Snooker World Cup

The Snooker World Cup 1985 was held at Bournemouth International Centre, Bournemouth, Dorset, England. The last edition of the mega event was organised at Amari Watergate Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand, in 1996. It is scheduled according to the round-robin algorithm, also called all-play-all, in which each member of a team meets with equivalent member of the other team and their individual performance in a match affects the overall result.

The World Cup 2011 will feature 20 two-man teams representing 19 countries from around the world. The criteria of selecting players has not been finalised yet. Thailand is staging the Snooker World Cup as a part of their King’s 84th birthday celebrations. The total prize money for the winning team is $700,000 (21 million baht).

The Snooker World Cup was created by Mike Watterson, a businessman, entrepreneur and snooker commentator in 1997. Mike is the one who organised the first UK championship and also brought World Snooker Championship to the Crucible.

World cup was an annual event featuring three-man teams representing their country until 1996. It changed into a four-man team event in 1999 and 2000 with the name, ‘the Nations Cup’. However, in 2001, it was re-changed into a three-man team contest. It is the one and only ‘team event’ in the game of snooker.

MaXimumbreak Snooker

MaXimumbreak Snooker is a flexible and proactive organization that is in continual development. Our aims are to simply to teach and improve snooker ability and to accelerate the learning process. In achieving our aims, we will develop grassroots snooker to a new level and have a say in how snooker at the higher levels is being promoted. Over the six years since inception, MaXimumbreak has developed a database of over 10,000 members around the world.

MaXimumbreak was founded by David Weller in early 2003. An avid enthusiast and a top amateur snooker player, Dave learned the basics of web design and development after becoming homebound due to a serious leg injury suffered in an earlier road traffic accident. Dave quickly developed a content rich site that began to attract interest from around the world so much so that by the end of 2003, there were over 300 subscribers.

At MaXimumbreak, we realize that snooker and cuesports development is not possible without a proactive approach to networking and relationship building. We have spend lots of time interacting with the many hundreds of organisations with similar intentions to ours in an effort to discover opportunities for cross promotion or partnering on micro projects. Yes, we do get many negatives, which is unfortunate, but we are most grateful of the relationships we have built with, what we feel, are companies with the same vision as ours. The myth that snooker is dying is one that we do not believe in – we shall continue to work together to develop the beautiful game.

The World Cup Of Pool In Manila

GERMANY became the first ever European winners of the PartyCasino.net World Cup of Pool as they made light work of shock finalists Thailand to record a superb 10-4 victory and claim the gold medals, trophy, $60,000 and more importantly the title at the SM Mall North in Manila.

Thorsten Hohmann and Ralf Souquet put in an inch perfect performance to run away with the match in sharp contrast to their semi-final game earlier in the day when they laboured to a pedestrian win over Korea.

They clearly gave themselves a good talking to between matches as they returned with the type of form that has made them two of the most feared players in the world. For Souquet it was a culmination of a magnificent seven days that saw him win the PartyPoker.net World Pool Masters last Monday and his total haul for the two events has been $50,000.

Billiard World Cup In Thailand


We are in advanced stages of discussions with the Billiard Sports Association of Thailand about the staging of the World Cup in Bangkok from July 11 to 17, and we hope to make a formal announcement on this shortly.

The provisional format includes 20 two-man teams from around the world and we expect to release full details in the coming weeks. At this stage the criteria for selecting players has not been finalised.

To stage a World Cup would be tremendously exciting for snooker and we are delighted to be working towards this alongside our colleagues in Thailand.