Snooker World C/ship

manual_man

Anybody betting on this?

I always enjoy a punt every year, Mark Williams @20/1 is great value this year I think, but I also put a few euro e/w on our own Ken @250/1 :pac:

The_Kew_Tour

Was thinking Williams was good price at 20's too.

Normally do 2 players though so unsure on who else to back at minute.

manual_man

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Was thinking Williams was good price at 20's too.

Normally do 2 players though so unsure on who else to back at minute.

I've backed 5 players, but Williams is the one I'm backing the most

TheHopeful

I've done Ding and Maguire from a few months ago. Want to do one more but can't decide between Ronnie and Robertson!

Big price on Williams, but he has been very poor this season, and doesn't seem confident in his own chances from what ive heard online, and he is in a tough part of the draw. Good player to watch though, so I hope he does well. Hopefully both he and Ronnie win their 1st round matches anyway to set up that tie.

okidoki987

If Ronnie turns up, 10/1 is a massive price.
Higgins would be a worth a few quid as well.

Juwwi

This must be the first year Ronnie has'nt been favourite in a long time.

iggy

Got a free €10 bet from PP and put it on Higgins @8/1.
Hope to get a bit of a run for the bet

Esox Lucias

Betfred have some special offer on the SWC this year. Prob because they are the main sponser.
*If Judd Trump wins the World Snooker Championships, Fred will refund losing outright singles**If your selection makes a 147 we'll pay you out as a tournament winner, if he goes on to win the tournament we'll double your outright odds* T&C's apply***

Really good offer. Thinking about opening an account just for this.

Selby, Allen, Ronnie and Higgins most likely to make a 147. (wont be backing Trump as he is part of the money back offer)

MrJoeSoap

Esox Lucias wrote: »

Thinking about opening an account just for this.

Sign up through the link on oddschecker and you can get a matched free bet up to 50 euro.

Esox Lucias

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

Sign up through the link on oddschecker and you can get a matched free bet up to 50 euro.

Was onto live help to see if they would let me spread the €50 over 3 bets and get a free bet valued at €50 for it. No joy. First bet placed only applies. Dont fancy sticking €50 on a snooker player. Mite just deposit €20 and get on two players.

MrJoeSoap

Esox Lucias wrote: »

Was onto live help to see if they would let me spread the €50 over 3 bets and get a free bet valued at €50 for it. No joy. First bet placed only applies. Dont fancy sticking €50 on a snooker player. Mite just deposit €20 and get on two players.

Deposit 20, stick it on someone you fancy, then use the free bet on an outsider. Bada bing bada boom!

Nuri Sahin

Gone for Higgins @ 8/1 and Allen @ 14/1

The_Kew_Tour

Gone for Higgins and Williams both e/w

KevIRL

Interesting write up of Hendry round 1 game v Bingham by Connie147 on IPB

Steven Hendry is in China all this week doing pool exhibitions, and returns to the UK tonite. He is playing Stuart Bingham tomorrow in the 1st round of the world c/ship at 2.30pm. Now this was always going to be a close match, but now with:

1) Hendry not being prepared properly (as in no serious practice all this week) The pros normally have the last 2 weeks before the WC free so they can prepare for the Crucible

2) Jet lag has a big effect on snooker players, hence when playing a ranking event in China, they travel out 3-4 days in advance. mHendrys arrivin back 16 hours before his match.

I cant see hendry being able to give 100% over a best of 19 frame match, so Bingham becomes a big Favoutite in my book for the match. Yet Bingham can be backed at 10/11. Get on imho.

All I can tell you is that for the 2 weeks in the lead up to the Crucible, it is impossible to get any of the top players for an exhibition match, as them 2 weeks are used solely to prepare for the Crucible. (solely preparing means 2 weeks of hard practice on super fast cloth and tables like they'll experience in Sheffield. Any of the players will tell you that these conditions are never available when they travel to China for a tournament, so Hendry definately wouldnt have ideal conditions for any kind of worthwhile practice for the WC.
When Steven hendry was contending to win the WC, he wouldnt have travelled to China the week before for any amount of money, and thats how this year has differed.

I dont dispute that hendry has nerve and bottle, nobody in his right mind would dispute that. But the simple fact alone that he decided to fly out to China a week before the WC and fly back the day before his opening match, is enough to tell me he is not going to the crucible with any serious thoughts of winning. And thats not the Steven hendry of old. And thats why I fancy Bingham.


