30th Mosconi Cup To Be Biggest In History

[azhousepro]

The 2023 Mosconi Cup will be the biggest to date marking its 30th year anniversary with a huge 30% increase to prize money for the annual trans-atlantic tussle from 6-9 December at Alexandra Palace, London live on Sky Sports.

Mosconi Cup team places have always been the hottest ticket in pool, but they will be even hotter with Each player and captain on the winning team set to take home $40,000 each with the runners-up and captain set to collect $20,000.

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[sjm]

This is good news, but we were told the same before the 20th Mosconi, which I'd call the worst Mosconi Cup of them all. In 2013, Matchroom, rather than sticking to the usual selection criteria, chose all ten participants and it led to one of the worst-ever mismatches. It remains the only Mosconi Cup I can remember that ended on Day 3, with the final score 11-2 favor of Europe.

If Matchroom, once again, deviates from the merit-based formula for selection, there's no reason that the 30th edition can be every bit as bad as the 20th edition.

That said, I suspect Matchroom will stick with the formula of picking those that excel in 2023 at the Mosconi, and if they do, this might indeed be the best ever Mosconi.