Snooker – Work out who will best handle the pressure

For those who love fast-paced, action packed sports where it’s all ‘go, go, go’, then snooker certainly won’t be the one for you. On the other hand, if you appreciate sports that are incredibly hard to master, require huge doses of concentration and discipline and require players to mix attacking and defensive shots to win games, then snooker has it all.

The object of the game is to pot a red all, followed by a coloured ball, followed by a red ball, followed by a coloured ball and so on, always using the white ball (known as the cue ball). The coloured balls have different values and a sequence of scoring shots is known as a break. The more points you score during each break, the better. 

In recent years the Professional Snooker Tour has had lots of new events added to it to reflect the sport’s increased popularity but the World Snooker Championship, taking place in April each year, remains the sport’s biggest prize. Next up in importance are the UK Championship, the Masters and the Welsh Open.

The biggest start over the past two decades has been the brilliant but controversial Ronnie O’Sullivan, with the gritty and disciplined Mark Selby often described as the toughest competitor of them all and Judd Trump seen very much as the future of the game.

On Betsson you can bet pre-match and on live betting on the match winner. And once the match is under way you can also bet on who will win the next frame or on correct score and handicap markets.  Careful observation of players’ body language, levels of concentration and how well they’re cueing under pressure are always good factors to consider and why all in all, it’s such an intriguing sport to bet on.