(I just want to repeat that I have huge respect for Hendry, and I wouldnt have bet against him in a 1st round match before, its just the way he has approached this years c/s is like him thinking he'll turn up to play, if he wins, great, if he loses, he'll spend the fortnight as an anylist for the BBC)

Hulk Hands

At the end of the day it's still the greatest to ever pick up a cue, Hendry, up against the very average Bingham. Regrdless of preperations, I wouldn't advise anyone to back Bingham at odds on. Hendry is slightly overpriced at 11/10

Hulk Hands

Bet of the week is Selby to win his Quarter at 11/4 with Sportingbet. Has a straightforward opener against Hawkins, before taking on Stephens/Fu, players he should be strong favourite against. A QF tilt angainst Ding or Allen await. At that stage you can lay off, although i'd still fancy the world no.1 against either. 11/4 is way overpriced

KevIRL

Hendry 147 and cruising. Jetlag the way to go obv

the groutch

damn, I forgot to do my annual bet on there being a 147, anyone know what price it was?

Hulk Hands

Aftertiming obv, but I have Hendry for top break at 35/1 for a few quid. Have him backed also at 110/1 for the tournament, and backed him today at 11/10, and backed him in a good few frames in running.

Other than that, I've Higgins at 9's, Williams at 25's and the Selby quarter bet specified above at 11/4. Hopefully one or two have a decent run to keep an interest.

There's always the chance that Judd could come out and completely blitz the field. Watching him on top form is scary, he's so good

Wishful Thinking

Hulk Hands wrote: »

Aftertiming obv, but I have Hendry for top break at 35/1 for a few quid. Have him backed also at 110/1 for the tournament, and backed him today at 11/10, and backed him in a good few frames in running.

Other than that, I've Higgins at 9's, Williams at 25's and the Selby quarter bet specified above at 11/4. Hopefully one or two have a decent run to keep an interest.

There's always the chance that Judd could come out and completely blitz the field. Watching him on top form is scary, he's so good

Wonder did many back Stephen Hendry. John Mulholland & Ladbrokes paid out as a winner if your player hits a 147

That's the 2nd time Hendry has done it at the crucible

Hulk Hands

Wishful Thinking wrote: »

Wonder did many back Stephen Hendry. John Mulholland & Ladbrokes paid out as a winner if your player hits a 147

That's the 2nd time Hendry has done it at the crucible

Feck, didnt see that. Betfred too i think. I did mine on Betfair

Yeah he did it in 08 against Shaun Murphy iirc

BQQ

Wishful Thinking wrote: »

That's the 2nd time Hendry has done it at the crucible

Hulk Hands wrote: »

Yeah he did it in 08 against Shaun Murphy iirc

3rd time at the crucible.

2009 Vs Murphy
1995 Vs White :cool:

okidoki987

Don't think too many would have backed him at 100/1.

manual_man

Thinking of going big on Selby -1.5 frames in his first match. 8/15 excellent price I think

done. 326.10 on it to get 500 back

Cartel Mike

Robertson still 6/1 .
Trying to talk myself out of a €50 e/w bet , ew odds 1/2.
He always seems to be there or thereabouts.
Anyone back robertson for this?

manual_man

Cartel Mike wrote: »

Robertson still 6/1 .
Trying to talk myself out of a €50 e/w bet , ew odds 1/2.
He always seems to be there or thereabouts.
Anyone back robertson for this?

he's a very solid player. depends who he comes up against I suppose

Cartel Mike

Yea just did Robertson at those odds anyways.He on the same side of the draw as Ronnie ,Ding and and Selby .
Ronnie low profile this year , he will be dangerous.

manual_man

get your finger out selby!!

Luap

Williams for me. 20/1

superfurry1

Any reason why ali carter is 50-1 bad season?

manual_man

superfurry1 wrote: »

Any reason why ali carter is 50-1 bad season?

he has some disease can't remember what but its been limiting how much can play was even some talk of him having to quit. definitely a dark horse though

superfurry1

Crohn's disease so it seems, Sounds like a good story if he can win it always seems to play well at the crucible.

manual_man

superfurry1 wrote: »

Crohn's disease so it seems, Sounds like a good story if he can win it always seems to play well at the crucible.

It's funny but the Crucible, while not wanting to sound cheesy, has showed before it's the place for dreams to come true. Carter is a former finalist, also scored the magic 147 at the Crucible before. He's lookin hot. Stuck €50+ on him on betfair for a return of €2000

Backstreet Moyes

Had a decent few quid on Hawkins. Didnt see this thread but did ye not know Selby was very close to pulling out with a neck injury and couldnt practice much.

I will be doing a few singles. Higgins is struggling big time and should have lost in the first round. Hendy cued great and must be buzzing 9/4 is too big.

Cao Yupeng to beat Ryan Day. 6/4 is a decent price considering how poor Day has been all year. Day was poor against Ding and think it will be a close game. Or else the +2.5 at 4/5.

