2012 Snooker Shoot-Out Total: £130,000 The draw for round 1 was made on 6 November 2011, on the second day of the World Seniors Championship. The draw for each round up to and including the semi-finals were random, conducted live at the venue. All matches were best of 1 . All times are GMT. 2012 Snooker Shoot-Out The 2012 PartyPoker.com Snooker Shoot-Out was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 27–29 January 2012 at the Circus Arena in Blackpool, England. The event was sponsored by PartyPoker.com. It was played under a variation of the standard rules of snooker. Nigel Bond was
Snooker balls. The game developed its own identity in 1884 when its first set of rules was finalised by Sir Neville Chamberlain, an English officer who helped develop and popularise the game at Stone House in Ooty on a table built by Burroughes & Watts that was brought over by boat. The word "snooker" was a slang term for first-year cadets and inexperienced military personnel, but Chamberlain would often use it to describe the inept performance of one of his fellow officers at the table. The name instantly stuck with the players. In 1887, snooker was given its first definite reference