American Reacts to the 10 BEST Snooker Shots of All Time
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As an American I don't know anything about snooker. Today I am very interested in watching the British game for the first time. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
For the final one, there weren't enough points left on the table for Higgins to win so he needed 'snookers'. He is trying to force the other player to foul by making it hard for them to hit the correct ball. If the other player does foul, Higgins gets points (6 points for missing the pink) making it possible for him to win the frame.
If Tyler actually reads the answers and replies, I will find someone who will eat my hat.
Yes, he was 14 points behind with only 13 points on the table, so if he potted the pink, something he could have done easily, he would have lost.
@@BertSmithLondon… and instead he very narrowly avoided potting pink, travelled the entire table and made a perfect parking stop behind the other ball. Beautifully executed.
@TylerRumple maybe.
@@chrisbodum3621 What flavour is it? He doesn't listen to the video commentary, so reading comments might be a bit of an ask.
watch ronnie o sullivans maximum 147 maximum break - unreal!!
Yes! I was thinking the same thing. Mae’n ef yn athrylith!/ He’s a genius!👌🏴
I was about to say the same! Its also a great way to learn the order of the balls and see a whole frame without spending the whole day :D
Defo to watch. It’ll show you how to play a perfect ‘frame’ … and it’s insanely fast… for Snooooooker.
Which one?
@@billybreath2387 the fastest one!
Please please please! It's not snuker, it's oo like pool
in fairness the long oo's are rarer than the short oo's making u
America "apparently" does not have snucker*... Tyler is talking "balls".......?!!
(And what are "cue-sticks" FFS ?!!
Sounds like "S & V Chipsticks" ... Yum!!!)
And _neither_ do _we_*
We have *_snooker_* ooooooooo!!
But of course...
IF Tyler has "never heard of" anything... America _doesn't_ have it...?! (allegedly)
It is in America, though Wikipedia says it the other way around to you.
It depends where you live. Here in south Wales it's almost universally pronounced the same way as Tyler does.
@@helenroberts1107
Snap !! But if (when?!) I complain, I get 'shot down in flames' by others claiming "there are multiple pronunciations of" said word.
In America maybe, but _here_ we know (generally speaking) _how_ to enunciate correctly. (To quote 'Dr Carol Marcus' -
Star Trek - "Can I cook, or can't I?!!") ❤️🖖
In the number 1 shot he intentionally did not pot the pink because he needed his opponent to commit a fowl by not being able to hit the pink, because he needed the extra points to catch up. It was great shot because he positioned the cue ball behind the black from nearly 12 ft away..
You saved me the bother of explaining that shot to him...cheers.
@@garymcatear822 he won’t read it
@@ShrubScotland Hopefully it's of help to someone who doesn't know snooker.
Foul not fowl. Ones a penalty and the other ones a bird. 😂
Commit a chicken?
When you initially read in Wikipedia about the game, you might have noticed the pronunciation is, "sn-ooo-ker". The game is popular in pretty much all parts of the World, except the USA - (of course!).
Major international tournaments which last multiple weeks, are watched by countless millions across the globe. The BBC broadcast 200+ hours of live coverage of the World Championship - with massive audience numbers. The top dozen or so players are genuinely "household names".
Apart from the size of a snooker table, it's worth noting that the pockets are significantly smaller that on a pool table (about two-thirds the size) - thus "rail shots" have to be absolutely perfect. Potting a ball is the most basic skill, almost taken for granted - it's what they do with the cue ball that's quite extraordinary.
Needing to ask "why did he do that?" kinda precludes your (and our) appreciation of the "10 best snooker shots". Perhaps you should avail yourself of a basic understanding of how the game is played prior to your review. It's actually quite simple. I've got to 7.12 mins in, and just can't watch any more - you're driving me nuts.
It's a reaction not an appreciation. At the Wikipedia page you'll have noticed there are at least a couple of ways to pronounce it . Just read your comment , hope there are not many like this you are driving me nuts.
He does quite well in figuring it out.
Huggggs ... I listened to Tyler (whilst reading the comments!!) Ok took that hit for you, my dear... You can open your eyes now, the Tylerman has moved on!!🇺🇲🥺🏴❤️🇬🇧🖖
Unfortunate that he said that he could appreciate athletic performance and then the first player up is Stephen Lee.
Unfortunately, only proper snooker aficionados will understand this reference. : )
Apparently, he's started a new fitness regime for his comeback. At least, that's what Stav from the Trowbridge Charcoal Grill told me.
Apparently more than 90 countries play snooker under the World Snooker Federation.
The basic rules are actually pretty straightforward. If there’s reds on the table you need to pot a red followed by (any) coloured ball (but the coloured balls all have different points - black = most, yellow = least). Once all the reds are gone, you have to pot the remaining balls in the correct (points order) order.
However, the interesting bit is that you can deliberately “hide” the balls behind each other to cause your opponent to miss the sequence and foul and hence win points (this is called a snooker). That’s what’s happened in the last shot - his opponent must hit the pink next.
Americans may also call pool - billiards, but for the rest of the world billiards is a totally different game, played with only 3 balls. I believe billiards is the oldest of these types of sports being played firstly in France in the 16th century. Snooker is played all over the world, and at the moment it is all the rage in China with many great professional players coming from there. Also popular in Australia. Canada has produced a few good campions over the years. So once again another world sport that the US doesn’t play.
I loved playing 3 ball billiards when I was in my mid 20s. It sort of leveled the field in skill so all my friends could play, even if they just whacked the white ball around the table they had a pretty good chance of getting some points of a cannon
Yes, the 3 balls billiard on a table without any pocket. Two white and a red ball. Use one white as cue ball. Hit the red and the other white. You can hit the red directly, but, the cue ball must bounce three times before hitting the second white.
While snooker is enjoyed in China, their top game is Chinese 8 ball. This is best described as a hybrid of snooker and 8 ball. Basically 8 ball played with snooker tables, snooker size balls and snooker cues.
Too difficult for them, I suppose. A man’s game, unlike eight ball or pool.
Proper billiards also has no pockets
It isn't totally suprising that snooker, a popular sport throughout the world, is notably less known in the US. America's most popular sports include American football, baseball, Nascar, and professional basketball. These are either unknown or less important anywhere outside the US. Meanwhile, outside the US, the sports with most fans are football, cricket, horse racing, and Formula 1. The US is always out of step with everywhere else.
I hate to throw stereotypes around, but it's possibly because America is *very* good at self promotion, patriotism and has a very insular view on the rest of the world. To be fair, all those American sports you mentioned are very entertaining in themselves, so I can understand why America doesn't need to look elsewhere. Thankfully with the internet age, I think America is catching on to the love of football (i.e. Soccer) above all.
