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Post by Panda on Feb 18, 2008 13:52:55 GMT 1
Mark Selby defiantly one of the favorites for the world title now Certainly. He's been the most consistent player this season. I'd love to see Selby v Ronnie in the final at the Crucible. Shaun Murphy will be a contender as well. Ken Doherty seems to be coming into form, too. Stephen Maguire looked good earlier in the season but seems to have lost his momentum since getting destroyed by Ronnie in the UK final.
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Post by Panda on Feb 18, 2008 14:14:20 GMT 1
Updated provisional world rankings after the Welsh Open.
(Start of season rankings in brackets)
1(5) Ronnie O'Sullivan 2(3) Shaun Murphy 3(10) Stephen Maguire 4(11) Mark Selby 5(1) John Higgins 6(7) Neil Robertson 7(8) Stephen Hendry 8(9) Ding Junhui 9(6) Peter Ebdon 10(16) Ryan Day 11(2) Graeme Dott 12(14) Ali Carter 13(18) Joe Perry 14(27) Marco Fu 15(4) Ken Doherty 16(20) Matthew Stevens 17(28) Ian McCulloch 18(22) Jamie Cope 19(29) Mark Allen 20(21) Mark King 21(13) Stephen Lee 22(17) Joe Swail 23(23) Stuart Bingham 24(15) Steve Davis 25(31) Dominic Dale 26(37) Fergal O'Brien 27(25) Nigel Bond 28(32) Gerard Greene 29(12) Mark Williams 30(34) Michael Judge 31(24) Michael Holt 32(26) Anthony Hamilton 33(19) Barry Hawkins 34(30) Dave Harold 35(40) Adrian Gunnell 36(38) Alan McManus 37(44) Andrew Higginson 38(36) Ricky Walden 39(45) David Gilbert 40(52) Marcus Campbell 41(39) John Parrott 42(46) Jamie Burnett 43(50) Tom Ford 44(51) Judd Trump 45(35) David Gray 46(61) Jimmy Michie 47(48) Rory McLeod 48(42) Andrew Norman 49(66) Liang Wenbo 50(47) Robert Milkins 51(59) Mike Dunn 52(49) Rod Lawler 53(58) Joe Delaney 54(72) Liu Song 55(64) Ian Preece 56(62) Paul Davies 57(54) David Roe 58(73) Mark Joyce 59(53) Stuart Pettman 60(41) Andy Hicks 61(71) David Morris 62(33) James Wattana 63(-) Patrick Wallace 64(56) Barry Pinches 65(43) Mark Davis 66(-) Martin Gould 67(67) Joe Jogia 68(68) Tony Drago 69(69) Tian Pengfei 70(55) Robin Hull 71(64) Lee Spick 72(-) Jamie O'Neill 73(-) Rodney Goggins 74(74) Alfie Burden 75(60) Jimmy White 76(57) Drew Henry 77(-) Matt Selt 78(-) Lee Walker 79(-) Supoj Saenla 80(-) Munraj Pal 81(-) Kurt Maflin 82(-) James McBain 83(63) Scott Mackenzie 84(-) Jimmy Robertson 85(-) Xiao Guodong 86(75) Ben Woollaston 87(-) Leo Fernandez 88(-) Fraser Patrick 89(-) Alex Davies 89(-) Gareth Coppack 91(-) Kevin van Hove 91(-) Michael White 93(-) Ashley Wright 93(-) Steve Mifsud 95(79) Issara Kachaiwong 96(-) Liu Chuang
Jimmy White appears so low because the points earned in qualifying tournaments aren't added to the provisional rankings until that tournament has actually finished. The points he's earned in qualifying for the China Open and the World Championship will see him keep his place on the Tour.
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Post by Panda on Feb 21, 2008 18:32:19 GMT 1
A new tournament from the organisers of the Premier League starts next week. Called the Championship League, it is a series of 8 mini-tournaments, with the overall winner taking the last place in this year's Premier League.
The first event is next week and features Ken Doherty, Mark Williams, Joe Perry, Ryan Day, Ali Carter, Matthew Stevens and Barry Hawkins.
The winner of each mini-tournament goes forward to the final event to determine the overall winner. Those finishing 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th in each tournament move on to the next event, with the bottom 2 being eliminated. 3 new players then join the tournament.
Nigel Bond, Anthony Hamilton and Joe Swail will be the new players for event 2. Shaun Murphy and Mark Selby are scheduled to join the tournament in a later event. Other players confirmed to be taking part at some point include Mark Allen, Stuart Bingham, Jamie Cope, Dominic Dale, Michael Holt, Mark King and Stephen Lee.
