2019 Snooker Shoot Out
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}
{{Infobox individual snooker tournament
|tournament_name=2019 BetVictor Snooker Shoot Out
|logo=
|dates={{Start and end dates|2019|02|21|2019|02|24|df=y}}
|venue=Watford Colosseum
|location=Watford
|country=England
|organisation=World Snooker
|format=Ranking event
|Total prize fund=£146,000
|winners_share=£32,000
|highest_break={{nowrap|{{flagathlete|Thepchaiya Un-Nooh|THA}} (139)}}
|winner={{flagathlete|Thepchaiya Un-Nooh|THA}}
|runner_up={{flagathlete|Michael Holt|ENG}}
|score=74–0 (one frame)
|previous=2018
|next=2020
}}
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.{{cite web |title=Betvictor Sponsors World Snooker's 2019 Shoot Out |url=http://www.worldsnooker.com/betvictor-sponsors-world-snookers-2019-shoot-out/ |website=World Snooker |date=20 December 2018|access-date=26 December 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://www.worldsnooker.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Click-here-for-the-calendar.pdf|title=2017/18 Calendar|publisher=World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association|date=18 July 2018|access-date=27 September 2018}} 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.{{cite web |title=Betvictor Shoot Out – Day Three Round Up |url=http://www.worldsnooker.com/betvictor-shoot-out-day-three-roundup/ |website=World Snooker |date=23 February 2019|access-date=25 February 2019}}
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh won his first career ranking title, beating Michael Holt 74–0 in the final. Un-Nooh's 139 break in the semi-final was the highest in the history of the Shoot Out.{{cite web |title=Speed King Un-Nooh Lands Shoot Out Title |url=http://www.worldsnooker.com/speed-king-un-nooh-lands-shoot-out-title/ |website=World Snooker |date=24 February 2019}}
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 {{cuegloss|frame}}, each of which lasted up to 10 minutes. The event featured a variable {{cuegloss|shot clock}}; shots played in the first five minutes were allowed 15 seconds while the final five had a 10-second timer. All {{cuegloss|foul shots}} awarded the opponent a {{cuegloss|ball in hand}}. Unlike traditional snooker, if a ball did not hit a {{cuegloss|cushion}} on every shot, it was a foul. Rather than a coin toss, a lag was used to choose which player {{cuegloss|break off|breaks}}. In the event of a draw, each player received a shot at the {{cuegloss|blue ball}} this is known as a "blue ball shootout". The player who {{cuegloss|pots|potted}} the ball with the {{cuegloss|cue ball}} from inside the {{cuegloss|D}} and the blue ball on its spot with the opponent missing won the match.
=Prize fund=
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:{{cite web|title=Indicative Prize Money Rankings Schedule 2018/2019 Season|url=http://www.worldsnooker.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Click-here-for-the-prize-money.pdf|work=worldsnooker.com|publisher=World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association|date=18 July 2018|access-date=27 September 2018}}
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- 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 the world rankings)
- Highest break: £2,000
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- Total: £146,000
- The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break: £5,000
Tournament draw
All times in Greenwich Mean Time. Times for quarter-finals, semi-finals and final are approximate. Players in bold denote match winners.
