LADBROKES UK Open 2013 draw

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Full details of the draw below. The 2 Whiter lads representing the league are highlighted below. What a field that is - a proper tournament! Good luck lads!!

The draw was done live on ustream, first half of the draw was done by Greg Alexander and Billy Stirling, and the second half of the draw was done by Kevin Twaddle and Robert Hoey Jnr, witness by Ross McInnes and Alan Maxwell.

Heres how the draw came out, Good Luck all.

Grant McNairn v Paul Gillespie
Mark Bowen v EBPF Qualifier Central North
Sean mcPake v Stuart Weeks
steven McMillan v Pat Holtz
James McKenzie v Charles mcCaig
Scott Higgins v Brian Thomson
North East v Barry Calder
Martyn Linn v Lee Killen
Darren Orr v Mark Boyle
Dingwall Qualifier v Mick Suthers
Paul McCutcheon v Kevin Twaddle
Alan Reynolds v Zac Shepherd
Pete Smith v Scott Kennedy
Alan Hazle v Scott Gray
Jim Stevens v Phil Craig Snr
Crawford Mitchel v Inverness Qualifier
Scott Gillespie v Stevie Sheridan
EBPF NW Qualifier v Stuart McCulloch
Jamie Simpson v Martyn Scott
Alan Dugdale v Paul Cochrane
Scott Dunbar v Colin Brown
Liam McPherson v Neil Rayborne
Anton Riley v John Kerr
Mark Tomlinson v EBPF Eastern Qualifier
Mark Conway v Marc Johnstone
Mark Bell v Vincent Bimendi
JJ Kirkpatrick v Ben Davies
John OByrne v Gavin Phillips
Mark Cottingham v Mike McHardy
Daniel Wylie v Thomas McIntosh
Antz Morrison v Steven Campbell
Pat McCarron v Jimmy Croxton

Christian Phillips v Danny Turner
Berwick Qualifier v Ronan McCarthy
Johnny Vaughan v Greg Alexander
Robert Hoey Jnr v Clark Smith
Andy Croasdale v Paul Harkness
Alex Campbell v Gary Scott
Ryan Fleming v David McGawn
Graeme McKeown v Alan Saunders
Steven Johnstone v Steven Bennie
William Biggam v Charles McKinlay
Stuart Anderson v Mark Gilluley
Kevin McLeod v Jonathan Bushnell
Duncan Brown v Barry Wraith
Michael Collumb v Ryan Bruce
Simon Ward v Michael Polley
Daniel Davie v Alan Maxwell
Lee Clough v David Jack
Richard Reid v Keith Keddie
Ivan Thomson v Stevie Johnstone
Iain Gillies v Tony McCartan
Peter Nolan v Billy Stirling
Martin Wood v Craig Marsh
Jack Whelan v Pat O'Kane
Gibraltar Qualifier v EBPF Western Qualifier
Martin Jones v Liam Dunster
David Rooney v Jordan Shepherd
David Kinnear v Steven Hepburn
Ryan Davie v Colin Downie
Ross Fernie v Scott Ross
Jason Thomas v Chris Pringle
Gordon McCormack v Chris Sweeney
Paddy McMullen v Campbell Sarrison

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LADBROKES UK OPEN DRAW TIMES BY ROSS MCINESS

Right first of all let me explain what will be happening all day Saturday.


FIRST ROUND [winners section] race to 8 frames.

The first 16 match's kick off at 9am
The next 16 match's 10.30
The next 16 match's 12 noon.
The next 16 match's 1.30pm.


SECOND ROUND [ winners section] Race to 8 frames

FIRST 16 match's 3pm
SECOND 16 match's 4.30


Losers Section Race to 5 frames

FIRST 16 match's 6 pm
SECOND 16 match's 7pm
THIRD 16 match's 8pm
FOURTH 16 match's 9pm

THIRD ROUND [winners section] Race to 8 frames.

16 match's to qualify for finals on Sunday 10 pm to finish.

The above are all the match's that will be played on the Saturday, the reason I stopped at the winners section after the second round and not go on with them was because I would then only have the losers section to play and if that went on late, the winners from those match's would be the players who had to get up early the next morning to play and I felt that would be unfair.

