World Record??? 7 Golden breaks in a row!!!

Roy Steffensen

Roy Steffensen

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Today, on December 18th, one Division Two player from Norway did the most amazing thing in a money match in Oslo. He snap’ed the 9 on 7 breaks in a row!!!

After the first 2 there was a “referee” checking and racking each of the next 5 racks.

I have seen Marcus Chamat do 3 in a row against Mika Immonen on TV, and I have heard of another one do 3 in a row here in Norway, but have anyone heard of as much as 7 before???

It has to be a world record, or what?

Congratulate to Øzgür “Mr. Seven” Simsek for an incredible achievement, and most likely an “unbeatable” world record!
 
was this caught on tape?? I kinda would like to see it and see the table they were playing on.

Southpaw
 
thats madness, 7 in a row!!!!!! i wonder what the other guy was thinking after it happened....rematch?
 
Not on tape, as far as I know...

I just translated the info from the Norwegian poolforum.

I know that the poolhall it happened on are using this equipment:

Normal 4,5 - 9 table, Brunswick Gold Crown III, with Simonis 860 cloth, Aramith Centennial TV-set balls...
 
Sounds like the table had become set for it (one of the balls behind the 9 was rolling off slightly) after the rack was removed. Shows great consistancy in the breaker and the rack though....... :D
This is what makes 9 ball so fun and exciting...... and also what makes it unsuitable for championship caliber play, without extra rules included. The International Challenge of Champions has always had the '9 on the break spots' rule to counteract this. And as much as I love 9 ball... 10 ball should be the future of championship play, where the rack and the break are not 80+ percent of the game.
Chuck
 
I have a slightly different opinion of the feat than you all do. I have done it 3 times in a row myself, 5 times in race to 9 set. Sometimes if you are reading the racks and the table right, you can just feel the 9 going in. But despite that, with a good solid hit, there is always a chance for the 9 to go in. If enough people all over the world are playing 9 ball, eventually someone is going to do someting like that.

It is like winning the powerball...if enough millions of people buy tickets, someone will win. If only a few people buy tickets, and one of those few wins, that is something rare.

Just the way I look at it.
Kelly
 
Wait, did the 9's walk in or got kicked in? Big difference. If they walked in, someone needs to know how to rack. If they got kicked in, then the guy's got a HUGE break.

Barbara~~~Joe Tucker/ CB/The Great Break Book....
 
great question about walked in as compared to kicked in. But either way, I think 8 ball or 10 ball should replace 9 ball as the game that is played in major tournaments. But the fact that you don't see the best players in the world doing this on the best most consistent equipment in the world just means that this is an interesting occurance and nothing else, like a guy getting two or three holes in one in a row, or somebody bowling a 900 series, these kinds of things dont hold up on a professional level. But interesting nonetheless.
 
At 35-1 each and assuming you have made one nine ball to then have 6 more in a row, i think the odds are around 1.8 Billion to one. Any statisticians out there?
 
Roy Steffensen said:
Today, on December 18th, one Division Two player from Norway did the most amazing thing in a money match in Oslo. He snap’ed the 9 on 7 breaks in a row!!!...
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As has been pointed out, if the nine went straight into the pocket without getting kissed in by a ball returning to the rack area, the rack was almost certainly loose.
 
They might not be using a rack. I know there is a new "rack" being promoted by an European Billiard Association, whereas the balls were tapped with a template the first time. After that, balls are just placed on the spots by hand. No triangle is required.

Richard
 
X Breaker said:
They might not be using a rack. I know there is a new "rack" being promoted by an European Billiard Association, whereas the balls were tapped with a template the first time. After that, balls are just placed on the spots by hand. No triangle is required.

Richard
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Sounds like an invitation to make the Nine. A good breaker will figure out quickly how best to break on a certain table. And if there is a groove for the Nine Ball, they will definitely exploit it.

Earl did just that in Dallas when he ran 11 racks in a row. He had made two Nines on the break in the first five games, and left it hanging one other game. I watched him break rack number six and I saw what was going on.

I took over in rack seven and locked those balls down tight, with the One full on the spot, not low. Earl never made another Nine, although it did trickle toward the corner a couple more times. He did make some incredible run outs to win the money.

I am always skeptical of feats like this. What are the conditions, how tight are the pockets, etc? Were there other independant witnesses? Maybe he did and maybe he didn't. Like someone else said, if that Nine was heading straight for the corner each rack, than it is somewhat bogus. He was just taking advantage of the groove in the table. It can happen!
 
DAMN 7 - 9balls in a row!!!!!!

Well if a Ref is checking the rack after the first two 9balls, then you'd think it is legit.

Plus like others have said, how many of the 9's were kicked in?

