 He failed to qualify for any of the remaining ranking events and finished the season ranked world number 44.At the start of the 2012–13 season Selt reached the quarter-finals of the Australian Goldfields Open for the second consecutive season.He beat Thepchaiya Un-Nooh and Jamie Jones in qualifying and once in Australia he came back from 0–2 and 3–4 down to knock out the defending champion Stuart Bingham 5–4.