I think it's because they can't have a world series that only includes america
But what's stopping Americans going online and reading and learing about other countries etc? I blame their education system, it must instill a degree of ignorance to the rest of the world. I'm not American, but I understand and know of other sports outside of my country. You know why? I read. I don't sit in front of the tv all day.😊
Add metric to the list 😉
As an American who’s played regular American pool games I was introduced to snooker about 1 1/2 yrs ago. I’ve been playing regularly every week since. It’s much more difficult to play and it will improve your game immensely. I love playing snooker. My favorite player is The Whirlwind Jimmy White. He was in one of those shots playing Kirk Stevens.
Was anyone else singing Chaz and Dave in their heads every time he said the colours 😂
The standard competition snooker table is 12ft long by 6ft wide
Where you were talking at 10.40 of your vid, it showed Ronnie O'Sullivan on his way to making a maximum break of 147. This is made by potting all 15 reds(1 point), followed by black balls (worth 7 points), then finishing off the six colours in order. 147 is a perfect game ,like a 300 in Bowling.
Check out Ronnie's 147 in 5 minutes, a world record that will never be broken!
When going for 147 you have to pot all the reds and pot the black in-between a red making it 15 times to start on the colour's.
the key is a 147 is way harder than a 300 though. Probably the hardest achievement deemed a "completion" of a sport in all sports.
Snooker is popular all over the world especially in China. To play you need to 'pot' a red then any other coloured ball and repeat. The reds stay off the table once potted but the other colours are returned to their 'spots' (starting position on the table). The other colours have different values (scores) to each other with the black being worth 7 points. When all the reds are gone, the 'colours' are potted in order of least valuable up to the black. The number 1 in your listing where the player missed the pink, he 'snookered' the cue ball behind the black as he didn't have enough points left on the table to win. So he needed penalty points from the other player to win if he potted the pink and black! (13 points).
Snooker players are crazy skilled, as you seen it's not just the potting but the overall amazing cue ball control, on a MAHUSIVE table.
You have to pot a red, then any of the "colours" (yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black - reds are not considered to be "colours" in this game), then another red, colour, red, colour, red, colour, alternating a red and a colour... until all the reds are potted.
Note that until all the reds are potted, any potted colours are taken from the pocket and placed back at their starting positions again. So, while there's still reds on the table, the colours act as like a higher-scoring "bonus ball", if you like. They don't stay potted but come back up. Reds, though, stay in the pocket.
Then, once all the reds are cleared from the table, you have to pot the colours in order: yellow (2 points), green (3 points), brown (4 points), blue (5 points), pink (6 points) and black (7 points). A red, by the way, is 1 point.
If you foul, then the other player gets a minimum of 4 points. Fouls are caused by not hitting the correct coloured ball in the sequence (or just not hitting any balls at all), or physically touching the balls (so watch that you nor your cue accidentally bumps into a ball as you're playing your shot).
This is where an element of strategy - and the game's name "snooker" - comes into play. To "snooker" your opponent is to leave the cue ball in such a position that they can't "see" the next ball in the sequence.
E.g. your opponent needs to hit a red, but you roll the cue ball right behind the black, so that they can't "see" any reds - no straight shot to any red and they'll have to bounce the cue ball around the table to try to hit a red indirectly). This means you've "snookered" your opponent.
And this strategic element of the game is actually very important. Positioning the cue ball is crucially important in Snooker, so that's why you'll see that these "best snooker shots" in the video feature excellent "position play", where they've almost magically gotten themselves out of a terrible "snooker" position - looking like a guaranteed foul - and ended up triumphant, avoiding the foul and with the perfect next shot.
Note that a foul is worth at least 4 points. So you can see that if you could keep "snookering" your opponent and forcing them to foul, that's as many points as potting 4 reds (or 1 red and a green following).
Indeed, playing Snooker myself, I look for a pot. And if there's nothing good for me on the table, I switch to defensive play - which is the worst place I could leave the cue ball for my opponent.
Because if I can make him screw up, then I get 4 points AND I'm back at the table for my next shot.
If Pool is compared to Checkers, then Snooker is Chess. It really does have a big strategic component and you've got to think ahead to your next shot (or, for professionals, they're thinking multiple shots ahead).
In fact, there was a thing where a bunch of British Snooker players went to the US to play the best Pool players in Pool... and the Snooker guys kicked their arses. The Snooker guys won, even though they were playing Pool, because Snooker just requires so much more strategy and positioning of the cue ball - the game demands it all the time - that they're "next level" even against the best Pool players in the world.
Snooker players are precisely positioning that cue ball EVERY SINGLE SHOT.
Basically, Snooker is like Pool... but turned up to 11.
My Mam used to watch Snooker for hours, on our black & white television!
_...and, for those of you still watching on Black and White TV, the brown is the one behind the blue_ heard sometime in the 1980's on BBC2's Pot Black (might have been a Jimmy White vs Hurricane Higgens nail-biting game - they could get super-tense)
My Nan too
Pot black
That last shot was literally an example of a snooker, and a good one.
The Alex Higgins shot which went in along the wood was absolutely deliberate. I met Alex Higgins at a 'trick -shot' event. He was the ultimate showman and he loved to play with the possibilities of what could be achieved, he had an arsenal of this sort of shot and would take it on tour with other players between the championships. It is a very popular sport in the UK, big crowds at the live events and lots of TV coverage.
Alex was a genius for trick shots!!!
Tyler, snooker is played in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and other ex-British African countries, India, China, .... and there are snooker tables in the US too!
And to explain the last shot: the player snookered his opponent behind the black to "snooker" his opponent. This is done when there is less points left on the table than required to beat their opponent.
The number 1 shot.
Look at the scores, Higgens is behind by too many points, potting the pink and black will still lose the frame.
The only way to win is to force an error from your opponent (foul)
This is called Snookering your opponent, when there is no clear shot to the next ball (pink)
This is INCREDIBLY hard to do with only two balls left, you need PERFECT positional play, and Alex Higgins absolutely _nailed_ it.
Opposite side of the table, tight in against the black and up against the corner pocket with no good angles to bounce the cue ball off to get the pink.
Just absolutely miraculous 5D snooker.
Snooker is played in Oklahoma, I went to bar a played a local in a bar and he was amazed that people around the world play the game as he thought it was only played in his state. I'm from the U K .
Did they say "snucker" ? 😩
Potting a ball is the relatively easy part. The hard part is positioning the cue ball for the next shot. Once all the reds are pocketed, then the colour balls have to be potted in sequence, which is why it's essential to get positioning on the cue ball to be able to do it. When a player can't pot a ball, they'll try and place the cue ball in a position where the opponent either can't hit or pot the ball in question, in order to cause them a foul in order to gain more points from it. 'Snookering', is when the cue ball in placed in a position where the next ball to be potted cannot be hit directly. In many instances, the cue ball has to be bounced off the cushions in order to achieve it. Which is what happened in the number 9 shot featured in the video. He has to hit the green, but the pink was obscuring the shot, so he had to bounce off the cushions in such a way in order to hit the green AND leave it in a relatively safe position, so that the opponent isn't able to have an easy shot where they'll pot the ball.