The winners and losers from the last match's on the Saturday night will then have an extra 1.5 or 3 hours sleep the next morning and that then allows the losers who are still in the event to get more sleep on the Saturday night if they wish.

Now we all know pool and some match's may go on longer than others but with the best players in the World playing BB rules I feel that one and a half hours for a race to 8 is ok and a hour race to 5 again not great but ok.

Even if we start one hour later on the Saturday night it will still finish around 12.30 and these guys do not have to get up early like some of the rest so I'm happy with the Saturday timing.


Sunday match's.

Losers Section Race to 5 frames

16 match's 9.30 am
16 match's 10.30 am [qualifiers drawn out of hat to play in knockout stages]

Last 32 Knockout stage

16 match's Race to 8 frames 12 noon.

Last 16

8 match's Race to 8 frames 1.30pm

Quarters

4 match's Race to 9 frames 3.00pm

Semi's

2 match's Race to 10 frames 4.30

Final

1 match Race to 11 fames 6.00 pm


Presentation at 8 pm [hopefully]

Again got lots of time if games go on later than planned but if all goes well it should finish by 8 pm.

All these times will be on the draw sheets posted all over the walls in the event room for players to see, if any questions just see me and I will explain it to you.
You will all receive a letter informing you of everything when you register on the Friday or Saturday morning anyone falling foul of certain conditions will be asked to leave to hotel along with anyone with them.
A draw will be done on Friday night in front of players to bring in the reserves, I did not firstly want to do this myself but also right up until the event starts I do not know who will and who will not attend but all players must be aware that if a player does not attend for any reason, their place will be filled by a reserve, so there will be no byes.

Next I have to apologise to a number of players who I could not get rooms for, I did try and ask for more but the hotel refused.

Also to the guys that are sharing, I want to thank them again for doing this and I will try and make this up to them in the future, I have used this hotel 20 odd times and always got as many twins as I liked, this is the first time that they gave me a limit of 15?

I have already been in touch with two other hotels regarding this event for next year and this problem will not happen again.

Lastly I hoped all the players supporters really enjoy the weekend and I know the pool staff along with the hotel will try and make sure everything goes great.

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Bang up to date details here:

scottishpool.org/node/79

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Live stream available here:

console.247platform.com/embed/?v=4c-b1846-live

Should be a laugh with £50 per head winner stays on for £1600...

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James is 6 - 4 down vs chic McCaig from Glasgow. Top player who regularly qualifies for national events from arguably Scotland's toughest league.

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Beat 8 - 4 and missed a couple of blacks. Unlucky James!

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Mark also beat 8 - 4 against a guy who regularly plays pretty big money matches and qualifies for National tournaments. No disgrace!

Both lads into losers side of double elimination now and matches start at 6pm. Both guys cannot believe how fast the tables are - I really want that new Hainsworth cloth!

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Both Mark and James knocked out in the 1st and 2nd rounds of the losers side respectively. Unlucky lads!

Live stream up and running again this morning...

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Just in case anyone missed this, it was Jordan Sheppard of Wales who won the event with a 10 - 7 win over Englishman Dan Davy.

Just to emphasise the standard of opposition that James and Mark had their chances against over the weekend see post below from SPA site:

RE: IM6 qualifiers
by: maxi, 1 week ago 08:45 AM (#4)

Glasgow qualifiers:-

1 Joe Penman
2 Vinny Bimendi
3 Charles Anthony McCaig
4 Colin Downie
5 Anton Riley
6 Clark Smith
7 TBC

Alan Maxwell top 16

Both opponents are regular qualifiers for IM events - the SPA's truly national tour - from Scotland's toughest pool league. With further digging one can see that these guys are both ranked in the top 80 in Scotland. See the SPA IM rankings as of the start of the season here:

www.scottishpool.com/drawsheets/2013improv.htm

840 odd players on that list. Puts things in perspective.

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Talking of inappropriate, the famous dog's diary report from the weekend's event is available to site members on the Scottish pool association website. Feel free to sign up as the article is well worth a read. It is probably as outrageous as it gets in pool...