Coral Players Championship: Can Trump land his second Coral Cup win?

Betting preview, odds and info for Players Champ

The second event in the 2019 Coral Cup gets underway from the Preston Guild Hall on Monday 4th March, as the top-16 players in the world face off in the Coral Players Championship.

All the usual faces will be there, including Ronnie O’Sullivan, Mark Selby and Coral Grand Prix winner Judd Trump. But who will come out on top in Lancashire? We’ve got the first round odds, outright betting and Coral Cup lowdown.

Players Championship first round odds

Trump, O’Sullivan and Neil Robertson are all heavily odds-on to make it through their respective first round matches, while Kyren Wilson and Jack Lisowski go head-to-head in one of the most exciting match-ups. The former is 4/7 to beat the latter at 11/8, with Mark Allen at 8/15 when he takes on Stephen Maguire.

But it’s Selby’s clash with John Higgins which is the standout tie. Both players are former world champions, and as such it should be a close-fought affair. The Jester from Leicester is the narrow favourite at 8/11, with Higgins slightly further back at 11/10.

Coral Players Championship outright odds

You’ve seen the draw and first round odds. Now what about the outright betting? No prizes for guessing O’Sullivan is the runaway 11/4 favourite.

The Rocket has won three of the eight tournaments he’s shown up at this year, although he did suffer a first round defeat at the Coral World Grand Prix in January.