Snooker review 2024

Always an interesting time to start reviewing the year with a few weeks off to digest and come back stronger in the New Year. Tipping is such a counterintuitive art that without knowing it, we can bend all sorts of narratives to suit our process so good to have the time to have some reflective practice.

As I start to write my snooker review for 2024 and my sixth full year as a tipster, the support received in that time really keeps me plugging on.

2024 has been an excellent snooker year mainly on the outright of events with noteable wins, quarters and each way places below

Masters – Ali Carter 40/1 2nd

German Masters – Si Jiahui 80/1 2nd

German Masters – Si Jiahui quarter 14/1+

Players Championship – Mark Allen 15/2

World Open – Ding Junhui 22/1 2nd

Tour Champs – Gary Wilson quarter 7/1

World Championship – David Gilbert quarter 7/1

World Championship – Kyren Wilson 28/1

QSchool – Artemijs Zizins 40/1

Xian – Kyren Wilson 7/1

Wuhan – Si Jiahui 28/1 2nd

Wuhan – Long Zehuang 14/1 quarter

International – Ding Junhui 18/1

International – Xiao Guodong 11/1 quarter

Sottish Open – Wu Yize 33/1 2nd



That is one of my best years on outrights that I can remember, with kind variance but the stats as below

Bets: 951

Stakes: 85.28

Profit: 16.98

ROI: 19.92%



Maybe if exposes a weakness in my style. Betting is a counterinitiative art and winning one side can take away from the other.

When I analyse an event, I earmark sections to attack and then pinpoint how they will pan out. Often the core of our outrights come from that section and I don’t bet the matches there, and become focused on the other sections. Often, I will have assumed the seeded players have a hard draw and will exit

So, for 2025, I am going to amend that and bet those sections to increase profits from match betting. We are also going to start rolling access which may help the process.

An extreme example of what I mean is the last event of the year that Peifan Lei won at 200/1 to 250/1 with 28/1 the quarter.

Now, he took the most difficult route with all the favourites being his opponents which meant his match prices were

2/1, 3/1. 7/4 and 11/8 to win the quarter making 77/1 against bookies 28/1.

Then he beats Mark Allen at 3/1 so now 311/1 to reach final, which he was 2/1 to win so 935/1 acca as opposed to bookies best of 250/1

For these spots in 2025 on several players we will do acca bets, retaining 50% of each match profit and re-investing the rest at the new match price.



Possibly over time my mindset skewed too much by a profitable process but like a golf event I treat a snooker event as a whole package to make profit from to keep our bankrolls moving forward. I remember one year on outrights was terrible yet still made 15% on matches alone. Maybe the truth is with my style when outrights win, matches perm falls short of optimum.

Suppose, that is one of the differences when you follow my work, you know I am betting the lines too, anything else would be disingenuous but there are plenty of tipsters out there, who don’t. Equally, as critical as that sounds from me maybe the fact I bet everything myself has skewed my perspective a fair bit.

Nevertheless, it may feel nitpicking to rib such a good year on snooker but there is a lot to learn for me from 2024 and I hope that will help our future profits.

As you have guessed quite disappointed in match results versus outrights and if I balance things better going forward that has to be a positive change, and optimize profits in a more efficient fashion.

Another area of change we recognised 18 months ago was the opening round of events where the seeds between 80-112 are of such a low standard that they cannot progress further in the sport, whereas the rookies have a far easier time winning their opening rounds than in professional snooker history.

This has negated a palpable edge over my first four years, whereby I approximated new younger players ceilings by watching them play, but with their opening rounds against players well found in the market nowadays there has never been less value. I think that will change in coming years of pro snooker, sooner rather than later I hope from a betting perspective.

Overall, an above average year compared to long term 16% but we have to say variance was kinder than the norm on outright snooker.



All the best!

Craig