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Dafabet Masters 2015 Ronnie O’Sullivan

Dafabet Masters 2015 Ronnie O'Sullivan

Dafabet Masters 2015 Ronnie O’Sullivan equalled Hendry’s Century record?

Ronnie O’Sullivan fluked ( or what I call the Dimitri a player I play with flukes a lot.) the final yellow in the tenth frame, and added the green, brown and blue to match Hendry’s record with a 116. Ronnie will now meet Marco Fu on Thursday afternoon with the chance to set a new record.

Over a 23-year career, O’Sullivan has established himself as the most gifted player ever to hold a cue and the greatest ever break-builder. He is now setting his sites on another Hendry record: six Masters titles. He’ll equal that if he triumphs at Alexandra Palace on Sunday night.

At the Start today They frames got messy and O’Sullivan led 2-1 after an hour’s play. He then stepped up a gear with breaks of 77, 91 and 100 to lead 5-1.

Walden, made a run of 100 to win frame seven and Ronnie looked set for victory when he made a 66 in the next, but Walden got a snooker and free ball on the last red and cleared up to a 5-3 score. Ricky  cleared with 73 in the next, an unlikely fight-back was in full flow.

But O’Sullivan responded by getting the frame and century he needed. In potting the black off the last red he failed to dislodge the yellow and brown from the baulk cushion, but a hit-and-hope yellow came off three cushions and dropped into a centre pocket, leaving him perfect position on the green. O’Sullivan went on to make 116 as a packed house of nearly 1,700 joined him in celebration.

Quotes from Ronnie

“I’ve been thinking about the (centuries) record since I got within striking distance and I’m glad I’ve equalled it now,” said O’Sullivan.

“I doubt Stephen Hendry is that bothered, he’s still got the seven world titles record which means more to him than anything. For me it’s more about winning this tournament now.

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Dafabet Masters 2015 Neil Robertson

Dafabet Masters 2015 Neil Robertson

Dafabet Masters 2015 Neil Robertson gets over the line 6- 4  in what was a match of many errors from both players.

Neil will hope that his form gets better as he had one Century Break (117) to lead 5-4  with a 90% potting rate from neil and 87% from Robert  in the 9th frame of the match.

The rest play for Neil was under 50% and normally he has a great strength in this area.

Robert Milkins did well in a few frames that he should have lost and capitalised on Robertson errors. All in all its great for Australia and Neil that’s he’s through to the next match and may his form get better in his next match.

In the last frame Neil had a 76 and that was enough even though Robert attempted to do something.

The long potting success for neil was just 53% so he will need to get back to his best to have a chance in the Masters this year.

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Quinten Hann Federal Court

Quinten Hann Federal Court

Quinten Hann Federal Court

THE corporate regulator has potted former snooker champ Quinten Hann over a forex business he ran with the help of former AFL footy player Mark “The Fridge” Roberts (see Margin Call, October 15).

Federal Court judge Michelle Gordon on Friday blackballed Hann, who these days goes by the name of James Sonny, Quinten Hunter, from the financial services industry for four years — or half the ban he copped from snooker back in 2006 after taking a bribe to throw a match.

His business, Monarch FX, told clients interested in its whiz-bang automated trading technology to set up self-managed super funds through The Fridge’s Gold Coast outfit, Breakaway Finance Group.

Sadly, clients typically lost 40 to 50 per cent of their investments, the court heard.

Monarch used to rent a financial services license from Gold Coast-based Avestra — as Margin Call reported on Thursday, that’s the mob who pleaded guilty in Australia’s first ever criminal case under takeovers law.

Avestra was fined $40,000 after neglecting to tell the market funds it managed owned more than half of listed broker AG Financial. It also forgot to mount a takeover bid, as required by law

Margin Call Columnist
Melbourne