Antrim’s Mark Allen was knocked out of the 2023 Snooker World Championship last week at the semi-final stage but that was still enough to earn him £100,000.
That brings his total prizemoney for the season to well over £700,000, over a three fold increase on the year before.
It makes him one of the biggest earners in the sport this year and at the age of 37, he could yet make his way up the list of the sport’s all-time highest earners.
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Allen was hoping to become only the 12th player to complete the coveted Triple Crown; World Championship, UK Championship and Masters.
The Northern Ireland ace was the form player in the game this year and his win at the UK Championship alone earned him a quarter of a million pounds.
Allen followed that up by winning the World Grand Prix title and pocketed £100,000 in the process there.
His Northern Ireland Open success at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast brought in £80,000.
Reaching the final of the British Open was enough to earn almost £50,000, making it a season to remember for Allen.
It’s been a huge improvement on anything Allen has managed in the past, but there is still some way to go to catch the greats of the game - in financial terms at least.
The team at OLBG betting have shared data revealing the top 100 earners in the 2021/22 snooker season. They found that Allen was the ninth highest earner on the circuit that season, raking in £225,000.
Ronnie O’Sullivan was the clear number one on that list, having earned £821,000.
Alongside this, OLBG have also revealed the 10 highest all-time earners in the sport with Allen nowhere to be seen - for now.
Unsurprisingly, the Rocket is also top of that table, the seven-time world champion having brought in a cool £13million in his career.
Veteran Scottish ace John Higgins is next, way back on £9.4million.
Despite never having won the world title, Jimmy White squeezes into the list in 10th place after taking in £4.87 million in his storied career.
It has been a barnstorming season for Antrim man Allen but one he will still leave with regrets, having been dumped out of the World Championship at the semi-final stage when many had tipped him for the title.
“I didn’t have any form at all in that match but I never gave up and gave myself a chance,” Allen said after defeat to Selby in the last four.
“I put Mark [Selby] under a bit of pressure and will take a few positives out of that. I felt like I underperformed.
“I’m disappointed right now but the season as a whole has been really good with my highest ever ranking and back to the one-table set-up here so the signs are good for next season.”
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