What's your high break in Snooker?

juanbond

juanbond

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Just thought I'd get a high break thread going...I'm sure some of you on here have made some high break numbers! Mine is a mere 33...but then this is using 2.25" balls on a 10x5 snooker table. The highest recorded on our table was an 80, by the Weez, a couple summers ago.

Here's a quick vid of Weez running a 30 on the same table:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZZvQLYgF2o
 
juanbond said:
Just thought I'd get a high break thread going...I'm sure some of you on here have made some high break numbers! Mine is a mere 33...but then this is using 2.25" balls on a 10x5 snooker table. The highest recorded on our table was an 80, by the Weez, a couple summers ago.

Here's a quick vid of Weez running a 30 on the same table:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZZvQLYgF2o
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Is High Break the same as High Run?
 
juanbond said:
Wow, Blackjack and Shane...nice breaks!
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Thanks. Snooker is my favorite game as I grew up in Ireland playing it from about age 12. I moved to England in 1988 for a year and got off work on a Friday Evening and got to the Snooker Club around 7pm and played for 24hrs straight. Gambled a little, practiced a little and it was in this 24hr session that I had my 123 which was actually my first century (I have made 100+ on 2 other occasions, both within the a couple of months of my first)

Haven't played more than a couple of hours of Snooker in the last 14 years since moving to Jacksonville, FL in 1993 as there are no 6x12's here or anywhere close and I can't stand playing on a 5x10

I miss the game.
 
I got 37 on Saturday but I've only been playing snooker for a few months. And I'm 14 :p this was done on a 12 by 6.
 
crappoolguy said:
I got 37 on Saturday but I've only been playing snooker for a few months. And I'm 14 :p this was done on a 12 by 6.
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A 37 on a 6x12 at any age is very good (and above average for the majority of recreational Snooker players) nice job.
 
My high run is a 24, but I just played for the first time the other day in China on a 6x12. I played with a guy they called Mr. Hu, who is apparently the #1 player in Shandong (a province of about 100 million people). Of course, I took Mr. Hu out for dinner - and he said he was Xiaoting Pan's coach.

Needless to say, Mr. Hu played REAAAAAAL well. These pockets were about a ball and a a half wide (i'm guessing --- they were VERY tight) and he was firing everything in from everywhere. Now that I think of it, everyone was firing everything in from everywhere. It took me 3 days of constant playing on those things to make a ball. I was playing with my regular cue for a while before I realized it wasn't the move. As Danny Harriman once said on here... better find center-ball if you're gonna play on a 12' snooker table.... good advice.

After 3-4 days of playing snooker, I'm a huge fan. Their 4.5x9s also have snooker-cut pockets. I think if we changed the standard for the cuts of our pockets from straight-cuts to curved pockets, we'd compete better with the asians overall. They're brought up from an early age to play on equipment where you have to hit the hole for them to go... or they don't.

I WISH there were snooker tables where I lived... awesome, awesome game.
 
111 in a 'friendly' club game (there's no such thing really). 76 in league team competition (1 frame). 84 in individuals competition. Two other centuries 108 & 102 playing all by myself.

English billiards, league competition - 98 unfinished (race to 120). Best in practice - 35 minutes break so conservative guess 250+.

Boro Nut
 
IIRC, 32 or 35 on a 5 x 10. Had not played on a 6 x 12 at that time. Haven't had anything to speak of on the bigger table and have only played on it once or twice on a visit back to NY.
 
I had a 138 this afternoon playing the line up but my best is 142 in an actual frame, don't get to play as much as i would like. Need to be playing at least three times a week for a decent standard i think.
 
58 several times on a 12 x 6, in both league & friendly games. The last league frame I played included one of those. I didn't go near a snooker table for 5 years after that until one Christmas I was out drinking with some workmates & we ended up at the snooker club. First frame we played I managed a 50. I was totally surprised, especially seeing as I was somewhat toasted!:eek:
 
Its exactly the same as my straight pool high run, 63.

Still hoping to break 100 at both games...
 
53 or 56 on a 12' box in 88, I havent played much since then, I cant remeber its either 53 or 56, I play much better pool now than I did when made my high break, I think within a year I could get 75 maybe 80, I have watched alot of snooker and I dont work the stack good enough to devlop enough reds to run a centuary-I would need along time or lessions to get there. When I ran my high break most of the reds were on the table and the stack was wide open and it was a very easy stop-n-go inning, I have had ALOT of 40-50 breaks. The table was tighter than the Riley's and the balls were 2 1/8" not 2 1/16", anything over 80 takes alot of skill, under 80 a easy table and its not to hard speaking for my abilitys. snooker is by far my favorite game.
 
The max - 147 on a 6x12 BCE Westbury with tournament pockets. I had to bank the pink to get out too. It wandered to the side rail when I moved some reds open and I decided that if I got that far I would just go ahead and bank it. It went in and the cueball walked on down for a straight in black, which was pretty sweet. That was my first and, so far, only maximum.
 
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