O'Sullivan, 38, raced into a 5-0 lead before Selby finally won a frame. The defending champion had chances to win the seventh frame but a missed black proved costly.
O'Sullivan, who won the Masters in 1995, 2005, 2007 and 2009, then took the final frame of the first session.
Selby won the tournament in 2008, 2010 and 2013 and faces a difficult task in the evening session with the first to 10 taking the title, but it has been done before.
In 2004 Paul Hunter was trailing by the same scoreline to O'Sullivan before eventually winning 10-9, taking the final three frames to secure his sixth professional title.
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