Mosconi Cup

2015 PartyPoker Mosconi Cup – Steve Davis: 2002: „One of the best moments of my career!“

28th November – 2015 PartyPoker Mosconi Cup Steve Davis: 2002: „One of the best moments of my career!“ He is best known around the world as one of snooker’s greatest ever players, but Steve Davis also has quite a history with the Mosconi Cup. Having played in each of the first 11 Mosconi Cups from 1994, ‘The Nugget’ was a stalwart of the early years of pool’s greatest competition and describes his first victory as “one of the highlights of my career – regardless that it wasn’t even my career.” Unlike in recent times, Team USA dominated the first decade of the Mosconi Cup. Having lost the inaugural event, Europe hit back in 1995 with a 16-15 victory in Romford. But they had to wait seven years to lift the famous trophy again. In 2002 they were 12-9 winners, responding in style to the 12-1 humiliation dished out by an all-star American side in which a 25-year-old Corey Deuel was the MVP. The 2002 Mosconi Cup victory is one of Davis’ proudest moments, and something […]