The competition was the third of seven World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) ranking events in the 2006/2007 season and the 30th edition of the tournament.

Peter Ebdon won the tournament, defeating the five-time UK champion Stephen Hendry 10 frames to 6 in the final.

In the semi-finals Ebdon beat John Higgins 9–7 and Hendry defeated fellow Scot Graeme Dott by the same scoreline.

[3] The defending UK champion was Ding Junhui, who beat Steve Davis 10–6 in the previous year's final.

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[5] The qualifying rounds were played between players on the main tour ranked 33 and lower for one of 32 places in the final stage at Pontin's in Prestatyn, from 14 to 19 November.

[6][7] John Parrott, the 1991 world champion, beat David Gilbert 9–8 after coming from 8–5 behind to earn a spot in the first round.

[8] The other successful qualifiers included Barry Pinches, Michael Judge, Jamie Burnett and Robin Hull.

[9] 2004 runner up David Gray was helped by breaks of 131, 81 and 68 to defeat Pinches 9–2,[10] while Stuart Bingham emerged a 9–8 winner over Rory McLeod from 7–5 and 8–7 down.

[12][13] Of the other first day matches Mark King beat Adrian Gunnell 9–4,[11] and Joe Perry led Judge 7–1 overnight with breaks of 125, 93, 75, 66 and 60.

[14] Rod Lawler prevailed 9–7 over Anthony Hamilton in a match lasting more than 81⁄2 hours,[15] and world number 35 Dave Harold defeated Robert Milkins 9–7 with a match-winning break of 102.

[15][16] Gerard Greene received a walkover to the next round after his opponent, world number 27 Marco Fu, withdrew from the tournament to represent Hong Kong at the 2006 Asia Games in Qatar at his country's behest.

[21][22] Although he achieved a 146 clearance in the ninth frame of his match, Gray lost 5–9 to the 2003 champion Matthew Stevens,[22] while Perry defeated Barry Hawkins 9–4.

Carter was tied at 6–6 when he spent the mid-session interval in his dressing room discussing tactics with his coach Terry Griffiths.

Carter was deemed to have returned to the table late by the referee Olivier Marteel and Bingham was awarded frame 13.

[26] Tied at 4–4 after his opening session Davis beat Burnett 9–5, while Hull was a surprise winner over Robertson winning five consecutive frames to claim a 9–4 victory.

Another world champion, John Higgins, emulated Gray's 146 clearance in a 9–4 victory over King, and Stephen Lee defeated Lawler 9–6.

[29] Five-time UK champion Stephen Hendry led Harold 7–3 before the latter won four successive frames with two century breaks of 115 and 111 to equal the score at 7–7.

[30] Graeme Dott, the world champion, won the first six frames of his match against fellow Scot MacKenzie within one hour, compiling century breaks of 100, 107 and 112 to win 9–2.

[31] Ding, fatigued from having arrived in the United Kingdom on 8 December after winning three gold medals at the 2006 Qatar Asian Games, beat Day 9–7 in a tightly contested match.

Day missed a difficult shot into the middle pocket from his position and Ding made a game-winning clearance of 57 to win.

Fourth seed Ken Doherty held a 7–1 advantage over his opponent Dunn and claimed frames nine and ten with breaks of 87 and 58 in 22 minutes to win 9–1 and progression to the third round.

[34] Ebdon moved 6–2 ahead of Bingham despite missing the penultimate red ball when it appeared he would achieve a maximum break but he won 9–4.

[42] Trailing 1–4 and 24–0 in front during frame six after potting the black ball and after missing a red to a corner pocket,[43] O'Sullivan declared the match over.

[49] Post-match, Ebdon considered the victory the most important of his career and praised the quality of the match, "This win means so much to me because I have got so much respect for John.

"[48] Higgins said that considered the game's decisive point to have been when he was leading 5–4 and attributed his loss to a lack of concentration, "But take nothing away from Peter.

He played some good safety in the first session, then I found a bit of rhythm and then Stephen inexplicably started to miss balls.

"[53] Hendry bemoaned his poor performance but praised Ebdon, "I picked the one day of the week when I didn't want to play like that.