Snooker Shoot-Out 2014

888casino.com Snooker Shoot-Out 2014
Tournament type:	Invitation tournament
Venue:	Circus Arena , Blackpool
Opening:	January 24, 2014
Endgame:	January 26, 2014
Winner:	Dominic Dale
Highest Break:	101 ( Ryan Day )
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The 888casino.com Snooker Shoot-Out 2014 was a snooker invitation tournament of the Main Tour of the 2013/14 season , which took place from January 24th to 26th, 2014 at the Circus Arena in Blackpool , England . Defending champion was the Englishman Martin Gould , who was eliminated in the first round by Zhang Anda . The winner of the tournament was Dominic Dale from Wales , who won the final against Stuart Bingham from England 77:19.

Prize money

	Prize money
winner	£ 32,000
finalist	£ 16,000
Semi-finalist	£ 8,000
Quarter finalist	£ 4,000
Round of 16	£ 2,000
Last 32	£ 1,000
Last 64	£ 500
Highest break	£ 2,000
All in all	£ 130,000

game schedule

The games in the first round were drawn on December 8, 2013. In contrast to most snooker tournaments , each round of the 2014 Snooker Shoot-Out will be drawn anew.

1 round

The 1st round games will take place on January 24th and 25th.

game	Player 1	Result	Player 2		game	Player 1	Result	Player 2
1	Zhang Anda	40 : 14	Martin Gould		17th	Mark Williams	1: 74	Mark Allen
2	Cao Yupeng	65 : 1	Mark Selby		18th	Rory McLeod	36 : 35	Peter Ebdon
3	Anthony Hamilton	31: 52	Ali Carter		19th	Stuart Bingham	89 : 42	Joe Perry
4th	Barry Hawkins	56 : 24	Rod Lawler		20th	Jamie Burnett	78 : 41	Dechawat Poomjaeng
5	Luca Brecel	50: 67	Ben Woollaston		21st	Kurt Maflin	52 : 49	Marcus Campbell
6th	Mark King	82 : 0	Mark Joyce		22nd	Adam Duffy	39: 97	Matthew Stevens
7th	Nigel Bond	62 : 47	Jamie Jones		23	Gerard Greene	19: 64	Xiao Guodong
8th	Fergal O'Brien	1: 82	Dominic Dale		24	Peter Lines	0: 77	Michael Holt
9	Liam Highfield	72 : 15	Stephen Maguire		25th	Ian Burns	0: 88	Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
10	Alfie Burden	103 : 4	Paul Davison		26th	Ricky Walden	13: 62	Mark Davis
11	Dave Harold	52: 53	Jamie Cope		27	Robert Milkins	34: 65	Shaun Murphy
12	Robbie Williams	54 : 29	Jack Lisowski		28	Graeme Dott	29 : 22	Aditya Mehta
13	Mike Dunn	29: 34	Tom Ford		29	Matthew Selt	43 : 29	John Higgins
14th	David Gilbert	41 : 40	Anthony McGill		30th	Ken Doherty	53: 79	Alan McManus
15th	Michael White	93 : 1	Barry Pinches		31	Andrew Higginson	46 : 8	Tian Pengfei
16	Jimmy White	32: 51	Jimmy Robertson		32	Steve Davis	33: 84	Ryan Day

2nd round

The 2nd round games took place on January 25th.

game	Player 1	Result	Player 2		game	Player 1	Result	Player 2
1	Jamie Burnett	85 : 0	Shaun Murphy		9	Andrew Higginson	87 : 18	Liam Highfield
2	Ryan Day	56 : 53	Michael White		10	Dominic Dale	69 : 7	Barry Hawkins
3	Alan McManus	41 : 30	Xiao Guodong		11	Graeme Dott	72 : 0	Tom Ford
4th	Ali Carter	62 : 8	Jamie Cope		12	Mark Allen	86 : 0	Robbie Williams
5	Matthew Stevens	53 : 20	Nigel Bond		13	Kurt Maflin	82 : 20	Cao Yupeng
6th	Thepchaiya Un-Nooh	76 : 48	Michael Holt		14th	Mark Davis	72 : 43	David Gilbert
7th	Stuart Bingham	89 : 0	Zhang Anda		15th	Mark King	47 : 22	Jimmy Robertson
8th	Matthew Selt	85 : 9	Rory McLeod		16	Alfie Burden	62 : 5	Ben Woollaston

Round of 16

The round of 16 took place on January 26th.

game	Player 1	Result	Player 2		game	Player 1	Result	Player 2
1	Kurt Maflin	59 : 10	Jamie Burnett		5	Matthew Stevens	54 : 48	Alan McManus
2	Mark Davis	109 : 0	Thepchaiya Un-Nooh		6th	Andrew Higginson	40 : 22	Alfie Burden
3	Dominic Dale	51 : 45	Mark Allen		7th	Ryan Day	59 : 1	Mark King
4th	Graeme Dott	61 : 1	Ali Carter		8th	Stuart Bingham	82 : 6	Matthew Selt

Quarter finals

The quarter-finals took place on January 26th. In his game against Kurt Maflin , Welshman Ryan Day scored the highest break of the tournament with a 101.

game	Player 1	Result	Player 2		game	Player 1	Result	Player 2
1	Stuart Bingham	34 : 33	Matthew Stevens		3	Ryan Day	105 : 7	Kurt Maflin
2	Dominic Dale	81 : 1	Andrew Higginson		6th	Graeme Dott	57 : 7	Mark Davis

Semifinals

The semifinals took place on January 26th.

game	Player 1	Result	Player 2
1	Dominic Dale	64 : 6	Ryan Day
2	Stuart Bingham	62 : 0	Graeme Dott

final

The final took place on January 26th.

Final: Referee: Michaela Tabb Circus Arena,  Blackpool , England , 26th January 2014
Dominic Dale	77 : 19	Stuart Bingham
77 : 19 (61)
61	Highest break	15th
-	Century breaks	-
1	50+ breaks	-

Century breaks

• Ryan Day | 101

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prize Money Breakdowns 2013/14. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , May 1, 2013, archived from the original on June 5, 2015 ; accessed on June 28, 2015 (English). 
2. ^ 888 casino Snooker Shoot Out. (PDF; 82.8 kB) Tower Circus Arena, Blackpool. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on June 28, 2015 (English). 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} 888casino.com Snooker Shoot-Out. In: snooker.org. Retrieved June 28, 2015 . 
4. ↑ http://cuetracker.net/tournaments/snooker-shootout/2014/1022