“This game seems more complicated”. YES YES YES! Testify brother.
The last shot demonstrated being "snookered" a term also used to denote putting someone in an almost impossible situation.
Just what we needed. Another American watching and commenting on a game he doesn't understand and hasn't researched
Players break open the triangle of reds, they alternate doing this each time, at the start of every "frame". You have to score more points than your opponent, until there just aren't enough available points left on the table for them to catch up. You have to pot a red first, then a colour and on like that, red, colour, red, colour... The colours all have their spots and go back on the table after potting, while the reds stay off the table after potting them.
Points go red-1 yellow-2 green-3 brown-4 blue-5 pink-6 black-7. Therefore the maximum continuous "break" (ie, like running out) available is 147 points, called a maximum or just "a one four seven".
Foul shots give away 4 points to your opponent as standard, unless the foul shot is played while going for a colour which has a value higher than 4 - a foul on a blue gives away 5, on a pink 6, on a black 7. As in pool, the white going in a pocket is one type of foul, and it gets placed back on the table in that D marking at the top of the table. If you miss the ball you're going for, that's of course also a foul.
Sometimes, near the end of a frame, one player is just behind in points by a few too many than there remain available points on the table. If it's not too many, the player will often start playing "snookers", trying to play clever positional shots without potting to try and trap or "snooker" their opponent behind a colour or bunch of colours so they don't get a direct shot at the reds left on the table. Playing fancy shots off multiple cushions to try and then hit a red escape snookers is quite common.
As for Alex Higgins, well, he was often very drunk and did play some outrageously brilliant deliberate shots in his time that you can find. But those ones that rattle the jaws of a corner pocket and jump up onto the rail can't be done deliberately, they're a rare fluke when blasting the ball at speed into the jaws. Those shots would drop if played more gently, so it happens when only just off line really. Oh, and one more rule is you can't deliberately jump the cueball over other balls like you can in pool. You have to find your way around the angles to get out of tight spots.
I had PE elective classes in Snooker which included much theory and a couple of trips to the local pool hall to play, here in Australia. Complete with smoking locals and pinball machines. Those were the days.
You MUST watch Ronnie the Rocket fastest 147 it will likely explain more of what the players are looking to do in each match. It's effectively a perfect game
Unlikely to ever be beaten
I'm decent at pool, but that doesn't matter on a snooker table. It is a ridiculously difficult game
I always say the same
Yeah, for example you can't cheat the pockets so easily as you can in pool. And shots down the cushions are ten times as hard.
I wouldn't necessarily call it a difficult game per se, it is more of a tactical game.
As whispering Ted Lowe said "For those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green"😀😃😄
Notice, number 8 had Chinese subtitles over the top. Number 1 was a great shot because he was behind on points and needed to make his opponent make a foul so he needed a 'snooker', he was not trying to pot a ball, his opponent had to hit the pink ball, not the black, the pink is worth 6 points which is the score if his opponent misses.
The first step in learning snooker is learning how to pronounce it, think snoopy to get it right.
Someone in the US impressed by how massive something is in another country. Oh how the _tables_ have turned!
Tyler has obviously not watched many old B&W American films that have old Pool Halls in them, the old pool tables are the same size as a Billiard / Snooker table. Quarter size tables are a modern invention so they can fit in bars, although at one time almost every London pub had a full size table and every bus garage / underground station at least one often two in the canteen.
Snoooooker. When I first saw a snooker table, it was like knocking marbles around a bowling Green.
Snooker pronounced 'Snoo-ka', is played by potting one of the Red balls, each with a value of 1 point, followed by a coloured ball, each time a colour ball is potted it's replaced on its spot (position) on the table or as near as possible if another ball is currently occupying or fouling the spot, this is done until all the Red balls are potted, then the colours are potted in order of value (the amount of points each ball is worth), Yellow 2 points, Green 3 points, Brown 4 points, Blue 5 points, Pink 6 points, and finally Black 7 points. If a player doesn't pot a ball the other player comes to the table, if you're unable to pot a particular ball you try to make it as hard as possible for your opponent to hit his object ball by positioning the cue ball in an awkward position usually its path blocked by other balls on the table. After the Red balls have been potted and only the coloured balls remain the balls are potted in order of value, if a player pots a ball out of sequence he receives a penalty of the value of the ball, say for instance that there is only the Pink and Black balls are left on the table, and the cue ball is tight (touching) behind the Black ball the player must strike the cue ball away from the Black in such a way to try to hit the Pink ball which is the next ball in colour order, if the player misses it that player gets a penalty of the value of the ball, the other player now has a choice they can let their opponent try again to hit the object ball after the cue ball has been put back in the position behind the Black where it was before it was struck by them, or the opponent can choose to play on from the position where the cue ball came to rest after the shot, if the player disturbs the Black ball either with his cue or the cue ball whilst playing the shot he will receive a penalty also.
I hope that this helps to explain the game a little.
Snooker is a European Billiards sport that focuses mainly on defensive plays rather than offensive. In other cue sports, Snooker is referred to a defensive shot where the cue ball is intentionally hidden from the opponent by another ball on the table. The actual game of Snooker is played by 1st pocketing a red and then alternating to pocket a colored ball and vis versa until there are no reds left on the table (keep in mind that between the alternation, the colored balls are re-spotted on their respective places on the table until there are no reds available to play). After all of the reds have been pocketed, the colored balls are pocketed in sequence from lowest to highest value (same as in 9ball). A key note to keep in mind is that the break off of each frame is a defensive break (trying to get the cue ball safe from the opponent). I hope that this clarifies some of the important details of the game.
There are You Tune episodes, which will explain the game to you. Also, where do you think you got billiards from? Billiards was a big game over in the old country, the way snooker is now, in the earlier 20th century. Even in billiards, the dress code was waistcoats, shirts, and trousers. It may shock you, but snooker is played worldwide.
18:10 his cute confused facial expressions are like your dog when you talk to them
You might also want look up how snooker tables (and probably also pool and billiards tables) are constructed - broadly speaking, a slab of (usually Welsh) slate, to give a consistently flat, smooth surface; this is then covered with baize (the green fabric - which has a "knap", which affects the way the balls roll; you may see the referee brush the baize, partly to remove lint, but also to restore the "knap"), and finished off with the wooden frame.
I would suggest that you watch one of the available on line rules to the game of snooker, one of the best these is "The Rules of Snooker - EXPLAINED!" it should then give you a better understanding of the game, you will then realise the game is not just about potting balls, it about a strategy of how to develop the table to your own advantage, to score heavily on each visit to the table where possible, this will in turn put the pressure on your opponent to try to respond in kind, the top players are thinking three or four shots in advance, (the closest equivalent is that of a run out in pool) to finish off the frame without reply, some of the best snooker frames are the ones where both players play a bout of safety, forcing their opponent to make a mistake or foul shot to take the advantage.
