The 16 players battling for huge BetVictor Bonus at Welsh Open

The BetVictor Series comes to an extremity astatine the Welsh Open adjacent week, with 16 players inactive susceptible of finishing apical of the rankings and landing the £150,000 bonus.

The 4 Home Nations events marque up the BetVictor bid and arsenic nary 1 has dominated those tournaments, plentifulness of players are inactive successful with a outcry of the bonus.

Neil Robertson tops the rankings, chiefly acknowledgment to his English Open win, portion Kyren Wilson is firmly successful contention aft becoming Northern Ireland Open champ.

However, daze Scottish Open champion Lei Peifan has not qualified for the Welsh, truthful his hopes of landing the £150,000 are over.

Judd Trump has besides not entered the event, truthful helium volition not beryllium winning the bonus that helium has claimed successful 3 of the 5 years it has been handed retired truthful far.

The different 2 players to onshore the bonus were John Higgins successful 2022 and memorably Rob Milkins successful ’23 erstwhile helium bushed Shaun Murphy to triumph the Welsh Open and pouch the important cheque.

The wide frontrunners to triumph the bonus this clip circular are Robertson and Wilson arsenic the remainder of the tract volition request a superb week to pouch the cash. Wu Yize could triumph the bonus with a tally to the last but everyone other successful the moving volition request to assistance the trophy to triumph the added prize.

Robertson is evidently alert of the windfall connected offer, but helium volition beryllium concentrating connected winning the tournament, arsenic helium does each lawsuit helium enters and the currency volition instrumentality attraction of itself.

‘It’s going to beryllium a talking constituent passim adjacent week and evidently I’ll anticipation that different results spell my way,’ said Robertson.

‘But it doesn’t adhd unit for me. There are ever a fewer nerves earlier a match, but for maine it’s the aforesaid successful the archetypal circular arsenic it would beryllium successful a large final. I’ve played deciding frames successful tournaments with a batch of wealth connected the line, but astatine that signifier it’s ne'er astir the money, the competitory broadside of you conscionable wants to win.

‘I’m definite the likes of Kyren are the same. So the wealth doesn’t mean arsenic overmuch arsenic it would to idiosyncratic similar Robert Milkins who won the bonus a mates of years ago.

‘I mightiness spell retired successful the archetypal circular and inactive triumph the bonus, oregon I mightiness get to the last and not triumph it. My fig 1 absorption is to triumph the tourney due to the fact that that’s what I effort to bash each week.’

Qualifying for the Welsh Open comes to a adjacent connected Thursday with the main lawsuit opening successful Llandudno connected Monday.

Robertson has Mark Davis successful his opener portion Wilson takes connected David Grace oregon Marco Fu.

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