Power Boost Prediction Contest 8 Open for Entries

October 26, 2010

Power Boost Prediction Contest 8 Open for Entries

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— snookerbacker @ 10:37 am

Who will be the breast player? It took me ages to think of that. I don't know how I do it, seriously, it's a gift.

Here we go again everyone, a bumper weekend of snooker awaits us so to go with it let’s have a Bumper Prediction Contest shall we? Maybe even a Power Boost Prediction Contest? Can you see where I’m going with this?

As you know from the story below I am having a crisis of conscience between what I should be watching and what I want to watch if only for the cringeworthiness of the whole thing. For this weekend sees live streaming from Gloucester for EPTC4 and Power Snooker for eight live hours on the TV.

So how, I asked myself can I justify also watching the power boys when there is proper snooker on? The answer, include both of them in this week’s competition!!! Genius.

So how I propose to work things this week is to have a ‘Power Group’ as well as three standard groups and a ‘Joker Group’. The Power Group will collect frames from the EPTC event in the standard way but will also collect points depending on where they finish in London.

I’m not including young Luca Brecel as he has to play an extra qualifying match in the EPTC event on Thursday and I’d have to close the deadline for entries earlier.

To help you select your team, the draw for the EPTC4 can be viewed with a magnifying glass here.

The format this week is such that all the Power Snooker participants are playing on Friday to qualify for Sunday’s finals day. This makes the updates a bit of a nightmare as they are scattered all over the drawsheet but never mind.

All totals will be added to overall Order of Merit scores, the latest standings of which can be viewed here.

The Rules:

1. You must choose a total of ten players for your scoring team.

2. Your team must consist of two players from each of the groups below.

3. The players you choose will score one point for each frame they win. The two players you choose from ‘The Joker Group’ will earn double points for every frame won.

4. The two players you choose from ‘The Power Group’ will earn one point for every frame won at the EPTC event. In addition they will be awarded points based on their performance in Power Snooker:

Winner = 50 points, Runner Up = 40 points, 3rd Place = 30 points, 4th Place = 20 points.

5. The winner will receive a £50 free bet from Betfred

6. Entries must be in before the start of play in the EPTC on Friday.

7. To have a valid entry you must enter an email address in the space provided, this won’t be visible to anyone but me and I won’t use it for anything other than contacting you if you win. Please don’t try and enter loads of times, I’ll be able to suss this fairly easily.

8. Oh yes, you must be over the legal gambling age to enter, or be prepared to lie about it to get an online account.

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

The Groups:

Power Group	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	Joker Group
Choose 2	Choose 2	Choose 2	Choose 2	Choose 2
Ronnie O’Sullivan	Liang Wenbo	Ricky Walden	Stephen Lee	Mark Davis
Ali Carter	Mark Allen	Marcus Campbell	Dominic Dale	Jimmy Robertson
Neil Robertson	Peter Ebdon	Martin Gould	Fergal O’Brien	Anthony McGill
Jimmy White	Matthew Stevens	Marco Fu	Rory McLeod	Dave Harold
Shaun Murphy	Andrew Higginson	Barry Hawkins	Stuart Bingham	Liu Chaung
Mark Selby	Mark Williams (possibly WD)	Graeme Dott	Nigel Bond	Joe Perry
Ding Junhui	Stephen Maguire	Judd Trump	Ken Doherty	Jamie Cope

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Typical

No problem SB, hopefully now I’ve posted up on here I’ll start getting the updates again. If not will let you know

Let me know if I would have won out of interest

Will now wade through past articles to see what I’ve missed

Comment by Spongy — October 29, 2010 @ 12:10 pm Reply
Sorry Spongy – rules is rules and your first group have already won 7 frames!

I don’t think the subscriptions carried over when I changed the site so I’ll see if that can be set up again but it might mean registering.

Comment by snookerbacker — October 29, 2010 @ 11:26 am Reply
Hope this is in time

Ali / Robertson
Wenbo / Higginson
Gould / Walden
Dale / Doherty
Cope / Davis

Hoping that posting this means I’ll get the emails again as they appear to have stopped

Comment by Spongy — October 29, 2010 @ 11:20 am Reply
O’SULLIVAN ROBERTSON
STEVENS MAGUIRE
DOTT TRUMP
BINGHAM O’BRIEN
COPE MCGILL
just finished my second bottle of a rather nice rioja,hard work this,good luck to you all.