For most of these shots, you need to understand:
The sequence of shots ( red then any colour, then red... until all reds potted, followed by yellow, green, brown, blue, pink then black.
The scoring system, 1 for each red and each colour has it own value 2,3,4,5, 6 and 7.
Colours return to the table while there are still reds on the table.
You also need to see the current score, for the last shot, the score was Higgins 46 Fu 60, there were pink and black still on the table, if Higgins had potted both, he would lose because that would give him 6 for pin and 7 for black, so 13, for a total of 59, but Fu already has 60,
So Higgins needs Fu to Foul, Higgin's shot put the cue ball behind the Black and the Pink at the far end of the table, making a Snooker, meaning Fu was likely to Foul shoot, which would cost him 6 points, which would make the score 52, 60, allowing the possibility for Higgins to win by pocketing (potting) the last 2 balls.
In the number 1 vid, the player needed what’s called a snooker because they were behind on points therefore they need their opponent to make a foul before sinking the pink and black. For reference it’s red then a colour, the colours have different points, yellow =2, green =3 and so on. Ultimately it can be a very tactical game.
One thing you should appreciate, the cue ball (white) is the most important ball in that once a ball has been pocketed, where the white finishes up afterwards is important! Especially if you are trying to keep the break going and if you also are trying to score high. It is also important in making it as difficult as possible for your opponent by hiding the cue ball behind other colours (snookered). The last play, where the guy misses the pink and puts the white behind the black, is because his score is not enough, potting both pink and black would not be enough to win (total points would be less than his opponent) so by placing the white behind the black "snookers his opponent on the pink, which is the next ball required to play. If his opponent then misses the pink he will give away 6 points. The Pro Snooker table is 12 feet long and over 6feet wide plus the pockets are smaller than a pool table. When all the Red balls have been pocketed, the coloured balls must be pocketed in sequence.
Yellow(2) Green(3) Brown(4) Blue(5) Pink(6) Black(7). While there are still Red balls on the table, then the coloured balls come back onto the table, after they have been pocketed, to their original starting place.
Oh yes, the table is 12 feet by 6 feet and covered with green baize. It is huge. It is only played one way with very strict rules. The balls have numerical values. The red balls are one point. The black one is seven point, pink is six, and so on down to the red. Oh and never say snooker like hooker., or looker, Snooker is said more like Snoopy. with a long oo. Potting the ball means getting it into the pocker. And there are world championships so yes, it's played elsewhere. Have a look at the fastest 147 in history to see how to clear the balls in order. A safety shot is what you saw, to avoid a foul. The idea is to clear as many as possible whilst getting the most points. That is done by potting or pocketing, a red ball, which is not returned to the table. That entitles you to try to pot a colour, again for points, which is returned to the table. Then another red, and another colour, etc. until you miss or fail to pot one. Then your partner has their turn, until they miss. The colours can be hit in any order until no other bass remain on the table. Then they have to be hit in order. There are more rules but that's the basics. The final example was putting the cue ball safe. making it very hard for his opponent to hit the pink ball. I think you got that.
4:48 Snooker is played all over the world and the USA holds an annual championship, the current title holder's name is Daren Taylor, maybe you should check it out
billiards is played on the same size table but with only 3 balls - white/spotted white and red
I think when he says “American billiards” he means American pool. Billiards is a specific game but it’s also a general term for all cue/ball/pocket table sports.
@@ShrubScotland There is also a French game, billiards (also called Carom), uses similar table to snooker but with no pockets 2 cue balls and a red, and only 5ft by 10ft rather than 6ft by 12ft.
When my father was a young man he served his time as a National Serviceman in the RAF on a base that mainly was used as a training and transit point for airmen who were either travelling to another location for further training or simply being relocated. They also had several airmen who were waiting to leave the RAF having completed their service. My father however was assigned to the same base for most of his time and alongside another man it was their main responsibility to maintain all of the inside sports equipment and as a part of their duties every day they were responsible for brushing and cleaning any of the snooker equipment as needed. Between them they had at least four tables to take care of plus they had to test the tables were clean and in order which they did by playing a short frame of 3 games everyday which made them the most experienced players on the base . Because the rules on the camp prevented the players from betting’s on a game that they were playing my dad and his colleague would only play against unknown players because people who knew them knew that the permanent staff could outplay all comers, but because of the betting rules only the audience could bet on the games so many would organise into gambling groups and bet on the result in favour of dad or his buddy and at the end of the evening they would give the two of them a cut of the proceeds. Due to the high turnover of airmen passing through the base the abilities of the pair was not widely known and they were relatively well off for their skills. Incidentally my father did have a small advantage over most others, in the fact that his father and his father’s brother were both very skilled snooker and billiards players who at
various times were both regional champions and played in tournaments throughout Yorkshire and Lancashire.
The table is twice as long and twice as wide, so four times as big. And the pockets are smaller. You pot a red and then you are allowed to pot a colour. Then another red and colour and so on until you miss or commit a foul, then the other player starts with a red etc. When all the reds are potted you pot the colours in order so the maximum score (without fouls) is for one player to pot all fifteen reds (15) each followed by the black (15x7 = 105) and then all the colours (2+3+4+5+6+7 = 27) for a total of 147, known as the maximum break.
About the No. 1 shot: he wasn't trying to pot the pink because there were not enough points on the table to win. He had to make his opponent foul by 'snookering' him behind the black. If his opponent then failed to hit the pink ball, he would get 6 extra points.
10 The cue ball was played with so much side to break up the red balls to make them playable without getting in eachother's way.
9 He was required to hit the Green ball next, so even though he didn't pot the Green, the fact he hit it means he wasn't penalised for being Snookered (unable to play the shot without fouling the shot).
8 This shot would be called a 4 ball plant. In Snooker you must pot a Red ball, then a coloured ball before returning to a Red ball worth 1 point, the coloured balls have increasing points values, 2 for Yellow, 3 for Green, 4 for Brown, 5 for Blue, 6 for Pink and 7 for Black. Once all the Red balls (and the coloured ball of your choice following the Red ball) are potted, you must pot the coloured balls sequentially in point value order finishing with the Black. If you fail to pot a ball, your opponent gets a turn. The Maximum Break (perfect score) is 144. Ronnie O'Sullivan holds the record for the fastest Maximum Break (you should react to that video on CZcams).
7 It is important to play the cue ball in a way to set up the following shot. Prize money for Snooker tournaments is very good.
3 he was probably setting up the Brown or Blue for the next shot.
2 100% intentional. It's the Jaw of the pocket.
