UK Open Pool Championship: Dates, location, prize-money, players, history & how to watch

Everything you need to know ahead of the 2025 UK Open Pool Championship as the Telford International Centre plays host to the latest instalment of the 256-player event.

UK Open Pool Championship - Dates

The 2025 UK Open Pool Championship is scheduled to get underway on Tuesday 6th May and run through until the final on Sunday 11th May.

UK Open Pool Championship - Times

The 2025 UK Pool Championship is scheduled to get underway daily from 10:00 (BST), with the action drawing to a conclusion at around 22:30 (BST).

UK Open Pool Championship - Location

The 2025 UK Open Pool Championship will be held at the Telford International Centre.

The venue is also synonymous with snooker, with the WST staging their Players Championship Finals event there annually.

UK Open Pool Championship - Format

The Nineball tournament, which is part of the World Nineball Tour, is a race to nine frames until the last 16 where it then becomes the first to 11.

With the event being a double-elimination format, players who lose their matches will be offered a second opportunity to progress meaning there will be a large number of tables used across the six day competition.

Loser round matches will be a race to eight frames.

UK Open Pool Championship - How to watch, TV channel & Live Stream

The 2025 UK Pool Championship will be available to watch on Sky Sports, with Sky Sports Action showing the main table of play each day.

The event can also be live streamed via Sky Sports + and Sky Go.

Are Barry Hearn and Andy Goldstein playing in the UK Open Pool Championship?

Barry Hearn OBE, Matchroom Sports President, and Andy Goldstein, renowned TalkSport Radio host, have both been announced as wildcards for the 2025 UK Open Pool Championship.

The pair previously featured at the US Open last August, although despite valiant efforts, neither were able to record victory in Atlantic City.

UK Open Pool Championship - Players

A stacked 256-player field will descend on Telford, made up of the top 128 World Nineball Tour professionals and wildcard contenders.

Defending champion Robbie Capito returns after a landmark 2024 victory, aiming to make it back-to-back titles.

Other players set to feature include Robbie Capito, Jayson Shaw, Johann Chua, Skyler Woodward, Joshua Filler and Duong Quoc Hoang.

UK Open Pool Championship - Prize Money

The total prize fund for the 2025 UK Open Pool Championship is $200,000, with the winner set to take home an increased top prize of $40,000.

Winner (x1):	$40,000
Runner-Up (x1):	$16,000
Semi-Finalists (x2):	$10,000
Quarter-Finalists (x4):	$7,000
Last 16 (x8):	$4,000
Last 32 (x16):	$2,000
Last 64 (x32):	$1,000