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Ssb - premier league field announced
John Higgins and Shaun Murphy have completed the field for the Partypoker.com Premier League, which starts in August.
Murphy has been invited as Brazil Masters champion and Higgins receives a wildcard in the absence of Ronnie O'Sullivan, the ten times champion, who is not playing in the early part of the season.
The full line-up and details of matches are here.
I think the format - two groups of five - is much better than last year's but O'Sullivan's non-appearance is a blow to this event because he has been so dominant since the shot-clock was introduced. Financially, it's a blow to him too: the winner takes £50,000 plus it's £1,000 a frame.
The number of tournaments on the circuit has grown but the amount played in the UK, the game's traditional home, has reduced, so the Premier League is important for bringing live snooker to places otherwise starved of seeing the world's best players.
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Murphy has been invited as Brazil Masters champion and Higgins receives a wildcard in the absence of Ronnie O'Sullivan, the ten times champion, who is not playing in the early part of the season.
The full line-up and details of matches are here.
I think the format - two groups of five - is much better than last year's but O'Sullivan's non-appearance is a blow to this event because he has been so dominant since the shot-clock was introduced. Financially, it's a blow to him too: the winner takes £50,000 plus it's £1,000 a frame.
The number of tournaments on the circuit has grown but the amount played in the UK, the game's traditional home, has reduced, so the Premier League is important for bringing live snooker to places otherwise starved of seeing the world's best players.
More...