Note: w/d=withdrawn; w/o=walk-over
=Round 1=
==21 February – 13:00==
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- {{flagathlete|Peter Ebdon|ENG}} 37–67 {{flagathlete|Michael Georgiou|CYP}}
- {{flagathlete|Ashley Carty|ENG}} 20–68 {{flagathlete|Steven Hallworth|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Ricky Walden|ENG}} 136–1 {{flagathlete|Liam Davies|WAL}}
- {{flagathlete|Ashley Hugill|ENG}} 19–67 {{flagathlete|Ali Carter|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Michael Judge|IRL}} 8–61 {{flagathlete|Tom Ford|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Ben Mertens|BEL}} 60–59 {{flagathlete|James Wattana|THA}}
- {{flagathlete|Kurt Maflin|NOR}} 77–26 {{flagathlete|Lee Walker|WAL}}
- {{flagathlete|Ken Doherty|IRL}} 80–26 {{flagathlete|Adam Stefanow|POL}}
- {{flagathlete|Zhao Xintong|CHN}} 59–2 {{flagathlete|Joe O'Connor|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Chen Feilong|CHN}} 58–34 {{flagathlete|Lu Ning|CHN}}
- {{flagathlete|Sean O'Sullivan|ENG}} 0–63 {{flagathlete|Jamie Clarke|WAL}}
- {{flagathlete|Joe Perry|ENG}} 49–69 {{flagathlete|Rory McLeod|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Craig Steadman|ENG}} 36–18 {{flagathlete|Jordan Brown|NIR}}
- {{flagathlete|Joe Swail|NIR}} 62–1 {{flagathlete|Kuldesh Johal|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Luke Simmonds|ENG}} 73–15 {{flagathlete|Zhang Yong|CHN}}
- {{flagathlete|Alfie Burden|ENG}} w/d–w/o {{flagathlete|Thor Chuan Leong|MAS}}
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==21 February – 19:00==
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- {{flagathlete|Ian Burns|ENG}} 62–63 {{flagathlete|Kyren Wilson|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Xu Si|CHN}} 1–49 {{flagathlete|Billy Castle|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Noppon Saengkham|THA}} 5–34 {{flagathlete|Daniel Wells|WAL}}
- {{flagathlete|Harvey Chandler|ENG}} 39–73 {{flagathlete|Gary Wilson|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Zhang Jiankang|CHN}} 1–72 {{flagathlete|Jimmy Robertson|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Simon Lichtenberg|GER}} 7–68 {{flagathlete|Barry Hawkins|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Elliot Slessor|ENG}} 41–7 {{flagathlete|Duane Jones|WAL}}
- {{flagathlete|Chris Wakelin|ENG}} 23–50 {{flagathlete|Oliver Lines|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Lukas Kleckers|GER}} 64–0 {{flagathlete|Jamie O'Neill|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|James Cahill|ENG}} 0–122 {{flagathlete|Mei Xiwen|CHN}}
- {{flagathlete|Chris Totten|SCO}} 21–48 {{flagathlete|Mitchell Mann|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Andrew Higginson|ENG}} 19–74 {{flagathlete|Michael White|WAL}}
- {{flagathlete|Sanderson Lam|ENG}} 37–55 {{flagathlete|Alan McManus|SCO}}
- {{flagathlete|Sunny Akani|THA}} 94–0 {{flagathlete|Lyu Haotian|CHN}}
- {{flagathlete|Tian Pengfei|CHN}} 88–52 {{flagathlete|Andy Lee|HKG}}
- {{flagathlete|Reanne Evans|ENG}} 26–54 {{flagathlete|Jimmy White|ENG}}
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==22 February – 13:00==
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- {{flagathlete|Matthew Stevens|WAL}} 0–84 {{flagathlete|Stuart Bingham|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Fan Zhengyi|CHN}} 2–23 {{flagathlete|Hamza Akbar|PAK}}
- {{flagathlete|Jak Jones|WAL}} 78–13 {{flagathlete|Liam Graham|SCO}}
- {{flagathlete|Joel Walker|ENG}} 68–15 {{flagathlete|Li Yuan|CHN}}
- {{flagathlete|Hammad Miah|ENG}} 18–70 {{flagathlete|Zhang Anda|CHN}}
- {{flagathlete|Stephen Bateman|IRL}} 36–30 {{flagathlete|Mark Davis|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Robbie Williams|ENG}} 18–24 {{flagathlete|Ryan Davies|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Ben Hancorn|ENG}} 21–67 {{flagathlete|Peter Lines|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Peter Devlin|ENG}} 35–16 {{flagathlete|Ross Muir|SCO}}
- {{flagathlete|Adam Duffy|ENG}} 27–19 {{flagathlete|Mark Joyce|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Alexander Ursenbacher|SWI}} 16–57 {{flagathlete|Andy Hicks|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Ben Woollaston|ENG}} 41–28 {{flagathlete|Sam Craigie|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Zhou Yuelong|CHN}} 0–64 {{flagathlete|Michael Holt|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Yuan Sijun|CHN}} 18–57 {{flagathlete|Dominic Dale|WAL}}
