Betting Zone Launches With Free £25 Bet From Stan James

9ballpool.co.uk is proud to announce the launch of our Betting Zone, a place where you can keep an eye on the latest odds for major cue sports events like the World Championships of Pool and Snooker. More so than most sports, the prices given by different bookmakers for the runners in cue sports tournaments can vary enormously. But our specially-developed system will automatically show the odds from different bookmakers, enabling you to make a value decision about where to punt your hard-earned cash!

Also featured in our betting section are recommended bookies and reviews of online poker rooms. We will also keep you informed on these pages of special offers - like bet matching and signup bonuses - which are effectively free money to bet with!

Heading the offers in the Betting Zone to kick off with is a FREE £25 bet from Stan James. If you like to bet on Cue Sports, then you need an account with Stan James, the only British bookie over the years to consistently offer odds on major 9 ball and other American Pool events, like the World Pool Championship and the North American 8 Ball Open. And now they're giving you a free £25 bet when you open a Sportsbook account!

And, as luck would have it, the IPT North American Open 8 Ball Championship has just started! Fillipino legend Efren 'The Magician' Reyes is favourite at time of writing at 10-1, while the most favoured Brit is snooker superstar Ronnie O'Sullivan, ahead of Imran Majid and Raj Hundal at 100-1, and Daryl Peach at 175-1. Nice odds!

As with the North American Open 8 Ball, Stan James are the only bookie currently offering odds on the World Pool Championship. Ronnie O'Sullivan is again priced at 50-1, well ahead of any other Brit! Hundal is 80-1 while Peach has a massive price of 300-1!

For the 2007 World Snooker Championship, we have a selection of bookmakers' odds listed. We show them side by side, with the best odds for each player highlighted in bold text.

We will be expanding this section to include more events and more bookmakers, and will be listing more offers and bonuses in the future. Being based on specially-developed software to retrieve, compare and list the odds, we still consider this service to be in an experimental stage and would very much welcome your feedback on it. So browse the odds listings, the bookmaker offers, the poker room reviews and offers, and let us know what you think.