Masters Snooker Betting 2010
No sooner are the Christmas decorations down and boxed and all your new year resolutions broken than The Masters snooker tournament is upon us. The 'us' being the legion of online Snooker Betting fans that follow all the action from the green baize from one year's end to another. The internet aspect of snooker betting has grown and developed comprehensively in a relatively short passing of time – similarly to darts – as increasing numbers of snooker betting events have found their way onto mainstream TV. Or if not, the myriad of satellite and cable-fed digital channels. Which means they're guaranteed more airspace than ever before and available to a wider demographic of potential snooker betting fans.
Between the 10th and 17th of January 2010, the Wembley Arena in London will play host to The Masters Snooker tournament, as the cream of the sport's ball potting talent attempt to capture the much sought after title currently held by reigning Masters snooker champion, Ronnie O'Sullivan. After a series of Masters preliminary rounds have taken place, the knock-out stage ushers in a best of 11 frames format, as the last 16 players tackle each other to determine who'll proceed to The Masters Quarter-Final; which again bears witness to a best of 11 frames protocol. Thereafter, the four remaining snooker players will contest the Semi-Final (yes, a further 11 frames), before The Masters 2010 Final is picked over during a best of 19 frame encounter. All of which gives the interactive snooker betting practitioner new and old something to look forward to come January.
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In fact, if you're new to online sports betting per se, now is without hesitation the ideal time to take advantage of the virtual snooker betting free bets offers currently doing the rounds with all web's leading bookies; all with unique snooker betting free bets opportunities that will capture the imagination of even those suffering from post-Christmas blues. And the whole premise couldn't be simpler either. Just follow any of the internet's snooker betting bookies' links found on this page, adhere to the easy-to-use three or four step procedure that results in creating a new online account then and there, and you're ready to start your snooker betting journey. As not only have you registered yourself as an online subscriber, but you immediately find yourself entitled to double your money snooker betting free bets promotions.
In terms of Masters snooker betting 2010 markets – as delivered by the online bookies on hand to tell it as it is in the lead up to the event – and there are many sectors in which the virtual snooker betting fan can place a wager. Apart from the Masters snooker betting 2010 Outright Win market, there's odds and prices to be had on everything from the Name The Finalists, Name The Nationality Of The Winner and Name 147 Maximum Break Players, through to Can Hendry Make It Seven and Will There Be A Streaker. OK, we might have made up the last couple there, but we're sure nearer the time then the bookies will be offering similar Masters Snooker Betting 2010 markets from which to pick. Looking at the Outright Winner odds, and this is the latest;
Latest Snooker Betting Odds Ahead Of The Masters 2010 According To Online Bookies
Ronnie O'Sullivan – 5/2 favourite to successfully defend his Masters title with William Hill
John Higgins; 13/2 with SportingBet
Stephen Maguire; 8/1 with Paddy Power
Mark Selby; 8/1 with Bet365
Shaun Murphy; 8/1 with Stan James
Ding Junhui; 12/1 with William Hill
Neil Robertson; 13/1 with Betfair
Allister Carter; 14/1 with SportingBet
Ryan Day; 20/1 with Paddy Power
Mark Allen; 20/1 with 188Bet
Joe Perry; 20/1 with Bet365
Peter Ebdon; 33/1 with Stan James
Marco Fu; 34/1 with Betfair
Mark Williams; 40/1 with SportingBet
Stephen Hendry; 40/1 with Paddy Power
Ronnie O'Sullivan Leads Masters Snooker Betting 2010 Field With Internet Bookmakers
Like so many major online Sports Betting events, The Masters snooker tournament that takes place as of January each year, has experienced many name changes down the years, since it was first contested back in 1975 at Wembley Conference Centre. For purely sponsorship purposes, The Masters will probably be best remembered as the Benson and Hedges Masters (right up until tobacco advertising was outlawed here in the UK in connection with major sporting events whereby it could be glorified), yet it's also been marketed as the Rileys Club Masters and to date, the Saga Insurance Masters. After the snooker World Championship itself, The Masters is officially recognised as the most prestigious of the tournaments currently on the snooker circuit, whilst providing a winners pot to rival that of its marginally more illustrious rival.
Maintaining The Masters naming heritage, there have been many calls from snooker's biggest stars past and present – and led by Jimmy White - to have the tournament renamed in honour of the late Paul Hunter, who won The Masters on no fewer than three occasions during his sadly very short professional snooker career, however has never been acted upon by the snooker powers that be. That said the Paul Hunter Scholarship was founded to help young snooker players with training and all other crucial aspects associated with the amateur ranks.
Stephen Hendry Gunning For Record-Breaking Seventh Masters Snooker Title
As you'd expect to discover, The Masters has served up its fair share of memorable moments for players, pundits, fans and TV viewers back home alike over the years, ever since John Spencer emerged victorious over Ray Reardon in that inaugural 1975 final. The princely sum of £2,000 being the winners cheque that day, whilst now the purse is said to be around the £150,000 mark for the eventual victor. Stephen Hendry's stunning comeback from being 7-0 and 8-2 down to Mike Hallett in 1991 stands the test of time as being the final match that threw up the most excitement and atmosphere, although others would argue that snooker great, Steve Davis' – his star unfortunately on the wane after dominating the game for much of the 1980s – 1997 battle royale with emerging and precocious talent, Ronnie O'Sullivan was up there with the very best, and the ultimate advert for the game of professional snooker. There was something for everyone in a tense final that saw Davis storm back from being 8-4 down to clinch the final by grabbing six consecutive frames, including a disruption by a streaker.