1 He was Snookering his opponent, if his opponent fouls the shot he gains 2 points, if you notice the score there are not enough points on the table for him to win without his opponent fouling.
I remember watching Snooker on Aussie TV way back in the early 1970’s and being fascinated by it. Eddie Charlton was the most successful snooker player ever to come out of Australia. He was ranked number three in the world for five consecutive seasons from 1976/77. It requires a lot more skill and complexity than other table games.
Snooker is pronounced like snooper, except obviously with a k sound where the p is, and yes the table is big. Competitions are on full size tables that are 12 foot by 6 foot and are the best of anything up to 35 frames.
That number 1 shot is clever because the ball in play is the pink ball. Potting the pink is worth 6 points and if followed by the black, worth 7 points, would earn John Higgins 13 points. But that would only take his score to 59 and would allow Marco Fu to win this frame. So instead of potting the pink he leaves it right up against one cushion and the cue ball at the other end of the table and blocked by the black ball from a straight path to the pink. Denying a clear path to a required ball is called “a snooker” or “snookering” your opponent, and is done to try to force the opponent into a foul and conceding 4 or more pen points (6 in this case because the pink is normally worth 6 point). So when one player has a scoreboard lead that is greater than the points value of all the remaining balls on the table it’s very common for the trailing player to deliberately try to snooker their opponent both to get points from any fouls committed and to capitalise from any mistakes his opponent makes. If successful it can make the frame winnable again, though if the player falls too far behind they’ll tend eventually to concede and just move on to the next frame.
If you want to get a good understanding of the order in which the balls must be potted the quickest way is to watch Ronnie O’Sullivan’s world record speed maximum break, which is the term given for a perfect frame in which one player scores the mathematical maximum of 147 points in a single visit to the table, not including any points from fouls. There’s a number of videos of it on CZcams. I like this one because it mentions how young Ronnie O’Sullivan was at the time and that it was his first maximum break in competition, something that he’s done several times since and that some players never achieve. czcams.com/video/JPZScVVHZ84/video.htmlsi=TWRGpM67PuTBa2FS
When you get to the end of a snooker game normally one player has accumulated more points than the other. So in order for the player who is down on points to catch up and win they need to force the player in the lead to make fouls by potting the white ball in a pocket or by missing the target ball entirely.
Shot number 1 was really good because he hid the white behind the black because he has to hit the pink in that situation. If his opponent missed the pink or hit the black it would earn him points.
In order to accumulate points you have to pot a red which is worth 1 and then nominate a colour then pot another red and then nominate another colour until there are no reds left on the table. Then you pot the remaining colours in order. That's how you win.
Sometimes a player can make a mistake where the white finishes in a position from which he can't pot a red or colour so he has to leave the white in a 'safe' position so that he doesn't give his opponent the chance to score points. It can get very tactical sometimes like a chess game.
Dude, in snooker you have to put a red in then a colored ball in , the colored ball gets returned to it's place because you have to put all the reds in first .
THEN you can put the colored balls in but in a particular order with the black going in last .
Easy rules !
Yes the snooker table is freakin huge !
7:53 - SNOOKER is the ancestor of Billiards and Pool.
In snooker, tt's not always possible to pot a ball every time a player visits the table. If this is the case, the player can choose to play to 'snooker' their opponent. To 'snooker' someone is to make it as difficult as possible for their opponent to play a legal shot. If the opponent plays an illegal shot, points are awarded to the player who caused the 'snooker'.
REMEMBER THIS... In all table games like snooker, billiards and pool, anyone can 'pot' a ball. However, it's usually the player who 'controls' the cue ball the best who wins. Striking the cue ball above centre will cause it to roll forward after striking the 'object' ball. Above centre and slightly to the right will cause the cue ball to travel to the right after striking the object ball. If the cue ball is struck below centre, the cue ball will backspin towards the player after it strikes the 'object' ball. This backspin is also called 'screwback',a nd in America this is known as putting 'English' on the ball. I don't know why.
For those that want to see beyond the speculation, the snooker video starts at 5:30. BTW - "American Billiards" is actually Pool, or "pocket Billiards", while Billiards has no pockets and 3 balls. In the UK, Snooker is played in a Billiard Hall. Billiards came first & the name stuck, but the Game most often played in them was of course snooker. Oh, and Snooker pockets are smaller than those on a pool table.
The whole of the UK must have been wincing when you called pool billiards, which is an even more complicated and very different table game
Snooker is played around the world, serious compettitions. Candian, Chinese, Maltese, English, Scots, Weslh, etc etc etc. Whereas Pool, or "billiards" as you've mentioned is still played. For the most part it's a pub game. There are more serious competitions too, but for those that have played Pool a lot, the graduation on to Snooker was a natural progression. A 12 feet table can be very daunting the first time you play it. But, I'm quite proud of the fact that I have a 68 point break to my record, lol.
Snooker tables are almost double the size of Pool tables, but also the pockets are much smaller. To build up a score, a red (1 point) has to be potted, followed by a colour, when the reds are all potted, then the colours are potted in order, Yellow (2 points) Green (3) Brown (4) Blue (5) Pink (6) Black (7). So when a red is potted, followed by a black the player scores 8 points, then plays for another red and so on.
Tyler, you're watching the greatest snooker players ever to grace this earth. Many have been world champion or runner up, so they are hugely talented. They understand the physics and dynamics involved. Luck may play a part but mostly it's down to skill after hours, weeks and years of practice.
Tyler, in snooker you score 1 point for a red, 2 for a yellow, 3 green, 4 brown, 5 blue, 6 pink and 7 for a black potted. In the best shot the player is 14 points behind...the score is on the bottom of the screen and only 13 points left on the table. As such he has to make his opponent make a foul which will give him more points so he has hidden the white behind the black ball so it's more difficult to hit the black. If he does miss the black he will give 7 points away to his opponent so he can then score enough points to win. If he misses the black he will give away 7 points, if he misses and then hits the pink he will give away only 6 points. If a player pots 15 reds followed by 15 blacks in a row then all the other colours in order that is called a maximum break and gets you 147 points, but only 1 frame which is where all the balls are potted. The World Championship final 35 frames are played so first to 18 wins.
1 Cue Ball
15 red balls, valued at 1 point each
1 yellow ball, 2 points
1 green ball, 3 points
1 brown ball, 4 points
1 blue ball, 5 points
1 pink ball , 6 points and
1 black ball, 7points
Objective is to try and achieve a maximum break of 147 by potting 1 Red Ball followed by One Black Ball until all the Reds have been potted. That would give you a score of 120. (Please note that the Black Ball is returned to its spot on the Table once it’s been potted). You then need to Pot the Colors in sequence from the lowest points value to the highest which is Yellow, Green, Brown, Blue, Pink and then Black. Total available points for all the colored Balls is 27 so after successfully potting all the colors without your opponent achieving any points your Max Score would be 147.
