Venue
Tickets
Packages
Format
Schedule
Prize Fund
Other Information
Sanctioning
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Venue

Hotel Zuiderduin
Zeeweg 52 - 1931 VL
Postbus 80 - 1930 AB
Egmond aan Zee
Nederland

www.zuiderduin.nl or +31 (0) 72 750 2000

Tickets

Taking place over seven sessions over three days, tickets for the 2006 PartyCasion.com World Pool Masters start at €7 per ticket with a series of generous discounts.

Season Pass: 35% discount at €40, which includes all sessions as well as Friday night World Cup football and buffet.

Sunday night including the Final: €10

Series discounts, excluding the final session are:

1 ticket:        €7
2 tickets:      €14
3 tickets:      €20
4 tickets:      €25
5 tickets:      €30
6 tickets:      €35

Tickets are available now online from www.poolkrant.nl, Matchroom Sport’s official ticket agent in Holland.

You can also buy tickets in person from the following outlets:

House of Billiards, Weert
Smeetspassage 3
6001 KM Weert
telephone: +31 (0)495542053

Poolcentrum 't Dijkje
Hoge Rijndijk 34
2313 KK Leiden
telephone: +31 (0)715126700

Club 8 Amsterdam
Admiraal de Ruyterweg 56B
1056 GL Amsterdam
+31 (0)206851703

Packages

The event host, the Hotel Zuiderduin, is offering the following excellent packages during the Masters:

Three night’s accommodation, breakfast and Masters Season Pass: €180 per person
Two night’s accommodation, breakfast and Masters Season Pass: €100 per person

Packages are available directly through the hotel - www.zuiderduin.nl or +31 (0) 72 750 2000

Format

This year the World Pool Masters consists of sixteen of the world’s best players competing in a straight knockout single elimination format.

Each match is a race to eight racks with alternate breaks. Players will lag to determine the opening breaker.

Schedule

Friday June 16

Saturday June 17

Sunday June 18

FIFA World Cup

At 18.00 on the evening of Friday 16th June, the Netherlands take on the Ivory Coast in a crucial Group C game.

If you want to come and watch the 2006 PartyPoker.com World Pool Masters but don’t want to miss the big match, we have just the solution….

Following the first session of the Masters on Friday afternoon, we will be putting a big screen up in the pool arena and beaming every minute of the action from Stuttgart.

Including a superb buffet, tickets for the football are €10.

Prize Fund

The total prize fund for the event is US $62,000 broken down as follows:

Other Information

Table Used - Brunswick Metro
Brunswick Billiards is the official table suppliers to all Matchroom Sport pool events, a relationship which began at the 1998 Mosconi Cup. Since the 2004 World Pool Championship, Matchroom Sport has been using the new Metro tables with tight pockets. With a tradition of quality that spans over a century and a half, Brunswick Billiards is a legendary name in the billiard industry.  A division of the Brunswick Corporation, Brunswick Billiards is headquartered in Bristol, Wisconsin and is a marketer and manufacturer of a complete line of premier billiard tables, table lights, cues, cue racks, and accessories.  
Contact: info@brunblrds.com

Cloth Used – Simonis 860
Matchroom Sport and Simonis already enjoy a long-standing relationship that dates back over a decade and the prestigious Belgian company is supplier to Matchroom Sports’ entire roster of pool events. Simonis 860 cloth covers the tables at the World Pool Championship, the Mosconi Cup, the World Pool Masters and the World Pool League. Founded over 300 years ago in the city of Verviers, Simonis cloth stands today as the benchmark to which all billiard cloths aspire. Suppliers to major tournaments all over the world, Simonis technicians are constantly improving the quality of its cloth to maintain its position as the world’s finest.
Contact: iwansimonis@iwansimonis.com

Balls Used – Saluc Super Aramith
For several decades, Belgian Aramith Billiard Balls have had a legendary reputation for outstanding endurance, performance and uncompromising quality. That is why they are the balls used at the World Pool Masters as well as all other Matchroom Sport pool events. Made by Saluc, Aramith’s excellence is the result of a high-tech process that combines that combines the unmatched characteristics of phenolic resin with fine Belgian craftsmanship. Their consistently reliable performance guarantees razor-sharp precision. Their exceptionally long product life offers the table owner the lowest ball cost on an annual basis. That is how Aramith for almost half a century gained its legendary reputation as signature for true and unrivalled quality
Contact: info@aramith.com

Official Cue - Predator
Predator is the Official Cue of the World Pool Masters for the fifth consecutive year. In addition, they are also the Official Cue to the full roster of Matchroom Sport pool events in 2006. Since its creation in 1992 and thanks to the constant research effort put into the understanding of Pool Cue performance dynamics, Predator strives to stimulate the sport and help pool players improve their game by being at the cutting edge of pool cue performance. Currently over 50% of the top Currently over 65% of the top 40 US male professionals use Predator technology (Source:UPA rankings - Dec 2005).
Contact: info@predatorcues.com

Sanctioning

The 2006 PartyPoker.com World Pool Masters is sanctioned by the World Pool Association which is the world governing body for pool and administers the game at many levels across the globe.
Membership of the WPA is made up of continental members which currently consists of Africa, Asia, Europe, North America Oceania and Latin America and the Caribbean.

Individual national associations are in turn members of their continental associations.

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