2025 World Snooker Championship

The bets:

£5 win Judd Trump @ 18/5

£1 e/w John Higgins @ 14/1

£1 e/w Ding Junhui @ 28/1

Placed by: P

What happened:

Ding bowed out in round two - on the wrong end of a Luca Brecel masterclass.

Higgins exited in the quarters, going down in a final ball, final frame classic against old rival Mark Williams.

The Welshman also accounted for our main choice, Judd Trump, 17-14 in the semis.

(Williams lost in the final to Zhao Xintong - our choice for the 2022 tournament)

2024 World Snooker Championship

The bets: 

Mark Selby £2.50 ew @ 17/2

Mark Allen £1 @ 8/1

What happened:

Selby was knocked out in the first round, Allen in the quarters. Let's move on.

2023 World Snooker Championship

The bet: Shaun Murphy £2 ew @ 9/1

Placed by: P

What happened:

Murphy went out in the first round, beaten in a final frame decider by eventual semi-finalist Jiahui Si.

2022 - World Snooker Championship

The bets:

Judd Trump - £4 @ 9/2

Zhao Xintong - £1 e/w @ 50/1

Kyren Wilson - £1 @ 14/1 (free bet)

Placed by: P

What happened:

Zhao went out in the second round, 13-9 to Stephen Maguire

Wilson fell at the same stage, by the same score, to Stuart Bingham

Trump reached the final but was no match for Ronnie O'Sullivan

2021 - World Snooker Championship

The bet: Kyren Wilson £2.50 e/w @20/1

Placed by: P

What happened: 10-4 up on Shaun Murphy in the semi-finals it was looking good. Then Murphy clicked and ran away with it, coming out a 17-12 winner.

A free one pound bet on Murphy when the score was 10-6 at least brought us £4 in a loss limited kind of way.

2020 World Snooker Championship

The bets:

Mark Allen - £1.50 ew @ 14/1
Jamie Clarke - £1 ew @ 55/1

Placed by: P

Results

Allen was downed in the first round by Clarke (which is when the Clarke bet was placed.)

Clarke blew an 8-2 lead to lose 13-12 to Anthony McGill who lost to Kyren Wilson in a last frame decider and then got blown away by Ronnie O'Sullivan in the final.

2019 World Snooker Championship

The pick: Neil Robertson - £5 @ 5/1

Placed by: P

Result - After looking imperious in the first two rounds Robertson crashed out in the quarters to eventual runner-up John Higgins.

2018 catch-up

Right I've been a bit slack so let's have a quick catch-up

K had a golf bet - £14 outlay, £15 pick-up

I blew £3 on Ding for the Snooker

Mensur Suljovic (£1 e/w) didn't win the World Grand Prix

But Geraint Thomas £5 did win SPOTY at 23/10 to give us £16.50

14 April - World Snooker Championships

The bet: Judd Trump - £5 at 4/1

Placed by: P

Info:

14 April - World Snooker Championships

The bet: £5 Neil Robertson @ 6/1

Placed by: P

Info:

Second favourite Robertson has done Gamblor a favour in the past, can he do us another?

Answer, no. A surprise first-round exit for the former champ - 10-6 against outsider Michael Holt.

17 April - World Snooker Championship

The bet:

Judd Trump £5 at 6/1

Placed by: P

Report:

Trump made serene progress to the semi-finals but didn't look at his best for large parts of the match against Stuart Bingham. Trump did force a last frame decider but Bingham held his nerve to make a first final.

18 April - World Snooker Championship

The Bet

£5 e/w Mark Selby at 11/1

Placed By: P

Information...

Round 1 - Despite leading 5-1 and 8-4 against Michael White it takes a final frame decider to see Selby into the last 16.

Round 2 - Selby establishes a 5-1 lead in this one too but Ali Carter pegs him back to 7-5 before the 'Jester from Leicester' takes control and wins 13-9.

Quarter-finals - After falling 3-2 behind to Alan McManus, Selby cruises into the last four with a 13-5 win.

Semi-finals - Paired against Aussie World number one Neil Robertson our man takes the first session 5-3. Well poised to win the second session by the same score a missed black halts his progress and it's 9-7 overnight. The Aussie had the best of the third session to tie it up at 12-12 but Selby has the best of the evening play to edge home 17-15 and will play defending champ Ronnie O' Sullivan in the final.

Final - O'Sullivan is quickest out of the blocks, racing to a 3-0 lead but Selby fights back to 3-4 only to a miss a black off the spot to give the defending champ a 5-3 lead after the first session. The Rocket starts the better in the evening too and races to an 8-3 lead but Selby digs in to reduce the deficit to 7-10 at the end of play. Monday afternoon sees the Leicester man back in it. He takes the first four frames to lead for the first time. O'Sullivan takes the next but Selby wins the last of a curtailed session to take a 12-11 lead into the evening. The champion starts with a century to level the match but Selby wins the next three to go into the mid-session interval 15-12 ahead. O'Sullivan takes the next two to narrow the gap but Selby is now playing his best snooker and takes three frames in the row to take the title with an 18-14 scoreline.

We have a winner! £92.50 - one of our biggest!

20 April - World Snooker Championship

The bets:

Mark Selby £5 @ 6/1
Mark Allen £2.50 e/w @ 14/1

Placed by: P

Results:

Allen knocked out in round one.
Selby knocked out in round two.

Information:

Mark Allen was 8-6 up in his first round match against Mark King but then contrived to lose four frames in a row. "I wouldn't say it's a setback but it's disappointing, obviously, today," said Allen. "It'll have no bearing on my future matches; it's just one of those things. Mark played his best snooker of the match from 8-6. I don't need geeing up. It's nice to do well, but I won't dwell on it."

Selby also blew a lead in his match to Barry Hawkins going from 9-6 up to a 13-10 defeat. The world number one said: ""I struggled all the way through the match and Barry took the chances and scored better than me. I have struggled all season but won two events, even though I was not playing great.
Coming here I was confident but to perform like that is a disappointment. I had no drive, no buzz out there and I didn't really show up."