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The 2006 IBSF World Snooker Championship was an amateur snooker event, sanctioned by the International Billiards and Snooker Federation, held at the Amman Olympics Sports Centre in Amman, Jordan from November 5-November 15, 2006.
A total of 32 players qualified for finishing in the top 4 positions in eight groups. They were drawn into a 32 player knock-out bracket to decide the winner.
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Reanne Evans, the 2004 champion, did not enter the event. There were twenty entries, and two qualifying groups of ten players were set, each to be played as a round-robin, with the top four from each group qualifying for the eight-player knock-out phase to decide the winner. Following withdrawals, only nine players participated in each group. Wendy Jans scored nine of the eleven top breaks in the competition on her way to winning the title.
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||
 Wendy Jans | 4 | |||||||||||||
 Anita Rizzuti | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Wendy Jans | 4 | |||||||||||||
 Ramona Belmont | 0 | |||||||||||||
 Angélique Vialard | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Ramona Belmont | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Wendy Jans | 5 | |||||||||||||
 Jaique Ip | 0 | |||||||||||||
 Anuja Thakur | 4 | |||||||||||||
 Kathy Parashis | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Anuja Thakur | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Jaique Ip | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Jaique Ip | 4 | |||||||||||||
 Hanna Mergies | 3 | |||||||||||||
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