Robert Milkins beat former world champion Shaun Murphy 9-7 to win the Welsh Open and pocket a £230,000 payday in Llandudno.
The 46-year-old from Gloucester claimed the primary prize of £80,000 and a £150,000 bonus for topping the BetVictor Series rating listing, which has run throughout eight occasions since final July.
“I can’t even speak, it’s unreal really,” Milkins, who received his first rating title in 27 years as an expert within the Gibraltar Open 11 months in the past, stated on Eurosport.
“All through the day I was struggling a bit, same as Shaun. Obviously I had a lot of reason to struggle, it’s a lot of money to me that is.
“I tried to not think about it and to be fair I played all right in the evening (session), but to start off with it was really hard work and if Shaun had been at 20 per cent of his game I’m sure he would have took a lead going into tonight.
“Obviously Gibraltar was brilliant, but beating somebody like Shaun in a best-of-17 in a final, even if he didn’t play well, is just the icing on the cake.”
Murphy, who produced a 147 clearance in his fourth-round defeat of Daniel Wells earlier this week, opened up a 3-1 lead earlier than Milkins hit again to take the subsequent three frames in succession.
A break of 68 helped Murphy stage the scores on the finish of the primary session and the gamers shared the primary two frames of the night earlier than Milkins received body 11 on a respotted black.
Breaks of 60 and 64 took Milkins to inside a body of victory and, though Murphy stored the match alive with the one century of the competition, Milkins secured the title with one other 64.
“Obviously I’m disappointed,” Murphy stated. “I couldn’t have tried any harder, I left it all out there.
“I could have played a bit better but I just didn’t really have it today and all credit to Rob, he was by far the better player.”