The 2018 Players Championship (officially the 2018 Ladbrokes Players Championship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place from 19 to 25 March 2018 at the Venue Cymru in Llandudno, Wales. It was the eighteenth ranking event of the 2017/2018 season.
Judd Trump was the defending champion, but he was beaten by Ronnie O'Sullivan 6âÂÂ5 in the semi-finals.
Ronnie O'Sullivan captured his 33rd ranking title and fifth ranking title of the season by defeating Shaun Murphy 10âÂÂ4 in the final, equalling the record of most ranking titles in a season shared by Stephen Hendry, Ding Junhui and Mark Selby.
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at ã30,000
The seedings were conducted on the basis of the one-year ranking list up to and including the 2018 Gibraltar Open.
Total: 28