Career
Hallett was a consistently solid snooker player, but never reached the very top ranks. After winning the national under-16 title in 1975, his world ranking peaked at number six in 1989-1990, after his only ranking tournament victory at the 1989 Hong Kong Open in which he beat Dene O"Kane 9–8. However, he lost 9–0 to Steve Davis in the final.
In 1991 he reached the Masters Final again at Wembley where, in the best-of-17-frame match, he surged to a 7–0 lead over Stephen Hendry and missed a pink which would have put him 8–0 ahead.
To make matters worse, Hallett returned home to find that his house had been burgled. Hallett did reach the quarter-finals of the World Championship twice, but never progressed further than that.
His final season on the main tour was in 2004-2005, but went on to play in the Pontin"s International Open Series. Hallett has been commentating on Premier League Snooker for Sky Sports, and all major snooker events on Eurosport.
At the start of the 2011/12 season Hallett entered the Players Tour Championship and after winning his first two matches against Duane Jones 4-3 and Elliot Slessor also 4-3, he played Ronnie O"Sullivan and managed to take two frames in losing 4-2.
Ranking wins: (1) Non-ranking wins: (4) Team events.