08 March 2013: Big snooker returned to the capital after a long lay off

Big snooker returned to the capital after a long lay off in the RKG Masters Snooker North Zone Championship being held at Megapool Snooker Academy in Dwarka. Players have converged from all parts of India, which includes international starts like Rafath Habib (Railways), Sourav Kothari (ONGC), Dhruv Sitwala (ONGC), Sumit Talwar (Chandigarh), Anuj Uppal (Delhi), Dharminder Lilly (Punjab) etc, are in the fray for a total prize money, a staggering 22 Lakh, by far the highest in the country being offered by Ravinder Gupta, a former vice-president of Delhi Billiards & Snooker Association.

This event, a brain child of Ravinder Gupta and Yasin Merchant (Asian Games Gold Medalist), ably assisted by Vivek Pathak of Cue Sports India and Manmeet Bhatia of Megapool Snooker Academy, is out to capture the imagination of the players, culminating at Khar Gymkhana, Mumbai.

The beauty of this tournament is that the last 32 players will get a hefty prize money of more than Rs.2 Lakh which results in a record number of 122 entries. The last four in this tournament will get a direct entry in the Mumbai event with guarantee money of Rs.25000 each.

Four top international players are selected to take part in the finals, which includes Indian stars Pankaj Advani, Aditya Mehta, Yasin Merchant, Alok Kumar and Manan Chandra.

The tournament will kick off from 9th of march 2013.