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The last four first-round matches of the UK Championship at the Barbican Theatre in York, took place yesterday. We all knew something interesting would happen, and we were right! The headline of course being that Ronnie O’Sullivan bowed out to Zhou Yeulong 6-4. Social media came alive with the “Ronnie’s finished” claims. But there’s simply […]

The UK Championship at the Barbican Theatre in York never fails to produce stories The results from yesterday, courtesy once again of snooker.org The afternoon session went pretty much as expected with a comfortable 6-1 win for current World Champion Zhao Xintong over Long Zehuang and Xu Si pushing Ding Junhui before losing out 6-4.

There’s been 8 matches over the opening weekend of the UK Championship at The Barbican Theatre in York, and 7 matches have resulted in wins for the favourites. This is how the results look courtesy of snooker.org I didn’t see Pang Junxu beating Xiao Guodong to be honest and didn’t watch what looks like a

After the success of yesterday, I’m going to try again today. The Order of Play courtesy of snooker.org is I really can’t see past the seeds again though and the price of a 4 fold hardly seems worth it at 1.32/1 with Bet365, but I’ll go for it anyway. A flutter on Neil Robertson to

Saturday was the first day of the UK Championship at the Barbican Theatre in York There were no shocks and even I got all my predictions correct! Not that they were bold choices as all the top seeds won reasonably comfortably. I suppose the nearest thing to anything like an upset was the Judd Trump

I’m going to make my predictions for the UK Championship matches today in York. My favourite event of the season, starts today and just for a change, I thought I would make a few guesses at who I think will win. There’s no science in this – just gut feelings. I don’t normally care who

Why is the so-called most prestigious amateur snooker tournament in England, not more popular?