Euro Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 – Event 4 Explained

Tournament Name:	Euro Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 Event 4
Venue:	South West Snooker Academy
Location:	Gloucester
Country:	England
Organisation:	World Snooker
Format:	Minor-ranking event
Total Prize Fund:	€50,000
Winners Share:	€10,000
Highest Break:	(136)
Score:	4–2
Previous:	EPTC3
Next:	EPTC5

The Euro Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 – Event 4 (also known as the 2010 MIUS Cup^[1]) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 28 and 31 October 2010 at the South West Snooker Academy in Gloucester, England.^[2]

The event was planned to be staged at the Ortenau Halle in Offenburg, Germany and would have been known as the 2010 Ortenau Cup.^[3] Due to poor ticket sales and the top players competing in the new cue sports tournament Power Snooker it was moved to Gloucester, England.^[4]

Stephen Lee won the final 4–2 against Stephen Maguire.^[5]

Prize fund and ranking points

The breakdown of prize money and ranking points of the event is shown below:^{[6] [7]}

width=110px	!	width=110px align="right"	Prize fund !	width=110px align="right"	Ranking points^1
Winner	€10,000	2,000
Runner-up	€5,000	1,600
Semi-finalist	€2,500	1,280
Quarter-finalist	€1,400	1,000
Last 16	€1,000	760
Last 32	€500	560
Last 64	€200	360
Plate winner^2	€1,500	–
Plate runner-up^2	€500	–
Total	€50,000	–

• ¹ Only professional players can earn ranking points.
• ² Prize money earned from the Plate competition does not qualify for inclusion in the Order of Merit.

Main draw

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Preliminary round

Best of 7 frames

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	0–4	Stuart Carrington
Martin O'Donnell	4–1	David Singh
Andrew Milliard		Jamie Clarke

Main rounds

Top half

Section 4

Bottom half

Section 8

Finals

Plate draw

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Century breaks

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• 136, 133, 103, 100 Stephen Maguire
• 133 Sam Baird
• 132, 129, 119 Graeme Dott
• 132 Mark Selby
• 130 Joe Perry
• 128, 106 Ali Carter
• 128 Kyren Wilson
• 127, 120 Joe Jogia
• 125, 119 Xiao Guodong
• 124 Alan McManus
• 123, 110 David Grace
• 116 Andrew Norman
• 112, 103 Liu Chuang
• 112 Andrew Pagett
• 111 Mark Joyce
• 110, 102 Anthony McGill
• 110, 100 Fergal O'Brien

• 110 Jack Lisowski
• 110 Andy Hicks
• 110 Marcus Campbell
• 108, 107, 100 Mark Davis
• 108, 101 Gerard Greene
• 107, 103, 102 David Gilbert
• 107, 103 Liam Highfield
• 107 Judd Trump
• 107 Jamie Brown
• 105 Martin Gould
• 105 Steve Davis
• 105 Andrew Higginson
• 102 Ben Woollaston
• 102 Stuart Bingham
• 102 Jamie Burnett
• 101 Liu Song
• 100 Jimmy White

Notes and References

1. Web site: EPTC4 Draw. worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 22 October 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101024210548/http://www.worldsnooker.com/PTC8_news%28EPTC4_Draw%29-2745.htm?tid=190. 24 October 2010.
2. Web site: PTC helps form Snooker's 'brave new world'. worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 21 May 2010. 22 May 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100527164800/http://www.worldsnooker.com/PTC1_news%28Player_Tour_Championship_Helps_Form_Snooker%26rsquo%3Bs_%26lsquo%3BBrave_New_World%26rsquo%3B%29-2211.htm?tid=166. 27 May 2010.
3. Web site: Euro Players Tour Championship 2-6 Entry Pack. worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 30 August 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100821195205/http://www.worldsnooker.com/site_files/EPTC_Events_2-6.pdf. 21 August 2010.
4. Web site: EPTC4 - Location Change. worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 7 June 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120606144437/http://www.worldsnooker.com/page/NewsArticles/0,,13165~2207855,00.html. 6 June 2012.
5. Web site: Lee Wins EPTC4 Title. betfred.com. Betfred. 31 October 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20110919011259/http://content.betfred.com/snooker/2010/11/lee-wins-eptc4-title/. 19 September 2011. dead.
6. Web site: Prize money and ranking points. worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 23 June 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20101206220819/http://www.worldsnooker.com/EPTC4_money.htm. 6 December 2010.
7. Web site: The Tour Provisional Ranking Points Schedule 2010/2011 Season. worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. DOC. 27 December 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100821055932/http://www.worldsnooker.com/files/Tour%20Points%20Schedule.doc. 21 August 2010.
8. Web site: Euro Players Tour Championship – Event Four. Global Snooker. 31 October 2010. 31 October 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20101028041551/http://www.global-snooker.com/professional-eptc-4-results.asp. 28 October 2010.
9. Web site: Euro PTC 4. Snooker.org. 26 February 2011.
10. Web site: EPTC Round 4 2010 The Results. South West Snooker Academy. 31 October 2010. 7 August 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20120325053405/http://www.southwestsnookeracademy.com/tournaments/Archive/eptc4-2010/tournaments-results.html. 25 March 2012. dead.
11. Web site: EPTC Round 4 2010 The Plate Results. South West Snooker Academy. 7 August 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20120325053416/http://www.southwestsnookeracademy.com/tournaments/Archive/eptc4-2010/tournaments-plates-results.html. 25 March 2012. dead.
12. News: 2010 PTC Centuries. Global Snooker. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120609231242/http://www.global-snooker.com/2010-PTC-Centuries.asp. 2012-06-09.
13. Web site: EPTC Round 4 2010 Highest Breaks. South West Snooker Academy. 7 August 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20120325053422/http://www.southwestsnookeracademy.com/tournaments/Archive/eptc4-2010/tournaments-results-highbreak.html. 25 March 2012. dead.