The overall tournament winner will earn a place in this year's Premier League which includes Ronnie O'Sullivan, John Higgins, Ding Junhui, Stephen Hendry, Steve Davis, Neil Robertson and Jimmy White.
The Championship League is being broadcast exclusively online on various betting websites.
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Post by ligerdog7 on Feb 23, 2008 23:05:02 GMT 1
A new tournament from the organisers of the Premier League starts next week. Called the Championship League, it is a series of 8 mini-tournaments, with the overall winner taking the last place in this year's Premier League. The first event is next week and features Ken Doherty, Mark Williams, Joe Perry, Ryan Day, Ali Carter, Matthew Stevens and Barry Hawkins. The winner of each mini-tournament goes forward to the final event to determine the overall winner. Those finishing 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th in each tournament move on to the next event, with the bottom 2 being eliminated. 3 new players then join the tournament. Nigel Bond, Anthony Hamilton and Joe Swail will be the new players for event 2. Shaun Murphy and Mark Selby are scheduled to join the tournament in a later event. Other players confirmed to be taking part at some point include Mark Allen, Stuart Bingham, Jamie Cope, Dominic Dale, Michael Holt, Mark King and Stephen Lee. The overall tournament winner will earn a place in this year's Premier League which includes Ronnie O'Sullivan, John Higgins, Ding Junhui, Stephen Hendry, Steve Davis, Neil Robertson and Jimmy White. The Championship League is being broadcast exclusively online on various betting websites. will it be on tv eurosport hope so dude bbc2 so on brill ronnye number 1 uk world he defend dem mooo yooooooooooooooooooooo nooo diiggtyy upppppppppppppppppp
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Post by Panda on Feb 24, 2008 13:27:05 GMT 1
The Championship League will be shown online on a number of betting websites. So far, the following sites have been confirmed: www.williamhill.com/www.betfair.com/www.bet365.com/However, it's likely you'll have to be a member of the site to view the live coverage... The Premier League will be on Sky Sports as usual when it starts again in September.
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Post by ligerdog7 on Feb 25, 2008 3:57:03 GMT 1
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Post by Tom on Feb 28, 2008 17:00:36 GMT 1
Fascinating article about Jimmy White in the Mail today, didn't realise just how bad his drinking/gambling problems once were. I'd love him to play in the World Championship again but I just can't see it happening.
EXCLUSIVE: Whirlwind Jimmy hasn't blown out yet, but he did once party with his dead brother By LEE CLAYTON Last updated at 08:18am on 28th February 2008 He's been addicted to gambling and addicted to partying. Now, for the first time in 30 years, Jimmy White is addicted to snooker.
This is not how it was meant to be: I've even come on the Tube to find him. Well, you don't drive when you're spending an afternoon with the George Best of the snooker table, just in case we're off on a bender.
White, the greatest player never to win the World Championship, is down to No 60 in the rankings these days. Tournaments come and go, but word is 'The Whirlwind' is all blown out. More a gentle breeze, apparently.
Don't you believe it. Instead, disappointingly, White wants to munch salad and practise rather than party. So much for a legendary hell-raiser. He's gone all snooker loopy.
Now, at 45, it's six hours a day on the table, every day, in a private room where the temperature is set warm, sparring partners are being shipped in and the green baize cloth is changed every four weeks at a cost of £600 to recreate the speed of the Sheffield tables at the World Championship. However, White has to qualify first.
He plays me a voicemail message from Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood and 'Rocket' Ronnie O'Sullivan from two nights previously. 'We're in Soho and we miss you, Jim.' White was potting reds instead of downing doubles.
'Believe me, I feel the same way now about snooker as I did when I was 13. I'm back in love with it,' said White. Is he trying to convince me, or himself?
He's certainly not doing it for the money. He has recently acquired a stake in the smart Royal Surrey Snooker Club at Morden, which is a long pot from the smoky back street dens of old where local criminals and schoolboy truants (like White) would hang out.
It might be conveniently perched between a bookies and a pub, but it's closed to the public until after 4pm so that White can practise alone without distractions.
Another phone message he plays back is from the police, who have recently discovered that a brake lead has been tampered with in a new Bentley he has purchased.
'I don't know who could have done that because I don't have any enemies,' he assured me. 'The police think it might just be malicious vandalism. I've spent two or three days worrying about it but now I'm just forgetting it. I've got to get back to my snooker.'
