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The WPA World Nine-ball Championship is an annual professional nine-ball pool tournament contested since 1990. The championship is sanctioned by the World Pool Association (WPA) and principally sponsored and organised by Matchroom Sport , who provide the event's official website branded as World Pool Championship .
Conversely, for Player B to win the match, he must score 46 points before Player A scores 19 points. As APA nine-ball is based on points and not games won (contrast with BCA Pool League nine-ball which is based on games won, where the winner of each game is the player pocketing the 9-ball), a match can end before all the balls of a given rack ...
List of WPA World Nine-ball Men's Championship winners [3] Year Winner Runner-up Final score Location 1990 Earl Strickland (USA) Jeff Carter (USA) 3–1 [b] Bergheim, Germany 1991 Earl Strickland (USA) Nick Varner (USA) 9–7 Las Vegas, United States 1992 Johnny Archer (USA) Bobby Hunter (USA) 13–12 Taipei, Taiwan 1993
A six-ball rack, played with the leftovers of a nine-ball game; the 10 ball (the lowest) is at the apex, and the 15 is the money ball Several games have been derived from nine-ball. Six-ball is essentially identical to nine-ball but with three fewer balls, which are racked in a three-row triangle, with the money ball placed in the center of the ...
The UPA Tour series of pro tournaments cover multiple pool disciplines, including eight-ball, nine-ball, ten-ball, and straight pool; the amateur UPA National Championships are team eight- and nine-ball events. The organization also offers instructional programs, and event promotion/production for pool tournaments and trade shows.
The 2002 WPA World Nine-ball Championship was the 13th edition of the WPA World Championship for 9-Ball Pool. It took place from July 18 to 24, 2002 in Cardiff , Wales . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Chesapeake Conference Center, site of the U.S. Open 9-Ball Championship from 1997 to 2011. The U.S. Open Pool Championship, formerly the U.S. Open Nine-ball Championship, is an annual professional men's nine-ball pool tournament that began in its current form in 1976. The U.S. Open is one of the most sought-after titles in nine-ball and in pool ...
In 9-ball, a player must win a certain number of racks to win a match. In the WPA World Nine-ball Championship, nine racks are needed to win in the early stages, ten to eleven in the latter stages, and seventeen in the final. As with snooker, if one player wins nine frames before all seventeen are played, all others are ignored.