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Live Snooker Today.

January 17, 2009 / The_Teach / No comments

The quarter-finals are over and now is where the real action starts! The semi-finals of the World Snooker Masters start this afternoon, first up is defending champion Mark Selby against one of the most highly regarded match players in the history of snooker, John Higgins.

It should be a very tough game with Selby having played final frame deciders in his first two matches, this could cause a bit of fatigue. On the other hand Higgins looked comfortable in beating Ding Junhui 6-4 and the Scot was never behind.

Read on to find out where you can watch it live…

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Murphy and Fu to Contest Final

December 20, 2008 / The_Teach / No comments

Shaun Murphy joins Marco Fu in the final of the Maplins UK Championships in Telford. The final starts tomorrow afternoon and is live on the BBC in the UK and online.

Marco Fu has had an astonishing tournament where he has simply worked hard to reach another ranking event final, he becomes the second Chinese player to reach the final of this tournament after Ding Junhui in 2005. Fu is the consumate professional and has gone about his business almost without being noticed in this event, Murphy will be a tough opponent.

Shaun Murphy, had until this event had a shocking season, he had not won a match before turning up in Telford. Things have just got better and better for the 2005 World Champion as he has progressed in to the final. His semi-final match against Stephen Maguire was very scrappy and twitchy in places but was topped off with a 136 total clearance to put him 7-3 in front.

My prediction Murphy to win the final by 4 frames!

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Snooker Match Fixing – A history

December 17, 2008 / The_Teach / One comment

This week saw another alleged match fixing row in snooker. This time between two Glaswegians, Stephen Maguire and Jamie Burnett.

I am not the person to decide whether this latest case has any truth and the decision of course will be left to World Snooker, should they decide to investigate.

To fill you in if you haven’t heard the story here goes, major bookmakers cancelled betting on the correct scoreline of 9-3 in favour of Stephen after irregular betting patterns occured on that scoreline. The match itself finished 9-3 in favour of Stephen. Of course Burnett vehemently denies match fixing and has gone on record on the BBC saying the same – video here: Jamie Burnett Match Fixing Allegation.
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UK Championship Snooker Firmly Underway

December 15, 2008 / The_Teach / One comment

Through all the hullabaloo over the Mosconi Cup at the weekend I failed to mention that the UK Championship Snooker was on as well!

The second most prestigious tournament in the World Snooker calendar is being shown live on the BBC in the UK and on BBC interactive with table choice. In addition you can watch a snooker live stream also courtesy of the BBC, I believe that due to contractual issues this stream is only available to UK viewers.

Currently the live streams are:

Steve Davis v Ding Junhui

Ronnie O’Sullivan v Joe Perry

If you are outside of the UK then I am sorry that you can’t see it. However, I have posted some unofficial (I must stress unofficial) videos posted on YouTube of this years Championships. They are unofficial snooker videos but are of a reasonable quality:

Steve Davis v Ding Junhui (Part 1)

Stephen Maguire v Jamie Burnett (Part 1)

Controversy

Although no statement has been made from World Snooker yet, betting was suspended on the Stephen Maguire v Jamie Burnett match after irregular betting patterns on a 9-3 victory to Stephen. Ironically the match did finish 9-3 so more information will certainly be requested.

All of the YouTube videos above came from:

http://uk.youtube.com/user/snoookerfan92

You can find the full draw here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/7774168.stm


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Live 9-ball & Live Snooker this weekend

December 10, 2008 / The_Teach / No comments

You can watch live 9-ball pool and live snooker this weekend!

The Mosconi Cup returns for it’s 15th edition and starts tomorrow evening the 11th December live on Sky Sports. The European team (captained this year by Alex Lely) are the defending champions having won the trophy in Las Vegas last year. The tournament MVP last time out was Tony Drago and he will be looking to put on a similar performance as he will be playing in Malta, his home country.

The rest of the European team are Ralf Souquet, Niels Feijen, Mika Immonen and Englands own Mark Gray. European players currently hold all of the world titles and have also been successful in the majors this year as well, Ralf Souquet winning the US Open the highlight.

The US team is captained by Nick Varner and is almost an unchanged side from last year, Earl Strickland returns as the only ever present since this tournament started and is joined by Johnny Archer, Shane van Boening, Jeremy Jones and Rodney Morris.

If snooker is more your tipple then prepare to be mesmerised as the Uk Championships starts on Saturday 13th December from the Telford International Centre. Regarded as the second most prestigious snooker tournament after the World Championships Ronnie O’Suillivan will be on hand to defend the title he won last December.

Other contenders:

  • Shaun Murphy (due some form after losing all first round matches this season.
  • Stephen Maguire (World number 2 could do with a good run)
  • Mark Selby (Looked poor in the Premier League final last weekend but has had a solid season)
  • John Higgins (Always a good performer)
  • Ryan Day (About time he won something)
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