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It's Day 6 of the BGC Masters 2012 at Alexandra Palace and for today and tomorrow I am fourtunate enough to be reporting live from the event. Today's first quarter-final features the only two left-handed players to win the world title; Neil Robertson & Mark Williams.

Today at the BGC Snooker Masters 2012 we saw the first two quarter-final matches as local favourite Ronnie O'Sullivan took on the recent UK Champion; Judd Trump and in the evening it was an all-Scottish clash as John Higgins took on Graeme Dott.

The draw & schedule for The Masters 2012 at Alexandra Palace, London has been announced. Ding Junhui won last year's event, beating Marco Fu 10-4 in the final and faces a tough first round test in the form of crowd favourite Ronnie O'Sullivan.

Draw and results from the Haikou World Open qualifiers at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield. The 16 winners will join the top 16 in Hainan, China for the televised stages of the event. Qualifying matches are best of 9 this season.

Draw, results, schedule and century breaks from PTC12. The first three rounds will be played at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield with the last 16 to be played at the Event Forum, Fuerstenfeldbruck, Munich, Germany on January 6-8 2012.

Apologies for the delay, here are the second annual Maximum Snooker Awards for the year of 2011! Who will win the coveted player of the year award and there a few new awards including best break of the year.

First part of my review of the year in snooker for 2011, covering January to June. These months saw an exciting new version of snooker the Shoot-out, an amazingly recieved new event in Germany and Judd Trump's first full ranking title victory.

World Snooker will once again be staging its Q School, starting on May 13th 2012. This year there will be a two year tour card available for the 12 semi-finalists that come through the three events at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield.

Tom Ford the world no.26 from Leicester won PTC3 last year and won another event today as he beat Martin Gould 4-3 in the final of PTC11 2011 at the English Institute of Sport, Sheffield.

Draw, results, schedule & century breaks from PTC11 2011 at the Sheffield Institute of Sport. This PTC will be broadcast on EuroSport and features the likes of UK finalists Judd Trump, Mark Allen & legends Stephen Hendry & Steve Davis