2001 Pokermillion.com World Pool League Making its fourth consecutive appearance in Warsaw, Poland, the World Pool League gets underway tomorrow ( Friday) night and features eight of the world's best 9-ballers competing in a unique league format for a US$50,000 prize-fund. Played over three days, the eight players are divided into two groups of four and within each group they play each other once making a total of six matches per group. Each match is over ten racks and it's two points for a win and one point. At the end of the league section the winner of Group 1 plays the runner-up of Group 2 in the first semi-final and the winner of Group 2 plays the runner-up in Group 1 in the second. The semi-finals are a race to seven and the championship match is a race to nine. As usual Matchroom Sport have gathered together some of the world's finest players including 1999 World Champion Efren Reyes, who earlier this week won the Tokyo 9-Ball tournament in Japan and with it pool's biggest ever first prize of US$165,000. Also competing are the likes of Earl Strickland, Steve Davis, Francisco Bustamante and defending champion, England's Steve Knight. Group 1 Steve Davis     United Kingdom Francisco Bustamante     Philippines Earl Strickland     U S A Rico Diks     Holland Group 2 Mika Immonen     Finland Steve Knight     United Kingdom Radoslaw Babica     Poland Efren Reyes     Philippines The Prize-Fund Champion     $15,000 Runner-Up     $ 10,000 Beaten Semi-Finalists     $ 7,500 ( x 2 ) 3rd Place in Group     $ 3,000 ( x 2 ) 4th Place in Group     $ 2,000 ( x 2 ) TOTAL     $50,000 For further details contact Luke Riches on 07785 395688