World Open Day One

February 24, 2013

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— snookerbacker @ 7:11 pm

Day One in China is dominated largely by the Wildcard Round and it’s not really one I want to get heavily involved in from a betting perspective, more out of principle than anything.

I don’t really see any solid bets in the first session though I would not be at all surprised if Nigel Bond was beaten by his very useful young wildcard. I will have a look at the second one in the morning, but on balance it’s a day to just hope all the players that deserve to be there get through.

You can read my outright preview here

UK times

6.30am

Ricky Walden v Peter Ebdon
Alan McManus v Lin Shuai
Mark Joyce v Noppon Saengkham
Nigel Bond v Zhu Yinghui

Recommended Bet: 1 point on Yinghui to beat Bond at 2/1 with Apollobet

11.30am

Simon Bedford v Lu Haotian
Dark Mavis v Robert Milkins
David Gilbert v Lu Ning
Jamie Cope v Wang Yuchen

Predicted Winners: Haotian, Milkins, Gilbert, Cope.

No Recommended Bet

Comments (10)

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She’s not the best is she.

Comment by snookerbacker — February 25, 2013 @ 11:44 am Reply
Aye, she should probably stick to the rugby

Comment by White Cafu — February 25, 2013 @ 11:39 am Reply
where did they get the female presenter on ITV4? she struggles to string a sentence together! Davis v Milkins should be a good game.

Comment by davedale — February 25, 2013 @ 11:32 am Reply
@White Cafu – Jamie Cope’s match replaces it

Comment by snookerbacker — February 25, 2013 @ 11:25 am Reply
So what’s the 11.30 line up then if Burns isn’t playing?

Comment by White Cafu — February 25, 2013 @ 10:41 am Reply
@ANON – seems a pretty regular occurence, can’t see why this can’t be better co-ordinated.

Comment by snookerbacker — February 25, 2013 @ 8:24 am Reply
First mention of ‘steady’ Eddie Charlton – wonder how many Clive will manage over the tournament…

Heart goes out to Walden – have had very anxious moments waiting for baggage in China and cannot imagine what it would be like trusting my cue (i.e. my livelihood) to airport baggage handlers. Have World Snooker ever looked at a more secure way of doing this?

Comment by ANON — February 25, 2013 @ 8:16 am Reply
Will we again be without first sessions on streams/tv/betting sites?

Comment by Nebs — February 25, 2013 @ 7:39 am Reply
I think they have cocked up the scheduling on this and have had to re-jig it. Spoken to Burnsy and he’s playing on Tuesday now.

Comment by Northern Monkey — February 24, 2013 @ 8:30 pm Reply
My top tips for day one:
Favs:
David Gilbert (Pinnacle 1.75) vs Lu Ning, wild card has got potential but in my opinion DG is better player than his odds show

Underdogs:
Peter Ebdon (Ladbrokes 2.2) vs Ricky Walden, Walden hasn’t been in form since the beginning of the season
Robert Milkins (5/4 Apollobet) vs Mark Davis, Milkins has been good in 2013, Davis hasn’t been playing as well as last year
Saleh Mohammad (4/1 sportingbet) vs Ian Burns, Burns is a solid, steady player but the odds for Mohammad are just something really unbelievable.

Comment by kirja — February 24, 2013 @ 8:12 pm Reply