2023 Snooker Shoot Out (2023–24 season)
The 2023 Snooker Shoot Out (officially the 2023 BetVictor Snooker Shoot Out) was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 6 to 9 December 2023 at the Swansea Arena in Swansea, South Wales. Played under a variation of the standard rules of snooker, with every match contested over a single frame, the tournament was the ninth ranking event of the 2023–24 snooker season and the fifth of eight events in the 2024 European Series. Sponsored by BetVictor, the event was broadcast by Eurosport and Discovery+ in Europe.
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 6–9 December 2023 |
| Venue | Swansea Arena |
| City | Swansea |
| Country | Wales |
| Organisation | World Snooker Tour |
| Format | Ranking event |
| Total prize fund | £171,000 |
| Winner's share | £50,000 |
| Highest break | Shaun Murphy (ENG) (147) |
| Final | |
| Champion | Mark Allen (NIR) |
| Runner-up | Cao Yupeng (CHN) |
| Score | 65–4 (one frame) |
Chris Wakelin was the defending champion, having defeated Julien Leclercq 119–0 in the previous final, but he lost 44–46 in the second round to Joe O'Connor. Shaun Liu, who had turned 13 in July 2023, defeated Ishpreet Singh Chadha 57–52 and became the youngest winner of a televised match in a ranking event. In the first round match against Bulcsú Révész, Shaun Murphy made his eighth career maximum break, the first ever compiled at the Shoot Out.
In the final of the event, world number four Mark Allen defeated Cao Yupeng 65–4 to capture his tenth ranking title. He became the first player in the history of the event to win the title while ranked within the world's top 16. "It's just so hard," Allen said after the match, "the easiest of shots turns into the most difficult and you feel more pressure here in a 10–minute frame than you would do in the final frame of a big ranking tournament final at 9–9 or something. It just does crazy things to your brain."