyra­mid 8-Ball Pool League

1 Grand Mas­ters ($11,000 + Tro­phy)

2 Sikar­i­oz Bil­liards Club ($6,500 + Tro­phy)

3 Ri­valz ($4,500 + Tro­phy)

4 Ex­pend­ables ($3,500 + Tro­phy)

5 Shoot­ing Stars ($2,500)

6 Zhao ($2,000)