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2012 Premier League Snooker
The 2012 Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment, PartyPoker.com Premier League Snooker, Premier League was a professional non-Snooker world rankings, ranking snooker tournament that was played from 16 August to 25 November 2012. This was the last edition of the tournament, as in 2013 Champion of Champions, 2013 it was replaced by the Champion of Champions (snooker), Champion of Champions. Ronnie O'Sullivan was the defending champion, but he decided not to compete this year. Stuart Bingham won his eighth professional title by defeating Judd Trump 7–2 in the final. Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: * Winner: Pound sterling, £50,000 * Runner-up: £25,000 * Semi-final: £12,500 * Frame-win: £1,000 (only in league phase) * Century break: £1,000 (only in league phase) * Highest break: £5,000 * Maximum break: £25,000 * Total: £210,000 Players League phase Dates and venues Group one The top two qualified for the play-offs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bwin
Bwin Interactive Entertainment AG, formerly known as Betandwin, is an Austrian online betting brand acquired by Entain PLC. The group operated under international and regional licences in countries like Gibraltar, the Amerindian reserve of Kahnawake (Canada), and Belize; and Germany, Italy, Mexico, Croatia, Austria, France, and the United Kingdom in Europe. Bwin offered sports betting, poker, casino games, and soft and skill games, with most revenue coming from poker and sports betting. Bwin had over 20 million registered customers in more than 25 core markets. Competence centres were located in Vienna, Stockholm, and Gibraltar. The company provides services for its subsidiaries such as marketing, finance, and administration, corporate communications, controlling, and IT services. All operational activities were managed by licensed subsidiaries. It was listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange from March 2000 until the company's merger with PartyGaming plc in March 2011, forming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snooker World Rankings 2012/2013
Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sport played on a rectangular billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six pockets: one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side. First played by British Army officers stationed in India in the second half of the 19th century, the game is played with 22 balls, comprising a white , 15 red balls and six other balls—a yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black—collectively called ''. Using a snooker cue, the individual players or teams take turns to strike the cue ball to other balls in a predefined sequence, accumulating points for each successful pot and for each committed by the opposing player or team. An individual of snooker is won by the player who has scored the most points, and a snooker ends when a player wins a predetermined number of frames. In 1875, army officer Neville Chamberlain, stationed in India, devised a set of rules that combined black pool and pyramids. The word ''snooker'' was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Championship League
The 2012 Championship League was a professional non-Snooker world rankings, ranking snooker tournament that was played from 9 January to 22 March 2012 at the Crondon Park Golf Club in Stock, Essex, Stock, England. Matthew Stevens was the defending champion, but he was eliminated in group four. Ding Junhui won in the final 3–1 against Judd Trump and earned a place in the 2012 Premier League Snooker. Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: *Group 1–7 **Winner: Pound sterling, £3,000 **Runner-up: £2,000 **Semi-final: £1,000 **Frame-win (league stage): £100 **Frame-win (play-offs): £300 **Highest break: £500 *Final group **Winner: £10,000 **Runner-up: £5,000 **Semi-final: £3,000 **Frame-win: £300 **Highest break: £1,000 *Tournament total: £192,700 Group one Group one matches were played on 9 and 10 January 2012. Judd Trump was the first player to qualify for the final group. Matches *Matthew Stevens 1–3 Mark Selby *Shaun Murphy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ding Junhui
Ding Junhui (; born 1 April 1987) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He is the most successful Asian player in the history of the sport. Throughout his career, he has won 15 major ranking titles, including three UK Championships (2005 UK Championship, 2005, 2009 UK Championship, 2009, 2019 UK Championship, 2019), and in 2014, became the first Asian world number one. He has twice reached the final of the Masters (snooker), Masters, winning once in 2011 Masters (snooker), 2011. In 2016, he became the first Asian player to reach the final of the 2016 World Snooker Championship, World Championship. Ding began playing snooker at age nine and rose to international prominence in 2002 after winning the ACBS Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship, Asian Under-21 Championship and the ACBS Asian Snooker Championship, Asian Championship. At age 15, he became the youngest winner of the IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship, IBSF World Under-21 Championship. In 2003, Ding turned pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 – Finals
The 2012 Players Tour Championship Grand Final (officially the 2012 Betfair Players Tour Championship Grand Final) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 14 and 18 March 2012 at the Bailey Allen Hall in Galway, Ireland. Shaun Murphy was the defending champion, but he finished 37th on the Order of Merit, and didn't qualify. Stephen Lee won his fifth ranking title by defeating Neil Robertson 4–0 in the final. It was Lee's first ranking title for six years, and Robertson's first defeat in a televised final. It was also the final tournament he won in his professional snooker career, before Stephen was given a 12-year ban from the sport later that year, after his suspicious match-fixing and betting patterns arose. Prize fund and ranking points The breakdown of prize money and ranking points of the event is shown below: Seeding list The leading 24 players in the PTC Order of Merit qualified for the event, provided that they had played in at least ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Lee (snooker Player)
