The Betfair European Tour 2012/2013 – Event 1 (also known as the 2012 Arcaden Paul Hunter Classic) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 23 and 26 August 2012 in Fürth, Germany.

Ken Doherty made the 90th official maximum break during his last 128 match against Julian Treiber. This was Doherty's first official 147 break and also the second maximum break in the 2012/2013 season. Doherty also became the first player from Ireland to make an official maximum break.

Mark Selby successfully defended his 2011 title by beating Joe Swail 4–1 in the final. Swail became the first player not on the Main Tour to reach the final of a PTC event, having been relegated the previous season.

Prize fund and ranking points The breakdown of prize money and ranking points of the event is shown below: Prize fund Ranking points1 Winner €12,000 2,000 Runner-up €6,000 1,600 Semi-finalist €3,000 1,280 Quarter-finalist €2,000 1,000 Last 16 €1,250 760 Last 32 €750 560 Last 64 €500 360 Maximum break €1,895 – Total €71,895 – 1 Only professional players can earn ranking points.

Main draw

Preliminary rounds

Round 1 Best of 7 frames

Oliver Lines 4–0 Thomas Scholl David Singh w/d–w/o Itaro Santos Ronny Buchholz 0–4 Alex Taubman John Astley 4–0 Ron Florax Sybren Sokolowski 0–4 Dean Goddard Angelo Rizzo 1–4 Adam Wicheard Simon Morgan 0–4 Wan Chooi Tang Oliver Brown w/o–w/d Adrian Gunnell Lee Page w/o–w/d Eyad Mohammed Al-Ansari 4–0 Laurin Winters Hussain Fuad w/d–w/o Hendrik Henschke Rami Ali w/d–w/o Stefan Schenk Hendrik Glax 4–2 Klaus-Dieter Geiger Gary Steele 4–0 Ralf Günzel Chris Norbury 4–0 Hans Blanckaert Jeff Jacobs w/o–w/d Lucky Vatnani Dieter Meier 2–4 Ricky Norris Robert Drahn w/d–w/o Tin Venos Mitchell Mann w/o–w/d Wael Al Qassimi Sebastian Lahruis 0–4 Alain Van Der Steen Mohammed Al Shaikh w/d–w/o Julian Treiber Aaron Busuttil w/o–w/d Ali Abdul Kareem Robert Valiant w/d–w/o John Parkin Benjamin Buser w/d–w/o Jeff Cundy Johnny Kells 4–3 Kilian Baur-Pantoulier Rüdiger Fehrmann 4–3 Robert Hofheinz

Phil Barnes 4–3 Norbert Eckstein Brynjar Valdimaisson w/o–w/d Mohamed Omar Dragan Roša 4–1 Michele Battaglia James Cahill 1–4 Mark Vincent Patrick Einsle 4–0 Ali Kirim Habib Subah w/d–w/o Nicole Breitenstein Reanne Evans 1–4 Andreas Ploner Shahram Changezi w/d–w/o Terry Challenger Husain Mahmood w/d–w/o Stuart Carrington Ian Glover 4–0 Stefan Gerst Stéphane Ochoïski 1–4 Sam Harvey Alois Riegel 1–4 Bernd Strnad Michael Seidel 0–4 Duane Jones Jörg Petersen 1–4 Luca Kaufmann Elliot Slessor 1–4 Jack Bradford Joe Swail 4–0 Bero Cerinski Marc Davis 4–3 Sascha Breuer Maurice Le Duc w/d–w/o Tomasz Skalski Greg Davis 2–4 Kishan Hirani Joe Steele 1–4 Kyren Wilson Felix Freede 0–4 Alex Davies Ronny Pawlitza 1–4 Ole Steiner Soner Sari 4–0 Andreas Vetter Christopher Keogan w/o–w/d Mario Wehrmann Tobias Hirmer 4–1 Sherief Shemeis Christof Biniarsch Liam Monk

Round 2 Best of 7 frames

Oliver Lines 4–2 Itaro Santos Alex Taubman 2–4 John Astley Justin Astley 4–1 Dean Goddard Adam Wicheard 4–1 Wan Chooi Tang Oliver Brown 4–2 Lee Page 4–0 Hendrik Henschke Carl Rosenberger 4–3 Stefan Schenk Sanjin Kusan 4–0 Hendrik Glax Gary Steele 0–4 Chris Norbury Jeff Jacobs 1–4 Ricky Norris Tin Venos 0–4 Mitchell Mann Michael Wild 4–0 Alain Van Der Steen Stefan Merkel 3–4 Julian Treiber Matthias Porn 0–4 Aaron Busuttil John Parkin 2–4 Jeff Cundy Johnny Kells 4–1 Rüdiger Fehrmann

Phil Barnes w/o–w/d Brynjar Valdimaisson Ben Harrison 4–0 Dragan Roša Andreas Hartung 0–4 Mark Vincent Patrick Einsle 4–0 Nicole Breitenstein Andreas Ploner 4–1 Terry Challenger Stuart Carrington 0–4 Ian Glover Sam Harvey 4–0 Bernd Strnad Duane Jones 4–0 Luca Kaufmann Jack Bradford 0–4 Joe Swail Marc Davis 4–1 Tomasz Skalski Dominik Scherübl 3–4 Kishan Hirani Phil O'Kane 0–4 Kyren Wilson Oliver Kremp 0–4 Alex Davies Darko Hojan 0–4 Ole Steiner Soner Sari 1–4 Christopher Keogan Tobias Hirmer 1–4 Liam Monk

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

147, 103 Ken Doherty 140 Mark Williams 135, 111 Barry Hawkins 135, 107 Joe Swail 127, 116, 112 Mark Selby 122, 107 Judd Trump 121, 108 Michael White 120, 100 Joe Perry 116 John Astley 114 Martin Gould 113 Liam Highfield 112 Alfie Burden

112 Mark Allen 112 Robbie Williams 111 Oliver Lines 111 Ben Harrison 109 Michael Wild 109 Jamie Cope 108 Paul Davison 107 Mark King 104 Ryan Day 104 Kurt Maflin 104 Shaun Murphy 100 Duane Jones

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