Ronnie -2.5 at 4/5 looks a good bet. Williams has been poor all year and in the first round. Plus he hasnt beat Ronnie in ten years.

Barry Hawkins 23/20 looks a good price. Stevens was flattered by a poor Marco Fu. Hawkins has had a good season and won a tournament.

Jamie Jones 6/5. Has had a brilliant season and now into the top 32 suprised it took him so long. Has great bottle and beating Ricky Walden 10-2 and Shaun Murphy in his last two games will have his confidence high. He has got better and better all season and fancy him to win.

Backstreet Moyes

manual_man wrote: »

It's funny but the Crucible, while not wanting to sound cheesy, has showed before it's the place for dreams to come true. Carter is a former finalist, also scored the magic 147 at the Crucible before. He's lookin hot. Stuck €50+ on him on betfair for a return of €2000

Good luck with your bet Manual he played well in his first round. Trump was poor although playing with food poisin didnt help. Think it will be a close game.

manual_man

Nuts102 wrote: »

manual_man wrote: »

It's funny but the Crucible, while not wanting to sound cheesy, has showed before it's the place for dreams to come true. Carter is a former finalist, also scored the magic 147 at the Crucible before. He's lookin hot. Stuck €50+ on him on betfair for a return of €2000

Good luck with your bet Manual he played well in his first round. Trump was poor although playing with food poisin didnt help. Think it will be a close game.

Thanks. Would be sweet if he won it. He deserves it. Played v well and made some v high breaks in his match, even though his opponent was feeling unwell. I think he'll be very hard to beat - should be a cracker of a game against Trump. Looking forward to the Hendry-Higgins and O Sullivan-Williams games too.

BQQ

Nuts102 wrote: »

Had a decent few quid on Hawkins. Didnt see this thread but did ye not know Selby was very close to pulling out with a neck injury and couldnt practice much.

I will be doing a few singles. Higgins is struggling big time and should have lost in the first round. Hendy cued great and must be buzzing 9/4 is too big.

Cao Yupeng to beat Ryan Day. 6/4 is a decent price considering how poor Day has been all year. Day was poor against Ding and think it will be a close game. Or else the +2.5 at 4/5.

Ronnie -2.5 at 4/5 looks a good bet. Williams has been poor all year and in the first round. Plus he hasnt beat Ronnie in ten years.

Barry Hawkins 23/20 looks a good price. Stevens was flattered by a poor Marco Fu. Hawkins has had a good season and won a tournament.

Jamie Jones 6/5. Has had a brilliant season and now into the top 32 suprised it took him so long. Has great bottle and beating Ricky Walden 10-2 and Shaun Murphy in his last two games will have his confidence high. He has got better and better all season and fancy him to win.

Agree with all of that except the Hawkins - Stevens match.
The "tournament" Hawkins won was the 1 frame shootout lottery. Other than that, his season was decent, but not as good as Stevens who is back in the top 16. Fu may have been poor, but Stevens was cueing very well in the 1st round. In fact, Hawkins may be the one who was flattered against an injured Selby.
Stevens also has a great record in the world c'ship and longer matches in general. I fancy him to make the Semis.

manual_man

BQQ wrote: »

Nuts102 wrote: »

Had a decent few quid on Hawkins. Didnt see this thread but did ye not know Selby was very close to pulling out with a neck injury and couldnt practice much.

I will be doing a few singles. Higgins is struggling big time and should have lost in the first round. Hendy cued great and must be buzzing 9/4 is too big.

Cao Yupeng to beat Ryan Day. 6/4 is a decent price considering how poor Day has been all year. Day was poor against Ding and think it will be a close game. Or else the +2.5 at 4/5.

Ronnie -2.5 at 4/5 looks a good bet. Williams has been poor all year and in the first round. Plus he hasnt beat Ronnie in ten years.

Barry Hawkins 23/20 looks a good price. Stevens was flattered by a poor Marco Fu. Hawkins has had a good season and won a tournament.

Jamie Jones 6/5. Has had a brilliant season and now into the top 32 suprised it took him so long. Has great bottle and beating Ricky Walden 10-2 and Shaun Murphy in his last two games will have his confidence high. He has got better and better all season and fancy him to win.

Agree with all of that except the Hawkins - Stevens match.
The "tournament" Hawkins won was the 1 frame shootout lottery. Other than that, his season was decent, but not as good as Stevens who is back in the top 16. Fu may have been poor, but Stevens was cueing very well in the 1st round. In fact, Hawkins may be the one who was flattered against an injured Selby.
Stevens also has a great record in the world c'ship and longer matches in general. I fancy him to make the Semis.

