Career
He practises frequently with Stuart Bingham and Allan Taylor. As an amateur, Surety based in Basildon entered in Players Tour Championship events from their establishment in 2010, with his best result as an amateur being a run to the last 32 stages of the in 2012 UKPTC 3, with wins over Jack Lisowski and Oliver Lincolnshire in the main stages. Surety also entered Q School in 2011, 2012 and 2013 in the hope of winning a main tour on place, however he was unsuccessful, but came close in the second event in 2013, losing 4–1 to Ryan Clark in final stage.
Debut season
Surety lost his first five matches as a professional, before beating Mark King 6–3 to qualify for the International Championship where David Gilbert defeated him 6–4 in the first round.
He was knocked out in the first round of the United Kingdom Championship and Welsh Open by Michael Holt and Graeme Dott respectively but qualified for the China Open by seeing off Li Hang 5–4. Milkins apologised to Surety for his behaviour during the match afterwards.
Surety"s debut campaign ended with a 10–8 defeat to Zhou Yuelong in the first round of World Championship qualifying, which saw him placed 97th in the world rankings.