After taking the first of snooker’s big three events, the UK Championship for a sixth time, Ronnie O’Sullivan has hardened as favourite for The Masters which takes place in London next month. The Rocket was imperious in the final at York’s Barbican Centre, as he reeled off five unanswered frames to power from 5-5 to […]
It didn’t take long for a shock to happen at the UK Championship, as world number three Ding Junhui was beaten 6-5 by Leo Fernandez. Chinese superstar Ding, a two-time winner of the UK Championship – in 2005 and 2009 – looked on course for victory when racing into a 5-1 lead thanks to breaks […]
You know Christmas is just around the corner when the cream of the snooker crop pitches up at the Barbican Centre in York for the UK Championship. Arguably behind only the Masters and the World Championship in snooker’s list of top events, the elite names of the sport have got their hands on the prize […]
Mark Selby proved once again he is snooker’s premier cueman with a battling 18-15 win over John Higgins to win the World Championship at the Crucible, justifying 188BET’s pre-event price of 5.50 in the process. The man from Leicester demonstrated brilliant game awareness, superb cueing and a steely resolve to fight back from a wretched […]
Ronnie O’Sullivan’s bid for a sixth World Snooker Championship will have to wait another year, and his 13-10 defeat to Ding Junhui has resulted in Mark Selby firming up as favourite for the crown. O’Sullivan could never recover from falling 10-6 behind overnight and although he won three of the first four frames of the […]
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