If you pot a Red Ball and the cue ball finishes in a position on the table where the Black Ball cannot be potted you can then go for any other colored Ball on the Table, so for example, you pot a Red, 1 Point, Blue, 5 points, Red 1 point, Pink 6 Points then you miss a Red, your total for that break would be 13 and your opponent then has the Table. Again, remember, Each time a color is potted it comes back one the table until all the Reds have been potted.
It’s easy 😂😂😂😂😂
sn-oo-ker, you dont say snuupy the dog from peanuts, its snoopy, so is snooker.
Easiest way to understand snooker: the balls played in red, colour, red, colour, red, colour..... order. The ideal order is red, black, red, black until no more red remain and then the remaining colours replace the red balls in point ascending order. So once the last red is potted you pot one more colour of choice then it's yellow, colour, green, colour, brown,..., blue,... pink,... then black. Points wise red is worth 1 point and black is worth 7. If you get a perfect game you'll score a maximum break of 147 points which usually has a cash bonus attached.
Hope this helps
The last shot was so good because there were not enough points left on the table for Higgins to win the game so he played the pink, which was the ball in play to hide the cue ball behind the black which is called a snooker, his opponent has to then hit the pink, if he misses it Higgins gets penalty points which would allow him to win the game by pocketing (potting) the pink then black. Hope that helps your understanding.
In the last shot the guy was14 points behind with only 13 points on the table. So he played off the pink to finish in a 'snooker' behind the black ball. His opponent has to hit the pink ball from there, if he misses he gives away 6 points, if he hits the black he gives away 7 points, and there will still be 13 points left on the table. Brilliant shot!
These professional snooker players are so good; the best can wrork these shots out, but you still have to have the 'balls' to try them in a prestige tournament.
Number 9 where he was close to the pink and hitting away from it, he was trying to hit the green ball without touching any other ball which would have been a foul. His attempt was successful and very clever.
Number 7 sinking the black was easy but he then had to sink a red. He made the cue ball separate the red and the pink so he could sink the red then come back to the black to continue his break.
Number 3, after sinking the red ball, the black and the pink were covered by other red balls so he had to bring the cue ball back down the table to be able to hit one of the other colours.
Number 2. Stephen Hendry is one of the greatest snooker players ever, and using the corner of the side pocket to bring the cue ball back to play the black is well within his capabilities and deliberate.
Number 1. John Higgins was on 46, Marco Fu was on 60. That's a difference of 14 points and the pink and black together add up to 13 points. Higgins wanted to snooker Fu, tuck the cue ball behind the black to make it difficult for Fu to hit the pink. If Fu missed the pink it would be a foul costing him 6 points and Higgins would then be able to win the match by potting the pink and black. It was a brilliant shot by Higgins.
21:38 - SNOOKER TABLE SIZE
The full-size, tournament-spec table is 12ft in length, and just over 6ft wide. If a ball is slightly out of reach, a player can use one of two specially designed 'aids'.A 'spider' and a 'rest'. These are like cue sticks of extended length but instead of 'tips' on the end, they each have a metal fixture.
A 'rest' is shaped like an 'X', whereas the 'spider' is like a mini cantilevered 'bridge' that enables a player to 'reach over' an obstacle.
Snooker is PRIMARILY a British game, but it's also played in tournaments all over the world (mainly in former British colonies, Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and several other nations).
7:20 in the final phase (after all the reds have been played) you must hit the balls in COLOR ORDER, otherwise if you hit the wrong color first it's a foul. So he was snookered from reaching the green by the pink, so had to make that hit on the green to avoid a foul or a miss (of both). You REALLY need to watch a full game or two to understand the basic rules.
Not only is the table much bigger than a pool table, but the pockets are much smaller as well. Nice video!
I remember a video I saw a long time ago showing people doing trick shots known as Masse. One was called a Triangle Masse where he made the cue ball do a very sharp triangle curve around several balls to hit the ball he needed to hit. ANother was called the Grand Masse (dunno the full name I just remember Grand and Masse) where he did a large curve shot around several balls down the length of the table.
Billiards is a game played on a full sized table as snooker is. Billiards is played with three balls, one red and two white with one of the white balls having a black spot. Billiards , snooker and pool are completely different from each other except that they are played by hitting the balls with cues. Pool is played on smaller tables than a billiards table.
Simple rules: Each player has to pot a red ball whenever they start their break (turn). Each time they pot a red, they then get to pot a colour. That coloured ball is worth a set number of points (red = 1, yellow = 2, green = 3, brown = 4, blue = 5, pink = 6 and black =7). If they pot the colour, the ball is returned to its starting position and the player continues his break by trying to pot a red ball. Once all the reds have been potted, they then get to pot the colours in ascending order of value. Failing to hit the right ball is a foul (4 pts), unless the value is greater than 4, in which case the value of the ball attempted (or hit) is awarded to the other player. Sinking the white ball is also a foul.
If there are not enough points on the table, a player will attempt to force a foul by the other player, called a "snooker". That #1 shot was such a snooker where he was trying to force his opponent to miss the shot, giving up either 5 or 6 points.
Oh and they have to look so smart because of the dress code - they used to have to avoid advertising and have just plain clothing, but they changed that some years back.
Those tables are 12 x 6 foot long at match level. Those players are also pros - they spend hours each day practicing...
Oh and it's "snoooker" btw... not "snucker". ;)
Snooker tables are 12’ x 6’.
The premise is to pot in sequence, reds first. After each red you can pot a colour, which then get placed back in their initial spots.
Colours then have to be done in order and have points: 2 yellow, 3 green, 4 brown, 5 blue, 6 pink then 7 black.
The max number of points can therefore be 147: red, black, red, black,…, red, black, yellow, green,…
You can deliberately “snooker” someone by blocking them from hitting the ball required by the sequence.
Gday Tyler,
Just some basic info for you about Billiards.
All ball games that use a Cue to strike the cue ball on a billiards table with or without pockets are known as Billiards games.
You have, English Pocket Billiards with 3 x 2 1/16 inch balls, 2 cue balls and a red ball, today the cue balls are a white and a yellow ball, but before colour TV the cue balls were a plain white and a white with 2 black spots on it, so each player knew which was their cue ball, the idea of that game is to score points by potting your cue ball off the red or opponents cue ball, known as an, In Off, potting the red or your opponents cue ball or by making cannons, this is where the cue ball strikes the red and your opponents cue ball in the same shot.
Carom Billiards is played in Europe and the Americas, on a 10 x 5 foot table with no pockets and 2 1/4 inch balls, and scoring points is done by making cannons, which means your cue ball must hit the 2 object balls, the red and your opponents cue ball, which is a spotted white or a yellow ball.
Snooker is played on a full size english billiards table with a playing surface of 12 x 6 feet with 2 1/16 inch balls and pockets that are not quite 3 1/2 inches wide.
