I love playing snooker throughout the winter and watch the tournaments when they are on throughout the year. However, the one I will never miss, and always look forward to is the World Championships held in The Crucible in Sheffield every April. The weather is usually beginning to turn, and the evenings become longer, I find nothing more rewarding than returning home from a hectic day of work to switch on the snooker, lie down with the patio door open, hold a beer or a cider and just drift away with the peacefulness of the snooker. Sometimes i will actually go to sleep to it, not because it is boring, but because it is just so calming, most though, I will ...  Read the complete review

The World Snooker Championships are played every year in my home city of Sheffield at the Crucible. The crucible is a theatre near the city centre, its small cramped and totally inadequate for two full size snooker tables, cameras, players, officials and commentators. However, this cramptness makes for one of the great sporting events, intimate, intimidating, the snooker world championships at the Crucible are one of the great events in the British sporting calendar. The worlds are the pinnacle of the game and are spread over 17 days, there are 32 players in the draw - 16 seeded players and 16 unseeded. The 16 seeds are the top 16 players as of the end of the ...  Read the complete review

The world snooker championships are held at the crucible theatre in Sheffield and is the most important snooker event of the year, both in terms or rankings and prize money for the players. This year it will start on the 18th of April and go on right through the month until the final match will be played on Monday the 4th of may. The event is well known to be the hardest of all competitions for snooker players to play in and that's because of its long frames which are two or even three times the amount of frames most other snooker tournaments have, and that's also one of the reasons why the event lasts a total of 17 days. The prize money for ...  Read the complete review

I do really enjoy watching snooker on the television because anybody who has ever held a cue in their hand and attempted to pot a long red will know just how hard the game is and the professionals make the game look so incredibly easy, it's amazing. Although there are many tournaments held around the world now, the World Snooker Championship is still the tournament that all players want to win one day. Held in Sheffield at the famous Crucible Theatre the tournament has been running since 1927 and holds the most clout in terms of honour, prize-money available and world ranking points earned. I have never actually been to the event myself, but would love to ...  Read the complete review

The 2008 World Snooker Championships at the famous Crucible in Sheffield was a year of thrilling hign scoring snooker. A far cry from the long tedious Dott versus Ebdon frames of a few years ago this years tournament was lit up by two maximum 147 breaks and some truly brilliant snooker. Ronnie O'Sullivan viewed by many as the greatest snooker player ever emerged victorious from a tournament that fitted his style and break building excellence. Ali Carter, the runner-up, completed a 147 along with O'Sullivan and these two were the deserved finalists with Carter putting up a brave fight but Ronnie's superiority and true skill shone through and won the tournament two frames .  Read the complete review