If you’re going to stand out from the crowd in and around the pool hotbed that is Stoke-on-Trent, you need to be a special player – and that’s exactly what two-time professional blackball event winner Jimmy Croxton is.
The talented Newcastle-under-Lyme cueman enjoyed a successful youth and amateur snooker career before turning to the smaller table; in 2000, he made the final of the English Under-15 Championship where he was pipped 5-3 by Judd Trump.
Following his switch to 8-ball, Croxton soon became one of the most feared competitors on the scene. He reached back-to-back English National Amateur Singles finals and won the 2008 Golden Cue Singles.
Croxton’s progress saw him turn professional on the blackball circuit, and he secured his first title at that level in Glasgow in 2013 when he won the Professional Cup.
In 2014, Croxton recorded his second major triumph, this time in Liverpool at the UK Professional Championship. His consistency saw him provisionally ranked as the number one blackball professional.
In more recent times, Croxton came through four deciding frame finishes on his way to appearing in the final of the 2019 Supreme Masters – event two on that season’s ultra-competitive Supreme Pool Series. Effectively played to International Rules, Croxton was only denied the title by Karl Boyes via a deciding frame.
