Next month’s Ladbrokes World Grand Prix and Ladbrokes Players Championship will both be included in the ranking event schedule for the rolling 147 prize, for the first time.
The 147 rolling prize goes up by £5,000 each ranking event. Ding Junhui made a maximum at the Welsh Open, so the 147 prize for the Ladbrokes World Grand Prix will be £5,000. If there is no 147 at that event then it will go up to £10,000 for the Ladbrokes Players Championship.
Title sponsor Ladbrokes has also pledged to double the prize if a 147 is made at either of those two events.
The rolling prize for European Tour events is £500 per tournament. The current pot of £500 will be rolled forward to next season, when the relevant events will be the Riga Open, Paul Hunter Classic and Gibraltar Open.
The rolling prize for qualifiers is £500 per event and currently stands at £8,500 for the Betfred World Championship qualifiers in April.
The Ladbrokes World Grand Prix runs from March 8-13 in Llandudno, followed by the Ladbrokes Players Championship at Event City in Manchester from March 22-27. Tickets for both are on sale now, for details see http://www.worldsnooker.com/tickets
Official 147 occurrence year by year:
1982: 1
1983: 1
1984: 1
1987: 1
1988: 2
1989: 2
1991: 2
1992: 5
1994: 1
1995: 2
1997: 3
1998: 3
1999: 10
2000: 7
2001: 3
2002: 1
2003: 3
2004: 2
2005: 2
2006: 2
2007: 6
2008: 7
2009: 2
2010: 7
2011: 9
2012: 11
2013: 6
2014: 8
2015: 6
2016 (so far): 2
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