Premier League Snooker returns to Plymouth Pavilions this autumn, starring Ronnie O’Sullivan, Mark Williams, Mark Selby, and Ding Jung-Hui.
Featuring seven players in total, everyone is a winner of a major event in the 2009/10 season, including reigning PartyCasino.com Premier League Snooker Champion Shaun Murphy, the world number seven.
Taking place on Thursday nights and live throughout on Sky Sports, Premier League Snooker visits 10 towns across England, Scotland and Wales before the November play-offs at Potters Leisure Resort in Norfolk.
The Plymouth leg features matches from Mark Selby vs Mark Williams and Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Ding Jung-Hui.
Shanghai Masters Champion, Ronnie O’Sullivan, pictured, the world number three is a six-times winner of the Premier League and the Rocket will be returning to the fray in a quest to add to his tally of titles.
Mark Selby claimed his second Masters title in three years at Wembley in January and the Leicester-based player will hope to go one better than his only previous Premier League appearance when he lost to O’Sullivan in the ’08 final.
Welshman Mark Williams is slowly returning to the sort of form that won him two World Championships in the 2000s.
Now ranked number eight in the world, Williams claimed the China Open last season, his first ranking win for four years.
UK Champion and world number five Ding Jung-Hui returns to the League following a year’s break and it will be the first time in the event’s illustrious history that two Asian players are in the line-up.
Now entering its record-breaking 25th season, Premier League Snooker is the world’s only major snooker tournament played to a league format.
There are two games taking place per evening and both matches are over six frames, with two points for a win and a point for a three-all draw.
Following the round robin section of play, the top four players move forward to the big money play-offs in November.
The eventual champion receives £30,000, the runner-up £15,000 and the beaten semi-finalists £5,000 each.
There will be a bonus fund of £1,000 per frame won during the round-robin section, making a total of £126,000 available.
In addition, there will be a ‘Double Your Money’ bonus for century breaks made throughout the round robin play which means that any frames won with a 100-plus break will result in a £2,000 payout.
Premier League Snooker returns to Plymouth Pavilions on September 16. Tickets cost £15 (£12.50 concs) from 0845 146 1460 and the Plymouth Pavilions website.
