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Redemption Complete: Seoa Seo Crowned World Champion in Epic Rematch

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The 2025 KAMUI WPA Women’s 9-Ball World Championship delivered a final for the ages, as Korea’s Seoa Seo completed her long-awaited redemption by defeating Kristina Tkach in a rematch that has become one of the defining rivalries in women’s professional pool. One year after suffering a heartbreaking defeat to Tkach in the final of the 2024 WPA Women’s World 10-Ball Championship—a marathon match that lasted over four hours and spanned 30 fiercely contested racks—Seo returned to the world stage with one clear objective: revenge. History repeated itself in intensity, but not in outcome. Once again, Seo and Tkach met in a world […]

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Tougher tables did not help USA pros for 20 years

sjm
Kris_b1104 said:
From what I've personally seen recently, most of the time 2 players decide to split in the finals is because it is already past 12am and no one wants to stay there till the early hours of the morning. As opposed to there being a huge disparity in skill level.

I think tournaments need to do a better job at time management to make sure it doesn't run too late. I don't really care to beat Johnny Whatshisname at 3am when I've already been here for more than half the day, spending a majority of time with my stroke arm being frozen cold while waiting for matches to finish and a table to open. Regardless if I can beat the person or not. Now if it's like 9pm/10pm, we're gonna play the final match.
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I think that's fair. Far too often, the split the pot scenario is due to poor administration of an event that causes it to go past schedule. Tournament producers must be held partly accountable for this.
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Tougher tables did not help USA pros for 20 years

sjm
maha said:
but they split because the difference in prize money means too much for them to gamble for. as they are not sound enough financially from pool to go for it.
when ive been in those kinds of positions, i make the other player who is fearful of the difference take the worst of the split or tell him i am playing for it all. unless of course i am the underdog.
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You can defend this practice all you like, but anyone that is this risk-averse is unlikely to develop into a champion. Unfortunately, pot splitting seems a way of life in America, and it is one of many reasons that Americans are failing to develop into champions. You are OK with it and I am not.

The only time anyone ever asked me to split in an event final was in about 1998, and they were also my ride home. My answer was that even if it meant going home in a cab, I wasn't splitting first and second prize money. We played, I won, and I still got that ride home.
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