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2012 Six red World Championship

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Dates
  
2–7 July 2012

Country
  
Thailand

City
  
Bangkok

Total prize fund
  
6,000,000 baht

Venue
  
Montien Riverside Hotel

Organisation(s)
  
World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association

The 2012 Six-red World Championship (often styled the 2012 SangSom 6-red World Championship for sponsorship and marketing purposes) was a six-red snooker tournament held between 2 and 7 July 2012 at the Montien Riverside Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. The highest break of the tournament was 75, compiled by both Judd Trump and Shaun Murphy.

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Mark Selby was the defending champion, but he lost in the quarter-finals 5–7 against Trump.

Mark Davis won his second Six-reds World Championship title after 2009, by defeating Murphy 8–4 in the final.

Prize money

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:

  • Winner: 2,000,000 baht
  • Runner-up: 800,000 baht
  • Semi-finalists: 400,000 baht
  • Quarter-finalists: 200,000 baht
  • Last 16: 100,000 baht
  • Last 32: 50,000 baht
  • Total: 6,000,000 baht

    • Round-robin stage

    The top four players from each group qualified for the knock-out stage. All matches were best of 9 frames.

    References

    2012 Six-red World Championship Wikipedia
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