how 155
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Wity
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Jimmy White showing how to make a 155. Obviously a set up, but still fun none the less.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhGGfB2-vG0
Another practice 155, the position of the balls are less contrived.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6wFhO2ZXP0
Set up or not, you still have to pot the balls and stay the black. Beyond my capabilities for sure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhGGfB2-vG0
Another practice 155, the position of the balls are less contrived.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6wFhO2ZXP0
Set up or not, you still have to pot the balls and stay the black. Beyond my capabilities for sure.
An "absolute" break (of 155) has never happened officially and is only possible with a 'free ball' leading to black before a 147.
Wity
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I think i've read somewhere it's been done more than once actually, without being setup and witnessed but never in a major competition and certainly never filmed.
Remind me someone and i'll take my camera with me when i play next on monday.
Yeah sure ! in my dreams
I'll need a Brandy, and a sit down if i get past 50.
Remind me someone and i'll take my camera with me when i play next on monday.
Yeah sure ! in my dreams
I'll need a Brandy, and a sit down if i get past 50.Jamie Cope managed a legitimate one in a practice frame. I don't know if he was playing someone else or if it was solo practice though.
still confused
Great link but is the term break not relevant to fist turn at the table? Not
one to argue semantics,but this break after a foul confuses me.{not that
hard to do!} Thanks
Great link but is the term break not relevant to fist turn at the table? Not
one to argue semantics,but this break after a foul confuses me.{not that
hard to do!} Thanks
Wity
Banned
I think i understand your confusion, lets see if i can clarify it.
During the normal run of play player 1 goes for a red and first hits say the blue, the ref will call a foul and award 5 points to player 2. The five points are put on the scoreboard before player 2 takes his turn in which he makes a break of say 30. He has 35 points from one visit to the table but his break is 30.
Now if in hitting the blue and leaving player 2 snookered on all the reds it's a foul but no points are awarded, the ref will call "foul and a free ball" Player two can then nominate any colour which will count as a red. So he then lets say pots the blue, it's respotted, and the ref calls the score as 1 Player two has left himself on the black, pots it, ref announces the score as 8 and he then continues his break with a further 147 possible.
He's actually then potted balls for a 155 maximum break.
Penny dropped?
During the normal run of play player 1 goes for a red and first hits say the blue, the ref will call a foul and award 5 points to player 2. The five points are put on the scoreboard before player 2 takes his turn in which he makes a break of say 30. He has 35 points from one visit to the table but his break is 30.
Now if in hitting the blue and leaving player 2 snookered on all the reds it's a foul but no points are awarded, the ref will call "foul and a free ball" Player two can then nominate any colour which will count as a red. So he then lets say pots the blue, it's respotted, and the ref calls the score as 1 Player two has left himself on the black, pots it, ref announces the score as 8 and he then continues his break with a further 147 possible.
He's actually then potted balls for a 155 maximum break.
Penny dropped?
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Most of the people who play snooker use bizarre terms or misuse words to confuse and cheat pool players. When they say "break" what they mean to say is "run."
I recall a chapter in a British snooker instructional book entitled "Stun, Stab and Screw," and this had nothing to do with UK dating rituals.
English English is not English.
Wity
Banned
ROFLMAO. Spoken as only a yank could.
Fact is if it's possible to be bastardised, misused, misspelled, or whatever theres always a colonial cousin first in the queue to do it.
Pool is a brilliant example. Is it a kind of billiards or do you go for a 'run' along a 'bank' besides a 'pool', next to the 'rails' of a train 'shooting' balls?
Fact is if it's possible to be bastardised, misused, misspelled, or whatever theres always a colonial cousin first in the queue to do it.
Pool is a brilliant example. Is it a kind of billiards or do you go for a 'run' along a 'bank' besides a 'pool', next to the 'rails' of a train 'shooting' balls?
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In Canada, we have our own terms for snooker. e.g. When someone makes a 147, we call it a perfect game, while in the UK it is a maximum.:wink: We will say so and so just "run a perfect game."
Going back to topic, to score 155, you need to first be awarded a free ball, (which is the result of you not being to hit both edges of any red on the table(a red blocking a red does not count) after your opponent has fouled) which you can pot to follow by a black (break of 8), along with a total table clearance of only blacks with each and every red(break of 147). This would give you 147+8 = 155 points.
Your score in this case will be 155 plus either 4, 5, 6 or 7 depending on the foul penalty awarded in the beginning of the frame.
So, the highest score one can score in a frame is more than 155, while 155 is the highest possible break (most points you can get in one inning).
Going back to topic, to score 155, you need to first be awarded a free ball, (which is the result of you not being to hit both edges of any red on the table(a red blocking a red does not count) after your opponent has fouled) which you can pot to follow by a black (break of 8), along with a total table clearance of only blacks with each and every red(break of 147). This would give you 147+8 = 155 points.
Your score in this case will be 155 plus either 4, 5, 6 or 7 depending on the foul penalty awarded in the beginning of the frame.
So, the highest score one can score in a frame is more than 155, while 155 is the highest possible break (most points you can get in one inning).
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Wity, I think Bob Jewett was joking...
To be clear about the distinction - in snooker terms the opening break would be the "break-off", and what you would call a "run" would be a "break".:grin:
And if we're talking bizarre terms, I think "English" is up there! "Side" makes much more sense to me. And don't get me started on "scratching"...
LOL! :killingme:
Say what?
There have been a few misunderstandings.
Snooker players actually think black is a color and red isn't.
hilarious post,Mr Jewett
There have been a few misunderstandings.
Snooker players actually think black is a color and red isn't.
hilarious post,Mr Jewett
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Say what?
If you call a 'bank' a 'double',what do you call 5 banks in the corner?
And what happened to the missing syllables when you pronounce
Leicestershire? Who put the middle 'r' in tatar?
By the way,if you light a fag in NYC you will be considered politically
incorrect and may be charged with arson and attempted homicide.
If you call a 'bank' a 'double',what do you call 5 banks in the corner?
And what happened to the missing syllables when you pronounce
Leicestershire? Who put the middle 'r' in tatar?
By the way,if you light a fag in NYC you will be considered politically
incorrect and may be charged with arson and attempted homicide.
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A players single turn at the table is his break. You can have many breaks in a game. Both players can have many breaks in a game.
I shoot and get 16. I just had a break of 16.
You shoot and make 7. You just had a break of 7.
I shoot and make nothing. No break.
You shoot and make 30. You just had a 30 break.
and so on............
I shoot and get 16. I just had a break of 16.
You shoot and make 7. You just had a break of 7.
I shoot and make nothing. No break.
You shoot and make 30. You just had a 30 break.
and so on............
Yeah well where's the 'f' in "lieutenant"? Actually for that matter, where's the 'r' in "colonel"?
Anyways, the term 'break' refers to a run of points achieved in either snooker OR croquet. Which should clear things up for the croquet players.
Wity
Banned
A typical town square in England before the banks went into the yank mortgage marlket. 1 bank, 2 charity shops, a McDonalds and a jobcenter now.
Or if you had worded your question in proper English..
A bloody fluke !
Same thing happens here too if you set fire to a queer. Nobody gives you a medal but if he's black at least the BNP give you a reward.