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Matchroom Sports kirjoitti:This year's World Pool Masters set to be biggest ever
18 Jan 2010
THIS year's PartyPoker.net World Pool Masters will be bigger than ever with the field increasing from 16 to 64 players.
After 17 years with the event being a 16-player invitational competition, the Masters, one of the longest established tournaments in pool, will now take place over five days instead of three.
Once again, the Masters, which will be held from Wednesday, May 12 to Sunday, May 16, will take place at the Riviera Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Working in conjunction with Cuesports International, the Masters takes place during the annual BCA National 8-Ball Championships, which sees thousands of players and fans flock to the Riviera for a lengthy festival of pool.
The 64-player line-up will comprise 32 international stars of the game from around the world and they will be joined 32 qualifiers who will have won through events across the globe in the run up to the main event in May.
'The Race to Vegas' will be getting underway with the first qualifier in Paris on Sunday, February 14 and the events then come thick and fast with tournaments scheduled from as far afield as Australia, Japan, USA, Canada as well as most of the major European countries.
Matchroom Sport Chairman Barry Hearn said: "I'm very excited about the future of the Masters. It did very well and was very prestigious as a 16 player invitational but now is the time to take the event to another level and then beyond.
"We've increased the field to 64 with the aim of having qualifying tournaments all over the world and that is the model the Masters will follow now and in years to come.
"It gives every aspirational pool player in the world the chance to play in Vegas in one of the game's biggest competitions and compete against the superstars of pool.
"It is my every intention to build the World Pool Masters up into an event comparable to the World Championship when Matchroom Sport promoted it from 1999 to 2007."
The first two days of the event feature double elimination play on a multi-table set-up as the field reduces from 64 down to 32.
The event then goes to single elimination and the last 16 is played out in a single table arena setting in front of the TV cameras, culminating in the final on the evening of Sunday, May 16.
Television is produced by Matchroom Sport and will be seen as 15 x one hour programmes in 14 countries around the world with more to be added to the list.
The prize fund is set at a guaranteed $100,000 with $20,000 going to the eventual champion.
