After a week of intense competition at the World Snooker Centre at Pontins in Prestatyn, 16 players have qualified for the games second most prestigious tournament the Maplin UK Championship.
The qualified players are listed below:
Ian McCulloch
Joe Swail
Ricky Walden
Mark Allen
Nigel Bond
Adrian Gunnell
Stuart Bingham
Paul Davies
Dave Harold
Anthony Hamilton
Marco Fu
Joe Perry
Michael Holt
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The final Eurotour event of the season is underway with 40 British players taking part including World Championship bronze medallist Karl Boyes and World Champion Daryl Peach.
There are a number of British players playing in their first Eurotour event, Colin Gray, Andy Jeronimidis and Alan Millership.
Jeronimidis has won his first two matches to set up a tie with World Champion Daryl Peach.
Day One of the Maplins UK Championships has already seen two former world champions beaten in the first round.
Stephen Hendry was the first to fall to rising star Mark Allen - the scoreline over these longer matches was also a surprise as Allen beat him 9-4.
The second champ to be dismissed was Ken Doherty defeated by another player currently climbing the rankings and finding a bit of form.
Italian Bruno Muratore has won his first ever European tour event by beating Radoslaw Babica of Poland 10-9 to take the title and 5000 euro first prize.
Muratore had a great weekend beating European Number 1 Konstantin Stepanov in the 1/4 finals and then beating last tour stop winner Mark Gray in the semi-finals.
All results can be found here:
www.eurotour.nu
The 14th Mosconi Cup, the annual 9-ball battle between USA and Europe, starts tonight live on Sky Sports in the UK and via the Internet on PPV via www.mosconicup.com
Team USA have won for the last 5 years and are again the bookmakers favourites with Stan James having them as 4/7 to lift the title.
Team USA features 2007 US Open 9-ball Champion Shane Van Boening plus Mosconi regulars, Jonny
The £1000 per man US 8-ball Pool Challenge between Gareth ‘Darkside’ Esprit and Lee Rigby is now showing in the schedule and on demand on Internet TV station Cuesport TV.
If none of you have visited Cuesport TV and you are looking for your next hit of pool, snooker or billiards televised action then this website is going to become the place to visit on the Internet.
Not only will you get
Down where I live in Dorset we have limited access to decent quality snooker clubs and facilities - recently four snooker or pool clubs have been made available for sale.
The reasons behind these sales may be due to a number of factors, however, one club in question Dorchester Snooker Club has been forced to close due to a downturn in business. This downturn, according to the owner, has been due
Now you can watch Cuesport TV via the Billiards Boutique Blog!This has come about through the development of the Nbed player which means Cuesport TV can be shown on any website.You can currently watch any programme being shown in the main schedule, which is action from the GB9 event in Solihull and SPA Super 15’s Blackball tournament.
After his defeat to Marco Fu in the 2008 China Open Ronnie O’Sullivan has again caused massive controversy in a post match press conference.
The video is apparantly on a Chinese video sharing site where Ronnie aparantly made lewd remarks and sexual innuendo’s in front of the assembled media in China.
He was fined last year for walking out of his match with Stephen Hendry at the UK championships