I'd have to agree with that. I think Hawkins might run him close, but I fancy Stevens to beat him. Should be another good match though

Backstreet Moyes

BQQ wrote: »

Agree with all of that except the Hawkins - Stevens match.
The "tournament" Hawkins won was the 1 frame shootout lottery. Other than that, his season was decent, but not as good as Stevens who is back in the top 16. Fu may have been poor, but Stevens was cueing very well in the 1st round. In fact, Hawkins may be the one who was flattered against an injured Selby.
Stevens also has a great record in the world c'ship and longer matches in general. I fancy him to make the Semis.

Fair enough the Hawkins and Ryan Day games are dodgy and to be honest could go either way so i will sit it out. Sickened thought Hendry game was at 1 and closed down my online accounts.

Im going to back Robertson to win it out he cued lovely yesterday. Could have Ronnie in the quarters and you dont know which Ronnie will turn up. In the semi's all the seeds are gone so should win his semi pity im not on since the start.

manual_man

gone for over 2.5 centuries in the Hendo/Higgins Carter/Trump games be sickened if the first one doesn't come through Hendry should have had 2 centuries already!

manual_man

Nuts102 wrote: »

BQQ wrote: »

Agree with all of that except the Hawkins - Stevens match.
The "tournament" Hawkins won was the 1 frame shootout lottery. Other than that, his season was decent, but not as good as Stevens who is back in the top 16. Fu may have been poor, but Stevens was cueing very well in the 1st round. In fact, Hawkins may be the one who was flattered against an injured Selby.
Stevens also has a great record in the world c'ship and longer matches in general. I fancy him to make the Semis.

Fair enough the Hawkins and Ryan Day games are dodgy and to be honest could go either way so i will sit it out. Sickened thought Hendry game was at 1 and closed down my online accounts.

Im going to back Robertson to win it out he cued lovely yesterday. Could have Ronnie in the quarters and you dont know which Ronnie will turn up. In the semi's all the seeds are gone so should win his semi pity im not on since the start.

I don't quite fancy Robertson actually. He's making some nice breaks, but he's leaving an awful lot of of shots on for his opponent, if O Sullivan cues like he did in his first game I think he'll take him (provided they both get through their second round games that is)

manual_man

woohoo 1 century apiece already

Backstreet Moyes

Sick missed the 9/4 on Hendry. If he keeps the way he is playing he could win it. Was not around to see him in his prime but he is cueing like a dream.

razor425

Carter +3.5 @11/10, might take some of the 11/4 available too. Already have small stake on him to win his quarter @ 16/1 and overall @ 80/1.

manual_man

manual_man wrote: »

gone for over 2.5 centuries in the Hendo/Higgins Carter/Trump games be sickened if the first one doesn't come through Hendry should have had 2 centuries already!

Disaster of a bet. Was counting on a close(-ish) contest. That second session was probably the worst Higgins has played in his whole career

manual_man

What a match. Get in Ali!

jive

only caught it at 12-12 but serious stuff altogether! quality final frame

manual_man

jive wrote: »

only caught it at 12-12 but serious stuff altogether! quality final frame

Absolutely brilliant. Almost had my heart in my mouth when he kept on getting snookers! Do you think Carter can go all the way?

jive

manual_man wrote: »

Absolutely brilliant. Almost had my heart in my mouth when he kept on getting snookers! Do you think Carter can go all the way?

I've only seen him play the one frame cause I'm doing exams so have to give the snooker a miss this year. Simply looking at it from the outside in then given that he's beaten the tournament favourite then he surely has a chance. 15/2 best price with the bookies so he might be an outsider but no big surprise if he did manage to go all the way. Looks to have an ok quarter final as well so should be able to keep the momentum going. I saw O'Sullivan play Williams for a while and O'Sullivan is looking good though and I think they possibly meet in the semi's. O'Sullivan is the man to beat but it's a relatively open contest imo.

razor425

razor425 wrote: »

Carter +3.5 @11/10, might take some of the 11/4 available too. Already have small stake on him to win his quarter @ 16/1 and overall @ 80/1.

Good stuff Ali. Will probably throw a few pound on Jones/Higginson to guarantee some profit(don't really see either of them beating Ali though).

manual_man

Pretty shocked at the odds on Carter and Stevens. They're two great match players. Especially in the longer matches. You can get Carter at 8's and Stevens at 10's. I can understand Stevens odds being long up against the Rocket, but he's a two time finalist and has the game to frustrate the Rocket. I think Carter's odds are even more generous. Don't get me wrong, Maguire's played some good snooker, but he hasn't had a tough match yet (Hendry didn't show up). Carter on the other hand has come through two tough matches against in-form players, and that will stand to him. Some great value to be had lads!

*An interesting stat, out of the 8 crucible semis he's played, Ronnie has won 3*