{"id":6874,"date":"2026-03-12T10:08:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/?p=6874"},"modified":"2026-03-12T10:08:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:08:04","slug":"iowa-shootout-2026-%f0%9f%8e%b1-day-1-live-opening-round-matches-thursday-12th-march-12pm-cst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/2026\/03\/12\/iowa-shootout-2026-%f0%9f%8e%b1-day-1-live-opening-round-matches-thursday-12th-march-12pm-cst\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Shootout 2026 \ud83c\udfb1 | Day 1 LIVE | Opening Round Matches | Thursday 12th March | 12PM CST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Channel: Ultimate Pool USA<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Iowa Shootout 2026 \ud83c\udfb1 | Day 1 LIVE | Opening Round Matches | Thursday 12th March | 12PM CST\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NzS3PMoNTGU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More Info: \ud83c\udfb1 LIVE from the Iowa Open 2026 \u2013 The Iowa Shootout begins!<\/p>\n<p>Join us for the opening session of the Iowa Shootout, featuring 6 matches from the Opening Round as top American players battle it out in Ultimate Pool\u2019s exciting league format.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcc5 Thursday 12 March<br \/>\n\u23f0 Live from 12PM CST<\/p>\n<p>Opening Round Matches (Session 1)<\/p>\n<p>12:00 \u2013 Nicholas De Leon vs George Walters<br \/>\n12:45 \u2013 Joe Prince vs Joey Gray<br \/>\n13:30 \u2013 Tom Cousins vs Declan Brennan<br \/>\n14:15 \u2013 Dennis Hatch vs Mike Banks Jr<br \/>\n15:00 \u2013 Henry Walters vs Jordan Helfery<br \/>\n15:45 \u2013 David Matlock vs Shane Thompson<\/p>\n<p>Format<\/p>\n<p>\u23f1\ufe0f 30-minute matches<br \/>\n\ud83c\udfb1 UPL 8-Ball Rules<br \/>\n\u23f1\ufe0f 30 seconds per shot (reduced to 15 seconds in the final 10 minutes)<br \/>\n\u274c No match races<br \/>\n\u274c No golden breaks<br \/>\n\u274c No ducks<br \/>\n\ud83c\udfaf Ties decided by a 6-ball shootout<\/p>\n<p>This is one of Ultimate Pool\u2019s league formats, and now we get to see the pros battle it out playing it.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa Watch the Iowa Open all weekend LIVE on our YouTube and Facebook channels.<\/p>\n<p>#IowaOpen #IowaShootout #UltimatePool #PoolLive #8Ball #Billiards #ProPool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Channel: Ultimate Pool USA More Info: \ud83c\udfb1 LIVE from the Iowa Open 2026 \u2013 The Iowa Shootout begins! Join us for the opening session of the Iowa Shootout, featuring 6 matches from the Opening Round as top American players battle it out in Ultimate Pool\u2019s exciting league format. \ud83d\udcc5 Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-9-ball","category-live-stream","category-tournaments"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026-03-12_10-06-43-up.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Kenny Ash","author_link":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/author\/kash\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026-03-12_10-06-43-up.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6876,"href":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874\/revisions\/6876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}