Snooker: Grand Prix 2009

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The 2nd ranking event of the season begins tomorrow when the Grand Prix begins in Glasgow. Outright odds are here: http://odds-comparison.bestbetting.com/snooker/grand-prix-snooker/winner/ 1st round match odds:

Saturday 3 October 2009	Player 1	Player 2	BPP
	Higgins, J v Joyce, M (13:00 BST)	1.2	5.7	100.88 %
	Fu, M v Davis, M (13:00 BST)	1.42	3.3	100.73 %
	Selby, M v Doherty, K (19:00 BST)	1.47	3.05	100.81 %
	Perry, J v Campbell, M (19:00 BST)	1.53	2.81	100.95 %
	Sunday 4 October 2009	Player 1	Player 2	BPP
	Ding, Junhui v Stevens, M (12:30 BST)	1.6	2.62	100.60 %
	Carter, A v Milkins, R (12:30 BST)	1.42	3.4	99.83 %
	Day, R v Cope, J (19:00 BST)	1.85	2.16	100.35 %
	Robertson, N v Greene, G (19:00 BST)	1.44	3.5	98.02 %
	Monday 5 October 2009	Player 1	Player 2	BPP
	Hendry, S v Selt, M (13:30 BST)	1.51	3	99.56 %
	Ebdon, P v Wenbo, L (13:30 BST)	2.7	1.55	101.55 %
	Murphy, S v Pinches, B (19:00 BST)	1.25	4.33	103.08 %
	Allen, M v McCulloch, I (19:00 BST)	1.44	3.3	99.75 %
	Tuesday 6 October 2009	Player 1	Player 2	BPP
	O'Sullivan, R v Burnett, J (13:30 BST)	1.19	6	100.70 %
	Williams, M v Bingham, S (13:30 BST)	1.89	2.25	97.35 %
	King, M v Walden, R (19:00 BST)	3	1.5	100.00 %
	Maguire, S v Bond, N (19:00 BST)	1.36	3.8	99.85 %

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Re: Snooker: Grand Prix 2009 Ok, it's time to get betting on this. I'll start with a couple of outrights. Focusing bigtime on the top half of the draw as these are the 8 seeds in the bottom half: Hendry, Allen, Ding, Selby, Williams, O'Sullivan, Higgins and Maguire. So that half is going to produce some excellent matches, especially with live floaters in Stevens, Bingham, Doherty and McCulloch in there. However I can't pick a winner out of that lot. The fact the last 16 in that half could be Hendry vs Allen, Ding vs Selby, Williams vs O'Sullivan and Higgins vs Maguire makes that half a betting minefield. So I'm going with 2 from the top half of the draw. Both to 2 places. 2pts ew S.Murphy to win Grand Prix 9/1 Boylesports 9/1 is a bit shorter than I'd normally like to take on Shaun Murphy but he's probably the 3rd best player in the world at present behind O'Sullivan and Higgins and his much easier half of the draw leads me to take him even at 9/1. Murphy has already shown good form this season in reaching the semi finals in Shanghai and he's started the Premier League in not too shabby fashion as well. On his day, Murphy can be unplayable. He's an incredibly solid all round player now and with his personal problems of last year looking behind him then the world championship runner up can go one further than that in this event. 1pt ew R.Day to win Grand Prix 28/1 Boylesports Ryan Day is another player who on his day is very solid. He's more of a potter than Murphy but that's fine. He was runner up in this event last season so he has some good recent form in the event which could be key. Like Murphy, he has a fairly nice draw with the other 3 seeds in his quarter being Neil Robertson, Joe Perry and Peter Ebdon. In fact the best player in this bit of the draw could be Day's 1st round opponent Jamie Cope. That will be a tough game but if the Welshman can come through that, I expect him to progress quite far in the event.