The tournament was organised by Matchroom Sport, sponsored by poker website Partypoker, and broadcast on Sky TV.

The event was won by the Filipino team of Efren Reyes and Francisco Bustamante who defeated the American duo of Earl Strickland and Rodney Morris 13–5 in the final.

The unseeded Vietnamese team of Nguyen Thanh Nam and Lương Chí Dũng reached the semi-finals, where they won $8,000 each, three-times the country's national average wage.

The tournament was the inaugural World Cup of Pool event, sponsored by Partypoker, and created by Matchroom Sport.

[1] The event was filmed and broadcast by Matchroom Sport across 31 single hour programs on Sky TV.

Davis commented post-match, "It was hard to get ahead – every time we took the lead they got back into it but we stuck at it and came good in the end.

O'Sullivan scratched on the break in rack 15, but Rafael Guzmán of Spain missed a shot on the 9-ball to allow the English team to lead 8–7.

With just the final two balls remaining, Lee Chenman made a difficult 8-ball to allow the Hong Kong team to win 9–8.

[9] The Japanese team received a walkover against Indonesia, as the later failed to secure visas to compete at the event.

[11] The unseeded Vietnamese team of Nguyen Thanh Nam and Lương Chí Dũng won 9–8 over Croatia in a match full of errors.

[12][13] The Dutch team of Niels Feijen and Nick van den Berg defeated the Scottish pair 9–5.

Breaking to go hill-hill, Nguyen missed a shot with the cue behind his back on the 5-ball allowing the US team to take the rack and win 9–7.

[17] The final was contested on the evening of the same day as a race-to-13 racks, between Efren Reyes and Francisco Bustamante of the Philippines and Earl Strickland and Rodney Morris of the US.

[23] With the scores tied at 4–4, the Philippine team won 7 consecutive racks, to take a 11–4 lead, and eventually win the final 13–5.

We never really got a clear shot off the break and it was a tough hill to climb but they played great – the way they were supposed to so congratulations to them.