Marsh began proceedings with a hat-trick of wins over Keelan Kay (5-3), Adam Huckvale (5-1) and Dave Parletti (5-3).

This continued as he strengthened his grip with a 5-4 win over Diogo Portela and it was concluded with a 5-0 win over Jarred Cole where he hit a 101.5 average and a 164 checkout.

Cole who himself only lost once today and only eight legs with five of them coming against Marsh, that was the difference between the duo in the end with him ending on eight points.

Keelan Kay followed with six after an intermittent day which saw three wins and two defeats while Diogo Portela (4 points), Adam Huckvale (2 points) and Dave Parletti (0 points) brought up the rear of the table.

There will be 15 games a day which will be best of 9 legs with two Pools set to be involved as usual. It begins everyday as a result at 10:30 am running till 5:00 pm and sees live action continue.

The scores are recorded during matches via a webcam with this then uploaded to various scoring services and bookmakers who are all showing the action. The livestream is provided by organiser MODUS .

Keelan Kay (78.57) 5-2 (76.08) Adam Huckvale
Scott Marsh (84.96) 5-3 (82.43) Keelan Kay
Adam Huckvale (78.44) 1-5 (89.55) Scott Marsh
Diogo Portela (86.7) 2-5 (89.78) Keelan Kay
Jarred Cole (92.8) 5-1 (85.3) Adam Huckvale
Dave Parletti (88.43) 3-5 (94.43) Scott Marsh
Keelan Kay (87.93) 2-5 (93.58) Jarred Cole
Adam Huckvale (80.7) 5-3 (81.21) Dave Parletti
Scott Marsh (95.89) 5-4 (88.04) Diogo Portela
Dave Parletti (78.23) 2-5 (77.74) Keelan Kay
Diogo Portela (89.18) 5-2 (80.14) Adam Huckvale
Jarred Cole (87.33) 0-5 (101.55) Scott Marsh
Diogo Portela (91.45) 5-2 (87.24) Dave Parletti
Jarred Cole (85.4) 5-0 ( Diogo Portela
Dave Parletti (87.08) 0-5 (96.35) Jarred Cole