Furness pool player Kyle Brown begins his Super Series of Pool Shootout campaign in Solihull this evening.

It is the 29 year old former Cumbria County champion’s second appearance in the tournament, and he will be hoping to improve on his last outing when he exited at this stage with a five frames to one defeat against five-time shootout champion Jordan Shepherd.

Brown who represented Ireland in 2016 faces Runcorn based 25 year old David McNamara in tonight’s first round tie.

McNamara is a professional pool player and comes into tonight’s meeting as favourite with a host of trophies to his name including his 2017 campaign, where he was crowned U23 World Champion, National Champion & Welsh Champion – as well as all that he won the IPA Tour English Open title in 2019.

The Super Series of pool is a 16 player elite competition with a £3k cash prize for the winner.

It is played under shootout rules with a race to 3 sets, each set consisting of a 30-minute-long race to five frames. The players are up against a shot-clock as well, with 30 seconds to take their shot for the first 15 minutes of the, halved to 15 seconds for the other 15 minutes.

Amongst the competitors aiming for shootout glory will be the current World Champion Jon McAllister, as well as past champions Marc Farsnworth and Gareth Hibbott. Four-time Ladies World Champion Emma Cunningham will also be competing.

You can see how Kyle gets on tonight as the game will be covered on FreeSports (Sky Channel 422, Freeview Channel 64 or via the FreeSports Player App) from 6pm.