The Bil­liards Sports Or­ga­ni­za­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go, BSOTT, host­ed its sec­ond Mas­ters Cup tour­na­ment last week­end at the Pyra­mid Sports Bar in Gas­par­il­lo. Aaron Raghoo­nanan emerged the win­ner breez­ing through the two-day tour­na­ment un­de­feat­ed, win­ning all five of his match­es.

It is re­demp­tion of sorts for Raghoo­nanan, who lost in the cham­pi­onship match in the in­au­gur­al Mas­ters Cup in 2025. The Mas­ters Cup is a dou­ble-elim­i­na­tion tour­na­ment, which fea­tures the top 16 play­ers in the coun­try, based on re­sults from BSOTT’s month­ly tour­na­ments held through­out the year.

This year, the fi­nal fea­tured Raghoo­nanan, who was ranked third go­ing in­to the tour­na­ment, against the top-ranked Clint Bachan. The fi­nal was a bit of a mis­match as the race to eleven fin­ished eleven frames to three in Rah­goo­nanan’s favour. It was a case of sweet re­venge af­ter Bachan, who is the Na­tion­al nine ball cham­pi­on, beat his Mas­ters Cup fi­nal’s op­po­nent in this year’s Na­tion­al nine ball cham­pi­onships, which was held in June. On his way to the fi­nal, Raghoo­nanan beat his Na­tion­al Pool League Unit­ed Stars team­mate Ke­shawn Rod­ney 7-1 and Damien Bis­nath 7-2 in the open­ing round on Sat­ur­day.

He re­turned on Sun­day and took care of Adri­an Lo­gie 7-5 in what proved to be his tough­est match of the tour­na­ment.

His next en­counter was against Anil Ra­mad­har; the win­ner of that match would ad­vance to the Cham­pi­onship fi­nal. Ra­mad­har, who is the vice pres­i­dent of BSOTT, had his best show­ing in top lev­el com­pe­ti­tion for some time. He beat some big guns along the way and was re­spon­si­ble for push­ing Sham Jagerssar, the in­au­gur­al Mas­ters Cup win­ner to the losers’ brack­et with a 7-5 vic­to­ry. He did the same to Vishaal Singh, win­ning that en­counter 7-4 and re­al­ly showed his fight by al­so send­ing Bachan to the losers’ side by way of a close 7-6 win.

How­ev­er, Raghoo­nanan, had no in­ten­tion of miss­ing out again and end­ed Ra­mad­har’s win­ning streak 9-4. With Raghoo­nanan through to the Grand Fi­nal, Ra­mad­har had one more op­por­tu­ni­ty to book a place in the cham­pi­onship match but found him­self in a re­match with a re­ju­ve­nat­ed Clint Bachan, who not long be­fore, de­feat­ed the num­ber two ranked Lyn­don Ramkissoon 7-6. This time around Bachan turned the ta­bles on Ra­mad­har, nine frames to four. Bachan, be­fore be­ing pushed to the losers’ brack­et, de­feat­ed Ravi Goorah 7-3 and Zu­bir Sankar 7-2. Un­for­tu­nate­ly for the Na­tion­al 9 Ball ti­tle hold­er, his game de­sert­ed him at the most in­op­por­tune of times and Raghoo­nanan pre­vailed in the fi­nal with some clin­i­cal play.

Raghoo­nan’s ef­fort earned him $4,000 and a tro­phy, which Bachan col­lect­ed $2,000 and a tro­phy; Ra­mad­har, $1,000 and a tro­phy; and Ramkissoon, $800 and a tro­phy.

With the win, Raghoo­nanan adds the Mas­ters Cup ti­tle to his Na­tion­al 8-ball and 10-ball wins and is al­so the 2024 and 2025 Dutch Caribbean Cham­pi­on. He will be go­ing for the three-peat when the Dutch Caribbean Cham­pi­onships shoot off in March 2026.

The race for a place in the Mas­ters Cup 2026 cues off next month with the Car­ni­val Crack­shot.

Full Re­sults from the Mas­ters Cup 2025

Round 1 (Race to 7)

Clint Bachan 7 Ravi Goorah 3; Zu­bir Sankar 7 Desmond Nicholls 4; Vishaal Singh 7 Michael Lochan 2; Anil Ra­mad­har 7 Sham Jagerssar 5; Aaron Raghoo­nanan 7 Ke­shawn Rod­ney 1; Damien Bis­nath 7 Adri­an Ba­j­nath 1; Shiv Moti­lal 7 Adri­an Mo­ra 6; Adri­an Lo­gie 7 Lyn­don Ramkissoon 5.

Win­ner Round 1 (Race to 7)

Clint Bachan 7 – Zu­bir Sankar 2; Anil Ra­mad­har 7 Vishaal Singh 3; Aaron Raghoo­nanan 7 Damien Bis­nath 2; Adri­an Lo­gie 7 Shiv Moti­lal 6 Los­er Round 1 (Race to 6) Ravi Goorah 6 Desmond Nicholls 3; Sham Jagerssar 6 Michael Lochan 1; Ke­shawn Rod­ney

6 Adri­an Ba­j­nath 5; Lyn­don Ramkissoon 6 Adri­an Mo­ra 5.

Los­er Round 2 (Race to 6)

Shiv Moti­lal 6 Ravi Goorah 4; Damien Bis­nath 6 Sham jagerssar 4; Ke­shawn Rod­ney 6 Vishaal Singh 5; Lyn­don Ramkissoon 6 Zu­bir Sankar 3

Win­ner Round 2 (Race to 7)

Anil Ra­mad­har 7 Clint Bachan 6; Aaron Rah­goo­nanan 7 Adri­an Lo­gie 5 Los­er Round 3 (Race to 6)

Damien Dis­nath 6 Shiv Moti­lal 5; Lyn­don Ramkissoon 6 Ke­shawn Roney 3;

Los­er Round 4 (Race to 6)

Clint bachan 6 Damien Bis­nath; Lyn­don Ramkissoon 6 Adri­an Lo­gie 5

Win­ners Qual­i­fi­ca­tion (Race to 9)

Aaron Raghoo­nanan 9 Anil Ra­mad­har 4

Los­er Round 5 (Race to 7) Clint Bachan 7 Lyn­don Ramkissoon 6

Losers Qual­i­fi­ca­tion (Race to 9) Clint Bachan 9 Anil Ra­mad­har 4

FI­NAL (Race to 11)

Aaron Raghoo­nanan 11 Clint Bachan 3