What is your HIGH RUN?

I forgot

My best break on the 12’ box is ~53. I can’t recall it perfectly/ I know it was over 50 and under 55. The reds were laying real good. I mostly shot the blue and pink ball. It wasn’t that difficult.

I had countless runs in the 40’s.

I’d have got better but I moved away and no more 12’ tables for a long time😕
 
The only "run" I can remember is a bar-box 8 ball run many years ago. I broke and ran the first rack, and then snapped the 8 in on the break the next two racks in a row.
I'm not sure if that counts as a run, but if so, the number is 3.
🤷
 
gregcantrall said:
What amazed me is that there are Perfect plus scores available. Rare but possible with free ball. I read somewhere that Brady Golan had produced one. With 155 the true Maximum.
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There are ways to score higher than 147 so I don't know how you could label something a true maximum. I would gladly settle for one teeny tiny 147 though!

Hu
 
ShootingArts said:
... Ronnie O'Sullivan might be the best cueist ever. I have no idea how many 147's he has ...
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I checked CueTracker to see if they had that stat, but I didn't see it. They do, however, have a count of all of his century breaks: 1,261! And they show what his highest break was in each season of his career, and it was 147 for 12 of his 33 seasons. What may be a bit surprising there is that he had no 147s in 21 of his 33 seasons (with 2024-2025 ongoing).
 
AtLarge said:
I checked CueTracker to see if they had that stat, but I didn't see it. They do, however, have a count of all of his century breaks: 1,261! And they show what his highest break was in each season of his career, and it was 147 for 12 of his 33 seasons. What may be a bit surprising there is that he had no 147s in 21 of his 33 seasons (with 2024-2025 ongoing).
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Thanks for that information! I didn't follow Ronnie at all in his youngest years. Best I recall he grew up on a snooker table.

Hu
 
9ballglue said:
By game.

My high run is:
-5 racks of 9 ball and
-3 racks of 8 ball.

NOT PLAYING THE GHOST.

I've done 3-4 racks of 9 ball countless times. And ran sets to the hill out if you count snookering the opponent and then continuing the run. But let's just stick to straight break and runs. And PLEASE GIVE US THE ACTUAL NUMBER. Unfortunately I realize I'm giving my actual high run and most will add 50% lol.
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Same as you, 5 racks of 9-ball and 3 racks of 8-ball, 33 balls in straight pool, 7 points in 3-cushion billiards. Had to keep my day job.
 
ShootingArts said:
Not a run but one of the funniest things I ever saw. A guy I was almost genuine friends with was playing a very good player he didn't know, playing even. He was an easy three or four balls over his head. I wasn't a friend of the guy he was playing and decided to extract him from that bad game. Had to use a little maneuvering, I didn't care enough to get in a fight over it or worse.

As I watched from a few tables away leaning idly against a wall waiting to make my move I realized something. The one I was going to bail out was playing way over his head and winning! I didn't have a tally but he took the guy for at least hundreds. If I had told him who he was playing he would have rolled over and died, never made another ball.

After that I never tried to help someone until I was sure they needed help!

Hu
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I beat a guy 35 games ahead at $10 per and found out after he was one of the top players from not too nearby and he hadn't hit a ball in a long time.

Guys sitting around said they saw no reason to speak up.
 
I will state up front: I suck at pool, a lowly APA 6/6, officially FR411 (but playing last six months at a 470 rate.)

In league play have two 8b BNR EVER (not in a row), and one solitary 9b BNR.

Why the hell am I posting? Because of this:

When I was in college around 1974 or so, I ran 35 in 14.1. That’s not terribly impressive but it points out the benefit of youth and the bliss of ignorance.

Then I didn’t know anything. I didn’t know about throw, deflection, alignment, stance, loose grip, banks playing short depending on speed, humidity affecting CB reaction, clean v dirty pool balls, etc., none of that. Back then I just shot.

Now at almost 69, a student of the game since 2020, I can barely get through one rack of 14.1 and can only sniff at 8b or 9b outs. Why? Because I am too in my head. I SO need to just let it happen. But I simply cannot seem to do that. Sigh.
 
dquarasr said:
I will state up front: I suck at pool, a lowly APA 6/6, officially FR411 (but playing last six months at a 470 rate.)

In league play have two 8b BNR EVER (not in a row), and one solitary 9b BNR.

Why the hell am I posting? Because of this:

When I was in college around 1974 or so, I ran 35 in 14.1. That’s not terribly impressive but it points out the benefit of youth and the bliss of ignorance.

Then I didn’t know anything. I didn’t know about throw, deflection, alignment, stance, loose grip, banks playing short depending on speed, humidity affecting CB reaction, clean v dirty pool balls, etc., none of that. Back then I just shot.

Now at almost 69, a student of the game since 2020, I can barely get through one rack of 14.1 and can only sniff at 8b or 9b outs. Why? Because I am too in my head. I SO need to just let it happen. But I simply cannot seem to do that. Sigh.
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IMPO, it sounds like a case of, 'Analysis/Paralysis!'
 
Posted this before but I guess this is a new thread.

126
This is not a 14.1 thing where I can manage 50. More typically a meticulous 30, and then apathy.

The 126 is via a drill involving 4 trays of balls spread evenly over a 9 foot Gandy.
63 balls and a cue ball for shooting. The other three cue balls were object balls. Ran this out twice, back to back.

3C billiards, 4 on a 9 foot pool table. 3 on a 10 foot billiard table.
 
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