| Alias | The Sniper |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Hometown | Hong Kong |
| Age | 25 |
| Height | 6ft |
| Highest Rank | 17 |
| Majors Won | 1 |
| Invitationals Won | 0 |
| Ranking Events Won | 0 |
| Prize Money | $106,225 |
Robbie Capito represents Hong Kong on the World Nineball Tour and has built a record that includes a UK Open title and a US Open final. Known as “The Sniper”, he made his major breakthrough at the 2024 UK Open in Telford, winning the title ahead of Poland’s Mieszko Fortuński.
Capito followed that breakthrough with semi-final appearances at Premier League Pool and the Hanoi Open in 2025. At that year’s World Pool Championship, he also earned the high-run prize after putting together five consecutive break-and-runs.
His progress continued in 2026 with a run to the US Open final, where Francisco Sánchez Ruiz took the title. Reaching that stage two years after his UK Open victory added another significant result to his major-event record. His results now span large open fields and the smaller invitational lineup of Premier League Pool, where he reached the last four on his debut in 2025.
Selected Honours and Results
Major title: UK Open — 2024
Major runner-up: US Open — 2026
Individual distinction: World Pool Championship Highest Break & Run prize — 2025
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The Universal Open Ho Chi Minh brings a 128-player international nineball field to Sniper Billiards Club from 11–15 November 2026. A World Nineball Tour Silver ranking event, it offers a $63,000 prize fund and another opportunity for players to build their standing on the tour in Vietnam.
The competition begins with double elimination, allowing players to recover from one defeat as they compete for a place in the last 64. From that point, the event becomes straight knockout, building towards a final raced to 13 racks.
Its place immediately before the Universal Open Bangkok creates consecutive tournament opportunities across Vietnam and Thailand. For spectators, the Ho Chi Minh event brings international competition into a pool-club setting; for the players, it begins a November sequence with two ranking titles to pursue.
The World Pool Masters is one of nineball’s longest-running invitational tournaments. First staged in Plymouth, England in 1993, it has been won by players including Francisco Bustamante, Shane Van Boening and Joshua Filler, giving each new field a place to pursue among the sport’s established champions.
The event’s recent editions have used a straight-knockout format, placing immediate pressure on a select field: one defeat ends a player’s challenge. The 2027 tournament brings together 20 players at Songshan Cultural and Creative Park in Taipei City from 12–14 January, following the Chinese Taipei Open at the same venue.
For the first time, the Masters will feature a two-table arena, with matches from both tables available live on WNT TV. The move to Chinese Taipei opens a new chapter for a competition with more than three decades of history.
