2012 Six-red World Championship 2012 Six-red World Championship The 2012 Six-red World Championship (often styled the 2012 SangSom 6-red World Championship for sponsorship and marketing purposes) was a six-red snooker tournament held between 2 and 7 July 2012 at the Montien Riverside Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. The highest break of the tournament was 75, compiled by both Judd Trump and Shaun Murphy. Mark Selby was the defending champion, but he lost in the quarter-finals 5–7 against Trump. Mark Davis won his second Six-reds World Championship title after 2009, by defeating Murphy 8–4 in the final. The breakdown of prize money for this year is
Mark Selby rookie Oliver Lines came from 0–4 behind to defeat him 6–4. In the invitational Champion of Champions tournament, he reached the quarter-finals, but lost 1–6 against Judd Trump. He suffered another early exit at the UK Championship when he lost 4–6 to David Morris in the last 64. Playing Shaun Murphy in the first round of the Masters, Selby fell 1–5 behind before recovering to 5–5, but lost the match 5–6 on the deciding frame. It was the first time that Selby lost in a deciding frame at the Masters, having won the previous 11 deciding frames. At the German