Barton was recently a quarter-finalist in Challenge Tour Event Seven losing out to eventual finalist Mark Walsh.
Joe Cullen was one of the players to take to Twitter to speak about the news; he said he is ‘absolutely devastated’.
The Rockstar went on to say that they shared a room when he started to play; he summed it up by signing off the message with ‘Will miss you mate’
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