Masters and World Cup Set For SM City North Mall in Manila - 13/06/2011
The 2011 PartyPoker.net World Cup of Pool and PartyPoker.net World Pool Masters will be taking place at the SM City North EDSA Mall in Metro Manila, Philippines as both events run once again with Solar Sports Television.
The Masters, now in its 19th year and Matchroom Sport’s longest running pool event, will take place from Saturday 3rd to Monday 5th September, with the World Cup following directly afterwards in the same arena. That event runs from Tuesday 6th to Sunday 11th.
Both tournaments will be live from start to finish on Solar Sports, the Philippines’ leading sports channel and the teams for the World Cup, now in its 6th year, will be announced in early July.
The SM City North EDSA is Manila’s original major mall. Opened in 1985, it led the way as it changed the face of shopping and leisure in the Philippines. The Mall also plays host to exhibitions and sports events with nearly 4.5 million people visiting the Mall at weekends.
The defending World Cup champions are China, who won for the second time last year. Other champions over the five year history of the event are Reyes and Bustamante (2006 and 2009) and America’s Rodney Morris and Shane Van Boening in 2007.
Host nation the Philippines have the honour of fielding two sides in the event which is played over six days. The PartyPoker.net World Cup of Pool sports a $250,000 prize-fund with $60,000 going to the winning pair.
The Masters sports a $66,000 prize fund and local man Dennis Orcollo, the current World No.1, will be back to defend his title.
Commented Matchroom Sport Chairman Barry Hearn, ‘We are delighted once again to be returning to the Philippines to work with our very good friends at Solar Sport.
“These will be our fifth and sixth pool tournaments in Manila and our third consecutive year with Solar. After the fantastic successes of the past two years, I’m sure that this year’s events will be huge!
‘There is always a massive amount of interest among fans and media and last year there were literally thousands in the venue to watch the World Cup of Pool.’
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