Stephen Lee (born 12 October 1974) is an English former professional snooker player. He turned professional in 1992, reached a career-high of fifth in the snooker world rankings for the 2000–01 season, and won five ranking titles. His best performances in Triple Crown events were reaching the semi-finals of the 2003 World Championship, where he lost to eventual champion Mark Williams, and reaching the final of the 2008 Masters, where he was runner-up to Mark Selby. He compiled 184 century breaks in professional competition and was noted for his smooth cue action. West Midlands police arrested Lee in February 2010 as part of an investigation into suspicious betting patterns at the 2009 UK Championship, but no further action was taken against him at that time. Following further reports of irregular betting patterns on a 2012 Premier League match between Lee and John Higgins on 11 October 2012, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) suspended Lee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Masters (snooker)
The 2012 Masters (officially the 2012 BGC Masters) was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament held between 15 and 22 January 2012 at the Alexandra Palace in London, England. This was the first time that Stephen Hendry didn't participate at the Masters since his début in 1989, and the first time that BGC Partners sponsored the event. Ding Junhui was the defending champion, but he lost in the first round 4–6 against Ronnie O'Sullivan. Ronnie O'Sullivan made the highest break of the tournament in the second round against Judd Trump, making a 141. Neil Robertson won his first Masters title by defeating Shaun Murphy 10–6 in the final. This was Robertson's 10th professional title and his second Triple Crown title after winning the 2010 World Snooker Championship. Field Defending champion Ding Junhui was the number 1 seed with World Champion John Higgins seeded 2. The remaining places were allocated to players based on the latest world rankings (revision 2). Martin Goul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Robertson
Neil Alexander Robertson (born 11 February 1982) is an Australian professional snooker player, who is a former List of World Snooker Championship winners, world champion and former List of world number one snooker players, world number one. He is the most successful player from outside the United Kingdom and the only non-UK born player to have completed snooker's Triple Crown (snooker), Triple Crown, having won the World Snooker Championship, World Championship in 2010 World Snooker Championship, 2010, the Masters (snooker), Masters in 2012 Masters (snooker), 2012 and 2022 Masters (snooker), 2022 and the UK Championship in 2013 UK Championship, 2013, 2015 UK Championship, 2015 and 2020 UK Championship, 2020. He has claimed 25 career ranking titles and won at least one professional tournament each year between 2006 and 2022. Robertson first turned professional in the 1998-99 snooker season, 199899 season but was unsuccessful and dropped off the tour. He rejoined the tour for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Brazil Masters
The 2011 Brazil Masters was a professional non-Snooker world rankings, ranking snooker tournament that took place between 15 and 18 September 2011 at Costão do Santinho Resort in Florianópolis, Brazil. Shaun Murphy won in the final 5–0 against Graeme Dott. Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: *Winner: United States dollar, $40,000 *Runner-up: $20,000 *Semi-final: $11,000 *Quarter-final: $7,000 *Last 16: $4,000 *Appearance fee for 14 professionals: $4,000 *Highest break: $2,000 *Total: $200,000 Main draw Final Century breaks * 139, 111 Shaun Murphy * 114 Igor Figueiredo * 113 Stephen Hendry References {{DEFAULTSORT:Brazil Masters, 2011 Snooker non-ranking competitions 2011 in snooker 2011 in Brazilian sport, Masters September 2011 sports events in South America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaun Murphy
Shaun Peter Murphy (born 10 August 1982) is an English professional snooker player who won the 2005 World Snooker Championship, 2005 World Championship and has completed the Triple Crown (snooker), Triple Crown. Nicknamed "The Magician", Murphy is noted for his straight and his . Born in Harlow, Essex, and raised in Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire, Murphy turned professional in 1998. His 2005 victory at the World Snooker Championship, World Championship was considered a major surprise as he was only the third qualifier to win the title after Alex Higgins and Terry Griffiths. Since then, he has been runner-up at the World Championship three times, in 2009 World Snooker Championship, 2009, 2015 World Snooker Championship, 2015 and 2021 World Snooker Championship, 2021. He has earned twelve List of snooker ranking tournaments, ranking titles, including the UK Championship in 2009, which places him tenth on the List of snooker players by number of ranking titles, all-time list ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Card (sports)
A wild card (also wildcard or wild-card and also known as an at-large berth or at-large bid) is an invitation to a tournament or a playoff berth awarded to a team or individual that does not qualify via an automatic bid. In some events, wildcards are chosen freely by the organizers. Other events have fixed rules. Some North American professional sports leagues compare the records of teams which did not qualify directly by winning a division or conference. International sports In international sports, the term is perhaps best known in reference to two sporting traditions: team wildcards distributed among countries at the Olympic Games and individual wildcards given to some tennis players at every professional tournament (both smaller events and the major ones such as Wimbledon). Tennis players may even ask for a wildcard and get one if they want to enter a tournament on short notice. For Summer Olympic Games, some National Olympic Committees, whose nations are underrepresented ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Higgins
John Higgins (born 18 May 1975) is a Scottish professional snooker player from Wishaw in North Lanarkshire. Since turning professional in 1992, he has won 33 ranking titles, placing him in third position on the List of snooker players by number of ranking titles, all-time list of ranking event winners, behind Ronnie O'Sullivan (41) and Stephen Hendry (36). He has won four World Snooker Championship, World Championships, three UK Championships and two Masters (snooker), Masters titles, for a total of nine Triple Crown (snooker), Triple Crown titles, putting him level with Mark Selby and behind only O'Sullivan (23), Hendry (18) and Steve Davis (15). He first entered the top 16 in the 1995–96 snooker world rankings, 1995–96 world rankings and remained there continuously for over 29 years until September 2024, setting a record for the longest uninterrupted tenure as a top-16 player. He reached the List of world number one snooker players, world number one position four times. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
