Worlds (inc Qualifiers)

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The World Championship qualifiers get started today. Over the course of a week, well find the 16 qualifiers into the main draw. Some players will start at "round 1" so to speak and they will have to win 4 matches in order to qualify. Others will only need to win 1 or 2 matches to qualify. It''s very much a seeded qualification tournament.

2pts L.Honghao to qualify from Group 3 7/1 sportingbet
2pts M.White to qualify from Group 11 6/1 betvictor
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1pt M.Georgiou to Qualify from Group 13 8/1 betfred
1pt J.Cahill to qualify from Group 7 12/1 betfred
1pt S.Baird to qualify from Group 7 16/1 betfred
1pt F.O'Brien to qualify from Group 15 16/1 sportingbet
1pt A.Carty to qualify from Group 13 28/1 betfred 
1pt Vahedi to qualify from Group 14 33/1 betfair
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0.5pts K.Filipiak to qualify from Group 10 80/1 betfred
0.5pts R.Lawler to qualify from Group 15 100/1 unibet
0.5pts H.Chandler to qualify from Group 12 33/1 betvictor

Snooker 2020 bets +135.75pts

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Day 2 of the qualifiers get underway in about 2 hours. By the end of day we'll know the 2nd round line-up of qualification. One of the first matches is 50 year old Barry Pinches against 18 year old Dean Young. Young got to the last 32 of the Snooker Shootout prior to the lock-down but that's very much a coin flip type tournament. Barry is seasoned veteran of the game. He qualified from Q-School and has only won 3 matches since then but it's in better company then the matches Young has played. Barry will know he needs to win this match as if he loses it, it could very much mean another drop off of the tour at end of season.

The one one I like is Boiko to beat Thor Leong. Thor Chan looks bang out of his depth since qualifying from Q-School and although he isn't going to get that kind of quality when playing Boiko, the confidence must be low and we've already seen some shock results 

2pts B.Pinches (-2.5 frames) to beat D.Young 15/8 betfair
2pts J.Boiko to beat T.Leong 7/4 betfair