2010 World Snooker Championship Final Betting Tips

Typing ‘snooker betting’ into Google may now throw up a few unsavoury articles given the allegations made about John Higgins over the weekend. However, there is a World Snooker championship final taking place this bank holiday weekend, and for now the dark side of the game can be kept to one side.

A predictably slow afternoon session means that we could be in for an extremely late evening in Sheffield tonight, with a possible 13 frames still to be played. Neil Robertson holds the marginal advantage and leads 12-10 but there are signs of tension creeping into the Australian’s game.

A peculiar incident when Robertson took over four minutes to decide on what shot to play was a clear sign that the occasion could get to him. That combined with Graeme Dott’s renowned ability to really dig deep when the going gets tough – not to belittle the amount of skill that the Scot clearly also possesses – means that the odds of 3.3 (9/4) on him to win the match look to be the best starting point, despite him trailing by two frames.

Ever since relinquishing the lead that he held after the first session Dott has been hanging onto the coat tails of Robertson, and he has been doing so rather doggedly. I get the impression that if he can just get two of the first three frames on the board this evening then he can mount his challenge from there, even if he doesn’t the 10/11 +2.5 frames looks very tempting.

It is also looking increasingly like this one might go to the death and with the inevitable tension that would surround a final frame decider it could pay to have some money on the 18-17 score line in favour of both players. Robertson to win by the smallest of margins is 12.0 (11/1) whilst the 2006 champion is available to back at 12.5 to win it at the death.

The next few weeks could be crucial for the integrity of snooker and snooker fans will be hoping that we get the classic final predicted to allow matters on the table to take all the headlines for tomorrow at least.