DAVE Finbow departed the Benson and Hedges Snooker Championship last night admitting: "In a way I'm glad it's all over."

Alfrick based Finbow again failed to do himself justice at the Willie Thorne Snooker Club in Malvern and said afterwards: "The pressure on me here is 1,000 times worse than anything else I've known."

World number 39 Finbow was on the receiving end of a 5-3 fourth round defeat by European amateur champion Craig Butler who only became a professional last June.

"I just didn't enjoy it out there because of all the expectancy," added Finbow after another brief stay in his home tournament. " As soon as you miss two balls on the trot you suddenly think you're 4-0 down.

"It's a funny sort of pressure- much worse than playing in big matches, deciding frames or before the television cameras.

"With the UK Championship coming up in Bournemouth maybe it's a blessing in disguise that I can now concentrate on practice. I'm feeling nice and fresh and I'm confident I can do well next week".

The rot set in for Finbow as early as the second frame. Butler, 26 from Leeds, pinched frame two on a re-spotted black after Finbow had gone 1-0 up.

Butler took the lead he wasn't to lose in frame three, winning another black ball finish and then made it 3-1 by the mid-session interval.

When the match resumed Butler fired in his best of the match- a modest 47- and with four frames left he appeared to have one foot in round five.

Briefly, Finbow rose to the occasion and back to back half centuries cut the deficit to 4-3.

But Butler wasn't to be denied his ticket to the last 32 and a final break of 42 brought Finbow's challenge to a close.

Bewdley's Richard King is another Worcestershire cueman who won't be returning to Malvern this week. King lost 5-3 to Rugeley's Troy Shaw but, in contrast to Finbow, finished in a far happier frame of mind.

"In the end a lack of concentration let me down plus a few silly mistakes," he admitted. "But overall I can go away from here pleased with how I played, having won two matches more than I usually do and with the knowledge that I held my nerve at crucial times in the games."

King returns to action against Scott Mackenzie on Saturday at Bournemouth for a second round match against Dean Reynolds.

Reynolds was whitewashed 5-0 by Lee Spick who would have been Finbow's opponent but for Butler.

Finbow is seeded through to round three of snooker's second biggest ranking tournament and begins his campaign on November 20.

Jimmy White's visit to Malvern was briefer than normal. The six times World Championship runner-up packed out the venue on Saturday afternoon.

However, hundreds of the Whirlwind's supporters were left disappointed as their hero crashed to a 5-3 defeat against Scottish teenager Stephen Maguire.

"I think everyone was cheering for Jimmy apart from my Dad and that made me more determined," said Maguire.

The IBSF world champion from Glasgow then followed up last night defeating Welshman Ian Sargeant 5-1.

Sargeant's countryman, world champion Mark Williams was at the venue to see Maguire's latest success.

Andy Hick's winner of the first B&H Snooker Championship in Malvern three years ago, reached round five last night with a 5-1 win over Robert Milkins while Hick's successor David Gray accounted for Patrick Wallace by the same score.