Gambling was once his biggest addiction. 'I was compulsive,' he agreed. 'In one day it would be dogs, then horses, then cards, then casinos. I was a binge gambler. I stopped because I went skint. At least a few times.'
After losing the World Championship Final to Stephen Hendry in 1994, White spent his tournament earnings of £128,000 on gambling - in 24 hours.
'I don't know when I had time to sleep. Or play snooker! I wouldn't ever practise, I was too busy enjoying myself. Once I went three days solid without sleep because I was gambling. From 20 to 30, that was my life. I was sick.
'I'd play in more exhibitions to cover the gambling debts but then I'd be stuck in the middle of nowhere and I'd drink because there was nothing else to do.
'Now I'll play poker and I don't gamble. I don't miss those days. Well, I might have £20 a race but my chasing days are gone. Life's a million times better. You don't hear about Tiger Woods gambling and playing cards until 5am, do you?
'I wouldn't change anything, mind you. I have no regrets, I've had a fantastic life, travelled the world. I've had great support and I still have that.
'Old ladies come up to me and give me a slap. "Why are you not on the effin telly?" they say. So I've just decided to go all professional again, give it another shot, see where I go.'
A testimonial beckons and a fly-on-the-wall DVD will be released - 'The One and Only'. White seems to have cleaned up his act.
'I've had my dark days, but I wasn't really a hell-raiser as such,' he protested. 'I liked to drink and I liked to party but I never did anyone any harm, never hurt anyone. All I did was hurt myself sometimes.
'Now I'm not interested in late nights. I used to go looking for it but now I have to stop if I want to get back into this game. I'm 45, I'm a grandad, I have hands-on family stuff and there isn't much time to be wild.
'I'm very lucky to have another chance with snooker. I had my eyes tested last week and they're fine. I'm obviously a bit heavy, but all I can do now is eat salads and practise.'
We must explore at least one of the legendary stories of old. Like when his brother Martin died of cancer. Jimmy and his family apparently stole the corpse from the undertakers and took it on a pub crawl. It can't be true, can it?
'We were so sad. We'd been drinking in the pub the night before the funeral and the bill came to £4,600. It was a proper drink. We were all crying and so I told my sister we were going to get Martin.
'I kicked the door of the undertakers and the lock fell off. Just like that, it opened! I went in, there was no alarm. He was there, in his suit, so I phoned a driver and we took him out and carried on drinking. We felt we had to spend more time with him.
'We were crying, laughing, crying, laughing. It went on for about five hours. The driver going back realised my brother wasn't alive, so he refused to take us. We had to get a taxi. On the way, the next driver looked in the mirror and said: "He don't look too well".
'We put him back and then the police came. They sympathised with me, there was no damage done. We lost his hat somewhere, but no charges followed.'
You don't know how hard it was at this point to keep a straight face, but White eased the moment by saying: 'That's all right, he would have laughed, too. It's a good memory of a sad time in my life.'
Back at the table, it takes him five attempts to sink a long red, but he is convincing when he says: 'I need to play my 100 per cent game to get through to the World Championship but I can do that. I still take risks when I'm playing which is why people always liked me.
'I'm still "The Whirlwind" when I'm in the balls, but I try to take my time a bit more now. When I get in, I make sure I do some damage. The big shots are all there, every part of my game is 100 per cent.
'I've got to keep pounding, keep my discipline. I've had all the sports psychologists, I've worked with Paul McKenna, but in the end you have to find it deep inside you. It's all there, I'm telling you.
'I play Mark King on March 10 and that is a difficult final qualifier for Sheffield but if I can take my form into that match, then you'll see. Everything is focused on that. I'm cutting back on the travelling and the exhibitions. I would stay over and then go out, but now I need to be back here for practice at 10am the next morning.
'Ronnie O'Sullivan, the greatest snooker player ever, will tell you that he doesn't practise. I'm not having that. I call him Roger, after Federer, because he's a genius. He doesn't like that nickname.'
Losing his dad, Tom, last year has inspired Jimmy. 'Dad was 88, had a great life and enjoyed every day. I was proud that he was my dad, never met another man like him.
'He was president of his club for 40-odd years, went out booted and suited every day and loved life. He's with me every day, he's with me every shot.
'I don't just want to move slowly up the rankings and win a few games. I want to keep my head right. I've been known to slip before and go off and enjoy life but I know I can do this. I'm at a good place and I am hoping to turn over a few people.'
Snooker will be better with Jimmy back in the frame.
