Selby & Potts Team Up

SELBY & POTTS

SURVIVE 6-REDS THRILLER IN PAIRS CUP

Reigning four-time world professional snooker champion Mark Selby teamed up with fourtime world 8-ball pool champion Gareth Potts to compete in Group 4 of the live televised Eative Ultimate Pool Pairs Cup.

World snooker number one Selby – who claimed his fourth world crown at the iconic Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England earlier this year – is no stranger to the pool table having won the 2006 WEPF World 8-Ball Pool Championship.

Selby and Potts have known each other for a long time and are family members, but this was the first time they had paired up together in a competitive environment.

Labelled as ‘The Dream Team’ they lived up to expectations early on as they defeated the Isle of Man’s Tommy Miller & David Addinall and former world doubles championship finalists Jez Graham & Darren McVicar both 4-0 to top the table. However, going into the final match of the night and needing just a point to qualify, they were upset by dangerous duo Zak Shepherd & Andy Cragg, 3-1. This meant for the first time in Ultimate Pool history that a three-way 6-reds shootout was required to determine a winner.

Graham & McVicar posted a solid time of 26.02 seconds up first, and when Shepherd & Cragg narrowly missed out on bettering it, only Selby & Potts could deny them. In front of a raucous live crowd and likely to have been the biggest live television audience that small table pool has ever received, the popular duo recorded a time of just over 24 seconds to secure a breathtaking victory. Selby & Potts will return later in the unique £32,800 competition for the last 16 phase when they join previous group winners Shaun Chipperfield & Karl Sutton, Josh Kane & Jon McAllister and Brian Halcrow & John Sullivan.