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2010 PartyPoker.net World Pool Masters - Match Ups Announced

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Date: Friday, May 07 2010 @ 19:14:36 UTC
Topic: 9 Ball



PartyPoker.net World Pool Masters 2010
Riviera Hotel & Casino
2901 Las Vegas Blvd, South
Las Vegas,
Nevada 8910909
USA
www.matchroompool.com
www.partypoker.net

Wednesday-Sunday 12-16 May 2010


Reigning Champion Darren Appleton at the 2009 World Pool Masters in Las Vegas.
This photograph used with permission courtesy of Matchroom Sport / JP Parmentier

A Host of Top Games on Days 1 & 2

WITH THE 2010 PartyPoker.net World Pool Masters set to get underway at the Riviera Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas next Wednesday 12th May, Matchroom Sport can announce the first round matches and groups.

The 64 player field is drawn into eight groups of eight players who compete in race to nine, double elimination play to separate the field down to 32.

Defending champion Darren Appleton has a potential banana skin to negotiate as he faces off against powerful young Korean girl Yu Ram Cha in his first match. At the same venue last year, Yu Ram sent Shane Van Boening packing from the Predator Ten Ball and she will be looking to dent Appleton’s hopes.





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In other men v women matches, WPBA legend Allison Fisher faces Taiwan’s two-time World Junior champion Ko Pin-yi in what looks to be an intriguing encounter. ’05 Masters winner, India’s UK-based Raj Hundal, faces another Korean girl in Ga Young Kim, while Jasmin Ouschan (Austria) has a tough opener against Indonesian Ricky Yang, the WPA No.8 ranked player.

Another marquee match-up is Earl Strickland, a Masters winner in 1997, against 2007 WPC runner-up Roberto Gomez (Philippines) and the incomparable Efren Reyes has a tough proposition in Spain’s David Alcaide.

Three top American stars face qualifiers in their opening games. Shane Van Boening goes in against unknown Ukrainian Evegeni Novosad while Johnny Archer faces the dangerous Vietnamese player Luong Chi Dung. Elsewhere Rodney Morris faces young Scot, Jayson Shaw.

Groups 1 to 4 play their games on eight tables on Wednesday 12th may, while the remaining four groups complete their matches on Thursday 13th. After that the Masters moves to single elimination with the round of 32 taking place on Friday 14th and then the event goes to the TV stages on Friday evening and the weekend.

After 17 years as a 16-player invitational competition, the Masters, one of the longest established televised tournaments in pool, will now feature 64 players and take place over five days instead of three.

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.

Seven previous winners - Ralf Souquet, Daryl Peach, Francisco Bustamante, Tony Drago, Raj Hundal, Alex Pagulayan and defending champion Darren Appleton - are among the players invited.

No American player has won the Masters since Earl Strickland triumphed in 1997 but a large contingent from the USA - Johnny Archer, Corey Deuel, Oscar Dominguez, Dennis Hatch, Rodney Morris, John Schmidt, Shane Van Boening, Charlie Williams, Earl Strickland, Ernesto Dominguez and David Grau - will be hoping to change that statistic.

There has been a multitude of qualifying events around the world, with the final one in the ‘The Race to Vegas’, taking place at Pool Sharks in Vegas on Tuesday 11th May. Four spots in the main event will be up for grabs.

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.



2010 PARTY CASINO.NET
WORLD POOL MASTERS
INVITED PLAYERS
1.
Johnny Archer
USA
2.
Corey Deuel
USA
3.
Charlie Williams
USA
4.
Rodney Morris
USA
5.
Shane Van Boening
USA
6.
Oscar Domingues
USA
7.
John Schmidt
USA
8.
Tyler Edey
Canada
9.
Mike Immonen
Finland
10.
Ralf Souquet
Germany
11.
Niels Feijen
Netherlands
12.
Marcus Chamat
Sweden
13.
David Alcaide
Spain
14.
Thorsten Hohmann
Germany
15.
Tony Drago
Malta
16.
Thomas Engert
Germany
17.
Jasmin Ouschan
Austria
18.
Imran Majid
England
19.
Daryl Peach
England
20.
Mark Gray
England
21.
Darren Appleton
England
22.
Allison Fisher
England
23.
Efren Reyes
Philippines
24.
Francisco Bustamante
Philippines
25.
Dennis Orcollo
Philippines
26.
Lee Van Corteza
Philippines
27.
Marlon Manalo
Philippines
28.
Ko Pin-yi
Taiwan
29.
Dennis Hatch
USA
30.
Alex Pagulayan
Philippines
31.
Raj Hundal
India
32.
Naoyuki Oi
Japan
33.
Yu Ram Cha
Korea
34.
Ga Young Kim
Korea
35.
Ronnie Alcano
Philippines
36.
Earl Strickland
USA
37.
Roberto Gomez
Philippines
38.
Ruslan Chinakhov
Russia
39.
Ricky Yang
Indonesia
WORLD POOL MASTERS
QUALIFIERS
40.
Oliver Ortmann
Germany
41.
Huidji See
Netherlands
42.
Ben Nunan
Australia
43.
Tron Engebakk
Norway
44.
Bartosz Rozwadowski
Poland
45.
Radoslaw Babica
Poland
46.
Jayson Shaw
Scotland
47.
John Morra
Canada
48.
Kevin Uzzell
England
49.
Evgeni Novosad
Ukraine
50.
Noel Bruynooghe
Belgium
51.
Karl Boyes
England
52.
Kuo Po Cheng
Taiwan
53.
Ernesto Dominguez
USA
54.
Lo Li-wen
Taiwan
55.
Toru Kuribayashi
Japan
56.
Carlos Cabello
Spain
57.
David Grau
USA
58.
Ahmad Taufiq
Brunei
59.
Do Hong Quan
Vietnam
60.
Luong Chi Dung
Vietnam
61.
Muhammad Zulfikri
Indonesia
WORLD POOL MASTERS
REMAINING SPOTS
62.
WILD CARD
INVITE
63.
QUALIFIER
LAS VEGAS
64.
QUALIFIER
LAS VEGAS







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