2012 Premier League Snooker

PartyPoker.com Premier League Snooker
Tournament information
Dates 16 August–25 November 2012
Country England
Organisation(s) Matchroom Sport
Format Non-ranking event
Total prize fund £210,000
Winner's share 50,000
Highest break 135
Final
Champion England Stuart Bingham
Runner-up England Judd Trump
Score 7–2
2011
Last

The 2012 PartyPoker.com Premier League Snooker was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that was played from 16 August to 25 November 2012. This was the last edition of the tournament, as in 2013 it was replaced by the Champion of Champions.[1]

Ronnie O'Sullivan was the defending champion, but he decided not to compete this year.[2]

Stuart Bingham won his eighth professional title by defeating Judd Trump 7–2 in the final.[3]

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[4]

Players

[6]

Rankings Player Qualified via
1 England Mark Selby Shanghai Masters champion
2 England Judd Trump UK champion
5 Scotland John Higgins Wildcard
6 England Shaun Murphy Brazil Masters champion
7 Australia Neil Robertson Masters champion
8 England Stephen Lee PTC Finals champion
11 China Ding Junhui Championship League champion
12 Northern Ireland Mark Allen World Open champion
16 England Stuart Bingham Australian Goldfields Open champion
20 England Peter Ebdon China Open champion

League phase

Dates and venues

[6][7]

Week Date Venue
1 16 August Embassy Theatre, Skegness, England
2 6 September Biddulph Leisure Centre, Stoke-on-Trent, England
3 13 September The Sands, Carlisle, England
4 27 September Spiceball Leisure Centre, Banbury, England
5 4 October Southampton Guildhall, Southampton, England
6 11 October Malvern Theatres, Great Malvern, England
7 18 October Penzance Leisure Centre, Cornwall, England[n 1]
8 25 October Guildford Spectrum, Guildford, England
9 8 November The Dome, Doncaster, England
10 15 November Spennymoor Leisure Centre, Durham, England

Group one

Ranking Name England
BIN
Australia
ROB
China
DIN
England
MUR
England
SEL
Frames
W–L
Match
W–D–L
Pld–Pts
1 Stuart Bingham x 6 4 3 6 19–5 3–1–0 4–7
2 Neil Robertson 0 x 4 4 5 13–11 3–0–1 4–6
3 Ding Junhui 2 2 x 4 4 12–12 2–0–2 4–4
4 Shaun Murphy 3 2 2 x 5 12–12 1–1–2 4–3
5 Mark Selby 0 1 2 1 x 4–20 0–0–4 4–0

The top two qualified for the play-offs. If points were level then most frames won determined their positions. If two players had an identical record then the result in their match determined their positions. If their match was a 3–3 draw then the player who got to three first was higher.[6][7][10] (Breaks above 50 shown between (parentheses); century breaks are indicated with bold.)[11][12]

Group two

Ranking Name England
TRU
Scotland
HIG
England
EBD
Northern Ireland
ALL
England
LEE
Frames
W–L
Match
W–D–L
Pld–Pts
1 Judd Trump x 2 4 5 x 11–7 2–0–1 3–4
2 John Higgins 4 x 2 4 x 10–8 2–0–1 3–4
3 Peter Ebdon 2 4 x 2 x 8–10 1–0–2 3–2
4 Mark Allen 1 2 4 x x 7–11 1–0–2 3–2
5 Stephen Lee[n 1] x x x x x x–x x–x–x x–x

The top two qualified for the play-offs. If points were level then most frames won determined their positions. If two players had an identical record then the result in their match determined their positions. If their match was a 3–3 draw then the player who got to three first was higher.[6][7][10] (Breaks above 50 shown between (parentheses); century breaks are indicated with bold.)[12][23]

Play-offs

24–25 November, Grimsby Auditorium, Grimsby, England[6][7][10][27]

Semi-finals
Best of 9 frames
Final
Best of 13 frames
      
A1 England Stuart Bingham* 5
B2 Scotland John Higgins 4
A1 England Stuart Bingham*** 7
B1 England Judd Trump 2
B1 England Judd Trump** 5
A2 Australia Neil Robertson 4

* 71–13, 74–44, 22–94 (58), 0–81 (81), (117) 132–0, 52–65, (50)–(76), (74) 74–8, (57) 71–34[28]
** 65–77 (55), 14–68, 54–15, 0–87, 60–58, 81–0, 56–29, 45–78 (58), 71–16[29]
***7–(83), (82)–0, (100)–8, 76–33, (55, 53) 116–9, (61) 74–5, 0–(101), (71) 115–9, 58–54[30]

Qualifiers

The qualification for this tournament, the Championship League was played in eight groups from 9 January to 22 March 2012.

Century breaks

[12][27][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 After the suspension of Stephen Lee by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association due to suspicious betting patterns on his match against John Higgins in the sixth week of the competition,[8] all matches involving him were declared void. The fixture at the Penzance Leisure Centre in Cornwall, England was cancelled and the match between Neil Robertson and Stuart Bingham was rescheduled to take place at the Guildford Spectrum in Guildford, England.[9]

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