The 2009 World Cup of Pool (also known as the 2009 PartyPoker World Cup of Pool due to sponsorship) was a professional nine-ball pool, and the fourth

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, a

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knockout championship representing 32 national teams. The cup was played at

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, Philippines from 1 to 6 September 2009. The Korean pair of Ga Young Kim and Yun Mi Lim were the first all-female team to participate at the event. The tournament featured a prize fund of $250,000 with the winner receiving $60,000. It was sponsored by online poker website partypoker. The defending champions were

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and

Shane Van Boening Shane Van Boening (; born July 14, 1983) is an American professional pool player from Rapid City, South Dakota. Van Boening is considered one of the best players of all time. Van Boening has won the WPA World Nine-ball Championship and has won ...

representing the US, who had won the 2008 event 11–7 over the English team of

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and Mark Gray in the final. The USA team were defeated in the quarter-finals by the Chinese pair of

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and

Li He-wen Li Hewen (; born November 30, 1981, in Liaoning, China) is a Chinese professional pool player. He made it to the finals in the Vietnam leg of the 2006 WPA Asian Nine-ball Tour, but lost to Efren Reyes. In 2006, Li Hewen reached the semi-finals o ...

5–9. The event was won by the Filipino team of

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, who defeated the Germans

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and

Thorsten Hohmann Thorsten Hohmann (born 14 July 1979 in Fulda, West Germany) is a German professional pool player, nicknamed "the Hitman." He is a three-time world champion, winning the WPA World Nine-ball Championship in 2003, and 2013, and winning the WPA Worl ...

in the 2009 final 11–9. The event was organised and later broadcast by

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worldwide, and locally live on

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and CS9.

Tournament format

The 2009 World Cup of Pool was a pairs

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tournament played at

, Philippines. The tournament was played between 1–6 September 2009 as

, with players taking shots alternatively. Matches were played as a -to-eight until the quarter-finals, which were race-to-nine along with the semi-finals, and the final was a race-to-11 racks. The tournament was a

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bracket, consisting of 32 teams. Of the 32 teams, 16 were seeded; whilst 16 were unseeded. The defending champions were the USA team of

and

who defeated

Dennis Orcollo Dennis Orcollo (born January 28, 1979), sometimes called Dennis Orcullo, is a Filipino professional pool player, nicknamed "''Surigao''" (after a province in the Philippines) and "RoboCop". He has been called "The Money-Game King". Orcollo is c ...

and

Francisco Bustamante Francisco Bustamante (born December 29, 1963) is a Filipino professional pool player from Tarlac, Central Luzon and the 2010 World Nine-ball Champion, nicknamed "Django", after the lead character of the 1966 film of the same name,2008 event. The two other previous winners of the event also participated. The event was sponsored by online poker website partypoker, and organised by

. The tournament was broadcast live locally on

and CS9 and 31 one-hour episode were produced by Matchroom Sport broadcast worldwide.

Prize fund

Prize money for the event featured $250,000 with $60,000 being awarded to the winning team. This was similar to that of the previous year's event. Money earned by the team was shared between their players. A breakdown of prize money is shown below:

Teams

Participating nations for the event were announced on 31 July 2009, with 31 countries participating and two teams representing the host nation Philippines. The teams were announced on 14 August with all three prior winners of the competition participating. An all-female team, representing Korea, competed at the event for the first time. The teams are listed below: *Seeded teams: *# (

and

) *# A (

Ronato Alcano Ronato (Ronnie) Alcano (pronounced al-kah-no) (born 27 July 1972), is a Filipino professional pool player, nicknamed "Ronnie ''Calamba''" and "the Volcano". He won both the 2006 WPA World Nine-ball Championship and the 2007 WPA World Eight-bal ...

and

) *# (

and

) *# (

Darren Appleton Darren Appleton (born 8 February 1976) is an English professional pool player, best known for playing Eight-ball, Nine-ball and Ten-ball pool.

