Gibraltar Open

The general standard today has been as bad as I've ever seen.  Granted, the pockets do look to have played tighter than usual, but most of the misses were never even threatening the hole.

3-1 Kyren

4-1 Kyren

Physio appointment first thing, so missed a chunk of the first tranche of matches today.

JB through 4-2 over Davy, Ryno through 4-2 over Ng, 2-2 Perry v Fernandez, 1-0 2Pt over Dark.

4-3 Perry, 3-0 2Pt, 1-0 Hugill over Fan, 2-1 Ronnie over Woolly

4-0 2Pt, 3-2 Ronnie

3-3 Woolly, 1-1 Joyce v Tubbs, 1-1 Fan

Woolly beats Ronaldo 4-3 from 1-3 down

1-0 Reanne over Jamie Wilson

2-1 Fan, 2-1 Tubbs

2-2 Hugill, 2-1 Jamie W, 1-0 Judd over Higgingson, Tubbs can only tie to prevent 2-2.

why is there no market here for J. Wilson v Reanne?? Never been listed on exchange.

Can't help you there, Stu.  No excuses either, as it's not like it's a R2 match or one that's changed since the original draw was done...

2-2 Reanne, 2-0 Judd, Joyce is 2-2 with Tubbs

3-2 Fan, 3-2 Tubbs

4-2 Tubbs

Had to go elsewhere for my bet on Jamie Wilson, don't know why not listed here. But 3-2 so far.

3-3 Hugill, 3-0 Judd.

In BF's defence, usually if you point out missing matches to them via Live Chat, they will add them.  Most likely just an oversight.

Yep fair enough - oddly it wasn't listed on oddschecker when I looked yesterday either. Unibet gave me the bet in the end.

4-2 nicely finished Jamie

Nice shout, mate.  Well done

Cheers lat - hope first bet of this tourny is a good sign.

Hugill through 4-3.

1-0 JB over Astley, 1-1 Butch v Chairhard

2-1 Butch, 1-0 Zhou over Ryno

2-0 Zhou

2-0 JB, 3-1 Butch

4-1 Butch, 2-1 JB, 2-1 Zhou, 1-0 Perry over White

3-1 JB, 3-1 Zhou

White steals, 1-1.

4-1 Zhou, 2-1 White

4-1 JB, 1-0 Tubbs over Hallworth

White steals again, this time on the black, leads 3-1

3-2 White

1-1 Hallworth, 1-0 Judd over Blackwell

Michael White beats Perry 4-2, 2-0 Judd, 1-0 Yuan over Gao

4-0 Judd, 3-1 Tubbs, 2-0 Yuan

4-1 Tubbs, 3-1 Yuan

3-0 Yuan to 3-3, 1-0 Jimmy over Butch

1-1 Butch, 1-0 Jimmy R over JB

2-1 Butch, 1-1 JB, 1-0 2Pt over Ford, 4-3 Yuan

1-0 Tubbs over Milkman, 1-1 Ford

3-1 Butch, 2-0 Tubbs

4-1 Butch, 2-2 Jimmy R, 2-1 Ford

3-2 Jimmy R, 2-1 Tubbs

Jimmy R gets a bit lucky in missing the brown, fluking a snooker on the brown, which JB ended up hitting but leaving on.  JB out, 4-2 Jimmy R.

4-1 Ford, 3-1 Tubbs.

Judd steals from Lam, 1-0.

Tubbs blows a great chance to force a respot.  3-2 Tubbs.

1-1 Lam

3-3 Milkman in double-quick time.

Lam forces a respot

By heck, the Milkman has taken these well.  Wins 4-3 from 1-3 down.

Judd just gets the cueball to stop before the pocket after potting the respotted black, leads Lam 2-1.

Lam's done remarkably well here to be 3-1 down.  Coulda/shoulda won every frame.

Judd gets it done, 4-1.

1-0 Kyren over Ford.

BFLV not working on three of the four listed matches   365 is.

2-0 Ding over Jimmy R, 1-0 Ricky over Judd, 1-0 Jak J over Robbo, 2-0 Kyren

3-0 Ding, 1-1 Robbo, 2-0 Licky

3-0 Kyren

Licky doing to Judd what Sanderson Lam should have but couldn't last night, 3-0.

4-0 Ding

2-1 Jak J

Kyren steals, 4-0

Licky beats Judd 4-0

Jak J steals on the black, leads Robbo 3-1.

Jak J beats Robbo 4-1.