American pocket billiards/ 8 Ball, 9 Ball Pool is played on a 7 x 3 ft 6 inch or a 9 x 4 ft 6 inch table with 2 & 1/4 inch balls and pockets that are 4 inches wide.
English pocket billiards has been played for over 300 years and is possibly one of the oldest billiards games , the Snooker game was created in India by a british army officer, in 1875 and became popular around the world after WW1, the term Snooker is actually slang for a first year army recruit from England sent to India. So when a player hid the cue ball behind a coloured ball stopping his opponent from having a direct shot at a ball thats On, the reds, the opponent called the other player a Snooker as an insult and thats how the name of the new billiards game came to be called Snooker.
All billiards games are about one main thing, controlling the Cue Ball.
Anyway good on ya for being interested, there is plenty of snooker to watch on Utube , so you should soon understand the rules, terminology and game play of Snooker, the most precision ball game in the world today.
Hope this helps to clear up the muddy waters for you.
Cheers mate,
Steve from Aussie
Pot a red, pot a colour. Pot a red, pot a colour. Reds are removed after potting, colours are returned until you run out of red balls and need to pot the colours in order to finish the game.Reds are worth one point, colours are worth 2-7 points in order. The order is yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, black. Reds are worth one point, colours are worth 2-7 points in order. A maximum "break", potting 15 reds, 15 blacks then the colours in order is 147 points, known as a "one-four-seven".
A snooker, as in the name of the game, is when you block a player from a direct legal shot, forcing them to often play bizarre shots. Failing to make a legal shot awards 4 points to the opponent. If you foul from a snooker, you can be made to retake it, over and over and over again. Putting your opponent into difficult situations is the name of the game.
Much of the rest of the game can be derived from pool.
The number 1 shot saw Higgins down 14 points with just the pink and black left, which make 13 points. So he manufactured a borderline perfect snooker in one of the hardest scenarios with the least options available.
The UK also plays pool and tables are in many pubs. However, we play with 7 yellows and 7 reds instead of spots and stripes. Rules are similar, but not the same, the table is quite a bit smaller than both US pool tables and snooker tables, and played with the same smaller snooker balls.
In Snooker you have to pot a red first followed by a colour of your choice. In some of these shots they pot the colour and set themselves up for there next shot on a red.
If you can't directly hit the ball you want to play, you are snookered. Players can try and snooker there opponent on purpose but sometimes it happens by accident. In this situation the player will try and hit the target ball by hitting the cue ball off any number of cushions ( the sides of the table) to hit the ball.
A typical bar pool table is 6’ x 3’, a full size snooker table is 12’ x 6’, the pockets are smaller and cut with rounded corners which don’t accept the balls as easily if your object ball hits them.
I’ve played both games for over 40 years, I enjoy both, and my best comparative analogy is that pool is as to checkers (draughts in the UK) as snooker is too chess. There’s far more to think about in a frame of snooker, and you have to be more accurate.
That's why most people in America only play 'Checkers and Pool'! As you said, they are both a thinking person's past-time hence rarely found in the US!
I must admit, I have played Billiards, Snooker and Pool for well over 45 years myself and have enjoyed playing all 3 games, however I found the most challenging game to be Billiards, especially when played on a 'Full Sized Billiards Table' i.e. one that is 12' x 6' as it then becomes far more challenging to pull off the Cannons, Pots or In Offs that are required in order to score points! I have also played Bar Billiards too however this time is a far more challenging game due to it being played on a far shorter and overall smaller table placed up against a wall in general and so requires far less room in order for you to be able to play it, however it has its bars which look like mushrooms that are placed on spots directly behind the holes and the aim is to pot your balls without knocking over any of the bars (mushrooms) thus it becomes an extremely challenging game! Do you have the game 'Bar Billiards' in The USA?
The hardest of all the variants however, is called Bar Billiards and this game is seriously challenging and immensely frustrating too for the short amount of time i actually spent playing it compared to the many years it truly takes to become a master at this game! In reality, I didn't do that badly at it however it was extremely frustrating seeing as it was truly that very different! It is a particular challenge to work out the rules even lol!
Very simply, snooker starts with 15 red balls in a triangle (like the start of a pool game) and the six colours on designated spots. The value of the colours is yellow 2, green 3, brown 4, blue 5, pink 6 and black 7. A red ball is worth 1 point. The idea is to sink a red ball, followed by a coloured ball then a red ball and a coloured ball and so on. The red balls stay off the table when potted but the coloured balls are replaced on their spots. When all the red balls have been potted, the colours are then potted in their order of value and stay off the table at this time. The highest possible score without an error by your opponent is 147 - 15 red balls with 15 black balls then all the colours in order. Ronnie O'Sullivan has done this fifteen times in competition.
Look up Ronnie O'Sullivan 147 on CZcams and watch how he plays it.
7:05 - SHOT NO.9 - After all the reds balls have been cleared from the table, the coloured balls have to be 'potted' in the following sequence.Yellow, Green, Brown, Blue, Pink, and finally Black. From the beginning of shot no.9, the player is attempting to 'pot' (pocket) the green ball. However, it's plain to see that the player is 'snookered' behind the pink, therefore he doesn't have a direct line from the cue ball to the green ball. So, he played a shot across the table, hit the cushion, rebounded and go towards the opposite pocket. The cue ball then 'rattles' in the jaws of the pocket and hits the green ball, making this a legal shot. If he had missed, his opponent would have been awarded points. The amazing thing about the shot is, any slight deviation of the cue ball would have resulted in the player not hitting the green ball.
Basically you pot a red followed by any colour. The colours are then replaced after potting. Then you repeat red to colour until all reds are potted or until u dont pot a ball. Then once all reds are cleared you pot the colour in order of their point value, yellow to grren to brown to blue to pink to black. Also not only are the tables far bigger but the pockets are much smaller than pool tables pockets. These fellas make the exceptionally difficult look routine. Great watch
Woah, I had no idea snooker wasn't a thing in America. I learned something new today! 😂
Allow me to explain what happened with that last shot.
The two balls left on the table were pink and black, that would leave 6 points(pink) plus 7 points (black) equals 13 points total, on the table. Now if he were trailing his opponent by more than 13 points then, even if he potted both pink and black balls, he would still loose the frame.
So what he did is called a "snooker". A snooker is, like you saw, placing the cue ball in a position that would make it difficult for the opponent to hit the next ball in the hope that the opponent would foul. Pink comes before black, so the opponent has to hit the pink ball before hitting any other balls on the table otherwise it is a foul that would earn the other player 6 points (error on the pink) or 7 points (error on the black), if his opponent missed pink and hit black first. That would thus reduce the points margin and the player who executed the snooker, would then stand a very good chance of then finishing and winning the frame with his next turn.
