A few days ago, a billiards match attracted the attention of the circle. On June 26, at the Chinese Billiards Open Tournament held in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, snooker won the championship and received a prize of 200,000 yuan in a 19-16 victory over Chinese billiards star Shi Hanqing in the final. Seeing the name Yu Delu, fans who know the billiards circle know that as a former professional snooker player, he has been traveling in the UK for many years to compete professionally, but at the end of 2018, he was found by the World Federation of Taiwan to be suspected of manipulating the game in multiple games and illegally profiting, and then he was banned for 12 years. The Chinese Billiards Association imposed additional penalties on him, which is the most strictly forbidden lifetime ban in history.
As China's snooker "Domestic 147 Mr.", Yu Delu has also had many amazing experiences during his professional competitions, including victories over Hendry, O'Sullivan, Robertson, Trump and others, and the best result in the ranking tournament has reached the top 4. But at the end of 2018, they were investigated by the World Federation of Taiwan and completely fell into the abyss. It is reported that in the two and a half years from 2016 to 2018, Yu Delu manipulated the game 5 times in 5 matches, and thus received huge returns. He also admitted to lying to investigators, failing to cooperate with the investigation and betting on snooker with a ban on betting. The court found him to have engaged in deliberate and premeditated corruption to ensure that his friends and himself were made substantial financial gains.
The gambling and match-fixing incidents in the snooker professional arena have never been broken, but the Chinese players are involved in it, and its impact is naturally quite bad, so after Yu Delu was handled by the World Taiwan Federation, the Chinese Billiards Association added penalties to Germany in 2019, directly banning the game for life and prohibiting it from participating in domestic matches. However, the ban at that time did not clearly stipulate whether the ban on the event field specifically referred to snooker or directly included all the items in the entire billiards field, such as 9 balls, Chinese billiards and so on. Therefore, this unclear ban has given Yu Delu time to drill, and since the second half of 2019, he has begun to play in the Chinese billiards field, frequently appearing in the competition, and has achieved good results.
The Henan Chinese Billiards Open Tournament, the scale is larger, the lineup reached 128 people, gathered the current major Chinese billiards masters, and Yu Delu performed well, from the first round, 7 consecutive wins to win the championship, but also took 200,000 yuan of championship prize money, it is really amazing. However, after Delu won the championship, many fans asked why such a person who has been banned for life can still frequently go to the major domestic competitions to earn gold, and should he not pay the price for his gambling behavior? But many fans said that the ban has made him out of the snooker field, after all, it is understandable to support his family and participate in another field.