charliepie

Yeah, great match with scarcely any safety play, I can't believe nest week's draw is identical!

That was the sort of performance where you're embarrassed on behalf of the player, 10-0!!

Judd was terrible against Bingham, I wanted him and Shaun in the final from a viewing perspective but instead I get the other two!

The odds on Trump were good, wish I'd known that Vafei was injured so was likely to lose easily.

That was a great bet on Jimmy as Mark looked a bit flat. Ding should've won but blew it. Shame that Ronnie decided not to turn up again and I'm not sure why Maguire withdrew as I would've thought he'd be desperate for points/money. Judd will be annoyed that Jack has given him a bye as it'll be one less match for him to add to his season's century total although I reckon he'll get to 100 if he has good runs in the remaining tournies, imagine though if he ends on 98 or 99 and that one match could cost him the bonus!

Nice to see John win again, could well be his last ever ranking tournament win but only time will tell. Me and my big mouth regarding the £3.99 subscription as I think it's gone up to £30.99 now which is a bit steep!

Who'd have thought Pang would be the last Chinese player standing, would be quite something if he won the event but I'm agreeing with you that it might be Shaun or Barry but would also be great if John won again:-)

Looking forward to seeing how this tournie unfolds, I'm glad that Discovery subscription went down to £3.99 🙂

Yeah, it would have been nice if he'd won and at 6-6 he was defo in with a chance but it wasn't to be sadly. I also see that Ronnie has pulled out of the Chinese tournament next week which is surprising as he always said how much he enjoys going there. At this rate I can see him retiring from snooker altogether pretty soon.

Maybe Lisowski will finally do it? Luca going well again lately and Selby's match just finishing after 1am as usual, pity Slessor couldn't quite beat him again like he did in Germany.

I might have guessed that Ronnie would pull out again at the last minute! Surprised Shaun lost his match too.

Not long to go now, big surprise that Ronnie is competing though he does have quite a fondness for the Welsh Open and has done well in the past.

Luca's been playing better since the Scottish open and is a big stage player so I expect him to win tonight.

Wow, what price Higgins at 5-1 up, hope you managed to at least lay off your stake on Betfair.

Thanks for getting the ball rolling, looking forward to a decent week although the shine has been taken off the tournie by Ronnie's withdrawal.

I think it's due to the cut-off point for the Masters where Robbo was ranked 17th, that probably explains his selection.

Looks like you picked the right horse to back! On another note, Ronnie's a total arse for smashing his cue up, binning it and leaving then pulling out of the Masters which he'll regret in a few days time no doubt. He was playing really well in all his exhibitions overseas and won practically every match I think. Why did Robbo get his place when Guodong, Jones and Ford are all in front of him in the queue?

No need for a trilogy, Fury doesn't have what it takes to beat this guy. It was a better performance from him last night hence why the 116-112(and 118-112 from A.I judge!!) scores surprised me. I would have scored it a lot closer than that. The punches landed stat does favour Usyk though so you can see why the A.I judge was skewed by that as it's not always a direct correlation between that and the points tally as it's more nuanced.

I feel that they want a trilogy so that makes me go for Fury tonight...

I'll go for Fury, if he takes it more seriously this time and uses his jab to control the pace of the fight like he should have done the first time!

So was Ronnie though I thought Ding would beat him easily yesterday and he played almost faultless snooker.

Some great picks there gents!

Gobsmacked that it happened again but fair play to Lei who kept plugging away instead of throwing the towel in at 2-5.

That was some nice green on Ford while it lasted, I'm not sure how Lei keeps winning when I'm expecting him to lose.

Not yet, I probably would have as the crowds have been quite modest but I've been feeling pretty unwell for several days and have been spending a lot of time in bed most days.