English Open

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This gets started on Monday. Bingham looking to keep hold of the trophy. Ronnie O'Sullivan in town and a few players realy on form makes me think this tournament could be a good one.

Top half of the table is likely to yield a Bingham Vs Murphy quarter-final. The winner of that is likely to make the final in my eyes. In the other half it's all about Ronnie O'Sullivan, but that also means there is plenty of big outsider value picks.

I'm going to take Bingham first up. I said it before. I was looking at Bingham a month ago to be honest. I backed him for the Champions League and he's already qualified for that in March and I'll be backing him here to defend his crown. Not easy ofcourse, but maybe Mark Davis can do him a favour like last year in beating Ronnie. It's very close between Murphy and Bingham, but Murphy after his win hasn't played a whole lot and I just feel Bingham will be alittle sharper. I'll also be taking a couple of big outsiders in Quarter bets too. I don't think these guys can win, but McGill and Ali Carter are far too big to hit some form here.

I'm giving Maguire one last chance here. He had a good tournament last year in reaching the Semi-finals and the draw is quite kind to him. Again, there are a couple of big outsiders to win Quarter 2 that I like too.

The bottom half houses Ronnie O'Sullivan. I actually really fancy Selby this week but I can't be having 12/1 that he beats Judd, Ronnie, Murphy, Bingham etc. The value is just poor. Instsead, some big priced quarter winners once again. First up, Vafaei is in the form of his life right now and I'll take him to win Quarter 3

2pts E/W S.Bingham to win English Open 16/1 betfred
1pt E/W S.Maguire to win English Open 80/1 ladbrokes

1pt A.Carter to win 1st Quarter 20/1 ladbrokes
1pt A.McGill to win 1st Quarter 33/1 ladbrokes

1pt N.Saengkham to win 2nd Quarter 35/1 bet365
0.5pts L.Honghao to win 2nd Quarter 50/1 ladbrokes
0.5pts J.Cahill to win 2nd Quarter 66/1 bet365

1pt Vafaei to win 3rd Quarter 18/1 betvictor
1pt Guodong to win 3rd Quarter 28/1 ladbrokes

1pt G.Wilson to win 4th Quarter 14/1 ladbrokes

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Day 1 :
Plenty of matches tomorrow. In the first sessions the ones I like are Ben Woollaston to beat Higginson, first up. Woollaston won the previous h2h between the two, at the China Open this year, in April. In that 6-3 win, Woollaston scored one hundred and 5 50+ breaks. He has been scoring well recently and Higginson is out of form. His only wins this season have been against out-of-form players.

One outsider I like tomorrow night is Harvey Chandler to beat Mike Dunn. Dunn has looked pretty poor recently, losing 5-0 to Trump and 5-3 to Steadman without so much as a 50 break. Add to that going down 6-0 to Jak Jones and a top break of just 61 this season and you can see you would oppose him against most. Harvey Chandler is a good, improving player. He has beaten Maflin and Carrington already this season and is scoring much heavier than Dunn.

6pts B.Woollaston to beat A.Higginson 4/6 boylesports
4pts H.Chandler to beat M.Dunn 11/8 williamhill