5-2 Robbo

4-3 Yuan

Shon gets his chance, misses and sticks virtual MB

Shon playing on needing 17 pts in fouls to tie

Another day where I don't particularly like any of the match-ups. 

Hill's having a great week, results wise, but he just doesn't score compared to the rest of those left in the draw.  That's reflected in the price, though.

Kyren's well ahead of LTT on every metric other than recency scoring.  Again, hard to argue with the prices.

Yuan is probably the one who's closest to representing true value, IMHO.  A smidge behind on three metrics and well ahead on recency scoring. 

I have Wu as a slight fav over Baz, but it's close to a coin toss.

Been v hard to trade all week, IMHO, mate.

Can't say as I'm a lover of this event, and it seems a bit like Marmite for the players (and maybe watchers?), too.

Yeah, it's been slow this week when i've looked in (as you have already said).

I just had a look at figures from last year's tournament and it looks like that was poor too.

There seems to have been a downturn in general over the last year and that's not going to be helped with the disappearance of eurosport and the resulting move to TNT. Grim times for snooker trading on Betfair.

Agreed.  From a personal perspective, lots of the Qs are now 8 table affairs where we only get pics from 4, and we only ever get two tables for any of the Chinese events.  Those things both limit what I do.  Go back a couple of years, and we were able to watch almost every match played on LV.

As you say, the move to TNT is not going to help!  I suspect snooker punters who use LV are dwarfed by those preferring to watch ES/BBC/ITV.

How are you finding everything else?  So far, the PC change doesn't feel as if it's had any significant impact.... (albeit it has helped my bottom line in the immediate term!)

If only we had closer to real time pics!  Surely not too much to ask for in 2025?!

I thought that was in

Arse.  W

Tight behind yellow or brown is a no-brainer

OMFG

WOWWWWWWWWW

Quite looking forward to today's two semis.

The rematch between Xiao and Kyren should be fascinating.  In many ways, it was Kyren who started the remarkable transformation in Xiao's career.  When they last met in the Wuhan Open, Kyren was all but 3-0 up (I've not been back through the thread, but I am close to certain that Xiao needed a snooker, and Kyren played a terrible shot and gifted it to him).  How differently things might have gone if that hadn't happened! 

Anyway, Kyren is a smidge ahead on all metrics bar recency scoring, where he's a bit behind.  The H2H is 7-1 in favour of Kyren, but Xiao is a different animal now.  Prices look about right to me, I'd be 2.2 Xiao, not enough juice for me.

Will save the second one for later.

3-0 Kyren.  Xiao not turned up yet.

Afternoon Lat! Just dumped TNT after having that channel - BT/ESPN/Setanta - for many years only to find out Eurosport is going there - looks like a few weeks off and will then have to crawl back
Hope you've had a decent week.

Yeah - probably have a chat with Sky - see what they will offer. Speaking to TNT they were talking alot about sport being streamed on Disc+ - no idea which sports - but that will be way behind I would assume. As you put earlier 2025 and pics getting mile behind live.

Hope the dosh picks up as we near the World Champs.

FT 6-2

Perfect start for Yuan, 1-0.