Can Jak bounce back? The best bets for the World Snooker Championship

2025 World Professional Snooker Championship betting preview.

Craig Edwards @EdwardsTips_ picks his highest value selection for this year's World Snooker Championship.

The World Snooker Championship at the Crucible is the most unique test of a snooker players skills with the endurance aspect of the event being an outlier of the modern game.

This phenomenon opens the door for value year on year as punters can oppose the seasons’ best players who must combat the natural mental fatigue of a long season which historically finds them out over the marathon 17-day event.

Kyren Wilson with his proven pedigree landed the 2025 crown for my followers at 28/1 but with the “Crucible Curse” yet to be broken, we are bypassing the player who has the most impressive credentials, because we expect him to succumb to history.

For BetCave followers and Betting Radio listeners, I am going to advise a player coming off a light season with recent Crucible Theatre pedigree,

We are taking last year’s runner-up Jak Jones to go one better at generous prices of 66/1 and upwards. The bookmakers have been seduced by the return of snooker’s “prodigal son” Zhao Xintong who is Jones first round opponent. I expect the Welshman to school Xintong and represents good value in their match at 2/1.

Last season’s runner up built on a shock quarter final appearance in 2023 and this year the thirty-one-year-old does have the positive of not having the added fatigue from qualifying because he is ranked in the elite top 16.

With match wins at the Crucible over the likes of Judd Trump and Neil Robertson in 25-frame matches, Jak Jones has the perfect balance of all round game and concentration to master the Crucible.

Jak Jones each-way to win World Snooker Championship at 80/1

Jak Jones to win quarter 1 at 16/1

Enjoy the snooker, good luck with your bets and please gamble responsibly