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{{short description|Invitational snooker tournament}}
{{Infobox individual snooker tournament
|tournament_name=1996 Poland Masters
|logo=
|dates={{Start and end dates|1996|05|28|1996|05|31|df=y}}
|venue=Atelier Snooker Club
|location=[[Warsaw]]
|country=[[Poland]]
|organisation=[[World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association|WPBSA]]
|format=Non-[[Snooker world rankings|ranking]] event
|Total prize fund=£15,000<ref name="Warsaw"/>
|winners_share=£4,000<ref name="Warsaw"/>
|highest_break={{flagathlete|[[Billy Snaddon]]|SCO}} (127)<ref name="Warsaw"/>
|winner={{flagathlete|[[Gerard Greene]]|NIR}}
|runner_up={{flagathlete|[[Patrick Wallace]]|NIR}}
|score=6–5
|previous=
|next=
}}

The '''1996 Poland Masters''' was a professional non-[[Snooker world rankings|ranking]] [[snooker]] tournament, which took place between 28 and 31 May 1996 at the Atelier Snooker Club in [[Warsaw]], [[Poland]].<ref name="Warsaw">{{cite news|title=Snooker's New Proving Grounds |url=https://www.warsawvoice.pl/archiwum.phtml/6774/ |accessdate=23 November 2022 |newspaper=The Warsaw Voice |date=9 June 1996 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050109083542/https://www.warsawvoice.pl/archiwum.phtml/6774/ |archivedate=9 January 2005 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Yates |first=Phil |title=Karl snookered on dates |work=Birmingham Evening Mail |date=30 April 1996 |page=40}}</ref> [[Gerard Greene]] won the tournament defeating [[Patrick Wallace]] 6–5 in the final.<ref name="Cuesport">{{cite book|last=Hayton|first=Eric|title=Cuesport Book of Professional Snooker|page=169}}</ref>

==Results==
===Group stage===
''Players in bold progressed to knockout stage''<ref name="Cuesport" />

'''Group 1'''
{| class="wikitable"
!  !! Played !! Won !! Lost
|-
| {{flagicon|THA}} '''[[Noppadon Noppachorn]]''' || 3 || 3 || 0
|-
| {{flagicon|ENG}} '''[[Nick Dyson]]''' || 3 || 2 || 1
|-
| {{flagicon|ENG}} [[Mark Davis (snooker player)|Mark Davis]] || 3 || 1 || 2 
|-
| {{flagicon|POL}} [[Maksymillian Janicki]] || 3 || 0 || 3 
|}

'''Group 2'''
{| class="wikitable"
!  !! Played !! Won !! Lost
|-
| {{flagicon|PAK}} '''[[Shokat Ali]]''' || 3 || 3 || 0
|-
| {{flagicon|NIR}} '''[[Gerard Greene]]''' || 3 || 2 || 1
|-
| {{flagicon|FIN}} [[Risto Vayrynen]] || 3 || 1 || 2 
|-
| {{flagicon|POL}} [[Kuba Sawicki]] || 3 || 0 || 3 
|}

'''Group 3'''
{| class="wikitable"
!  !! Played !! Won !! Lost
|-
| {{flagicon|WAL}} '''[[Wayne Jones (snooker player)|Wayne Jones]]''' || 3 || 3 || 0
|-
| {{flagicon|NIR}} '''[[Patrick Wallace]]''' || 3 || 2 || 1
|-
| {{flagicon|MLT}} [[Ray Demanuele]] || 3 || 1 || 2 
|-
| {{flagicon|POL}} [[Thomasz Koscielak]] || 3 || 0 || 3 
|}

'''Group 4'''
{| class="wikitable"
!  !! Played !! Won !! Lost
|-
| {{flagicon|ENG}} '''[[Leigh Griffin]]''' || 2 || 2 || 0
|-
| {{flagicon|SCO}} '''[[Billy Snaddon]]''' || 2 || 1 || 1
|-
| {{flagicon|POL}} [[Krzysztof Bogucki]] || 2 || 0 || 2 
|}

===Knockout stage===
<ref name="Cuesport" />
{{8TeamBracket-NoSeeds
| RD1='''Quarter-final'''<br>Best of 7 frames
| RD2='''Semi-final'''<br>Best of 9 frames
| RD3='''Final'''<br>Best of 11 frames
| score-width=
| team-width=140
| RD1-team1={{flagicon|THA}} [[Noppadon Noppachorn]]
| RD1-score1=2
| RD1-team2={{flagicon|NIR}} '''[[Gerard Greene]]'''
| RD1-score2='''4'''
| RD1-team3={{flagicon|PAK}} [[Shokat Ali]]
| RD1-score3=2
| RD1-team4={{flagicon|ENG}} '''[[Nick Dyson]]'''
| RD1-score4='''4'''
| RD1-team5={{flagicon|WAL}} '''[[Wayne Jones (snooker player)|Wayne Jones]]'''
| RD1-score5='''4'''
| RD1-team6={{flagicon|SCO}} [[Billy Snaddon]]
| RD1-score6=3
| RD1-team7={{flagicon|ENG}} [[Leigh Griffin]]
| RD1-score7=0
| RD1-team8={{flagicon|NIR}} '''[[Patrick Wallace]]'''
| RD1-score8='''4'''

| RD2-team1={{flagicon|NIR}} '''[[Gerard Greene]]'''
| RD2-score1='''5'''
| RD2-team2={{flagicon|ENG}} [[Nick Dyson]]
| RD2-score2=4
| RD2-team3={{flagicon|WAL}} [[Wayne Jones (snooker player)|Wayne Jones]]
| RD2-score3=4
| RD2-team4={{flagicon|NIR}} '''[[Patrick Wallace]]'''
| RD2-score4='''5'''

| RD3-team1={{flagicon|NIR}} '''[[Gerard Greene]]'''
| RD3-score1='''6'''
| RD3-team2={{flagicon|NIR}} [[Patrick Wallace]]
| RD3-score2=5
}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Snooker season 1995/1996}}

[[Category:1996 in snooker]]
[[Category:1996 in Polish sport]]