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
Power Snooker "come to the conclusion that snooker is in need of a huge transformation". Gunner stated "It had struck me for some time that the game of snooker needed a new and exciting transfusion", and that he took his inspiration from "seeing how Twenty20 cricket had revitalised cricket". Power Snooker officially launched on 22 July 2010 with former World Champion Ronnie O'Sullivan as the main snooker player endorsement . O'Sullivan said of the new format that "crowd will love it and the public will enjoy it." and that this was "the future of snooker". Power Snooker is independent of the World