and Imran Majid) *# B (

) *# (

Niels Feijen Niels Feijen (born 3 February 1977, The Hague) is a Dutch professional pool player, from the Hague. His nickname is "the Terminator". In 2014 he won the WPA World 9-ball championship. Career In 2001, Feijen reached the finals of a nine-ball to ...

and

Nick van den Berg Nick van den Berg (born 24 May 1980) is a Dutch professional pool player. He was the runner up at the 2005 WPA World Eight-ball Championship, where he lost to Wu Chia-ching 11–5 in the final. He is a multiple time winner of events on the Eu ...

) *# ( Lai Chia-Hsiung and

Yang Ching-shun Yang Ching-shun (; 3 April 1978 – 6 December 2023) was a Taiwanese professional Pocket billiards, pool player, nicknamed "the Son of Pool". Biography Yang won the nine-ball event of the 1998 Asian Games against then World Pool champion Kunihi ...

) *# (

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and

Markus Juva Markus Juva (born 4 June 1975 in Helsinki, Finland) is a professional Finnish pool player. At the 2007 World Cup of Pool, Juva and partner Mika Immonen reached the final, only to lose 11–10., and competed in the event on four other occasions. ...

) *# (

and

) *# (

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and

Mateusz Śniegocki Mateusz Śniegocki (born 3 January 1985) is a Polish professional pool player. Śniegocki is a former 10-Ball European champion and three-time winner of events at the Euro Tour. Career Śniegocki started playing billiards in a club called "Had ...

) *# ( Hayato Hijikata and

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) *# ( Bruno Muratore and Fabio Petroni) *# (

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and Rafael Guzman) *# (

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and

Jason Klatt Jason Klatt (Born 18. April 1986) is a Canadian professional pool player. Klatt has represented Canada at three straight World Cup of Pool events, between 2009 and 2011. Klatt's best performance at a world championship came at the 2014 WPA World ...

) *# (

Ruslan Chinakhov Ruslan Yuryevich Chinakhov (; born 25 January 1992) is a Russian professional primarily nine-ball pool (billiards), pool player. Ruslan was the WPA World Nine-ball Championship, world nine-ball Juniors champion in 2009. Chinakhov has won several ...

and

Konstantin Stepanov Konstantin Stepanov (born 26 September 1983) () is a Russian professional pool player. In 2002 he was the Russian 8-ball champion. During the 2006 WPA Men's World Nine-ball Championship he survived the group stages, the round of 64 and the round ...

) *# ( Raj Hundal and Dharminder Singh Lilly) *Unseeded teams: ** (Lou Condo and Greg Jenkins) ** (Martin Kempter and

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) ** (Pascal Budo and Serge Das) ** (Philipp Stojanovic and Ivica Putnik) ** (Kasper Kristoffersen and Bahram Lotfy) ** (Stephan Cohen and Vincent Facquet) ** (Kenny Kwok and Lee Chenman) ** (Muhammad Bewi Simanjuntak and Muhammad Zulfikri) ** ( Ga-Young Kim and Yun-Mi Lim) ** (Ibrahim Bin Amir and Lee Poh Soon) ** (

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and

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) ** (Bashar Hussain and Mohammed Ali Bin Ali) ** (Chan Keng Kwang and Toh Lian Han) ** (

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and

Tom Storm Tom Storm (born 16 March 1965 in Borlänge, Sweden) is a former Swedish professional pool player. Storm was the runner-up at the 1996 WPA World Nine-ball Championship. Storm represented Europe at the Mosconi Cup twice, in 1994 and 1995. Storm ...

