The Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 – Event 8 (also known as the 2011 Alex Higgins International Trophy) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 20 and 23 October 2011 at the Killarney Convention Centre in Killarney, Ireland.

Neil Robertson won the ninth professional title of his career by defeating Judd Trump 4–1 in the final.

Prize fund and ranking points The breakdown of prize money and ranking points of the event is shown below: Prize fund Ranking points1 Winner €10,000 2,000 Runner-up €5,000 1,600 Semi-finalist €2,500 1,280 Quarter-finalist €1,500 1,000 Last 16 €1,000 760 Last 32 €600 560 Last 64 €200 360 Total €50,000 – 1 Only professional players can earn ranking points.

Main draw

Preliminary rounds

Round 1 Best of 7 frames

Ashley Wright 4–0 Alan Cleary Alastair Wilson 4–2 Daniel O’Regan John Torpey 4–1 Ricky Norris Tom O'Driscoll Patrick O'Rourke David Foran 0–4 Ray Power Philip Browne 4–3 Paddy Murphy Gerard McAuley 4–2 Gary Crawford Daniel Kirby 0–4 Keith Sheldrick Colm Gilcreest 4–1 David Cassidy Derek O'Neill w/o–w/d Jonathan Nelson John Sutton 4–0 Phil O'Kane Daniel Dempsey w/o–w/d David Gray Jamie Walker 4–2 Mark Tuite Josh Boileau 4–3 Patrick Wallace Jonathan Birch 2–4 Robert Redmond Clinton Franey 4–2 Martin O'Donnell Thomas Dowling w/d–w/o Michael Mullen Karl Fitzpatrick w/o–w/d Jonathan Fulcher Anthony Cronin w/o–w/d Hans Blanckaert Declan Brennan 2–4 Jonathan Friel John Friel 2–4 Ryan Cronin Anthony O'Connor 0–4 Allan Taylor Sydney Wilson w/d–w/o Douglas Hogan

Jordan Brown 4–3 Chen Zhe Mike Hallett Najmur Khan Paul Ennis w/o–w/d Paul Currie Kieran McMahon 4–0 Robbie Walker Nick Jennings w/o–w/d Frank Sarsfield Robert Murphy w/o–w/d Tony Knowles Martin Ball 1–4 Zhang Anda Nicky Ryan 4–2 Sean McMonagle J.P. Kelly 4–2 Aiden O'Sullivan David Singh 4–1 Derry O'Sullivan Ryan Causton 4–1 Karl Busteed Alex Davies 4–2 Matthew Day Liam Monk w/d–w/o Joe Delaney Greg Casey 2–4 Jamie O' Neill Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon 3–4 Julian Logue Philip Arnold 4–1 Benny O'Brien Jonathan Williams 4–3 Mitchell Travis Stephen Byrne 2–4 Alex Taubman Chris Hannigan 2–4 Brian Milne Ben Harrison 4–0 Kevin O'Leary Connell Doherty w/d–w/o Stephen Craigie James Welsh w/d–w/o Mitchell Mann

Round 2 Best of 7 frames

Reanne Evans 3–4 Ashley Wright Ian Burns 4–1 Alastair Wilson John Torpey 4–2 Tom O'Driscoll Michael Wasley 4–0 Ray Power Philip Browne 4–3 Gerard McAuley Keith Sheldrick 4–2 Colm Gilcreest Derek O'Neill 0–4 John Sutton Gareth Allen 4–1 Daniel Dempsey Jamie Walker 4–2 Josh Boileau Eden Sharav Robert Redmond Clinton Franey 4–0 Michael Mullen Gary Wilson 4–1 Karl Fitzpatrick Dessie Sheehan 3–4 Anthony Cronin Jonathan Friel 0–4 Ryan Cronin Robbie Williams 4–1 Allan Taylor Douglas Hogan 3–4 Jordan Brown

Les Dodd w/d–w/o Mike Hallett Oliver Brown 4–1 Paul Ennis Kieran McMahon 2–4 Nick Jennings Sean O'Sullivan w/o–w/d Robert Murphy Jak Jones Zhang Anda Nicky Ryan 1–4 J.P. Kelly Sam Harvey 4–2 David Singh Ryan Causton 2–4 Alex Davies Kyren Wilson 4–2 Joe Delaney Chris Norbury 0–4 Jamie O' Neill Julian Logue 4–3 Philip Arnold Ray Whelan 0–4 Jonathan Williams Alex Taubman 4–0 Brian Milne Craig Steadman 4–3 Ben Harrison Bash Maqsood 0–4 Stephen Craigie Shane Castle w/d–w/o Mitchell Mann

Main rounds

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Bottom half

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

Finals

Century breaks Only from last 128 onwards.

142, 131 Ryan Day 138, 135, 112 Judd Trump 137, 112, 109, 109, 100 Neil Robertson 137, 108, 103 Mark Selby 135, 109 Stuart Bingham 132, 110, 100 Martin Gould 132 Simon Bedford 130 Liu Song 128 Liang Wenbo 125, 110, 107, 107 Ricky Walden

125 Ken Doherty 123 Ali Carter 117 Mark Joyce 107 John Higgins 105 Shaun Murphy 105 Marco Fu 102 Dave Harold 101 Stephen Lee 100 David Hogan 100 Li Yan

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