Players Tour Championship Event 2 Discusion!!!

wildJONESEYE wrote:

Bourne wrote:David Gilbert, he's done next to nothing since that run of his at the Welsh the other year has he ?

he has lost 9 first match in tournaments out of 14 over the last 2 seasons but he did reach the final qualifier for the World this year and the last time he had a TV Match was at the 2009 Welsh

Yeh thought it was something bad like that. JT will smoke him

Sonny wrote:Polly's retired

True but I thought if Higgins was banned he would have moved up one place in the rankings and got back...to late for that now, not sure what would happen in that case

Surely they'd take the next player in the ranks, I doubt JP will go back on his decision tbh

I've bashed a brief 'betting angle' preview on the blog for anyone interested.

Hawkins @ 40/1 ew, performs well at these smaller tournaments out of nowhere sometimes, only lost a tight one to Mags in PTC1. GL.

Yes, had a small punt on him in the first, I do think the 25/1 on Fu and Carter stands out, one of them should make the semis from their section of the draw I reckon. With the quarter odds on a semi finalist I've backed the two of them. But it's a lottery as ever. Apologies for turning this into a betting discussion by the way, I come in peace!

Apparently Ali had two total clearances at an exhibition match in Germany last week, easy to do in an exi obviously and he was only playing Mark King! But he's practising for this.

No need to apologise at all SB

Carter gets a lot of stick for some reason but the guy's a top snooker pro, he'll see this as a good opportunity to score some points.

I said on the blog at the time that I was surprised at the lack of upsets in the first WJE, so you might have a point there. It will be interesting to me from a betting point of view if things just generally go to form/class here, as they seemed to largely in the first. I suppose best of 7's aren't too different from the best of 9's they are used to, and didn't Ronnie say something about if it takes more than xx frames to decide who the best player is there is something wrong with the game? Not sure about the logic of that, as we would never have had some of the great comebacks of the past if that were the case, but the first load of matches are probably like practice to a few of them, while they are sometimes the other extreme i.e. A World Final to their opponents. Perhaps the gap between the top boys and the middle ranked is bigger than I suspected after all.

I always preferred best of 11's myself, though I was also partial to best of 13's. Oh what the heck let's just for for the old favourite best of 17. Sorry to any best of 15 lovers out there but it will never catch on.

I just made my 20 break! I like it here.

today ... Amateur Qualifying Round Results (Last 256)

1. Lee Spick v Shaun Parkes
2. Paul Metcalf v Raymond Fry
3. Tony Knowles v Mitchell Travis
4. Chen Zhe v Shahrukh Nasir
5. Kamran Ashraf v David Gray
6. James Brown v James Silverwood
7. William Thomson v Charlie Walters
8. Craig Steadman v Rogelio Esteiro
9. Callum Downing v Stephen Craigie
10. Jake Nicholson v Jim Buck
11. Joel Walker v Callum Lloyd
12. Robbie Williams v Stephen Ormerod
13. Ejler Hame v Alex Davies
14. Adam Duffy v James Hill
15. Ali Al Obaidly v Yu Delu
16. Jamie Barrett v Abdulrahman Quari
17. Ashik Nathwari v Sam Thistlewhite
18. Lee Farebrother v Terry Challenger
19. Jamie Clarke v Ahmed Saif
20. Stephen Groves v Jamie Walker
21. Andy Lee v Alex Taubman
22. Farakh Ajaib v Shokat Ali
23. Robert Valiant v Gavin Buller
24. David Grace v David Portman
25. Sam Craigie v Danny Douane
26. Sam Baird v Mohanna Al Obaidly
27. Ian Glover v Jack Culligan
28. Jordan Rimmer v James McGouran
29. Olive Brown v Sam Harvey
30. Craig Barber v Marc Harman
31. Jason Stockton v Chris Norbury
32. Michael Wild v Mark Miller
33. Ian Burns v Hugh Abernethy
34. Damian Wilkes v Jeff Cundy
35. Stuart Carrington v Yahya Seedat
36. Greg Davis v Martin O'Donnell

In red some guys I'll follow a bit closer.
Tony Knowles is a veteran, interesting he wants to try himself in this event. Let's see how he performs.
Joel Walker is the winner of the Future Stars making his debuts.
David Grace is a man on form. He came runner-up in the Pontins pro-am last week and had a good run in the Pink Ribbon also.
Greg Davis is ... Steve's son.

Tournament proper Last 128

73 Jimmy White v Winner 9
74 Kurt Maflin v Winner 10
75 Tom Ford v Winner 11
76 Igor Figueiredo v Winner 12

schedule of play:
http://www.global-snooker.com/2010-Play ... hedule.asp

results to be followed here:
http://www.global-snooker.com/2010-Play ... esults.asp
http://www.global-snooker.com/2010-Play ... esults.asp

Note that there will be no live scoring, so we rely entirely on Janie...

James Brown 4-1 James Silverwood
Craig Steadman 4-0 Rogelio Esteiro
Joel Walker 4-0 Callum Lloyd
Ejler Hame 0-4 Alex Davies

Joel Walker, winner of the Future Stars of Rileys is through and his reward is a clash with Tom Ford later today.

wildJONESEYE wrote:Last 128 Results

Stephen Craigie 4-3 Jimmy White
Kurt Maflin 4-0 Jake Nicholson
Tom Ford 4-0 Joel Walker

Latest

Igor Figueiredo 1 - 1 Robbie Williams

shocking Jimmy, didnt expect much from him in this PTC what with his other commitments this weekend looming

wildJONESEYE wrote:First Days play at the PTC is over for the day and no more entertaining from Robbie Williams as he was beaten 4-3 by new pro Igor Figueiredo

Tomorrows Play Starts Early at 9am with

Last 128

69 Jamie Cope v David Gray
70 Graeme Dott v James Brown
71 Joe Swail v Charlie Walters
72 Stuart Bingham v Craig Steadman

Last 64
119 Stephen Craigie v Kurt Maflin
120 Tom Ford v Igor Figueiredo

Well done Igor, keep it going !!

wild that is.... WILD!!!

Good on Craigie.
Jimmy I love you... SOOO... do the Cookbook Thing!!!





=o)

Noel