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POOL · TOURNAMENT PRIZE MONEY

World Series of Pool prize money

The World Series of Pool has paid £204,889 across 3 tournaments from 2010 to 2012. In 2012 Karl Boyes took £30,370.

PAID IN TOTAL£205k
EDITIONS3
2012 TOP PRIZE£30k
PLAYERS PAID69
RANK44 of 310

Every edition

Who won, what they took, and what the tournament paid in all

Every edition of the World Series of Pool with its winner, the winner's prize and the total paid.
YEAR WINNER TOP PRIZE PAID
2012 Karl Boyes £30,370£30k £72,296£72k
2011 Pin-Yi Ko £30,370£30k £69,333£69k
2010 Jundel Mazon £29,630£30k £63,259£63k

Prize money paid, edition by edition

The Guinness World Series of Pool 2012 - Speedpool payouts

What each finishing place was worth at the latest edition

Prize money by finishing place at the Guinness World Series of Pool 2012 - Speedpool.
PLACE PLAYERS EACH BAND TOTAL
1st 1 £30,370£30k £30,370£30k
2nd 1 £9,259£9k £9,259£9k
T3 2 £4,593£5k £9,185£9k
T5 4 £2,370£2k £9,481£9k
T9 7 £889£889 £6,222£6k
T17 15 £519£519 £7,778£8k

Who has earned the most at the World Series of Pool

Prize money won here, across every edition we hold

The players who have won the most prize money at the World Series of Pool.
# PLAYER NATION WINS PRIZE MONEY
1 Jundel Mazon Philippines 1 £31,852£32k
2 Pin-Yi Ko Chinese Taipei 1 £31,259£31k
3 Karl Boyes Great Britain 1 £30,741£31k
4 Darren Appleton Great Britain 0 £13,704£14k
5 Irsal Nasution Indonesia 0 £12,741£13k
6 Dennis Orcollo Philippines 0 £9,630£10k
7 Shane Van Boening United States 0 £9,407£9k
8 Chris Melling Great Britain 0 £4,593£5k
9 Jung-Lin Chang Chinese Taipei 0 £4,148£4k
10 Thorsten Hohmann Germany 0 £3,111£3k
11 Jeffrey De Luna Philippines 0 £2,963£3k
12 Naoyuki Oi Japan 0 £2,963£3k
13 Mika Immonen Finland 0 £2,815£3k
14 Adam Smith United States 0 £2,815£3k
15 Ricky Yang Indonesia 0 £2,741£3k
16 Po Cheng Kuo Chinese Taipei 0 £2,593£3k
17 Cherry Suliawan Indonesia 0 £2,370£2k
18 John Salazar 0 £2,222£2k
19 Ronnie Alcano Philippines 0 £1,852£2k
20 Rudi Susanto Indonesia 0 £1,333£1k
21 Ibrahim Bin Amir Malaysia 0 £1,259£1k
22 Roberto Gomez Philippines 0 £1,259£1k
23 Yukio Akagariyama Japan 0 £1,259£1k
24 Carlo Biado Philippines 0 £1,037£1k
25 Adolof Leunupun Indonesia 0 £889£889

Other pool tournaments

The tournaments either side of the World Series of Pool by prize money paid

Pool tournaments ranked around the World Series of Pool.
# TOURNAMENT EDITIONS PAID
32 Peri 9-Ball Open 3 £288,333£288k
33 Super Billiards Expo Pro Championship 5 £261,185£261k
34 Italian Open 8 £260,454£260k
35 US Open 8-Ball Championship 11 £259,630£260k
36 Alfa Las Vegas Open 3 £257,718£258k
37 Texas Open 9 £251,222£251k
38 Spanish Open 4 £249,258£249k
39 Oneida World Women's 8-Ball Championship 2 £234,222£234k
40 Sanlig China Billiard World Championship 1 £211,752£212k
41 Buffalo's Pro Classic 4 £210,889£211k
42 Buffalo's Pro Classic One Pocket 5 £208,889£209k
43 Women's US Open 9-Ball Championship 4 £207,111£207k
44 World Series of Pool 3 £204,889£205k
45 WPBA Aramith / Dr Pool Classic 5 £203,630£204k
46 China Billiard World Championship 1 £201,517£202k
47 World Straight Pool Championship 5 £197,926£198k
48 9-Ball Qatar Open 1 £197,407£197k
49 WPBA Iron City Invitational 6 £193,185£193k
50 Kuwait 9-Ball Open 1 £188,148£188k
51 American Straight Pool Championship 6 £187,481£187k
52 Maldives Open 2 £185,926£186k
53 CBSA Chinese Pool World Championship 1 £181,742£182k
54 WPBA Predator 4 £181,630£182k
55 WPBL Season Playoffs 1 £177,778£178k

Frequently asked questions

How much did the winner get at the Guinness World Series of Pool 2012 - Speedpool?

Karl Boyes took £30,370. The whole tournament paid £72,296 across 30 players.

How much prize money has the World Series of Pool paid?

£204,889 across 3 editions from 2010 to 2012. The richest was the Guinness World Series of Pool 2012 - Speedpool, at £72,296.

Who has won the most money at the World Series of Pool?

Jundel Mazon, with £31,852 and 1 win. Pin-Yi Ko is next on £31,259.

Where does the World Series of Pool rank for prize money?

44th of the 310 pool tournaments we hold, by total prize money paid.

Where to next

Every pool tournament and player is ranked on pool prize money. The latest edition is the Guinness World Series of Pool 2012 - Speedpool, and the one before it the Guinness World Series of Pool 2011. What the men's and women's fields are paid is compared on men's vs women's pool prize money. How much of the pot a pool winner keeps, against every other sport, is on the winner's share of prize money. How far down the field the money runs, against every other sport, is on how deep prize money pays.