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As it’s an open draw it always pops up with some tasty matches and this event was no different, in the first round we had Mark Boyle beat Alan Martin 4-2, Ryan Davie beating Billy Stirling 4-0, Alan Maxwell beating Gary Gracey 4-1, Stuart Meikle beating Andy McKinnon 4-2, Marc Johnston providing the shock of the first round with a 4-3 victory of the provisional Scottish number 1, Scott Ross. Peter Rafferty started his first attempt on this tour with a well deserved 4-2 win over Pete Smith. Stuart Weeks overcame Danny Turner 4-2. Another first timer in England A team player Matt Inglis, beating Mike McHale 4-1. Young David Rooney got a great result against Keith Robertson and Billy Henderson despatched local great Paddy McMullen 4-1. In a battle of the old timers, Dennis Masterson beat Iain Blaikie 4-3 and a returning former champion Mark Gilluley defeated Michael Caven 4-2.

Onto the second round and it doesn’t get any easier picking out the winners as the quality is so high. Mark Boyle produces his usual high standard in whitewashing one of the Arbroath contingent, quite a grudge match between internet warriors Davy Nicolson and Ross McInnes end up going right to the wire and Ross eventually falls over the finishing line with a 4-3 win. Glasgow’s Chic McCaig shows he is in the mood when beating Gary Scott 4-1, Marc Johnston shows his first round win was no fluke by despatching local player Gary Ferguson 4-2. George Fagan has a right good result against Matt Inglis by winning 4-2, tie of the round was definitely Pat Holtz vs Danny Kinney which Pat eventually ran out a comfortable 4-2 winner. Scott Gillespie showed he was in the mood to try and win yet another title by beating Billy Henderson 4-0 with some extremely clinical pool. Mark Gilluley showed all of his past ability by defeating one of our Stonehaven competitors, Simon Mitchell, 4-0.

The last 32 started after a tour first, a redraw. Every round from the last 32 onwards is redrawn in a novel new idea for the tour.

Marc Johnston had to make a good comeback to eventually defeat Rex Brady 4-3, Scott Gillespie showed tremendous form by defeating Alan Maxwell 5-0, Mark Boyle didn’t play to his usual high standard but managed to beat Johnny Slaven 5-3. Chic McCaig produced another performance in knocking out multiple Scottish Champion Alec McDowell by a comprehensive 5-1 scoreline. Another former champion on the comeback trail was Paul McCutcheon who delivered the good by beating Ryan Davie 5-0. Mark Armstrong ended one of the Arbroath boys, Graham Dunbar, with a 5-3 scoreline. The Flying Scotsmand, Ross McInnes, beats another Arbroath boy, Scott Yeaman, 5-2. Jayson Shaw produced some unbelievable finishes to defeat Kenny Donald 5-3. Pat Holtz showed his intentions by beating Paul Harkness 5-0, Darren Orr took a good scalp in beating Aldo McLeod 5-2.

With the redraw for the last 16, Pat Holtz played team-mate Paul McCutcheon and ran out a 5-1 winner. Mark Gilluley showed he has lost none of his ability by beating Scott Gillespie 5-3, John MacFarlane ends a good tournament for Marc Johnston with a comprehensive 5-0 win. Chic McCaig ran out of steam as Mark Boyle found some form to beat him 5-1, Ross McInnes edged out Mark Armstrong in a 9 frame thriller, Thomas McCallum defeated Darren Orr in another match which went the full distance.

Onto the quarter finals and the quality of the whole field is superb, John MacFarlane defeated Thomas McCallum over 9 frames, Ross McInnes defeats Stuart Weeks 5-3, Mark Gilluley bows out after being blitzed by Pat Holtz with a 5-1 scoreline. Tie of the round was Jayson Shaw versus Mark Boyle, Mark has been making a big name for himself with recent money matches and didn’t quite get going in the match as Jayson played some outstanding stuff to win 5-1.

The semi finals began with Ross McInnes playing John MacFarlane on the live streamed table which can be viewed online at Ustream with Ross winning 5-3. Pat Holtz and Jayson Shaw fought out the other semi final and with Pat missing a couple of pots he was punished for it with Jayson running out a 5-1 winner.

The final was played between probably the oldest player in the field in Ross McInnes which has won more titles over his playing career than just about everyone else in the room combined and Jayson Shaw. You can view by using this Video Link. Ross wins the lag and decides to use his cut break to try and play Jayson tight, but Jayson is having none of it and pots a ball and kicks some balls open, takes control and when Ross makes an uncharacteristic unforced error Jayson finishes it.
1-0 Jayson. Jayson then proceeds to break and dish the next frame.
2-0 Jayson. Ross does his cut break again and after a bout of safety play Ross wins the frame with a tidy finish.
2-1 Jayson. Jayson break and dish again.
3-1 Jayson. Ross does his cut break again but fails to perform a legal break, Jayson takes two shots from where they lie and duly finishes the frame at that visit.
4-1 Jayson. Yet another break and dish from Jayson.
5-1 Jayson. Jayson goes for a finish from nowhere and is unfortunate to snooker himself with only two balls left and Ross punishes him with a finish.
5-2 Jayson. Jayson breaks and goes for a very difficult finish, plays some outstanding shots and then snookers himself on the final ball. Comes out the snooker, pots his ball and leaves what we think as no shot on the black. But pulls out an impossible cut and the black falls into the middle bag just when everyone watching thought it had fell just short.

And outstanding final performance from Jayson and Ross could only stand and watch as he hardly put a foot wrong.

Would like to thank all the players involved in making the event such a pleasure to run, also like to thank the staff in Cue Here who always make the players feel welcome. Also our thanks to the Corner Pocket for sponsoring the tour.

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