China Open

chance for 4-3...

oh dear

Hit it and you might pot it?

surely 4-3

4-3

could be a great match from here

cmon robbo,big steal this could be

what a SUPERB break

Fair play.  Two poor splits on the spin for Maguire.

ok 5-4 maguire...

Don't tell me Maguire's going to do all the hard work again only for a bad kiss to hand it to Robbo

messed that up

cmon robbo

Well thought out shot, that, Stephen 

if robbo makes most of this maguire will lose the plot maybe

This could finish perfectly in time for Saints v Tigers.

shall i lay off my robbo bet hmmmmmmmm

robbo deserves this more

Neil Robertson
£95.00   


Stephen Maguire
-£7.13

I'm only £58 either way but picked up £167 on the +1.5

cmon robbo knock this in

big pink coming up,will win or lose him match

get the fck in

nice

you just know he wont mess this up

Been very few kicks this week.

almost there...

money in the bank

get in robbo

i layed a lot off

still though another £80

now beats shaky tommorrow

Took them well.  Don't think there was much between them on the day.  Maybe the run of the balls favoured Robbo slightly and made the difference.

£80 is nice profit

Good final in store and very hard to call,will be going for over 2.5 tons at evens to start out,slightly favour Robertson to win.
GL all!!!

Aye, should be a cracker!  I tipped Robbo at the start of the week (without having a penny on), but think I'm coming down just slightly in favour of Selby today. 

Think he's been just a tiny bit more consistent over the course of the week.

Have they started already?  If they've not, at the prices (1.76 to lay Selby), Robbo's the play.

robbo will do a job on selby today ;)

10-4 to 10-6 scoreline

Who the flip is taking 1.7?!?  Seriously, have they started?

1.68?!?

Oh, OK, they have started. Thanks Eurosport.

Neil!!!!! 

Come on then, Neil.

1-1.  Good lad.

Well taken, Neil.  2-1. A few surprising misses so far that have turned frames.

Robbo nicks a black ball frame and leads 3-1.

365 go 3.0 Selby if anyone can get on.

Brilliant frame that...more of them please

Robbo's only shortened 19 ticks from 2-1 to 3-1, which is a ridiculously small amount.  365 only go 1.36.

That's unlucky after that pot.

This is going to be a long match by the looks,first session to be cut short.

Not that long if Selby keeps on playing like this.

Master of the comeback is Mark,never dead.

5-1 is a long way back

ooh Robbo

Robbo definitely had the run in that frame.

Well, I for one didn't see it being one-sided like this.  Robbo definitely benefited from the run of the balls in the opening session.  Will they turn in the second?  Either way, Selby has to play much better than he has so far, which of course he's more than capable of doing.

The Magic Sign are currently going 11/10 on Selby (+5.5)which is effectively a race to 4 frames. We should expect to see a regression to the mean after the interval and historically Selby has won 58% of the frames between them and has a higher tour win %age. When you factor in the famous Selby comeback effect I find it hard to believe that he is now the outsider for each frame which odds of 11/10 imply.

just backed selby,you know he will make  a match of this

Thats a great bet Mark,im on over 16.5 frames.Good start by Selby.

can't stand the bloke,but hes a great match player

Jesus Christ, Neil! I trusted you not greening out at 6-1 and you're doing this to me now? The truth is Selby has had the main say in it, though, so fair play to him.

once selby starts these big comebacks he very rarely loses

Great stuff from Selby.

I'm aware of that, but even if it goes 6-6, there's still the factor that Robertson wants this title more than Selby due to the fact he's been waiting for one since 2010 while Selby won 4 this season already.

Mindset could change for Robertson at 6-6.

You said yourself, most of it since the interval has been taken out of his hands.  He's not done a huge amount wrong.  Just means more pressure when the chances do come, and, of course, he obviously lost the PTC Grand Final from 3-0 up against Ding, which might not help.

im hoping robbo goes 7-4 up so i can top up some more on selby

Good mini-session.  7-4 it is.

Poor frame, this, from Selby.

Terrible, terrible miss.

great shot

if selby nicks this frame he will grind the match out

cant ct that in surely

Selby's got to do a hell of a lot better than that if he's going to win.  Dreadful frame from him.

One visit for a 9-4 lead for Robbo after Selby unfortunately stuck him up.

One visit for Selby for 9-5.

if he could get it to 9-7,hmmmmmmmmmm

9-6, still a long way to go though....

Should be on the road to the title now....

Or maybe not....

That must be it now

or maybe yes

Or maybe not..... 

Great pot to keep it going.

But out of position....

Would love to strangle this Mike Hallett gets on my fkn tits!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Selby had little in the way of luck but was far the inferior player in too many frames.

10-6

Blimey, is he still playing on?!?  I went out to the kitchen!

ca selby win this frame....

Robbo misses twice!  31 behind, 27 on.

last snooker always hardest to get

bit naughty of selby to carry on really wasnt it

How many points behind was he, Pandora?

he needed 5 snookers thats all i know,i turned off too

all the hard work and he leaves that

32 behind, 22 on.

All over now.

I was in a far healthier position at the end of the first session than I ended up.  Still my biggest win of the tournament, mind.

Well done Neil,well deserved,feeling we may see a repeat of this in the worlds.

Another yawn fest hendry must rub his eyes looking at this mediocrity snooker has never been so dulllllllllll!