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The World Championship will be getting a prize money boost (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The World Snooker Championship and UK Championship are set for hefty increases in prize money from next season.<\/p>\n

The last time the World Championship\u2019s winner\u2019s prize was increased was in 2019 when it jumped from \u00a3425,000 to \u00a3500,000.<\/p>\n

The champion in Sheffield this year will claim half a million quid again, but in 2027 the winner will be significantly richer.<\/p>\n

The top prize will rise to \u00a3625,000, representing a 25 per cent increase for the champion, while the total prize fund will rise to \u00a33m from its current level of \u00a32,395,000.<\/p>\n

The UK Championship winner next season will claim \u00a3312,500, up from \u00a3250,000, with the overall prize fund climbing from \u00a31.5m from \u00a31.2m.<\/p>\n

A World Snooker Tour statement read: \u2018There will be similar increases for each round and full details of the prize money breakdowns will be announced soon.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Clearly the announcement will be welcome news to players and it follows the extension of the World Championship\u2019s stay at the Crucible until at least 2045.<\/p>\n

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The 2026 World Snooker Championship got underway on Saturday (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Speaking in a press conference at the Crucible on Monday, Matchroom president Barry Hearn suggested that the winner\u2019s prize will reach \u00a31m by the time the World Championship returns to the Crucible after the forthcoming renovation.<\/p>\n

The theatre is set to be revamped from the summer of 2028, with the World Championship going elsewhere while the work is done, ideally for one year but possibly two.<\/p>\n

On the increasing prize money, Hearn said: \u2018We will build that, build that. So by the time we come back here, we are a level that snooker\u2019s never been close to be and it\u2019s clear we\u2019re going to go to the one [million] and past it. So we\u2019re in a good place.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Barry Hearn spoke to the press at the Crucible on Monday (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hearn also named a number of venues which could host the World Championship in its time away from the Crucible.<\/p>\n

\u2018So far we\u2019re looking at: Alexandra Palace, Excel, Olympia, Manchester, Newcastle,\u2019 he said. \u2018Actually, just go round all the Premier League Darts venues and you\u2019ve got interest in it for snooker.<\/p>\n

\u2018We just take our time. We\u2019re big boys in this game. We\u2019ve been around a long time.\u2019<\/p>\n

The Matchroom president added: \u2018I think if I was a gambling man, which of course I\u2019m not, I would go odds on staying in the UK.\u2019<\/p>\n

However, pushed on where he would like it to be if it did leave these shores, he said: \u2018I think if I had to choose, I would say Germany, and I would look at the Tempodrom for the World Snooker Championship, because it\u2019s the same TV times as the UK virtually, an hour, and it has the ability to house 3,000 customers.\u2019<\/p>\n

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