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Post by wonderwall on Feb 28, 2008 17:39:08 GMT 1
yeah Jimmy white had major drink problems why do you think Alex Higgins was one of his best friends lol.I said before Jimmy was never destined to win the world title the missed black in 94 was the nearest he ever came to it but it wasn't to be,and he was 14-8 up in 1992 but hendry rattled 10 frames off in a row.If Hendry wasn't around i reckon he would have won at least 3 world titles such a shame especially when players like Joe Johnson Dennis Taylor and graham dott won it and they had half his talent.
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Post by Panda on Feb 29, 2008 22:24:18 GMT 1
Ryan Day and Ken Doherty have won the first two groups of the Championship League. Matthew Stevens, Barry Hawkins, Mark Williams and Nigel Bond have been eliminated from the tournament.
Group 3 will feature Ali Carter, Anthony Hamilton, Joe Perry, Joe Swail, Shaun Murphy, Mark Selby and Stuart Bingham and starts on March 10th.
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Post by ligerdog7 on Mar 3, 2008 12:12:59 GMT 1
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Post by Panda on Mar 5, 2008 16:25:59 GMT 1
The next tournament on Eurosport will be the China Open on March 23rd. Ronnie should be playing but you never know when it comes to overseas tournaments. He did play in it last year, though.
After that, the only tournament left this season is the World Championship which starts on April 19th and will be on BBC. The final qualifying round starts on Friday.
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Post by ligerdog7 on Mar 9, 2008 16:39:07 GMT 1
The next tournament on Eurosport will be the China Open on March 23rd. Ronnie should be playing but you never know when it comes to overseas tournaments. He did play in it last year, though. After that, the only tournament left this season is the World Championship which starts on April 19th and will be on BBC. The final qualifying round starts on Friday. wowzersssssss dude cheers vens next session start try get tickets for mooo yiooooo noooooooooooooooooo diiggtyyy uppppppppppppppppp
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Post by Panda on Mar 10, 2008 14:09:27 GMT 1
World Championship final qualifying round results: Stuart Bingham 10-3 Adrian Gunnell Michael Holt 6-10 Michael Judge Dave Harold 10-4 Mike Dunn Barry Hawkins 10-8 Andy Hicks Anthony Hamilton 10-2 Scott Mackenzie Nigel Bond 10-7 Barry Pinches Joe Swail 10-9 Judd Trump Matthew Stevens 10-5 Rory McLeod Ian McCulloch 5-10 Liang Wenbo Gerard Greene 2-10 Mark Davis Marco Fu 10-3 Alan McManus Mark Allen 10-8 Ricky Walden
Today's matches: Jamie Cope v Fergal O'Brien Mark King v Jimmy White Joe Perry v John Parrott Dominic Dale v Liu Chuang
Jimmy trailing 7-1 to King so far...
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Post by wonderwall on Mar 10, 2008 17:03:45 GMT 1
Oh well jimmy whites going out
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Post by Panda on Mar 10, 2008 18:12:25 GMT 1
Mark King 10-3 Jimmy White
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Post by wonderwall on Mar 10, 2008 18:39:59 GMT 1
Mark King 10-3 Jimmy White Damn thats it for another year then
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Post by Panda on Mar 10, 2008 18:41:49 GMT 1
Mark King 10-3 Jimmy White Damn thats it for another year then As has been discussed previously, he will keep his place on the tour for next season but by dropping out of the top 64, he'll now have to start in the first qualifying round of every event.
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Post by wonderwall on Mar 10, 2008 18:42:52 GMT 1
Damn thats it for another year then As has been discussed previously, he will keep his place on the tour for next season but by dropping out of the top 64, he'll now have to start in the first qualifying round of every event. He should just pack it in now
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Post by Panda on Mar 10, 2008 20:59:00 GMT 1
The rest of today's results: Jamie Cope 10-5 Fergal O'Brien Joe Perry 10-8 John Parrott Dominic Dale 9-10 Liu Chuang Chuang's victory means there will be 4 Chinese players at the Crucible this year (including Marco Fu). He is also one of 3 Crucible debutants this year, along with Jamie Cope and Liang Wenbo. The draw takes place tomorrow at 1pm. It will apparently be broadcast live at www.888snooker.com but that site doesn't even appear to be running yet...
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Post by Tom on Mar 11, 2008 10:25:58 GMT 1
Not a surprising defeat, but such a shame Jimmy White lost so heavily After every defeat in the big matches he always says he's playing well in practice, but just can't reproduce it in the matches. I guess thats why his ranking has fallen so much, but I've never understood why if he's practicing well he can't play well too.
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