Wow what a day of play seeing the next set of 30 players competing at the BetVictor Northern Ireland Open at Belfast’s Waterfront Hall which is hosting the tournament until the 17th October. With a prize cheque of £70,000 for the winner every player was clearly bringing everything they had to the table.
Here is a breakdown from todays matches competing in the best of 7 Frames
| Stephen Maguire | 4 | v | 2 | Steven Hallworth |
| Stuart Bingham | 4 | v | 1 | Ben Hancorn |
| Yan Bingtao | 4 | v | 0 | Hossein Vafaei |
| Jack Lisowski | 4 | v | 3 | Ashley Hugill |
| John Higgins | 4 | v | 2 | Joe O’Connor |
| Mark Selby | 4 | v | 1 | Mark Lloyd |
| Mark Allen | 4 | v | 1 | Si Jiahui |
| Robert McCullough | 1 | v | 4 | Sam Craigie |
| Neil Robertson | 4 | v | 0 | Barry Pinches |
| Judd Trump | 4 | v | 1 | Andrew Pagett |
| Kyren Wilson | 4 | v | 0 | Jamie Clarke |
| Gary Wilson | 4 | v | 0 | Jordan Brown |
| Ronnie O’Sullivan | 4 | v | 0 | Stuart Carrington |
| Barry Hawkins | 4 | v | 1 | Iulian Boiko |
| Mark Williams | 4 | v | 1 | Mark Joyce |
It all commences again tomorrow at 10am when the next 28 players compete such as Shaun Murphy versus Bai Langning , Liang Wenbo versus Luca Brecel , John Higgins versus Farakh Ajaib and Oliver Lines versus Ben Woollaston to name just a few.
