UK Snooker Odds: Trump second favourite after Ronnie defeat
Snooker
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Joe Dyer /
06 December 2011 /
Ronnie's a goner
"Punters were prepared to take a low price of [1.09] on an O'Sullivan win with Trump drifting to [12.5]."
Snooker's next big thing lands a topsy-turvy battle with Ronnie O'Sullivan to make the quarter-finals in York
Ronnie O'Sullivan is out of the UK Snooker Championships after a drama-fuelled last-16 tussle with rising star Judd Trump.
The four-time UK winner crashed out in the final frame despite coming back from 4-3 down to put himself within one frame of the quarter-finals.
Trump landed a scrappy 10th to set up the decider and then put together a break of 67 in the 11th, which proved enough of an advantage to seal his progress into the latter stages.
So close was Ronnie to the quarters that punters were prepared to take a low price of [1.09] on an O'Sullivan win with Trump drifting to [12.5]. There were even bigger prices matched in the winner market where the 22-year-old Bristolian was backed at [50.0], but is now available at [5.5].
Another former UK champ, Ding Junhui, was taken to a final frame shootout but unlike Ronnie he found the goods in the 11th to make the quarters and is now [11.0] to win. Matthew Stevens was the beaten opponent.
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