Basically, you pot a red then followed by colour. Every colour has a different value of points(yellow 2pts green 30pts brown 4pts blue 5pts pink 6pts black 7pts) and every red is one point. The objective is score based. The colours always get re spotted on their own spots after being potted unless theres no more reds on the table. The highest break is known as a 147. Which is 15 reds 15 blacks, followed by all the remaining 6 colours in their order lowest to highest. The cue ball is the most essential aspect of the game for both break building and safety play to make the table difficult for your opponent. Its pretty simple after you watch a frame or 2. There's alot to explain from the amount of questions you had within the video, but, in short form hope that makes more sense.
I think you did a great effort of deduction, working out the rules. It’s a slightly complicated game, but satisfying when you get it. It got a lot more popular in the uk when colour tvs were introduced, and it’s a really popular spectator sport to this day.
I hope any WPBSA executives watch this. They think changing snooker to being scruffy old polo shirts and jeans and selling the world championships (and no doubt eventually others) off to Saudi oil sheikhs or China is somehow "the way forward" for improving snooker...ie, for them to make a huge amount of money before they disappear off and leave the sport adrift or to more or less eventually become a Chinese sport. I sure won't want to fly all the way to China just to go see a match, even if it is the World Champs.
Tyler catches on or deduces things well watching these snooker shots out of context. :) #7 was especially impressive because it was a maximum break in progress. Freeing that red from the pink was essential for O'Sullivan to be able to make that 147 break.
Recommend ronnie o Sullivan 147 snooker player. Also the 1985 world final is amazing
The green touch #9 was amazing. If you just touch, you avoid foul. And that was a bloody impossible setup.
Tyler, the number one shot is good because he intentionally put the cue (white) ball right behind the black making it virtually impossible for his opponent to hit the pink ball. This is called a "Snooker". The coloured balls need to be potted in order - yellow green brown blue pink and then black.
Never heard of American Billiards before, but technically all cue sports are Billiards.
To my Australian knowledge, Americans mostly play Pool, on a small table ( only 6' by 3' ) with huge pockets i call buckets.
They have 9 ball, 8 ball , straight pool etc.
Europeans mostly play Billiards of varying forms that mostly use just 2 white cue balls and a single red ball.
The English and Commonwealth countries play Snooker and English Billiards on a full size table that is 4 times the size of an American pool table, being 12' by 6', and with small , tight pockets that require supreme accuracy or a lot of good luck .
If you want to beat a good Snooker or English Billiards player , then you have to make big breaks and keep them off the table .
A good Billiards player might rack up a 1,000 points break.
A good Snooker player only needs about 80 points to guarantee a win.
15 reds at just 1 point each .
Yellow at 2 points.
Green at 3
Brown at 4.
Blue at 5
Pink at 6
Black at 7 points.
This gives you 42 points in individual ball points, but the maximum BREAK is 147 points.
If you pot the black after every red , then you score 1 for the red and 7 for the black x 15 times = 120 points.
Then 2 for the yellow, 3 for green, 4,5,6 and finally 7 for the final black, an extra 27 points.
120 + 27 points = 147.
To be a professional Snooker player you must be able to score breaks of 100 + almost every other game, or you will never win any competition.
And even the worst thugs must dress like a gentleman or be refused entry.
All the professional players have scored the max 147 many times, but mostly in practice ......very difficult in the pressure of a championship game.
Control of the white ( cue ) ball is essential , but America turned away from Snooker because they couldnt pot the balls in such tight pockets.
Was easier to play pool on midget tables with giant buckets for pockets.
Shot 9, he played a snooker, as he didn't pot the ball, the other player had to then play, play a red ball. As the one who'd taken that shot, he was far behind without enough points left on the table. So he played that shot. The next visit to the table, his opposition had to play a red ball from an impossible position. If he misses, he forfeits four points. If that happens, he can be made to take the shot, again and again, until he gets the red. Everytime he misses, he forfeits another four points. A way of catching up and narrowing the points gap in a frame without having to pcoket a ball. These guys are so good though, it wouldn't happen too many times.
To simplify 15 reds are racked at the start then broken as in 8 ball. Also on the table are 6 other coloured balls. Pot a red then pot a coloured, the coloured returns to its place on the table and does so every time it is potted after a red. You can pot any colour following a red. Once you run out of reds then the coloured are potted in order, yellow green, brown, blue, pink, black. The final shot he was behind on points so needed to make the opponent miss the pink ball by hiding the cue ball behind the black ball and hopefully scoring extra points from the miss.
Look up Jimmy Whites best shots (for example czcams.com/video/L0-kEfTjRWM/video.html) and Alex Higgin's best two shots (czcams.com/video/48te8QMXbSs/video.html).
if you get to Canada we have both style here you will enjoy the challenge of the larger table .Its red then colour then red and colour and once all the reds are gone you sink the remaining colours in order . They have different points for each colour .Black is worth 7 points so if you sink a red ball all are worth 1 point and then the black ball you would get 8 points . if you next sink any red ball and the blue ball you would get 6 points . after a red is sunk you shoot a colour ball and after the colour ball is put back on the table in its designated spot .the blue would be put on its spot in the middle of the table then you would shoot another red of your choice then any colour including the blue if you choose. Its yellow 2 green 3 brown 4 blue 5 pink 6 and black 7. you call your shots before you shoot so if it does not go where you said you scratch and the other player takes over and calls his shot. hope this helps a little
With the last shot, the pink has to be the next ball played by either player. John Higgins is 14 points behind Marco Fu, and the pink ball is worth 6 points and the black ball is worth 7 points, so there aren't enough points available for him to win by just potting the balls. Therefore, he has to force Fu to foul, earning foul points and giving enough points to win the frame. The best way to do this is to play it as tight as possible behind the black in this scenario so that Fu has no direct shot.
If he potted the pink ball, there would be no way for him to "snooker" Fu (the process of preventing your opponent having a straight shot at any legal ball) because there would only be 1 ball left on the table, and so he would have lost.
If you understand 9-ball, then it's not that mad. Red balls are worth 1 point, and each time you pot a red, you then have to try to pot a colour (anything other than red) for bonus points. Whatever colour you pot, gets put back onto the table after the shot, but the red you potted stays off the table. If you fail to pot a red, or a bonus after a red, your turn at the table ends. You continue like this, red ball, colour ball, red ball, colour ball, etc, until no reds are left on the table. Then the coloured balls need to be potted in value order yellow=2, green=3, brown=4, blue=5, pink=6, black=7. After a red (1) you don't have to go for yellow (2), you can go for any of the balls worth 2-7. But any 'bonus' balls will go back onto the table after you pot them.
Most of the best skill in snooker boils down to this; if you don't think you can pot the ball, make sure you opponent can't even hit the ball. If your opponent doesn't have a clear view of the ball they want to hit, that's a snooker. A key part of the game is making it very difficult for your opponent, and putting the ball somewhere they'd be "snookered".
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