2007 World Cup of Pool

The tournament was organised by Matchroom Sport, sponsored by poker website Partypoker, and broadcast across 31 one-hour episodes.

The defending champions were the Filipino team of Efren Reyes and Francisco Bustamante, who had defeated the USA pair of Rodney Morris and Earl Strickland in the final of the 2006 event.

In the final, the Chinese pair defeated Mika Immonen and Markus Juva from Finland on a deciding rack 11–10.

[5] The defending champions were Efren Reyes and Francisco Bustamante representing the Philippines, who had defeated the USA team of Earl Strickland and Rodney Morris in the 2006 final 13–5.

In the United Kingdom and Ireland, it was broadcast on Sky TV with additional commentary by Phil Yates and Jim Wych.

[8] The programs were broadcast on IKO Kábeltévé in Serbia, Romania, Slovakia and Czech Republic; 7 TV in Russia; CC-TV in China; Fox Australia in Australia; Measat in Malaysia; Measat Indo in Indonesia; NEO Sports in India; Rogers Sportsnet in Canada; Solar Entertainment in the Philippines; Sport 1 in Hungary and Videoland in Taiwan.

[11] The Malaysian team withdrew from the event, and was replaced with Serge Das and Noel Bruynooghe representing Belgium.

[13] The 16th seeded Russian pair of Ruslan Chinachov and European number one Konstantin Stepanov were defeated by the Croatian team of Philipp Stojanovic and Ivica Putnik in the opening round 5–8.

[14] The Japanese team of Naoyuki Ōi and Satoshi Kawabata won 8–2 over David Alcaide and Antonio Fazane from Spain despite dropping the opening rack.

[14] Lương Chí Dũng and Thanh Nam Nguyen representing Vietnam had made the semi-finals in the inaugural event, but were defeated by the South Korean team 5–8, despite being 5–3 ahead.

[15] The English team of Imran Majid and Daryl Peach came from 3–6 behind to defeat the Polish side of Radosław Babica and Mateusz Śniegocki 8–6.

[17] The USA pair were wearing orange shirts, the traditional colour of the Netherlands, after both Dutch teams had been eliminated.

[20] Having defeated the Taiwan team in the second round, the Belgian duo were "drained" according to reporters, and were only able to win four racks against Canada.

Li Hewen playing a shot
Li Hewen (pictured in 2012) alongside Fu Jianbo won the event with a 11–10 win over Finland