- {{flagathlete|Anthony Hamilton|ENG}} 0–95 {{flagathlete|David Gilbert|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Graeme Dott|SCO}} 69–22 {{flagathlete|Martin O'Donnell|ENG}}
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==22 February – 19:00==
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- {{flagathlete|Luca Brecel|BEL}} 75–11 {{flagathlete|Farakh Ajaib|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Yan Bingtao|CHN}} 54–55 {{flagathlete|Kishan Hirani|WAL}}
- {{flagathlete|Emma Parker|ENG}} 17–61 {{flagathlete|Laxman Rawat|IND}}
- {{flagathlete|Shaun Murphy|ENG}} 52–12 {{flagathlete|Mark King|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Thepchaiya Un-Nooh|THA}} 85–6 {{flagathlete|Robert Milkins|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Li Hang|CHN}} 33–19 {{flagathlete|Fergal O'Brien|IRL}}
- {{flagathlete|Anthony McGill|SCO}} 20–56 {{flagathlete|Barry Pinches|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Gerard Greene|NIR}} 35–66 {{flagathlete|Matthew Selt|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Martin Gould|ENG}} 100–7 {{flagathlete|Liam Highfield|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|John Astley|ENG}} 82–14 {{flagathlete|Brandon Sargeant|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Luo Honghao|CHN}} 12–35 {{flagathlete|Mike Dunn|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Scott Donaldson|SCO}} 18–58 {{flagathlete|Allan Taylor|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Stuart Carrington|ENG}} 0–65 {{flagathlete|Hossein Vafaei|IRI}}
- {{flagathlete|Xiao Guodong|CHN}} 49–7 {{flagathlete|Paul Davison|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Chen Zifan|CHN}} 16–110 {{flagathlete|Sam Baird|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Rod Lawler|ENG}} 63–28 {{flagathlete|Nigel Bond|ENG}}
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=Round 2=
==23 February – 13:00==
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- {{flagathlete|Ricky Walden|ENG}} 0–137 {{flagathlete|Luca Brecel|BEL}}
- {{flagathlete|Ryan Davies|ENG}} 37–12 {{flagathlete|Ben Mertens|BEL}}
- {{flagathlete|Luke Simmonds|ENG}} 25–10 {{flagathlete|Hamza Akbar|PAK}}
- {{flagathlete|Thepchaiya Un-Nooh|THA}} 39–28 {{flagathlete|Mei Xiwen|CHN}}
- {{flagathlete|Sunny Akani|THA}} 62–25 {{flagathlete|Billy Castle|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Kurt Maflin|NOR}} 1–74 {{flagathlete|Gary Wilson|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Dominic Dale|WAL}} 60–16 {{flagathlete|Thor Chuan Leong|MAS}}
- {{flagathlete|Peter Devlin|ENG}} 9–36 {{flagathlete|Rory McLeod|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Kyren Wilson|ENG}} 41–18 {{flagathlete|Elliot Slessor|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Jamie Clarke|WAL}} 34–21 {{flagathlete|Mitchell Mann|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Daniel Wells|WAL}} 46–17 {{flagathlete|Craig Steadman|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|John Astley|ENG}} 18–32 {{flagathlete|Jimmy White|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Joe Swail|NIR}} 8–42 {{flagathlete|Mike Dunn|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Steven Hallworth|ENG}} 120–8 {{flagathlete|Tom Ford|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Kishan Hirani|WAL}} 11–101 {{flagathlete|Laxman Rawat|IND}}
- {{flagathlete|Adam Duffy|ENG}} 38–25 {{flagathlete|David Gilbert|ENG}}
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==23 February – 19:00==
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- {{flagathlete|Shaun Murphy|ENG}} 22–72 {{flagathlete|Stuart Bingham|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Matthew Selt|ENG}} 6–51 {{flagathlete|Tian Pengfei|CHN}}
- {{flagathlete|Ben Woollaston|ENG}} 44–51 {{flagathlete|Barry Pinches|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Ali Carter|ENG}} 13–61 {{flagathlete|Zhao Xintong|CHN}}
- {{flagathlete|Hossein Vafaei|IRN}} 34–47 {{flagathlete|Allan Taylor|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Michael White|WAL}} 51–23 {{flagathlete|Joel Walker|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Oliver Lines|ENG}} 31–6 {{flagathlete|Martin Gould|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Alan McManus|SCO}} 43–33 {{flagathlete|Jimmy Robertson|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Xiao Guodong|CHN}} 22–61 {{flagathlete|Graeme Dott|SCO}}
- {{flagathlete|Rod Lawler|ENG}} 52–24 {{flagathlete|Chen Feilong|CHN}}
