Players Championship 2018

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We've had lots of smaller events last few weeks/months in which Day has won them both. Now we have the top 16 (in terms of money earnt) battling it out, starting tonight.

In the top half, we have Ronnie and to be honest, there isn't too nobody in this half I think will test him so I will look in the other half for a potential winner. I think Kyren Wilson has every chance of beating Murphy tonight, Murphy isn't in the best of form at the moment. He lost to Greene 4-0 and was all over the place whenever he got in in that match and then he withdrew from the Gibraltor tournament with a back/neck problem. With Wilson in decent form recently he has every chance.

Based on that and being in Wales and a nice looking draw I will be taking the following two.

2.5tps E/W M.Williams to win the Players Championship 18/1 William Hill
2pts E/W K.Wilson to win the Players Championship 33/1 Ladbrokes

 

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We can see Murphy is struggling, but Wilson was terrible so I will be looking at Higgins/McGill in that match on Friday but today we have four matches. Outright pick Williams faces Bingtao and I fancy Williams to see that through. Day would be good value against Selby but he has won 2 tournaments in a row and despite Selby being bang out of form, I think it looks a dodgy one that match. I will look at the evening games later but for the afternoon

6pts M.Williams to beat Y.Bingtao 4/6 bet365
Williams has beat Bingtao 2 out of the 3 matches and although the last was a decider in the final, I think he will win this slightly easier today. Bingtao is a future champion I would imagine, but he isn't quite there yet and lacks the cutting edge when the frames get scrappy and needs some good defensive play. Williams to win here 6-3/6-4.