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Snooker Shoot-Out
The Snooker Shoot Out is a professional ranking snooker tournament played under a variation of the standard rules. The 2017 event was the first time the tournament was staged as a ranking event. Hossein Vafaei is the current champion. History Single frame snooker competition was a staple of early televised coverage of the sport, and largely responsible for bringing the game to the mainstream of British sport, primarily through the BBC's popular ''Pot Black'' programme. Extended televised coverage of longer professional tournaments, however, had caused the format to become jaded, with the last ''Pot Black'' tournament taking place in 2007. A similar event known as Shoot-Out was first held in September 1990, when, except in the final, all matches were decided over a single frame. With the demise of ''Pot Black'', the event returned in 2011 with several innovations, and was renamed to Snooker Shoot Out. It was sponsored by CaesarsCasino.com. It was a one-frame shoot-out with a ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leicester Arena
The Leicester Arena, known for sponsorship reasons as the Morningside Arena Leicester, is a multi-purpose built sports arena located in Leicester, England. The arena has a seating capacity for 3,000 spectators. The arena's main tenants are the basketball team Leicester Riders. Background The £4.8 million arena, which is owned by the Leicester Riders Foundation, was officially opened in January 2016. It is used as the home venue for the basketball team Leicester Riders, as well as the wheelchair basketball team the Leicester Cobras. It is also used by the students of Leicester College as well as by the local community. It hosted its first game on 30 January 2016, in a quarter-final match between Leicester Riders and Surrey Scorchers in the British Basketball League Trophy, won by the Riders 77–60. In 2018 Morningside Pharmaceuticals agreed to take the naming rights of the venue for 3 years. The venue hosted the 2019 Champions League of DartsAllen, Dave (18/2/19) Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
888casino
888casino, formerly Casino-on-Net, is an online casino founded in 1997 and based in Gibraltar. It is one of the Internet's oldest casinos, and in 2013 it became the first exclusively online casino to be licensed in the United States. History ''Casino-on-Net'' was established by brothers Aaron and Avi Shaked along with partners Ron and Shay Ben-Yitzhaq, also two brothers, in 1997. Aaron Shaked claims to have come up with the idea of the online casino while attending a dentistry conference in Monte Carlo. In 1994, the Free Trade & Processing Zone Act was passed in Antigua and Barbuda, opening the way for the development of legal online casinos. ''Casino-on-Net'' was re-branded as ''888casino'' in 2010 to unify the look and feel with other 888 brands. By 2015 the site was licensed and operating in Gibraltar, New Jersey, Denmark, Spain and a number of other countries and territories. In 2015, ''Gaming Intelligence'' magazine described 888casino as "the only truly pan-European casino. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990 Shoot-Out
The 1990 Shoot-Out was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place in September 1990 at Trentham Gardens in Stoke-on-Trent, England. Darren Morgan won the tournament, defeating Mike Hallett 2–1 in the final. All other matches were decided by a single frame. __TOC__ Tournament draw Top half Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Bottom half Section 5 Section 6 Section 7 Section 8 Finals Final Century breaks Only one century break was made during the tournament. The second-highest break was 93, compiled by Willie Thorne. *120 Tony Knowles References {{Snooker Shoot Out 1990 Snooker Shoot-Out Snooker Shoot-Out The Snooker Shoot Out is a professional ranking snooker tournament played under a variation of the standard rules. The 2017 event was the first time the tournament was staged as a ranking event. Hossein Vafaei is the current champion. History S ... Sport in Stoke-on-Trent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Snooker Shoot Out
The 2018 Shoot Out (officially the 2018 Coral Snooker Shoot Out) was a professional ranking snooker tournament, that took place from 8–11 February 2018 in Watford, England. It was played under a variation of the standard rules of snooker, and was the fourteenth ranking event of the 2017/2018 season. Anthony McGill was the defending champion, but he lost to Mark Davis in the first round, after Davis made a of 102. Michael Georgiou won his first ever ranking title, beating Graeme Dott 1–0 (67–56) in the final. None of the top five players in the Snooker world rankings 2017/2018 at the time, (Mark Selby, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Judd Trump, Ding Junhui and John Higgins) had entered the tournament. Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: * Winner: £32,000 * Runner-up: £16,000 * Semi-final: £8,000 * Quarter-final: £4,000 * Last 16: £2,000 * Last 32: £1,000 * Last 64: £500 * Last 128: £250 (prize money at this stage did not count towards pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 Snooker Shoot-Out
The 2013 Shoot Out (officially the 2013 Betfair Snooker Shoot Out) was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 25 and 27 January 2013 at the Circus Arena in Blackpool, England. It was played under a variation of the standard rules of snooker. Barry Hawkins was the defending champion, but he lost 38–58 against Stephen Maguire in the quarter-finals. Martin Gould won the final 104–0 against Mark Allen. Tournament format The tournament was played using a variation of the traditional snooker rules. The draw was randomised before each round. All matches were played over a single , each of which lasted up to 10 minutes. The event featured a variable ; shots played in the first five minutes were allowed 15 seconds while the final five had a 10-second timer. All awarded the opponent a . Unlike traditional snooker, if a ball did not hit a on every shot, it was a foul. Rather than a coin toss, a lag was used to choose which player . In the event of a dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shot Clock
A shot clock is a countdown timer used in a variety of games and sports, proving a set amount of time that a team may possess the object of play before attempting to score a goal. Shot clocks are used in several sports including basketball, water polo, lacrosse, poker, ringette, korfball, tennis, ten-pin bowling, and various cue sports. It is analogous with the play clock used in American and Canadian football, and the pitch clock used in baseball. This article deals chiefly with the shot clock used in basketball. The set amount of time for a shot clock in basketball is 24–35 seconds, depending on the league. This clock reveals how much time a team may possess the ball before attempting to score a field goal. It may be colloquially known as the 24-second clock, particularly in the NBA and other leagues where that is the duration of the shot clock. If the shot clock reaches zero before the team attempts a field goal, the team has committed a shot clock violation, which is pena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Kenna
