The players involved determined the venues for the quarter-finals, resulting in matches in London, Birmingham, Nottingham and Liverpool.

The highest break of the tournament was 60, compiled by Albert Cope in the 21st frame of his match against Davis.

They persuaded the Billiards Association and Control Council (BACC) to recognise an official professional snooker championship in the 1926–27 season.

[1][2] The BACC's secretary, A. Stanley Thorn, had rejected a request in 1924 from professional Tom Dennis, doubting that snooker was popular enough to attract large enough audiences to make such a competition viable.

[1] Davis drafted the conditions under which a championship could take place, after a conversation with Camkin, and sent it to the BACC, who gave their consent.

[3] At its meeting on 1 September 1926, the Professional Championship Committee of the BACC agreed the terms for the tournament, and set a closing date for entries of 1 November 1926.

[4] The preliminary round matches were to be held at Thurston's Hall in London, and the venue for the semi-finals and final was to be Camkin's Hall on John Bright Street in Birmingham, the players having to arrange dates and venues for the other matches.

[4] Stanley Thorn wrote that the decision to promote a professional championship was "in view of the increasing popularity of the game of snooker", and added that "the winner will be declared on the number of games won, but the conditions state that play shall be continued until the full number of games has been completed"; therefore dead frames were played after the result of each match was determined.

[5][7] Gate receipts for each match, after expenses, were to be equally shared out between the players concerned.

[5] The terms specified that half of the total entry fees would go to the finalists, the winner receiving sixty percent of the part allocated to prize money.

[3] Davis, the eventual champion, received £6 and 10 shillings from gate receipts, but the BACC used £19 from the players' part of the entry fees, which were expected to be used as prize money, towards purchasing the trophy.

[11] The Observer's correspondent opined that "the policy of playing a serious [snooker] match in conjunction with the billiards has proved an additional public attraction", and that only three of the leading billiards players, Willie Smith, Tom Reece, and Arthur Peall, had declined to participate in the championship.

The winner of the billiards match would be the first player to reach 16,000 points, with Inman receiving a 3,500 handicap head start.

[19] Inman then won the next five frames to secure victory 8–5, the match finishing on the Monday afternoon, a week after it started.

[21] Tom Dennis and Fred Lawrence played their match on 9 and 10 December at the Lord Nelson Hotel, Carlton Street, Nottingham.

[26]: 18 Tom Carpenter and Nat Butler played their match on 31 December 1926 and 1 January 1927 at Thurston's Hall.

[28] The first semi-final saw Joe Davis meet Albert Cope over three days from 31 January to 2 February in Birmingham.

[1] The match between Inman and Carpenter was also played at Thurston's Hall, Leicester Square in London.

[48] After each of the sessions on 12 May, Davis was scheduled to perform an exhibition of the billiards pendulum cannon, which by that time was already on the way to being restricted in competitive play by the BACC.