The World Straight Pool Championship is an annual pocket billiards

Pocket billiards

Pool, also more formally known as pocket billiards or pool billiards , is the family of cue sports and games played on a pool table having six receptacles called pockets along the , into which balls are deposited as the main goal of play. Popular versions include eight-ball and nine-ball...

 (pool) competition held in New Brunswick, New Jersey

New Brunswick, New Jersey

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, since 2006. It is the current global professional title

Championship

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 for straight pool

Straight Pool

Straight pool, also called 14.1 continuous or simply 14.1, is a pocket billiards game, and was the common sport of championship competition until overtaken by faster-playing games like nine-ball...

 (also known as 14.1 continuous), and is organized by Dragon Promotions, in part to restore the game's popularity in the United States

United States

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. Though billed as a world championship, the tournament in some years (including 2009 and 2011) has not been sanctioned by, or recognized as a world title event by, the WPA or any other sport governing body

Sport governing body

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. The 2010 event was WPA-recognized.

Group stages

All 64 players are divided into 8 groups where they play in round-robin

Round-robin tournament

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 format. Each in this round is a to 100 points. The leading 4 players in each group proceed to the next round.

Last 32

The games are played in double-elimination

Double-elimination tournament

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 format until 16 players remain. Matches are extended to races to 150.

Last 16

The games are played in single-elimination

Single-elimination tournament

A single-elimination tournament, also called a knockout, cup or sudden death tournament, is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match or bracket is immediately eliminated from winning the championship or first prize in the event...

 format, and matches are further extended, to races to 200.

Winners

Year	Winner	Runner-Up	Semifinalists
2006	Thorsten Hohmann	Thomas Engert Thomas Engert Thomas Engert is a German professional pool player. Engert won the 2004 International Challenge of Champions beating fellow German Thorsten Hohmann in the finals...	Mika Immonen Mika Immonen Mika Immonen is a Finnish professional pool player, nicknamed "the Ice Man."He won the WPA World Nine-ball Championship in Cardiff, Wales in 2001. That same year, he was the runner-up to Corey Deuel in the US Open Nine-ball ChampionshipHe has represented Team Europe on thirteen occasions in the...
			Max Eberle
2007	Oliver Ortmann Oliver Ortmann Oliver Ortmann is a German top professional pool player whose nickname is "The Machine". He is renowned not only as a World Champion in Nine-Ball but also in the resurgent discipline of 14.1 or straight pool....	Huidji See	Martin Kempter
			Danny Harriman
2008	Niels Feijen Niels Feijen Niels Feijen is a professional pool player, from the Hague, Netherlands. His nickname is "the Terminator".In 2001, Feijen reached the finals of a nine-ball tournament in Tokyo, Japan. The event had a field of more than 700 players and offered the largest prize money at that time. However, he lost...	Francisco Bustamante Francisco Bustamante Francisco Bustamante is a Filipino professional pocket billiards player from Tarlac, and the 2010 World Nine-ball Champion., nicknamed "Django", after the lead character of the film of the same name, and sometimes also called "Bustie", especially in the United States.-Early life:Bustamante is the...	Nick van den Berg Nick van den Berg Nick van den Berg is a professional pool player.In 2005 he was runner-up to Wu Chia-ching in the WPA World Eight-ball Championship.He represented Team Europe in the Mosconi Cup in 2006 for the third time....
			Jasmin Ouschan Jasmin Ouschan Jasmin Ouschan is an Austrian professional pool player from Klagenfurt, Carinthia. Her first professional competition occurred in 2002, but she did not officially become a professional member of the Women's Professional Billiards Association until 2007. She is currently one of the top-ranked...
2009	Stephan Cohen Stephan Cohen Stephan Cohen is a French pocket billiards player. In 2009, he won the World Straight Pool Championship by defeating former world champion Mika Immonen of Finland, thus becoming France's first-ever world champion in the sport.-References:...	Mika Immonen Mika Immonen Mika Immonen is a Finnish professional pool player, nicknamed "the Ice Man."He won the WPA World Nine-ball Championship in Cardiff, Wales in 2001. That same year, he was the runner-up to Corey Deuel in the US Open Nine-ball ChampionshipHe has represented Team Europe on thirteen occasions in the...	Oliver Ortmann Oliver Ortmann Oliver Ortmann is a German top professional pool player whose nickname is "The Machine". He is renowned not only as a World Champion in Nine-Ball but also in the resurgent discipline of 14.1 or straight pool....
			Johnny Archer Johnny Archer Johnny Archer is an American professional pool player. He is nicknamed "the Scorpion" ....
2010	Oliver Ortmann	Mika Immonen	Thorsten Hohmann
			Huidji See
2011	Thorsten Hohmann	Mike Davis	Alex Pagulayan Alex Pagulayan Alejandro Salvador Pagulayan, is a Filipino Canadian professional pool and snooker player. His nicknames are "the Lion" and "the Killer Pixie". He was born in Cabagan, Isabela, Philippines and was raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada...
			Charlie Williams