Comment by chris — October 29, 2010 @ 1:33 am Reply
I’m confused because of the Power Snooker, I feel i will lose the first place bacause of it’s involving in the points

R. O’Sullivan, N. Robertson, mainly because of PS
P. Ebdon, M. Stevens
R. Walden, J. Trump
F. O’Brien, S. Bingham
A. McGill, J. Cope

Comment by Epure — October 28, 2010 @ 11:49 pm Reply
O’Sullivan, Robertson (Ali if Ronnie no shows tomorrow)
Ebdon, Maguire
Hawkins, Dott
Rory, Bingham
McGill, Cope
GL TO ALL

Comment by onestep — October 28, 2010 @ 10:39 pm Reply
Ronnie / Robbo
Ebbo / Mags
Dott / Trump
Lee / O’Brien
Perry / Cope

Comment by IanWhite — October 28, 2010 @ 8:20 pm Reply
Selby,Murphy
Maguire,Higginson
Walden,Dott
Bingham,O’brien
Cope,Harold

Comment by Darren — October 28, 2010 @ 5:35 pm Reply
SELBY O’SULLIVAN
MAGUIRE WENBO
WALDEN TRUMP
BINGHAM DOHERTY
MCGILL HAROLD

Comment by Tina — October 28, 2010 @ 4:37 pm Reply
O’Sullivan, Robertson
Liang, Ebdon
Gould, Campbell
Doherty, Bingham,
Cope, Davis

Let’s see if they can bring me the glory

Comment by totee — October 28, 2010 @ 3:37 pm Reply
sub Ali Carter for Ronnie please

Comment by Pot Luck — October 28, 2010 @ 1:47 pm Reply
Ronnie/Ding
Stevens/allen
Gould/Dott
Mcleod/Bingham
McGill/Cope

Comment by The Roberdy — October 28, 2010 @ 1:37 pm Reply
Ronnie/Selby
Stevens/Williams if N/R Higginson
Walden/Dott
Mcleod/Bingham
McGill/Cope

Comment by Pot Luck — October 28, 2010 @ 1:26 pm Reply
O`Sullivan, Robertson
Stevens, Ebdon
Walden, Campbell
Bingham, Doherty
Harold, Cope

Comment by Jan-Eric — October 28, 2010 @ 1:07 pm Reply
O’Sullivan – Robertson
Stevens – Higginson
Fu – Gould
McLeod – O’Brien
McGill – Cope

Comment by Steve K — October 28, 2010 @ 1:01 pm Reply
Selby
Robertson
Wenbo
Stevens
Gould
McLeod
Bingham
Campbell
M. Davis
Harold

Comment by Black Whippet — October 28, 2010 @ 11:39 am Reply
Neil Robertson, Mark Selby
Matthew Stevens. Andrew Higginson
Ricky Walden, Barry Hawkins
Dominic Dale, Nigel Bond
Mark Davis, Joe Perry

Comment by Elena — October 28, 2010 @ 6:39 am Reply
robertson/o’sullivan
higginson/wenbo
hawkins/trump
bingham/o’brien
mcgill/cope

Comment by kim hawkins — October 27, 2010 @ 10:36 pm Reply
STEPHEN MAGUIRE SUB. FOR MARK WILLIAMS

Comment by DREW — October 27, 2010 @ 10:19 pm Reply
P:O’Sullivan, Robertson
2: Ebdon, Stevens
3: Gould, Trump
4: O’Brien, Bingham
J: McGill, Cope

World Snooker confirmed for me that Williams has definitely withdrawn. Thanks for organising SB.

Comment by Godspeed — October 27, 2010 @ 8:35 pm Reply
Carter, Murphy
Ebdon, Stevens
Walden, Gould
Lee, McLeod
Harold, Cope

Comment by Nick — October 27, 2010 @ 8:10 pm Reply
O’Sullivan, Selby
Wenbo, Higginson
Gould, Fu
Mcleod (remember Rory, it’s the internet, not the telly, so don’t get nervous!), Bingham
Harold, Cope

Good luck all.

