What's your high break in Snooker?

High break

First > Congrats gromulan...great break.
My best was a 141 on a 6x12 in an exhibition in Perth AUS in '91. I had a real chance to get the full 147 but got out of line on the last red...but I am still pleased with the run. Even though I am only a "Yank" who hasn't played much in the USA for lack of tables, I do love to play on full sized tables. On a 5x10 I only made it to 102.
note* Neil Robertson played in Perth last year and had a 147 and then in the next game missed the last black for a second 147. I missed the event but would have loved to see that one!
 
My highest break is 42.
Once I tried lineup by myself and managed 61.
Of course on 12 foot with proper English napped cloth.

Could get higher than that, but my stroke isn't repeatable nor reliable enough.
And I have lots of trouble switching equipment:
- 12mm pool cue to 9mm snooker cue
- 57mm pool balls to 52mm snooker balls
- Simonis cloth to English slow napped cloth
All my weaknesses are magnified on those rare occasions when I play snooker which is probably once a month. I would need to put some serious table time to improve.

But unfortunately where I live snooker table time is very expensive. There are very few tables around and most of the time they are occupied by curious ball bangers. I wish I could practice this game, but club owners won't offer cheaper rates. It is my favourite cue sport.

**Edit**: some of you guys out there are gods of cuesports. I envy you. Congratulations!
 
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Twice I have run 76 on the same 6x12 canadien antique table. Once was gambling match at a quarter a point. The second time was when I was practicing and these 2 new guys came in the room from Ireland and asked If I'd play a game. One of them broke and I put a 76 on em...using my regular pool cue with the tiny snooker balls.! They both laughed and said "who the hell are you?!" I said just another nobody, and that was my high break :)

fun day!

Gerry
 
i've run a 90 and an 85 back to back games! snooker is my favorite game, we play alot of it around here when the older guys don't manipulate the table with that boring ass golf game!!!!!!!!!! Jeremy
 
high run

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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Well i have read a few of the post here, and i must say i started shooting snooker at a young age , but was taught a saftey break in snooker. not a break and run, you play of the other mistakes, my thought was the man behind me was not going to get any pionts until i was safe!!!!:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:
 
My first century was 101 in late 1993. Between then and when I pretty much quit playing in favor of pool in 1998 (most of the other snooker players in my area were in degrees of doing the same) I had nine or ten others, with the highest being 128. All were on 6x12 foot tables. I don't think I have ever played on a 5x10 foot. I would think it must get pretty cramped between pink and black with a full rack.

Ryan
 
i saw John Schmidt run 106 on the snooker table at 9 mile billiards in pensacola.

mine would have to be 27, but its on a VERY tight snooker table at another pool room here in town.
 
my best is 63 on a 5x10 brunswick, with championship felt . I haven't played much snooker, but I recently got a table in the pool room, so hopefully can do better soon.
 
I ran around 80 on a 6x12 in Canada... There's an extremely funny story about that...

I spent 2 months in Pitsonaluk, Thailand with the military, so I played a lot of short rack snooker (5 reds, all colors..) with the locals. I got to where I was pretty consistently beating the locals, so I had made the transition from a 9 footer to a snooker table pretty well..

City Lights billiards in Tacoma, WA.. My home hall also had a 6x12 snooker table, except it had Simonis on it instead of the international high nap cloth... I used to practice on it with full sized pool balls.. Mainly stroke shots and such..

On to the funny story.. I was at a 9 ball tourney in Abbotsford, Canada (SW Canada, near Washington border), and I was playing with a great Canadian player, Charlie Brown.. He's well known around that area, and I never caught a stroke, and he was beating me pretty bad.

He got called for a match, so he gave up the table to another Canadian, and said something in French to him. I racked the balls, and he used a hard break on them! I was shocked, but elated!

I ran somewhere around a 80 on him, using the lower colors at first, as the black started in the middle of a mess of balls. I basically ran all the open reds on him, then left him 10 feet from the nearest red. He basically gave up at that point. My run was not THAT spectacular, considering he broke em wide open for me, but it was still a good run.

I asked him what Charlie said to him in French right before he left, and he said (imagine a heavy French accent) "He said that you could not play very well!" (He said it like he was surprised that Charlie would say that, given my performance...)

That made my day, pretty much. I was now in stroke, and after Charlie's first match, the only tables open for practice were the 8 footers. I drubbed Charlie pretty bad on an 8 footer, showing that my earlier performance was just being out of stroke, and that I COULD play a little.... :D

My game was just developing in those days.. so snooker played to my ball pocketing strengths. I will freely admit that at that time, I stood no chance against Charlie at 9 ball on a 9 footer. It was fun stepping up to the plate against a good player and shooting a little over my head, tho...

Russ
 
Gerry the 2 new guys were me and my brother Ryan. His high break I think is 119 and mine is 144. I do have the high run at Drexeline (125) and I also did at Classic (132) which is where you hit me with that 76 and then ran away after 1 game. I think we need to settle this some day. The high runs were both in competitive games.
 
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