So this starts later today with Mark Selby v Mark Davis and Stuart Bingham v John Higgins. The pick of the first round games is probably the Tuesday afternoon one which features Ding v Shaun Murphy (annoyingly I'll be in work).

The first round schedule in full looks like this:

http://www.worldsnooker.com/page/NewsArticles/0,,13165~2324947,00.html

Selby (who has won this threee times already), Robertson, and Ding are probably the favourites.

Anything else?