It’s a quick turnaround after a late finish of the UK Championship on Sunday night for the third installment of the Home Nations series. The World Snooker Tour is still at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes for the seventh tournament of the season and it’s a Scotsman fancied to emerge victorious this week in […]
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Trump stands out as UK Championship heads for last 16
The last-16 line-up at this year’s UK Championship is taking shape after a number of high-profile casualties in the early rounds. The standard of play at the Marshall Arena has been brilliant and we have already seen two 147 maximum breaks compiled by Kyren Wilson and Stuart Bingham. No Lift-Off for ‘The Rocket’ or Defending Champ Ding […]
Trump the Man to Beat in Milton Keynes
For the sixth time this season, the world snooker tour heads to the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes as the players battle it out in the opening triple crown event – the £200,000 UK Championship. The tradition of the Barbican Theatre in York may have been lost, but the standard of play on the green […]
Monday Matches Provide Value in Northern Ireland
There’s a feast of snooker action in the Northern Ireland Open this evening and there looks to be three tasty bets for punters to tuck into. Patrick Can Put the Boot Into Maflin Kurt Maflin is a quality cueman but price dictates betting and the 7/2 on offer about Fraser Patrick looks too big to […]
O’Sullivan Can Improve Outstanding Champions Record
The Champion of Champions gets underway in Milton Keynes on Monday with a high-class field set to battle it out on the baize. Ronnie O’Sullivan boasts an almost inexhaustible list of career achievements but his record in the Champion of Champions is something to behold. The Rocket has played in this event six times and […]
Ronnie O’Sullivan: Snooker’s Superstar
Ronnie O’Sullivan was destined for glory from an early age and we take a sweeping look at a glittering career. Teenage Titles and First Major Ranking Event Win Born in the West Midlands in 1975 but raised in Chigwell, Essex, O’Sullivan brimmed with snooker talent from an early age. Given the nickname of the Rocket […]
Murphy Ready to Shine at English Open
Milton Keynes is again the home to snooker’s elite this week, with the English Open already the third event of the new season and the third event in three weeks to be held at the Marshall Arena. £70,000 and the Steve Davis Trophy is up for grabs as 128 players take to the green baize […]
The Best 147 Breaks of All Time
A maximum break is the epitome of perfection on a snooker table, 15 reds, 15 blacks and all the colours in a single break compiling the highest possible points tally – 147! Some of the most iconic and magical moments in the history of snooker have been 147s. There have been 158 officially recorded in professional play, […]
Snooker Betting Guide: How to Bet on Snooker
Snooker has boomed in recent years with more and more tournaments being added to the calendar from places all over the world. That means there are plenty of betting opportunities for punters to take advantage of. Tournament Betting Tournaments can be divided into two groups: ranking and non-ranking events. Every pound of prize money won […]
Maflin the Man to End McGill Run
Anthony McGill came through a 13-12 thriller against Jamie Clarke in the second-round but the Scot’s World Championship run looks set to be ended by Kurt Maflin. It’s clearly going to be a tough ask to expect McGill to perform to a high level after Sunday’s late night slog, and even if the Glasgow cueman […]
Williams and Bingham Headline Crucible Action
There are some tasty second-round World Championship matches to get stuck into and none more enticing than the clash between Mark Williams and Stuart Bingham. Williams Worthy of Support It’s a battle between two former world champions, with Bingham lifting the Crucible crown in 2015 and Williams a three-time Sheffield hero. It’s possible to make […]
Open Feel to Crucible Spectacle
The greatest show on baize returns to the Crucible Theatre as two weeks of World Championship action gets underway on Friday. There has been a limited amount of snooker action in recent months, for obvious reasons, and that adds another layer of intrigue to the Sheffield showpiece. The fact that many overseas players were unable […]
Snooker – 5 Best Shots from the World Championships
Snooker’s World Championship is due to start in Sheffield at the end of the month and to whet the appetite of green-baize punters, here’s a list of five of the greatest shots in the Crucible Theatre’s history. The sport has made a terrific effort at bouncing back from the coronavirus pandemic and with successful Championship […]
Snooker Tour Championship: Allen Escapes to Set up Tough Selby Clash
Mark Allen produced an escape Harry Houdini would have been proud of when beating Shaun Murphy in the first round of the Tour Championship but he may struggle to repeat the trick against Mark Selby. Murphy knocked in six centuries, equalling the record over a best-of-17-frame format, in the opening contest but somehow found himself […]
Trump Returns as Good as Before
Judd Trump continued where he left off before the shutdown, with a commanding 9-4 win over John Higgins in the first-round of the Tour Championship on Sunday. The Ace reeled off five frames in a row before Higgins could get a rack on the board and the Wizard of Wishaw never threatened to get back […]