The Snooker Shoot Out gets underway on Wednesday in Leicester, with the unique event providing a very different atmosphere to the rest of the calendar.
Every match in the tournament is just one frame, with a 10 minute maximum and played under a shot clock.
The fans in Leicester are welcome to make plenty of noise and they certainly will do so, especially in the Friday and Saturday evening sessions.
Ranking points are on the line and there is £50,000 to the winner so it can be a career-changing event for players, as it was for Chris Wakelin a couple of years ago, who now finds himself in the world’s top 16 and heading to the Masters next month.
Mark Allen won it last year, becoming the first top 16 player to do so, with lower-ranked players tending to grab the opportunity for a rare piece of silverware.
How to watch the Snooker Shoot Out
The event is being shown on Eurosport and Discovery+ in the UK.
Snooker Shoot Out draw and schedule
Wednesday 4 December
1pm
Mark Allen vs Ross Muir
Hossein Vafaei vs Julien Leclercq
Jiang Jun vs Antoni Kowalski
Lyu Haotian vs Tian Pengfei
Robert Milkins vs Joe Shannon
Louis Heathcote vs Ahmed Aly Elsayed
Jonas Luz vs Paul Deaville
David Gilbert vs David Grace
Matthew Selt vs Ryan Day
Dean Young vs Florian Nuessle
Fan Zhengyi vs Wang Yuchen
Daniel Boyes vs Wu Yize
Anthony McGill vs Sophie Nix
Joel Connolly vs Aaron Hill
Joe Perry vs Gong Chenzhi
Reanne Evans vs Gary Wilson
7pm
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh vs Jimmy White
Zhou Yuelong vs Andrew Pagett
Pang Junxu vs Zak Surety
Haris Tahir vs David Lilley
Jordan Brown vs Si Jiahui
Cheung Ka Wai vs Andrew Higginson
Huang Jiahao vs Hammad Miah
Xiao Guodong vs Anthony Hamilton
Matthew Stevens vs Yuan Sijun
Daniel Womersley vs Long Zehuang
Chris Totten vs Duane Jones
Ian Burns vs Ma Hailong
Joe O’Connor vs Sanderson Lam
Haydon Pinhey vs Mitchell Mann
Noppon Saengkham vs Liu Hongyu
Ashley Carty vs Kayden Brierley
Thursday 5 December
1pm
Mark Selby vs Baipat Siripaporn
Stan Moody vs Riley Powell
Lewis Ullah vs Steven Wardropper
Jackson Page vs Manasawin Phetmalaikul
Mink Nutcharut vs Liam Graham
Zhang Anda vs Hatem Yassen
Sion Stuart vs Martin O’Donnell
Alfie Burden vs Ben Woollaston
Graeme Dott vs Ben Mertens
Bai Yulu vs Jamie Clarke
Vladislav Gradinari vs Daniel Wells
Tom Ford vs Xing Zihao
Robbie Williams vs Michael Holt
Bulcsu Revesz vs Farakh Ajaib
Jimmy Robertson vs Liam Pullen
Sean O’Sullivan vs Shaun Murphy
7pm
Neil Robertson vs Simon Blackwell
Oliver Lines vs Allan Taylor
Stuart Carrington vs Dylan Emery
Mark Davis vs Liam Davies
Iulian Boiko vs Jack Lisowski
Ishpreet Singh Chadha vs Amir Sarkhosh
Mark Joyce vs Joshua Thomand
Gerard Greene vs Robbie McGuigan
He Guoqiang vs Stuart Bingham
Jamie Jones vs Rory Thor
Anton Kazakov vs Artemijs Zizins
Kreishh Gurbaxani vs Lei Peifan
Mostafa Dorgham vs Elliot Slessor
Alexander Ursenbacher vs Xu Si
Joshua Cooper vs Jak Jones
Ali Carter vs Chris Wakelin
Snooker Shoot Out Rules
Timing
Each match is a maximum of 10 minutes.
For the first five minutes of the match there is a 15 second shot clock. This is cut to 10 seconds after five minutes.
Failure to commence a stroke within the time results in a foul.
Fouls
All fouls result in the cue-ball in hand, so it can be placed anywhere on the table.
If at least one ball does not strike a cushion or enter a pocket after a stroke then it is a foul.
Other rules
Players lag to decide who breaks.
A tied frame is decided by a sudden death blue ball shootout.
Full Shoot Out rules available here.
Snooker Shoot Out prize money
Winner: £50,000
Runner-up: £20,000
Semi-final: £8,000
Quarter-final: £4,000
Last 16: £2,000
Last 32: £1,000
Last 64: £500
Last 128: £250
Highest break: £5,000
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