The 2007 UK Championship, after the World Championship, is the second most prestigious event on the snooker betting circuit, Enthusiasts of online betting will be glued to their television sets over the next few days struggling to identify the likely winner of the individual matches or, indeed, the event itself.

Things have changed since those days of clarity in the eighties and nineties. First it was Steve Davis who ruled the roost until he was eventually knocked off his perch by the unflinching Scotsman, Stephen Hendry.
Later, in the nineties everything changed. Along came a flood of players, all seemingly capable of winning the top prize. The godlike figures of Davis and Hendry were swept aside by this torrent and sports betting was left floundering by an army of talent which defied the bookies in their efforts to set the odds.

The era of the one horse race was over. Perhaps fans of spread betting, where you can back losers as well as winners were oblivious to all this while the rest of us prayed for a hero to emerge from the throng.
Perhaps, at last, he has. For the first time since Hendry took seven world titles in the nineties we see a figure emerging from the mist; someone who has not only the depth of talent, but the consistent strength of mind, to steadily pull ahead of the pack and stay there.

Sports betting will agree and devotees of online gambling should follow one name and that name is Ronnie O’Sullivan. Despite recent concerns over his performance, O’Sullivan cruised into the final eight after a shattering 9-1 defeat of world number 21, Mark King. If he can repeat this kind of form in his quarter final match with Jamie Cope he will undoubtedly be the hot favourite to clinch the title.