2010 UK Championship (snooker) position of the pink academic as he had already continued play after the pink was replaced. Former players Ken Doherty and Steve Davis, covering the event for BBC, agreed with this and suggested that the referee should have refused. Lee did not point out the mistake and Higgins went on to win the frame. The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: These matches were held between 23 November and 1 December 2010 at the World Snooker Academy, Sheffield, England. 2010 UK Championship (snooker) The 2010 12BET.com UK Championship was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took
John Higgins (snooker player) since Alex Higgins (1972, 1982), and the longest at The Crucible. He regained World no. 1 status. As World Champion, Higgins reached the quarter-final stages in only the Welsh and China Open tournaments. He helped to establish, and actively promoted, the World Series of Snooker – a tour intended to bring snooker to new venues outside the traditional United Kingdom and recently developed Far East markets. He won the inaugural event in St. Helier in June 2008, beating Mark Selby 6–3 in the final. Higgins also devised a new players' union with his manager Pat Mooney, called The Snooker Players