The Snooker Shoot Out gets underway on Wednesday as the unique event returns to Blackpool for the first time since 2015.

The one-frame chaos of the Shoot Out has been on something of a UK tour being played in Reading, Watford, Milton Keynes, Leicester and Swansea but is now back at the Tower Circus, where it was played from 2011-15.

The matches are all just a single frame, lasting a maximum of 10 minutes and played under a shot clock of 15 seconds, shortened to 10 seconds after five minutes.

Somewhat controversially, the tournament carries ranking points, making the £50,000 top prize potentially career changing.

Previous winners have included an established top player like Mark Allen in 2023 and a highly unlikely outsider like Michael Georgiou in 2018.

Tom Ford is the defending champi

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