Following yesterday's announcement by the World Taiwan Federation of the results of the ban on Chinese players Yu Delu and Cao Yuepeng from playing match-fixing and manipulating matches, the official website of the World Taiwan Federation has released a file investigating the two Chinese players. Yu Delu was banned for 12 years, and finally reduced to 10 and a half years, Cao Yupeng was banned for 8 years, but there is only a 2-year ban left, and the remaining ban period will be suspended depending on Cao Yuepeng's performance.
In fact, yu Delu and Cao Yupeng's bans are the most severe bans in snooker's field. Before them, the most watched player with a long-term suspension was five-seated tournament winner Stephen Lee, who was suspended for 12 years for playing match-fixing and is still in the middle of a long ban. In addition, Higgins was also successfully fished by a rich middle Eastern businessman disguised as a reporter of the World Sports Newspaper, although the "wizard" asked for 200,000 pounds of match-fixing remuneration at that time, and boasted that he could play any employer wanted, but in view of the fact that he did not really constitute the fact of playing match-fixing, the World Taiwan Federation finally only sentenced Higgins to be banned for half a year, of which 3 months were suspended.
So how did Yu Delu and Cao Yupeng manipulate the game and get unclean gains?
According to the DWF's ban statement and survey file on Cao and the two men:
Yu admitted to five attempts to manipulate the outcome of the match (in fact, only four of them ended up manipulating the outcome), and two of them deliberately scored close scores in victories over amateur or low-ranking players. In the Indian Open qualifiers on 12 February 2015, Yu deLu defeated amateur Martin McLaden 4-3, and at the Welsh Open on 15 February 2016, Yu Drew defeated Ian Glover, who was ranked 100th, 4-3.
Yu delu admits that the way to play match-fixing is to determine the result (score) of the match you want to play with your partner or friend before the game, and then let the partner or friend bet on these matches and benefit from it. Yudlu admitted that in a match against Ian Glover, he wagered a total of £65,000 and ended up earning as much as £86,000.
It should be noted that the total prize money of Yu Delu's career so far is only 264,000 pounds, and the profit from these match-fixing games may have exceeded the amount of his prize money.
In addition, at the beginning of the investigation in May this year, Yu Delu also refused to admit that he manipulated the results of the game, and did not cooperate with the investigation of the WTO Justice Group.
Cao Yupeng manipulated the results of the game only three times in 2016, losing 1-4 to Carter, 0-4 to Bingham and 1-6 to Maguire. Although it cannot be said that Cao Yupeng deliberately lost to these three players, Cao Yupeng can indeed manipulate the score of the loss. In three games, Cao Yupeng was a rout, and in some Asian handicaps, Cao Yupeng ensured that his opponent won. However, unlike Yu Delu, who directly found a partner or friend to bet on the game, Cao Yupeng was only responsible for playing the corresponding score, and the middleman would pay him a certain remuneration.
Mr Cao admitted he earned £5,000 per match-fixing, but said he had never been tainted with match-fixing before 2016 and that his three match-fixes were forced by financial hardship.
It is also in this way that the investigation team decided to reduce Cao Yupeng's 8-year ban by 25%, and after Cao Yupeng reached a written agreement with the World Federation of Taiwan, the investigation team allowed Cao Yupeng to suspend the remaining 60% of the ban period. It is reported that Cao Yupeng promised to provide "anti-counterfeiting" help to the World Federation of Taiwan during this period.
So far, Cao Yupeng's career prize money is £297,000, but last season he reached the final four of the European Masters (£17,500), the Scottish Open was infinitely close to winning the title (£30,000), gibraltar reached the final again (£12,000), and last season's prize money exceeded £100,000, accounting for 1/3 of the total career prize money.
If all goes well, Cao Yupeng will return from suspension on November 24, 2020, explaining that he will be 31 years old and that Snooker's career can still be continued. Yu Delu is equivalent to the destruction of his career, and when he returned from the ban, he was already O'Sullivan's age.