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Betfred Premier League Snooker
Tournament information
Dates	14 September- 3 December 2006
Venue	various
Location	various
Country	Great Britain
Organisation(s)	Matchroom Sport
Format	Non-ranking event
Highest break	124
Champions
Winner	Ronnie O'Sullivan
Runner Up	Jimmy White
Score	7-0

The 2006 Betfred Premier League Snooker was played from September 14 to December 3, 2006.^[1][2]

League phase

(breaks above 50 shown between brackets), breaks 100 and above will be indicated bold.

September 14 - Sands Centre, Carlisle

• Ronnie O'Sullivan 3-3 Ding Junhui → 8-79, (98)-4, (65)-(69), 0-(76), 86-16, (86)-0
• Graeme Dott 3-3 Stephen Hendry → 58-(59), (75)-15, 76-69 (53), (57) 74-21, 21-64, 50-63

September 21 - GL1, Gloucester

• Jimmy White 2-4 Graeme Dott → (75) 80-0, 36-93, 34-(67), 64-55, 1-102 (96), 32-65 (61)
• Ronnie O'Sullivan 5-1 Ken Doherty → 69-9, (66) 78-28, (71) 75-0 , (124)-6, (61) 87-0, 9-65

September 28 - The Hawth, Crawley

• Steve Davis 0-6 Ding Junhui → 46-55, 29-78, 53-(57), 12-55, 39-54, 41-59
• Jimmy White 2-4 Ken Doherty → 0-68, 53-1, 1-92 (55), 15-44, 0-70 (51), 72-22

October 5 - Assembly Rooms, Derby

• Jimmy White 5-1 Ding Junhui → 65-36, 0-63, (51) 71-23, 55-9, 53-51, (63) 67-1
• Stephen Hendry 1-5 Steve Davis → 45-56, 26-91 (79), 0-(75), 9-67, 63-66, (71) 72-24

October 12 - Guildhall, Preston

• Ken Doherty 2-4 Ding Junhui → (84) 88-0, 0-80, 0-(73), 61-41, 4-67 (54), 4-(112)
• Ronnie O'Sullivan 5-1 Jimmy White → (54) 77-45, 35-69, (73) 114-0, (68) 80-16, 53-21, (51) 88-21

October 19 - Grimsby Auditorium

• Stephen Hendry 4-2 Ken Doherty → (60) 84-0, 70-7, 84-27, 1-80, (74) 81-0, 9-103
• Steve Davis 3-3 Jimmy White → 41-78 (55), 71-24, 16-87, 52-62, 59-52, 67-40

November 2 - Plymouth Pavilions

• Ronnie O'Sullivan 4-2 Steve Davis → (88)-5, 72-48, 7-30, 82-5, 8-68, (108)-0
• Graeme Dott 2-4 Ding Junhui → 0-126 (71,55), 7-64, 42-(79), (107) 131-0, 12-93 (81), 68-63 (56)

November 9 - Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry

• Ken Doherty 4-2 Graeme Dott → 81-15, (65) 78-13, 59-44, 0-90 (68), 0-95 (88), (83)-0
• Stephen Hendry 1-5 Jimmy White → 51-48, 0-122 (105), 26-76 (75), 0-71, 45-49, 30-76

November 16 - Lomond Auditorium, SECC, Glasgow

• Graeme Dott 4-2 Steve Davis → (61) 73-44, 1-81 (57), 0-(101), (70) 90-40, (70)82-27, 76-5
• Ronnie O'Sullivan 4-2 Stephen Hendry → (65) 82-7, 51-35, 68-3, 0-(87), 4-78 (72), (84)-5

November 23 - AECC Aberdeen

• Steve Davis 5-1 Ken Doherty → (114) 139-7, 15-73 (69), (89) 90-4, 93-5, 93-24, (59) 78-6
• Stephen Hendry 3-3 Ding Junhui → 57-43, (101)-7, 9-113 (108), (78)-12, 9-121(120), 12-(82)
• Ronnie O'Sullivan 3-3 Graeme Dott → 47-91, 1-86 (79), 16-103 (67), 84-8, (88) 91-10, (64) 79-50

League table

Top four qualify for the play-offs. If points are level then most frames won. If two players have an identical record then the result in their match will determine their positions. If that ended 4-4 then the player who got to four first will be higher.

Ranking		SUL	DIN	DOT	WHI	DAV	HEN	DOH	Frame W-L	Match W-D-L	Pld-Pts
1	Ronnie O'Sullivan	x	3	3	5	4	4	5	24-12	4-2-0	6-10
2	Ding Junhui *	3	x	4	1	6	3	4	21-15	3-2-1	6-8
3	Graeme Dott	3	2	x	4	4	3	2	18-18	2-2-2	6-6
4	Jimmy White	1	5	2	x	3	5	2	18-18	2-1-3	6-5
5	Steve Davis **	2	0	2	3	x	5	5	17-19	2-1-3	6-5
6	Stephen Hendry	2	3	3	1	1	x	4	14-22	1-2-3	6-4
7	Ken Doherty	1	2	4	4	1	2	x	14-22	2-0-4	6-4

* Ding Junhui has withdraw from Premier League play-offs due to clash of dates with 2006 Asian Games in Doha.
** Steve Davis has qualified for the play-offs due the withdrawal of Ding Junhui.

Finals

December 2-3 - Forum Centre, Wythenshawe.

	Semifinals					Finals
		Ronnie O'Sullivan*	5
		Steve Davis	2
							Ronnie O'Sullivan***	7
							Jimmy White	0
		Graeme Dott	4
		Jimmy White**	5

* (111)-18, (54) 100-16, (64) 74-1, 48-66, (86) 106-17, 28-64, (64) 71-14
** 50-67, 0-71 (64), 0-(94), 20-62, (87)-1, (51) 63-28, 57-9, (61) 90-16, 11-60-11
*** 77-7, 62-49, (122)-0, (93)-0, 46-13, (73) 98-1, (113)-9

Century Breaks

• 124, 122, 113, 111, 108 Ronnie O'Sullivan
• 120, 112, 108 Ding Junhui
• 114, 101 Steve Davis
• 107 Graeme Dott
• 105 Jimmy White
• 101 Stephen Hendry

References