Yang Ching-shun weathered Dennis Orcollo’s fiery comeback to escape with a 50-45 win in Face Off Series 2-One More Time Wednesday night at the Club Capo Exclusive along Tomas Morato Avenue in Quezon City.

Yang saw his opening day 25-19 lead vanish as Orcollo came through with a much stronger game to lead by as many as five racks in the contest organized by Club Capo Exclusive in cooperation with Bugsy Promotions and JBET.net.

But the Taiwanese ace regained his composure and with the aid of some luck – accidentally pocketing a money-ball after missing a shot of the other object ball, among others – he regained the lead and coasted to victory for $10,000 and bragging rights over the Filipino money-game king.

“Luck played a part in my victory. Dennis is a very tough opponent and I really had a hard time beating him,” said Yang, known in Taiwan as the “Son of Pool.”

“I hope to play with him again as it’s really exciting going up against one of the world’s best cue artists.”

The Orcollo-Yang rematch was the start of a series of challenge matches Club Capo is putting up. The exclusive membership club will pit eight other pairs of world-class cue artists each year.

Club Capo Exclusive will stage another blockbuster match featuring pool icon Efren “Bata” Reyes against his fellow Asian pool legend, Chao Fong-pang of Taiwan, on October 28 and 29.

It has also lined up a match pitting former double world champions Ronnie Alcano against Ralf Souquet of Germany.