Rebecca Kenna (' Granger; born 11 January 1989) is an English professional snooker player from Keighley. She competes on the World Women's Snooker Tour, through which she also earned a tour card for the professional World Snooker Tour. She was runner-up in the 2018 World Ladies Billiards Championship. Biography Kenna started playing on the women's snooker circuit in 2016, and reached the semi-finals of the world championship at her first attempt. She ended her first full season ranked sixth, having reached the semi-finals of the world championship again, and recorded a victory over multiple world championship title holder Reanne Evans in the course of reaching the final of the 2017 Connie Gough Trophy. In 2018, at her first billiards tournament, she reached the final of the World Women's Billiards Championship, losing 209–329 to Emma Bonney. This was Bonney's sixth consecutive world championship win, and her thirteenth overall. Kenna was one of four players selected to take pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nutcharut Wongharuthai
Nutcharut Wongharuthai (, ; born 7 November 1999), better known as Mink Nutcharut, is a Thai professional snooker player who is the reigning World Women's Snooker Champion. She and Neil Robertson are also the reigning World Mixed Doubles champions. She is the only woman known to have made a maximum break, having accomplished the feat during a practice match in March 2019. Mink was the World Women's Under-21 Champion in 2018, was runner-up in the 2019 World Women's Snooker Championship and won her first ranking title at the 2019 Australian Women's Open. She won her first women's world title at the 2022 World Women's Snooker Championship, where she recovered from 3–5 behind in the final to defeat Wendy Jans 6–5 on the final black. She became the first Thai player to win the women's world title. Winning the world title gave Mink a two-year card to compete on the main professional World Snooker Tour, beginning in the 2022–23 snooker season. Career In 2018 she won the World W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Parker (snooker Player)
Emma Parker (born 24 April 1999) is an English snooker player. She made her tournament debut at the 2015 Eden Masters, aged 15, and was number one in the women's under-21 world rankings as of April 2019. Her highest position in the senior rankings is sixth. She has reached three ranking semi-finals on the World Women's Snooker Tour. Career Parker started playing pool at the age of four, and turned to snooker at the age of 15 after her father and uncle took her to Romford Snooker Club. In April 2017, she won the Under-21 Ladies World Championship at the Northern Snooker Center in Leeds. Following further success, she rose to 8th in the women's world rankings in September 2019. She and fellow tour player Reanne Evans were the two women among the eight wildcards for the 128-player televised 2019 Snooker Shoot-Out, making them the first women to compete in the final stages of a televised world ranking event. Shoot Out matches are one and have a maximum duration of 10 minutes, wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reanne Evans
Reanne Evans (born 25 October 1985) is an English professional snooker player who competes on the World Women's Snooker Tour and the professional World Snooker Tour. She is the number one ranked player on the women's tour, and regularly features as a pundit on televised snooker coverage. Evans competed in her first women's world championship in 2002, aged 16, when she reached the semi-finals. She went on to become the most successful female player in snooker history. She has won a record 12 women's world titles, including ten consecutive victories between 2005 and 2014, surpassing Allison Fisher's previous record of seven women's world titles. She set further records by winning ten UK Women's Snooker Championships, six Eden Masters titles, 58 ranking titles on the women's tour overall, and 90 consecutive victories in women's matches between 2008 and 2011. She was made an MBE in the 2020 Birthday Honours for her services to women's snooker. In 2022, she and Fisher were entered i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Snooker Shoot Out
The 2019 Shoot Out (officially the 2019 BetVictor Snooker Shoot Out) was a professional ranking snooker tournament, taking place from 21 to 24 February 2019 at the Watford Colosseum in Watford, England. It was played under a variation of the standard rules of snooker, and it was the fourteenth ranking event of the 2018/2019 season. Michael Georgiou was the defending champion, but he lost to Li Hang 28–45 in the second round. Thepchaiya Un-Nooh won his first career ranking title, beating Michael Holt 1–0 (74–0) in the final. Un-Nooh's 139 break in the semi-final was the highest in the history of the Shoot Out. Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: * Winner: £32,000 * Runner-up: £16,000 * Semi-final: £8,000 * Quarter-final: £4,000 * Last 16: £2,000 * Last 32: £1,000 * Last 64: £500 * Last 128: £250 (prize money at this stage will not count towards prize money rankings) * Highest break: £2,000 * Total: £146,000 The "rolling 14 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quest (British TV Channel)
Quest is a British and Irish free-to-air television channel available in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Quest provides factual, lifestyle, entertainment programmes and other imported material, as well as sports coverage. The channel is operated by Warner Bros. Discovery. History Launch In October 2008, Discovery announced that they would launch a channel on Freeview in early 2009, but without using the "Discovery" name. A placeholder appeared on Freeview channel 47 on 5 January 2009 and Tiscali TV channel 109 on 14 May 2009. Although the channel planned to launch on 14 May 2009 at 10am, after broadcasting a promo loop on the planned launch morning, at 10am the channel returned to displaying a "Coming soon" message. The Quest website displayed a message reading: "Regrettably we have made the decision to postpone the launch of Quest. Due to a number of commercial factors we have had to make this difficult decision. We did not make this decision lightly and we are working towar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
