{"id":268402,"date":"2026-05-12T19:29:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/268402\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T19:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:29:06","slug":"tampa-pool-player-wins-national-apa-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/268402\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa pool player wins national APA title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 12, 2026 &#8211; Tampa resident Victoria Parker won the 2026 APA 8-Ball Classic Pool Championship in Las Vegas, earning a $15,000 prize package after advancing through a field of nearly 6,000 amateur pool players. Parker competed in the Yellow Tier finals during the <a href=\"https:\/\/poolplayers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">American Poolplayers Association<\/a> Poolplayer Championships, held April 26-28 at the Westgate Las Vegas. Entrants from all over North America competed for over $1 million in prize money. Parker plays regularly in the Tampa APA League, and the championship match was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YaxmMmuvCeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">livestreamed online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 12, 2026 &#8211; Tampa resident Victoria Parker won the 2026 APA 8-Ball Classic Pool Championship in Las&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-268402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}