Rory finally breaks the jinx

(l-r) Lai Chee Wei and Rory Thor

Both Rory Thor and Lai Chee Wei have played each other on numerous encounters last year and it has always been Rory on the losing side. But that changed shortly into the New Year as he beats Lai in the Final of Leg 2 National Ranking Snooker Championship 2011 at De FightBlack Snooker to emerge Champion.

As the Final cued off at 830pm, the atmosphere around the table was very tensed as both finalists were working very hard not to let the each other score on the table. After one and a half hours play, the first 4 frames were shared equally between them with Lai breaking in frame 5. It was as though Lai suddenly lost all his form and Rory immediately pounced on the opening to win frame 5, needing only 1 more frame to break the jinx. In frame 6, Lai was still lost and watched helplessly as Rory cleared ball by ball to take the frame and match.

Rory takes home his first title in 2011 along with a big ang pow cash prize of RM 2,500 whilst Lai settled for the runner up's prize money of RM 1,000.

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Results for the Semi Finals and Final are as below.

Semi Finals Results
Lai Chee Wei 4 vs 2 Ng Ann Seng
13-73, 68-41, 65-5, 60-0, 13-49, 70-40

Mohd Reza 2 vs 4 Rory Thor
68-18, 19-104, 10-61, 49-68, 55-3, 25-81

Final Result
Lai Chee Wei 2 vs 4 Rory Thor
56-70, 72-37, 1-73, 79-7, 30-56, 2-57