1-0 Licky over Jamie J, 1-0 Hancorn over the Milkman

1-0 Kyren over Ding, 1-0 Jak J over Butch, 1-1 Milkman

2-0 Kyren, 2-0 Licky

2-1 Milkman, 2-1 Kyren, 3-0 Licky, Butch needs a snooker to prevent going 2-0 down

2-2 Hancorn

3-1 Kyren

3-2 Milkman, 3-1 Licky

4-1 Kyren, 3-0 Jak J, 4-1 Licky, 4-2 Milkman

4-0 Jak J over Butch

SFs start 1500

Kyren v Licky
Jak J v Milkman

1-0 Jak J, 1-0 Licky

1-1 Kyren, 1-1 Milkman

Milkman steals, leads 2-1.  Kyren 2-1.

2-2 Jak J, 2-2 Licky

3-2 Milkman, 3-2 Kyren

Milkman beats Jak Jones and makes his first ever ranking event final!

Somebody's a week in front of the pics all of a sudden....

Staggering wide from Kyren on the brown, Licky ultimately punishes, 3-3.

Feel a bit sorry for Licky there.  Fair to say they both $hat themselves, just Licky $hat himself once too often.  4-3 Kyren.

Final 1900

Kyren v Milkman

Milkman steals, 1-0

2-0 Milkman

3-0 Milkman.  Kyren missed an absolute sitter of a red to the middle.  Milkins tried to mess it up but ultimately rode out the frame.

Kyren misses a straight pink by a country mile, Milkins can't punish.  3-1 Milkins.

Not sure Milkman is going to be able to win this till Kyren $hites himself at 3-3.  Some great chances blown from 3-0....

Oh yeah, 3-2 Milkins

Jesus H Christ

What has happened to me?!?  I've become a Milkins supporter!  How did that happen?!?

He CANNOT win as it stands

Wow, that's rolled off a mile

Well done, Rob!  Never in doubt! 

Take a bow Rob! Great scenes!

Have to confess not followed this tournament at all and only just seen the result but delighted for Rob anyway. Should have done a hell of a lot better with ability he has, but he's a good bloke so happy for him tonight. Trust he'll keep celebrations low key this time!

The format means it's not the easiest tournament to follow, mate.  Must admit, I knew his scoring was well down, but I'd not realised he'd only won 3 matches (other than ranking CL) all season prior to this week! 

He played some good stuff.  His break to complete the comeback from 3-1 down v Tubbs really was excellent.  And he was much the best player in the final, it was just a question of whether he could get it done or not.  It really was looking doubtful for a while.

Those final two matches from Kyren, though, he showed a weakness we've not seen for a while.  I wonder if he might have played better if the SF and final had been on different days (no time to process getting away with it after so blatantly falling apart) or if this is an issue he's going to struggle with for a bit?  If you've got pretensions of going deep at the Crucible, that's not going to do you much good...

A few extra pieces to the Milkins puzzle explained in here:
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https://snookerhq.com/2022/03/27/robert-milkins-ive-gone-counselling-shes-obviously-very-good/

Cheers for the  link lats. Funny, i posted a link here a few months back to a tweet in which rob was moaning about all the hard draws he had been getting, but truth was he'd been losing to a few lower ranked guys too. I don't want to be too hard on him, it's a fcking brutal sport mentally, as we all know.

Was inclined to not make too much about Kyren but when you see his tour champs spot was on the line, that's a bit of a fail. Hard guy to sum up. When you think he might be getting there, he goes and takes a step back!

I've followed Rob for years on twitter, always gives great insights to stuff happening on tour, like expenses and logistical nightmares they endure while travelling. One of the real good guys, chuffed for him.

I remember you saying about that Tweet, not you come to mention it, mate.  Must admit, I don't do Twitter.

Oh, make no bones about it, mate, the enormity of the situation 100% got to Kyren on Saturday.  Ricky really should have put him away (more than once in the final frame), but his own situation was arguably even greater - they reckoned it would have been worth £250k to him to win the thing with bonuses and automatic qualification for other events. 

I honestly have no idea who I fancy for the big one.  There's not a single player who's playing consistently well.

Don't actually post on the twitter myself, complete waste of time, just keep in touch with a few of the  players worth listening to, like rob and 1 or 2 others though i think world snooker has them well on the leash as regards saying stuff that's controversial tbh.

With you on the worlds, seems to get worse by the year in terms of the number of question marks against the top players. Will end up the usual, oh isn't MJW a bit big at 40s when you know deep down there's no way he should be in contention for the ultimate prize at this stage of his career!

Exactly, mate!