A friend of mine who owns a pool hall, snapped 6 - 9balls in a row during a tournament, but it was on 7fts. But even this was nice to watch and painful for the other guy since the tourny was a race to 7.

Of course after the first two and then the third one, people started to watch and the railbirds where yappin.
 
Was it shooting into the same pocket every time? If so, while the guy breaking the balls still had to hit the rack solid 7 times in a row, that's more of a by-product of a bad rack than a great break. The back ball isn't frozen to the 9 on the side that the 9 is shooting out of.

If the 9 was going in a bunch of different pockets ... well ... I wish I had his break. :)

Roy Steffensen said:
Today, on December 18th, one Division Two player from Norway did the most amazing thing in a money match in Oslo. He snap’ed the 9 on 7 breaks in a row!!!

After the first 2 there was a “referee” checking and racking each of the next 5 racks.

I have seen Marcus Chamat do 3 in a row against Mika Immonen on TV, and I have heard of another one do 3 in a row here in Norway, but have anyone heard of as much as 7 before???

It has to be a world record, or what?

Congratulate to Øzgür “Mr. Seven” Simsek for an incredible achievement, and most likely an “unbeatable” world record!
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RiverCity said:
Sounds like the table had become set for it (one of the balls behind the 9 was rolling off slightly) after the rack was removed. Shows great consistancy in the breaker and the rack though....... :D
This is what makes 9 ball so fun and exciting......
Chuck
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I just called the pool hall to ask what exactly happened during the match, and he said that the player used SOFTBREAKS.

Rack nr 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 was checked and doublechecked, and they couldn't see anything wrong, and no space between the balls, still the 9-ball rolled to the SAME pocket each time. The table was tapped using a template from the EPBF, which creates perfect racks each time.

4 other people watched the match, and they all tried to do the same afterwards on the same table, but no one could...

I don't think it was that great since he used soft-breaks and the ball rolled in the same pocket each time, but still I find it almost unbelievable and still I think it is a world-record, or what?
 
I hesitated to say this after some people think this is a big deal, but I have made 6 in a row 2 years ago and 5 in a row just about 9 months ago. I am by no means that great of a player. I don't even play 9-Ball more than a couple of times in a month and that is only if I have to. In my opinion, it is all about the rack/equipment and not much about the breaker.

I was down 10 jelly beans playing 1p and the guy I was playing said instead of spotting me in 1p, we would try some 9-ball. I snapped off 4 in a row (same pocket) right a way and I told him that the balls right behind the 9 have to be frozen to prevent that. So he tighten up the rack on the 5th one and the 9 got kicked into the side. On the sixth one the 9 ball rattled in that corner again and the 1-9 combo was set. we quit shortly after that. He lost 20 jelly beans in the ordeal, but gained the understanding of the break. This is why some pros, like Joe Tucker, are big advocates of 10-Ball instead of 9-Ball.

I really believe this kind of thing is more common than most would think.

JMO
 
Roy Steffensen said:
I just called the pool hall to ask what exactly happened during the match, and he said that the player used SOFTBREAKS.

Rack nr 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 was checked and doublechecked, and they couldn't see anything wrong, and no space between the balls, still the 9-ball rolled to the SAME pocket each time. The table was tapped using a template from the EPBF, which creates perfect racks each time.

4 other people watched the match, and they all tried to do the same afterwards on the same table, but no one could...

I don't think it was that great since he used soft-breaks and the ball rolled in the same pocket each time, but still I find it almost unbelievable and still I think it is a world-record, or what?
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They needed to vigorously wipe and clean the cloth under the rack. Using a towel would have been fine. Especially the area around the One Ball, the spot. That's how you remove the groove, that he was exploiting.
 
Same here

I was playing in a 4 man ring game in the backroom of Alexanders in Phx. about 15 yrs ago, made the 9 on the snap 5 times in a row. After the 2nd one, one of the other guys grabbed the rack from the previous racker..said "let me show you how to rack" needless to say 2 more followed, and then the 5th came with a third person racking. 6th game...the nine rollled up to the edge of the pocket and stopped.

To be honest I don't remember if they all went in the corner, but most did.... if not all of them.

If the stars line up......anything is possible.

Rixx
 
7 is crazy.. I played a guy for $20 a game a while back when I didn't even know how to hold the stick right (I still might not) and I snapped it in 5 in a row, and that was that - neither one of us hit a ball and I won $120.... but 7 is sick.
 
AZE said:
7 is crazy.. I played a guy for $20 a game a while back when I didn't even know how to hold the stick right (I still might not) and I snapped it in 5 in a row, and that was that - neither one of us hit a ball and I won $120.... but 7 is sick.
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20 buck tip??

Rick S.
 
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