Back to Back 147 runs, and in a qualifying tournament!
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Naw, I think this first ever of its kind event deserves its own thread....Never mind, I see that Bob Jewett beat me to it in another thread.
The matches in the current World Snooker Championship qualifiers are "the best of 19" or a race to 10. The best you can do in each frame is to make (pot) all 15 reds following each one with a black, followed by clearing the "colors" (non-red balls). The first perfect game didn't happen until 80 years after snooker was invented.
Jackson Page (from Wales, 23 years old) just had two 147s in a single match. This has never happened before. He gets a bonus of 147,000 British pounds, which is about $200,000 for two. The bonus was offered for two 147s in the same "triple crown" event, and he did it in the same match. I think he is also in line for the high run (break) prize for the Championships.
Amazingly, those are the first two 147s Page has had in competition.
Page is not yet qualified for the final 32. He has to win one more qualifier match.
Here are the two 147s. They are both under 8 minutes.
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We'll see that about the same time they get an orange five ball.So who runs the first 3 pack?
That’s a very fair and accurate statement. Hope you are doing well BobWe'll see that about the same time they get an orange five ball.
Totally crazy stuff from young Jackson from Wales. He also looked cool under pressure. Not often you have a chance to make a few balls for 6-figs. I hope this builds his confidence instead of having a stomach full with a really nice payday already.
My friend has made a bnr in snooker, totally misshit the break, made a lucky red and made a total clearance.
My friend has made a bnr in snooker, totally misshit the break, made a lucky red and made a total clearance.
Absolutely carzy!
He has been averaging about 100,000 pounds a year ($130k) so he has had to deal with significant income for a 23-year-old. He is currently ranked 35th on the tour, but I think the bonus doesn't count towards that. (The snooker rankings are like the WNT -- simply prize money won in ranking events.)
72 consecutive pots. Bet I could do that. 'Bout time the snooker guys figured out they've been hoodwinked.
Show me a full minimum and we'll talk.
Show me a full minimum and we'll talk.
And he is behind Joe O'Connor 4-5 after the first half of their match (to 10), which finishes in about two hours.
If 9-ball took 36 consecutive pots per rack it might be as popular as snooker.
down 9-5 now.. maybe had a few beers to celebrate the $200k..
Is it just me, or this wasn't really "back to back" 147s as the thread title suggests? From the videos that Bob Jewett posted the first maximum came when the score was 6-1, and the second came at 9-2. So they are in the same match, but definitely not consecutive. Still impressive as hell.
he's out. but, as i wrote in the other thread, i'm certain joe o'connor will win a triple crown event in the near future. cushy loss for jackson though, winning more $$ than a semifinalist
Yeah, but I think close enough. Even in consecutive matches might rate b2b.
The problem for anyone is that there are so many good players you have to fight through to play a Trump or a Wilson or a Higgins in the final.
i'm talking trajectory, he's not ripe yet. seeing a lot of grit and determination in joe, it shows that he's practicing with selby
Flakeandrun
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That last black before cleaning the spots is sensational.