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The 9-Ball World Pool Championship is a yearly international event which is organized by the World Pool-Billiard Association. Both the Men’s and Women’s divisions are the most popular in the tournaments. For nine years, 1990 to 1999, the tournament was managed alone by the World Pool-Billiard Association or the WPA. In 1999, Matchroom Sports tried being involved in the tournament but failed to push through.

What Matchroom Sports did was to organize their own match which was called the World Professional Pool Championship, where The Magician Efren Bata Reyes emerged as the big winner of the competition. It was held in Cardiff, Wales but not sanctioned by the WPA.

When WPA the professionalism of the tournament that Matchroom Sport held, they decided to let it handle officially the WPA World Pool Championship in 2000. The tournament offers a total cash prize of $400,000 which also includes $100,000 for the receiving tournament champion.

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