UK Championship - 26 Nov - 8 Dec

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Two days after the excellent Champion of Champions has finished the second biggest tournament of the year gets underway when the UK Championship begins in York on Tuesday. The tournament is live in full on the BBC from Saturday but the first round is streamed in the usual places before then and there are some decent matches. All matches are best of 11 or longer so this should be another good tournament. Draw, schedule and format here: http://www.snooker.org/res/index.asp?event=281

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Re: UK Championship - 26 Nov - 8 Dec Tournament preview: 1pt ew S.Bingham to win UK Championship 33/1 Betfred (1/2 1-2) One man who thrived in those surroundings was Stuart Bingham and there’s no reason why he shouldn’t go well this week too. Bingham hasn’t got the worst draw although he is in the same quarter as Ronnie O’Sullivan but he has pushed him hard in their last two meetings so he clearly doesn’t fear him. Bingham is a big time player now who is due for a really big run in one of these big major ranking events and with the confidence of last week behind him that could well be here. 1pt ew B.Hawkins to win UK Championship 40/1 Ladbrokes (1/2 1-2) Barry Hawkins has found himself in a lovely part of the draw and the world finalist should go well here. He showed in Sheffield that he gets on well with the longer matches and with Shaun Murphy the only top 16 player he will face prior to the quarter final I would expect Hawkins to go strongly in this event. Even Mark Selby isn’t unbeatable should the seedings work out and they meet in the quarter final so Hawkins is my pick to come through a more open looking top half. Full preview here: http://www.punterslounge.com/uk-championship-betting-stuart-bingham-can-go-deep-once-again-this-week