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The WPA World Ten-ball Championship is a professional ten-ball pool tournament sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA). The event was first held in 2008 in the Philippines , followed by playings there in 2009 and 2011.
The Derby City Classic is an annual pool convention and tournament held every January at the Caesars Southern Indiana casino in Elizabeth, Indiana, near Louisville, Kentucky. [1] It is eight days long and offers various disciplines of competition for pool players of all caliber. [ 2 ]
It was the seventh WPA World Ten-ball Championship. Held in Las Vegas, the event started on March 28 with the championship match on April 1. [1] The event featured a prize fund of $226,000. The competition began with 128 participants, selected according to world and continental pool rankings as well as qualifying events.
Wertheim subsequently wrote a book on Basavich's adventures entitled Running the Table: The Legend of Kid Delicious, the Last Great American Pool Hustler which was released in September 2007. [9] In 2005, Lions Gate entered into negotiations for a feature film to be loosely based on the life of Danny Basavich. [10] [11]
The event was the first pool world championship held in the US since 1997, and the first ten-ball world championship held outside of the Philippines. [3] The tournament was played alongside the Billiard Congress of America's National Ten-ball Championship. [4] The event contributed points towards the WPA world rankings. [5]
WPA World Nine-ball Championship, first contested in 1990; WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship, from 1990; WPA World Eight-ball Championship, first contested in 2004; WPA World Blackball Championship, first contested in 2006; WPA World Ten-ball Championship, first contested in 2008
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The 1999 World Pool Championship was a professional pool championship that took place in 1999 in Cardiff, Wales. The event was billed as a world championship by Matchroom Sport as an alternative to the World Pool-Billiard Association 's 1999 WPA World Nine-ball Championship , won by Nick Varner . [ 1 ]