Snooker Match Suspended by Bookmakers

Bookmakers have suspended betting on a snooker match due to unusually high betting on a specific scoreline.

The match between Maguire and Burnett last night saw leading bookmakers suspend all betting. Most of the betting was on Maguire to win 9-3. Maguire did in fact win 9-3.

Maguire and Burnett both denied arranging the scoreline, although both admitted they had heard rumours that there had been betting on 9-3.

“My friend phoned me up the other day and said they had taken the betting off,” said Burnett, the world No45 and occasional practice partner of Maguire. “I don’t know what the script is. In the last few years there’s been talk of this match by this score or that score but I don’t particularly care. It’s got nothing to do with me.

“In the last frame I thought I had to try my life off just in case of anything stupid being said. I was saying to myself, ‘I need to get this in case people start talking’. I just felt so much pressure in the last frame. It’s probably the most pressure I’ve been under in my life.

“I missed a lot of balls. I seemed to know which balls I was going to miss. I’m down on a shot and I just had a feeling. It’s weird. One moment I felt comfortable, the next I didn’t.”

Maguire, the world No2, runner-up to Ronnie O’Sullivan in this event last year and the UK champion in 2004, said: “I heard a bit of word there was a lot of money on the match but I’m there to play. I’m not there to listen to people who bet money. That’s up to them if they get an inkling of the score.”

Related Posts

• World Snooker Championship Draw announced!
• Selby’s stunning fightback earns him Masters title
• Magilton and Gorman Leave QPR By Mutual Consent
• Ding edges past Higgins to win UK Crown
• Gino crowned King of the Jungle!