Welsh Open

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The Welsh Open gets started on Monday. It starts early on Monday, with games beginning at 10am and it's a big tournament and so I'm going to get my preview and tips up early. As usual, I'm going to take one main pick from the top and one from the bottom and then throw in a few outsider fancies.

In the top half, I'm going to take a chance with Ding. I think it's quite open at the top half. Murphy will be defending the title and has a chance to go deep but I feel like he doesn't practice enough, based on some of his performances in and amongst the balls and relies on his long potting. As a big outsider price, I'll take Milkins.

The bottom half looks a much harder half to win. I like Mark Allen in this half. He looked good in and amongst the balls with his new cue, at the Shootout. He doesn't like that event and so we can write off anything negative there. I also like the look of Ali Carter, who I've just backed to get out of the Championship League group and he has indeed won that group. He came top of the group prior to that too and has only really lost to Ronnie and McGill in the last 12 matches in that event.

I'm going to give Yuelong one more chance. Purely based on his huge price for a player with such quality.

2pts M. Allen to win Welsh Open 16/1 betvictor
1.5pts E/W D.Junhui to win Welsh Open 20/1 betvictor
1pt E/W Z.Yuelong to win Welsh Open 80/1 willhill
1pt E/W A.Carter to win Welsh Open 100/1 bet365
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0.5pts E/W R.Milkins to win Welsh Open 300/1 boylesports

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1pt A. Carter to win Quarter 4 16/1 bet365