Comment by Joe Gibney — October 27, 2010 @ 7:25 pm Reply
Murphy, Selby
Wenbo, Maguire
Walden, Trump
Bingham, Doherty
M.Davis, Harold

not feeling to confident this time for some reason. probably something to do with the succession of average placings…

Comment by jaykay — October 27, 2010 @ 6:51 pm Reply
P- MURPHY, SELBY
2- WENBO, EBDON
3- GOULD, HAWKINS
4- BINGHAM, DOHERTY
J- COPE, MCGILL

Comment by edo — October 27, 2010 @ 6:44 pm Reply
Nick is from Sportingbet by the way

Comment by snookerbacker — October 27, 2010 @ 4:55 pm Reply
Have stuck out an outright market. Betting to a competitive percentage but please note that its an ‘all in’ market, hence the reason why you can back Ronnie at 10s and Williams at 16s…Cant do non runner no bet on these events, if 12 or so players dont turn up like in last weeks event, you end up giving away 30%+ of your book straight away (and obviously massive implications regarding easier draws for the remaining). Third quarter looks the weakest by far, with McLeod and O’Brien possible longshots to come through it. Murphys draw is too bad either, got some journeyman 1st round I think…
Match betting out on site as well. Far more games priced up than Paddy. Personally like Michael White at 4/5 to beat Hicks and Lines is a big price against Burnett considering Burnet has hardly played since Shanghai and Peter has been doing pretty solid in these event all season.

Comment by Nick Price — October 27, 2010 @ 4:44 pm Reply
Neil Robertson, Ronnie O’Sullivan
Wenbo, Stephen Maguire
Marcus Campbell, Marco Fu
Stephen Lee, Stuart Bingham
Mark Davis, Jamie Cope

Thanks SB!

Comment by Duke of Snook — October 27, 2010 @ 4:30 pm Reply
Mark Williams today on World Snooker on the PTC’s:

“The PTCs have been very good for me, I’ve picked up some prize money and ranking points and they keep you sharp for the big tournaments. I am going to play in all of them because I want to finish in the top eight,”

I’ll reinstate him as a choice if he does play, your guess is as good as mine!

Comment by snookerbacker — October 27, 2010 @ 4:15 pm Reply
Ali Carter
Mark Selby

Matthew Stevens
Andrew Higginson

Martin Gould
Marco Fu

Stuart Bingham
Stephen Lee

Mark Davis
Jamie Cope

Comment by Teo — October 27, 2010 @ 10:13 am Reply
My new team because of Williams:
Robertson/O’Sullivan
Stevens/Ebdon
Dott/Hawkins
Bingham/McLeod
Cope/McGill

Comment by urindragon — October 27, 2010 @ 7:21 am Reply
O’Sullivan and J White
Stevens and Allen
Waldren and Gould
Lee and Bingham
McGill and Cope

Comment by Bezmondo — October 26, 2010 @ 10:55 pm Reply
My 10 for EPTC 4…
O’Sullivan, White
Higginson, Maguire
Campbell, Dott
Dale, Bingham
McGill, Chaung

Comment by GER147 — October 26, 2010 @ 10:18 pm Reply
sully, white
maguire, stevens!!!
dott, trump
lee, mcleod
harold, cope

let’s hope matthew is feeling better this week…he needs the ranking points!
oh and btw..miss the german chicks..

Comment by Isak — October 26, 2010 @ 9:29 pm Reply
Right, Here we go again…

Selby-Carter (seeing as he wears mustard cashmere thought i’d give him a go)
Wenbo-Stevens
Campbell-Gould
Dale-Bingham
McGill-Harold

Comment by pchell — October 26, 2010 @ 8:40 pm Reply
here we go!

Ronnie O´Sullivan/Mark Selby
Liang Wenbo/Matthew Stevens
Ricky Walden/Barry Hawkins
Fergal O´Brien/Stuart Bingham
Anthony McGill/Jamie Cope

Good luck all!

Comment by Dani Martínez — October 26, 2010 @ 8:24 pm Reply
Mark Selby \ Ding Junhui
Stephen Maguire \ Matthew Stevens
Barry Hawkins \ Ricky Walden
Ken Doherty \ Stuart Bingham
Mark Davis \ Jamie Cope

Comment by Anna — October 26, 2010 @ 6:58 pm Reply
@Epure: Just their behaviour I believe. As there was outright betting on the event though I think if there are real concerns then this should be looked into. If Barry is trying to increase interest in snooker, the bookmakers have to be on board, this kind of thing doesn’t help one bit. Without an active interest from the betting market we’re back to square one. It’s a shame it’s MJW though as he’s been thoroughly professional from the word go. I also like Ding but would never mess about backing him big against a player like Liang.

Comment by snookerbacker — October 26, 2010 @ 6:46 pm Reply
@snookerbacker:
Any idea what king of investigation, related to behaviour or betting suspicion?

