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PartyPoker.com World Cup of Pool - Day 6 Final Results

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Date: Monday, August 28 2006 @ 00:43:31 UTC
Topic: World Cup Of Pool



The World Cup of Pool
The Newport Centre
Venue
The Newport Centre
1 Kingsway
Newport
South Wales
UK
NP20 1UH
Tel: 01633 656757
www.worldcupofpool.com

Tuesday-Sunday 22-27 August 2006



PHILIPPINES TAKE FIRST EVER PARTYPOKER.COM WORLD CUP OF POOL

The Filipino dream team of Efren Reyes and Francisco Bustamante become the inaugural PartyPoker.com World Cup of Pool Champions as they hammered Team USA 13-5 in front of a packed arena at the Newport Centre, South Wales.

The American duo of Earl Strickland and Rodney Morris were expected to make a match of it but a combination of bad luck and loose shots on the part of the Americans and unrelenting skill from the Filipinos meant there was only one winner.

With upwards of 900 people in the arena including a large contingent of expatriate Filipinos, the atmosphere was electric and the tension mounted as the two teams shared the first eight racks of the race-to-13 final...

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From there though things unraveled for the Americans. They lost control of the cue ball on the break and consequently found it difficult to get anything going.

By contrast the Philippines turned up the heat with Reyes in particular playing a series of stunning shots to get out of jail and pot some seemingly impossible balls.

The second half of the match became something of a procession as the Philippines won seven consecutive racks to leave their opponents in no mans land.

Team USA got one back to take the score to 11 -5 but Reyes and Bustamante knocked off the final two racks to take the magnificent silver trophy, the title and a cheque for $60,000.

“It’s funny that every time there is a new big tournament, I win it but all week I thought if we could get to the final we can win, said a delighted Efren Reyes after the match.

“The USA is a good team but they were unlucky and that made it easy for us. The support of the fans was brilliant, they’ve come from all over Britain and have looked after us all week.”

Bustamante was thrilled to take pool’s first ever World Cup event; “In the beginning there was a lot of pressure on us but when we went three games ahead it all lifted, he said.

“Efren played lots of unbelievable shots; some of them I’ve never seen in my life! That’s why we won.

“They were unlucky because they didn’t get the shots after the break but when he plays perfect and I play good we knew we had a great chance and it is a great feeling to be World Cup of Pool champions.”

For the Americans, Rodney Morris summed up their feelings; “That was pretty disappointing. After 4-4 it didn’t go our way although the match was closer than the score suggested but when it went to 7-4 we were both pretty deflated and felt it slipping away.

“We never really got a clear shot off the break and it was a tough hill to climb but they played great – the way they were supposed to so congratulations to them,” he added.


THE STATS





The Prize Fund
Winners:US$60,000 x 1
Runners Up:US$30,000 x 1
Semi-Finalists:US$16,000 x 2
Quarter-Finalists:US$10,000 x 4
Last 16:US$5,000 x 8
Last 32:US$3,000 x 16
Total US$250,000 * All prize money is split between the two players.



The Teams
CanadaLuc Salvas & Tyler Edey
CroatiaPhilipp Stovanovic & Ivan Kralj
Czech RepublicRoman Hybler & Michal Gavenciak
England ARaj Hundal & Ronnie O’Sullivan
England BSteve Davis & Daryl Peach
FinlandMika Immonen & Markus Juva
GermanyThomas Engert & Oliver Ortmann
HollandNick van den Berg & Niels Feijen
Hong KongLee Chenman and Kong Man-Ho
HungaryVilmos Foldes & Gabor Solymosi
IndiaDharminder Lilly and Alok Kumar
IndonesiaImran Ibrahim and Ricky Yang
IrelandTommy Donlon & Paddy McLaughlin
ItalyFabio Petroni & Angelo Millauro
JapanMasaki Tanaka and Satoshi Kawabata
KoreaJeong Young-hwa and Lee Gun-jae
MalaysiaPatrick Ooi Fook Yuen and Ibrahim Amir
MaltaTony Drago and Alex Borg
PhilippinesEfren Reyes and Francisco Bustamante
PolandRadoslaw Babica & Marius Roter
QatarFahad Mohammadi and Bashar Hussain
RussiaKonstantin Stepanov & Konstantin Zolotilov
ScotlandMichael Valentine & Pat Holtz
SingaporeChan Keng Kwang and Toh Lian Han
South AfricaDavid Anderson and Yulan Govender
SpainDavid Alcaide & Rafael Guzman
SwedenMarcus Chamat & Tom Storm
TaiwanWang Hung-hsiang and Yang Ching-shun
ThailandTepwin Arunnath and Amnuayporn Chotipong
USAEarl Strickland and Rodney Morris
VietnamThanh Nam Nguyen and Chi Dung Luong
WalesRob McKenna & Ben Davies



THE LAST 32

Canada

9 : 5

Thailand

Malaysia

9 : 3

Qatar

Czech Republic

9 : 6

Poland

Philippines

9 : 0

Malta

Taiwan

9 : 6

India

England "B"

9 : 6

Korea

Russia

9 : 3

Hungary

Hong Kong

9 : 8

Sweden

Japan

9 : 0

Indonesia (Walkover)

Spain

9 : 8

England "A"

USA

9 : 6

Singapore

Germany

9 : 2

Wales

Finland

9 : 5

Ireland

Italy

9 : 2

South Africa

Vietnam

9 : 8

Croatia

Holland

9 : 5

Scotland




THE LAST 16

Philippines

9 : 5

Malaysia

USA

9 : 3

England "B"

Taiwan

9 : 4

Japan

Hong Kong

9 : 8

Russia

Czech Republic

9 : 8

Canada

Italy

9 : 2

Finland

Germany

9 : 5

Spain

Vietnam

9 : 8

Holland




THE QUARTER-FINALS

Germany

9 : 4

Taiwan

Vietnam

9 : 8

Italy

USA

9 : 3

Hong Kong

Philippines

9 : 6

Czech Republic




THE SEMI-FINALS

USA

9 : 7

Vietnam

Philippines

9 : 7

Germany



THE FINAL

Philippines

13 : 5

USA