Betfred World Championship (Sat April 16th) Last 32 !!

With the table the way it is, can't afford to throw points away. Those 6 points are massive the way the balls are.

Unforgivable. Nowhere near the cannon let alone missing the pink.

21point lead is big with blue safe

Virgo is really anti Bingham

That was pressure

ALLLLLLIIIIIIIIIIII!

Carter will be concerned about the way he let Bingo back into the match, but he played well at the most important points and by winning he has a chance to improve in later rounds.

Aliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Ali will be getting annoyed with this. That's two snookers Bingham has fluked, one of them before snookers required albeit.

Yessssss

Saturday 16th of April

10am

Stuart Bingham 4-5 Allister Carter
Marco Fu 6-2 Peter Ebdon

2.30pm

Stephen Maguire 3-6 Alan McManus
Shaun Murphy 5-4 Anthony McGill

7pm

Stuart Bingham 9-10 Allister Carter
Marco Fu 10-2 Peter Ebdon

CURSE CONTINUES!

Thank you, Ali

Tremendous performance from both to give such a quality finish. Especially to Ali in the final frame after all that had happened. Some of the shots he went for to build that early break and got were top drawer.

Curse

You know it's a proper day at the Crucible when in ends after 11. One day down, 16 to go.

eraserhead wrote:CURSE CONTINUES!

CURSE STRIKES AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!

eraserhead wrote:CURSE CONTINUES!

As long as the likes of Bingham are the first time defending Champs it will continue forever. Let's see what'll happen with the likes of Trump (if he finally wins his first title).

GJ wrote:Curse

Last time it happened first round was a certain Robbo sory for the mention GJ.

If it serves you consolation, he probably faced the toughest opponent a defending champ could hace faced.

A Bingham-free world championship!!! Bring it on!

Andre147 wrote:

GJ wrote:Curse

Last time it happened first round was a certain Robbo sory for the mention GJ.

If it serves you consolation, he probably faced the toughest opponent a defending champ could hace faced.

Indeed , robbo played really well in that match but trump was on fire

Aaaaww, that's a shame. I feel bad for Bingham. Bit cruel to be defeated in the first round of the WC as a defending champion.

Great performance by Ali. The curse lives on.

Finally, the "King of the Crucible" nightmare that lasted 12 long months is over.

Bingham is part of a select group of champions who utter rubbish, dott Johnson now Bingham

What a way to finish the first day of the Worlds! Great response from Carter in the last 2 frames. I wish he would play like this more against the other top players.

Day 1 - Table (2/31) Played

16 KING.KAUTO 2 - 0
16 SKULLMAN 2 - 0
16 ERASERHEAD 2 - 0
16 THECLEAVER 2 - 0
16 WILDEY 2 - 0
16 KRAZEEYEKILLA 2 - 0
16 KRUPPY 2 - 0
14 SNOOKERLOVER 2 - 0
14 MUPPET147 2 - 0
14 PLTHEREF 2 - 0
14 GJ 2 - 0
14 SMART 2 - 0
10 ALEX0PAUL 1 - 0
10 VODKADIET 1 - 0
8 CLOUD STRIFE 1 - 0
8 RANDAM05 1 - 0
6 VOTESFORGOATS 1 - 0
6 JMAL1 1 - 0
6 SAVOMILOSEVIC 1 - 0
6 SUNDAYGIRL 1 - 0
6 SCOTTCORNO 1 - 0
6 ANDRE147 1 - 0
6 JPOPSNOOKER 1 - 0
6 FRIDGE46 1 - 0
6 AYRSHIREBHOY 1 - 0
-3 KOLOMPAR 0 - 0

For the benefit of any first time competitiors, the numbers after a name represent the correct winners followed by the correct number of scores.


Naturally early days in the contest but we have a former champion amongst the leaders.

Kolompar predicted Stuart Bingham to make a maximum break hence why their score is -3.

Wasn't able to watch today's matches but seems all good so far 2/16 when the way I want them - and Newcastle are in a much better position to stay up!

When I saw livescores Ali was 8-5 up, what happened to end up with a decider from there?

Also, the crucible curse lives.

pasunegirafe wrote:Aaaaww, that's a shame. I feel bad for Bingham. Bit cruel to be defeated in the first round of the WC as a defending champion.

I agree, but it was an absolute awesome match and Ali really showed resolve and made some great shots to win. Of course only my opinion!:-)

LC wrote:Bingham is part of a select group of champions who utter rubbish, dott Johnson now Bingham

omg why do you bother posting so much negativity its depressing