- {{flagathlete|Peter Lines|ENG}} 13–17 {{flagathlete|Jak Jones|WAL}}
- {{flagathlete|Li Hang|CHN}} 45–28 {{flagathlete|Michael Georgiou|CYP}}
- {{flagathlete|Stephen Bateman|IRL}} 13–42 {{flagathlete|Sam Baird|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Andy Hicks|ENG}} 37–41 {{flagathlete|Michael Holt|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Ken Doherty|IRL}} 26–71 {{flagathlete|Lukas Kleckers|GER}}
- {{flagathlete|Zhang Anda|CHN}} 75–0 {{flagathlete|Barry Hawkins|ENG}}
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=Round 3=
==24 February – 13:00==
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- {{flagathlete|Stuart Bingham|ENG}} 68–5 {{flagathlete|Kyren Wilson|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Daniel Wells|WAL}} 62–0 {{flagathlete|Luke Simmonds|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Jimmy White|ENG}} 12–65 {{flagathlete|Rory McLeod|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Jamie Clarke|WAL}} 54–0 {{flagathlete|Oliver Lines|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Li Hang|CHN}} 14–10 {{flagathlete|Lukas Kleckers|GER}}
- {{flagathlete|Adam Duffy|ENG}} 29–12 {{flagathlete|Alan McManus|SCO}}
- {{flagathlete|Ryan Davies|ENG}} 10–7 {{flagathlete|Sunny Akani|THA}}
- {{flagathlete|Zhao Xintong|CHN}} 26–27 {{flagathlete|Luca Brecel|BEL}}
- {{flagathlete|Laxman Rawat|IND}} 6–55 {{flagathlete|Sam Baird|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Michael White|WAL}} 29–2 {{flagathlete|Jak Jones|WAL}}
- {{flagathlete|Barry Pinches|ENG}} 5–15 {{flagathlete|Michael Holt|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Dominic Dale|WAL}} 60–39 {{flagathlete|Allan Taylor|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Gary Wilson|ENG}} 8–81 {{flagathlete|Steven Hallworth|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Thepchaiya Un-Nooh|THA}} 74–33 {{flagathlete|Mike Dunn|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Zhang Anda|CHN}} 21–32 {{flagathlete|Tian Pengfei|CHN}}
- {{flagathlete|Rod Lawler|ENG}} 22–2 {{flagathlete|Graeme Dott|SCO}}
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=Round 4=
==24 February – 19:00==
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- {{flagathlete|Luca Brecel|BEL}} 29–47 {{flagathlete|Michael White|WAL}}
- {{flagathlete|Michael Holt|ENG}} 37–7 {{flagathlete|Ryan Davies|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Adam Duffy|ENG}} 9–54 {{flagathlete|Sam Baird|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Jamie Clarke|WAL}} 36–32 {{flagathlete|Steven Hallworth|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Tian Pengfei|CHN}} 38–40 {{flagathlete|Li Hang|CHN}}
- {{flagathlete|Rory McLeod|ENG}} 15–58 {{flagathlete|Thepchaiya Un-Nooh|THA}}
- {{flagathlete|Daniel Wells|WAL}} 0–74 {{flagathlete|Rod Lawler|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Dominic Dale|WAL}} 16–86 {{flagathlete|Stuart Bingham|ENG}}
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=Quarter-finals=
==24 February – 21:00==
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- {{flagathlete|Thepchaiya Un-Nooh|THA}} 97–3 {{flagathlete|Stuart Bingham|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Li Hang|CHN}} 20–55 {{flagathlete|Michael Holt|ENG}}
- {{flagathlete|Rod Lawler|ENG}} 4–58 {{flagathlete|Jamie Clarke|WAL}}
- {{flagathlete|Michael White|WAL}} 53–13 {{flagathlete|Sam Baird|ENG}}
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=Semi-finals=
==24 February – 22:15==
- {{flagathlete|Thepchaiya Un-Nooh|THA}} 139–0 {{flagathlete|Jamie Clarke|WAL}}
- {{flagathlete|Michael White|WAL}} 21–56 {{flagathlete|Michael Holt|ENG}}
=Final=
class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%; margin: 1em auto 1em auto;" |
colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#ffd700" | Final: 1 frame. Referee: Brendan Moore Watford Colosseum, Watford, England, 24 February 2019 – 22:45 |
width="230" align="right" | Thepchaiya Un-Nooh {{THA}} | width="100" align="center" | 74–0 | width="230" | Michael Holt |
Century breaks
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- 139 {{ndash}} Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
- 133 {{ndash}} Luca Brecel
- 132 {{ndash}} Ricky Walden
- 100 {{ndash}} Martin Gould
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References
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{{Snooker Shoot Out}}
{{Snooker season 2018/2019}}
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