Snooker Shoot Out Odds: Defending champion Mark Allen amongst the favourites as he bids to make history

The latest odds for the 2024 Snooker Shoot Out where reigning title holder Mark Allen will bid to become the first player to capture the coveted crown for a second time.

Snooker Shoot Out Odds

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The Northern Irishman reigned supreme in the event 12 months ago, seeing off Chinese star Cao Yupeng in the final to land a landmark tenth televised ranking title.

The 2024 Players Championship winner is high in the betting this time around too, with only four-time Crucible king Mark Selby boasting shorter pre-tournament odds than the Antrim-born star.

Allen is priced up identically to Australia's Neil Robertson, whilst a plethora of other big names are bunched together at appealing 28/1 prices, including Shaun Murphy, Jack Lisowski, David Gilbert and 2019 winner Thepchaiya Un-Nooh.

The event is famed for its unpredictability however, with numerous players lower down the rankings making the most of the one-frame format which has proven to serve as a real leveller against the bigger, house-hold names.

Michael Holt, Ryan Day, Hossein Vafaei and Chris Wakelin - all of whom are amongst this year's field - were the four victors prior to Allen's triumph last year, and all possessed pre-event prices of at least 33/1.

In fact, Holt, who reached the quarter-final of the UK Championship last week remains the only player to have reached back-to-back Snooker Shoot Out finals (in 2019 and 2020) and will likely have plenty of admirers at 40/1 this time around.

The hugely-popular Jimmy White will also be returning to Leicester as he strives to add to his haul of 10 ranking crowns, but at 200/1, and having never gone beyond the last 16 of the competition, 'The Whirlwind' appears to be nostalgic punt at best.

Mark Mothershaw

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