) ** (Nitiwat Kanjanasri and Surethep Phoochalam) ** (

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and

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)

Tournament summary

Early rounds

The tournament began on 1 September 2009, with the first round played until 3 September. The opening match of the tournament saw the French pair of

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and Vincent Facquet take an 8–1 victory over the Canadian team. The first two rounds were played as a race-to-eight-racks. The defending champion USA duo of

and

met the Maltese team of

and

in the opening match. The match was tied at 7–7, but a by Drago allowed the USA team to win 8–7. The unseeded Indonesian pair won their opening round match over the Indian team 8–3 to draw the US in the second round. An all-female team competed for the first time at the event, with the Koreans Ga Young Kim and Yun Mi Lim. The pair led 3–0 before being defeated 5–8 by the ninth seed and 2007 championship winning team of

and

from China, who won six racks in-a-row. The Filipino A side of

Ronnie Alcano Ronato (Ronnie) Alcano (pronounced al-kah-no) (born 27 July 1972), is a Filipino professional pool player, nicknamed "Ronnie ''Calamba''" and "the Volcano". He won both the 2006 WPA World Nine-ball Championship and the 2007 WPA World Eight-ball ...

and

won their match against the Thai team 8–5, despite trailing 4–5. Japan were trailing 3–6 behind in their match against Croatia, before winning six straight racks to win 8–6. German

commented that he would want to play with his partner

above any other player after his first round match. The team defeated the Hong Kong duo of Kenny Kwok and Lee Chenman in a

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8–0.

and

, the

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runners-up Finland played Sweden in the first round. The Finnish team won 8–3 over

and

. The second round was played from 4 to 5 September. Thirteenth seed Spain played the fourth seed English side of

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and Imran Majid. In the 13th rack, with the match tied at 6–6,

called a foul on himself that neither the referee or the English side had seen. The English side won this, and the next rack to win 8–6 and eliminate the Spanish team. Following the match the reigning ten-ball world championship winner

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called Alcaide a "great sportsman". The Philippine B side played the Italian team in the second round. The Italian team were trailing at 4–6, when referee Cielo Lopez deemed that the hair on Bruno Muratore's left arm had touched the . Later television replays were inconclusive if the foul was justified. The Italian team won only one more rack and were defeated 5–8. The Philippine A side of Orcollo and Alcano won eight straight racks after trailing 0–3 to the Russians to win 8–3. Russia's

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was only 17 years old; but missed some "crucial shots" during the match.

Later rounds (quarter-final—final)

Efren Reyes in the World 9-Ball Pool Championship

The quarter-finals were all played on 5 September as a race-to-nine racks. Both home Philippines teams reached the quarter-finals. Alcano and Orcollo defeated the Polish team of

and

. The Philippines trailed at both 0–2 and 4–2 before eventually winning 9–5. The other Filipino team played the English side, who won only one rack, when trailing by three racks, and eventually lost 1–9. Rodney Morris and Shane Van Boening, the defending champions, were defeated by the Chinese team. China were 1–3 behind, but won seven racks in a row, and eventually won 9–5. The final quarter-final featured the German team of

and

defeating the Netherlands duo of

and

9–7. The semi-finals were played on 6 September, as race-to-nine racks matches. The first semi-final, the Chinese and Filipino teams were at 8–8. In the deciding rack, the Chinese team had the break, but Fu missed a two-ball on the second shot. The Filipino team of Reyes and Bustamante ran the rest of the rack to win 9–8. The second semi-final featured the other Philippine team face the Germans. The German team prevented an all home-nation final, winning 9–6. The final was also played on 6 September as a race-to-11 racks match. Germany won the and broke first, but failed to win any of the first three racks. The German team won five straight racks to lead 5–3, before the Philippines tied the match 6–6. Rack 14 was a long rack, with a prolonged bout of safety play with Reyes and Bustamante both missing long pots. Souquet himself converted a long shot at the to put the Germans up 8–6. The Filipino team won four of the next five racks to get to the at 10–9 ahead. The Filipino team won the next rack to win the match 11–9 and the tournament.

Results

Below is the results from the event. Teams in bold denote match winners. Numbers to the left of teams represents the team's seedings.

References

External links

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