I supossed not the last one, as no company betting priced the matches from second round…or?:(

Comment by Epure — October 26, 2010 @ 6:24 pm Reply
I’ll sub Ebdon for Williams please

Comment by Big Clive — October 26, 2010 @ 6:11 pm Reply
Captain Carter
Robertson
Weno
Stevens
Gould
Trump (should be at Power Snooker instead of Luca – sorry Luca)
O’Brien
Bingham
Davis
Cope

Thanks SB, Excellent as ever. If I win you can have it

Comment by Ray — October 26, 2010 @ 5:15 pm Reply
Ronnie
Robbo
Stevens
Higginson
Fu
Dott
O’Brien
Kendo D
Harold
Perry

Thanks SB.

Comment by Sonia — October 26, 2010 @ 5:12 pm Reply
All, been confirmed now from a seperate source that Mark Williams won’t be playing in the EPTC4, so anyone that has picked him already will need to submit a substitute.

I did hear a rumour that MJW v Greene and Wenbo v Ding matches last week had been forwarded to World Snooker for investigation.

Comment by snookerbacker — October 26, 2010 @ 5:06 pm Reply
http://www.worldsnooker.com/EPTC4_Format.htm?tid=191 If you use this link in conjunction with the draw you’ll see how things fit together, basically the blocks of 4 matches involving those that should have played on Saturday have been moved to Friday. Shouldn’t affect the bookies ability to price up the outrights as it’s still the same players.

Comment by snookerbacker — October 26, 2010 @ 4:55 pm Reply
Williams has pulled ou of EPTC4

Comment by Anonymous — October 26, 2010 @ 4:47 pm Reply
My predictions are as follows and good luck to everyone;

Murphy/Selby
Wenbo/Maguire
Walden/Dott
McLeod/Doherty
Harold/Cope

Thanks SB for the excellent blog and comps

Comment by Volcano — October 26, 2010 @ 4:27 pm Reply
Have I understood this right; the eight players involved in Saturday’s Power Snooker event will play their EPTC 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th round matches on Friday, allowing them Saturday off? Surely the repercussions will be that the playing order descends into chaos. To enable Ding to complete his 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th round matches on Friday means the other 15 players in his part of the draw also completing their matches in the same timeframe.

This is obviously repeated for the other 7 Power Snooker players. Unfortunately I can’t see any chance of the bookies keeping track and offering odds after the first few matches, let alone us viewers keeping track!

Comment by Ian — October 26, 2010 @ 4:21 pm Reply
O’Sullivan/Murphy
Allen/Maguire
Hawkins/Fu
Lee/Bingham
Davis/Harold

Comment by liggandestolen — October 26, 2010 @ 3:31 pm Reply
N.Robertson/Selby
Higginson/Maguire
Gould/Hawkins
O’Brian/Dale
J.Robertson/Cope

Comment by Bradstores — October 26, 2010 @ 3:08 pm Reply
White/O’Sullivan (This will clearly be the ‘fixed’ final)
2:Allen, Stevens
3:Walden,Trump
4:Lee,Bingham
Jokers: Chuang, Perry

Comment by deco800 — October 26, 2010 @ 2:42 pm Reply
SELBY/O’SULLIVAN
WILLIAMS/STEVENS
GOULD/TRUMP
DALE/BINGHAM
DAVIS/McGILL

Comment by Big Clive — October 26, 2010 @ 2:13 pm Reply
Robertson/O’Sullivan
Stevens/Williams
Dott/Hawkins
Bingham/McLeod
Cope/Mark Davis

Comment by urindragon — October 26, 2010 @ 2:04 pm Reply
http://www.worldsnooker.com/site_files/EPTC4%20Draw.pdf

It’s in the main post Diana Good Luck!

Comment by snookerbacker — October 26, 2010 @ 12:51 pm Reply
NEIL ROBERTSON MARK SELBY
MATTHEW STEVENS MARK WILLIAMS
MARCO FU MARTIN GOULD
DOMINIC DALE KEN DOHERTY
MARK DAVIS JOE PERRY

Comment by DREW — October 26, 2010 @ 12:41 pm Reply
give me please draw EPTC 4

Comment by diana — October 26, 2010 @ 12:29 pm Reply
Neil Robertson
Mark Selby
Liang Wenbo
Peter Ebdon
Martin Gould
Judd Trump
Ken Doherty
Stephen Lee
Mark Davis
Anthony McGill

Comment by Hermund — October 26, 2010 @ 11:51 am Reply