"fifteen reds still remaining on the table. A break greater than 147 has happened only once in professional competition, when Jamie Burnett made a 148-point break at the qualifying stage of the 2004 UK Championship. Jamie Cope compiled a break of 155 points, the highest possible free-ball break, during practice in 2005. Alex Higgins was said to have attained the same feat. Tournament games are won when one of the players manages to win more than half of the scheduled frames. For example, if a match is scheduled to have a maximum of 7 frames, a player wins the game"
"each for a total of 27). If for example only the least-valued colour (yellow, two points) would be used instead of the black ball, the break value would only be 72 points. This means that only a single century break is possible in a of snooker under a limited number of combinations, but it requires the potting of at least 25 consecutive balls (10 x (1 + 7) + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 = 100). To score one, there must be at least ten reds on the table when the player comes to play since"
"Century break In snooker, a century break (sometimes referred to as a ton) is a score of 100 points or more within one at the table without missing a shot and requires potting at least 25 consecutive balls. The ability to score century is regarded as a mark of the highest skill in snooker, while the first career century has been described by Ronnie O'Sullivan as the ""ultimate milestone for any snooker player"". Over 20,000 century breaks have been recorded by snooker players throughout professional tournaments. In 2014, Neil Robertson became the first person to have scored over 100 century"
"shots when added to the player's own scored points (which may not require the highest break). However, the highest possible score from a single visit clearance is 162 (foul on the black, followed by a free ball treated as a red, as above). Rules of snooker Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. It is played using a cue and snooker balls: one white , 15 worth one point each (sometimes played with fewer red balls,"
"the 2013/2014 season the total number of players reaching this threshold had grown to 52. Only Neil Robertson has achieved one hundred centuries in a single season, during 2013/2014. By the end of the 2018 English Open 66 players had reached 100 century breaks. The following players are reported to have passed 100 breaks and at least the given threshold above this. Century break In snooker, a century break (sometimes referred to as a ton) is a score of 100 points or more within one at the table without missing a shot and requires potting at least 25 consecutive balls."
"time in a break which would result in a time of 5 minutes and 8 seconds, and this is the time that World Snooker now officially acknowledges. However, this methodology for timing breaks is inconsistent with the one employed in shot clock events where timing for a player's shot begins when the balls have come to rest from his opponent's previous shot, and under this convention the break would have been timed at 5 minutes and 15 seconds. A full list of O'Sullivan's competitive maximum breaks are listed below: O'Sullivan began the 2017/2018 season with 874 career total century breaks."
"the cue ball ""in-hand"" for his first shot. Play then continues normally until the black is potted or another frame-ending situation occurs. The highest break that can be made under normal circumstances is 147. To achieve that, the player must pot all 15 reds, with the black after every red, followed by potting the six remaining colours. This ""maximum break"" of 147 rarely occurs in match play. The fastest maximum break in a tournament was achieved during the World Championships on April 21, 1997, by Ronnie O'Sullivan against Mick Price in 5 minutes and 20 seconds. If an opponent fouls"
"Maximum and Century breaks made by Ronnie O'Sullivan Ronnie O'Sullivan holds both the record for the most amount of competitive century and maximum breaks, as well as the fastest maximum break of all time, in the game of Snooker. Ronnie O'Sullivan has made fifteen maximum breaks in recorded, competitive play. This is the highest number of such maximums completed by any player in the history of the game. Moreover, this total does not account for his controversial decision, mentioned above in the summary of the 2015/2016 season, to deliberately refuse at least one almost guaranteed 147, which he did during"
"the history of the game. ""Guinness World Records"" recorded the time of the break at 5 minutes and 20 seconds. However, an investigation undertaken by ""Deadspin"" in 2017 revealed that the time recorded by Guinness is incorrect, as a result of the timer being started too early on the BBC footage. Breaks are not officially timed in snooker and the official rules of snooker do not specify how they should be timed, instead leaving the timing to the discretion of the broadcaster. World Snooker has since suggested that a break starts when the player strikes the cueball for the first"
"plus the number of pins knocked down with the next ball, for a maximum of 20 points. If it takes three balls to knock down all 10 pins, the bowler gets 10 points, with no bonus. A bowler's final score is the sum of the points earned over 10 frames (a spare or strike in the tenth frame earns one or two rolls respectively). The maximum possible score of 300 points, which is accomplished by rolling 12 strikes in a row, has never been achieved under official conditions. According to the NDBC, the official high score in a sanctioned game"
"The maximum score for a team (two players) is 600 points. Corks and scoring numbers can be combined; for instance, if a player shoots a double 20, a cork, and a single 20, that player would score 160 points (40 + 100 + 20). If a player shoots a single 20, a double 5, and a single 20, that player would score 40 points (20 + 0 + 20), since the dart in the 5 would not count (20 having been established as the ""number"" for that inning). The name Strikeout comes from the method of eliminating players/teams. Once a"
"Since then, O'Sullivan has had the following century tallies per season, leaving his career total at: ""Last updated on: 9 December 2018."" Maximum and Century breaks made by Ronnie O'Sullivan Ronnie O'Sullivan holds both the record for the most amount of competitive century and maximum breaks, as well as the fastest maximum break of all time, in the game of Snooker. Ronnie O'Sullivan has made fifteen maximum breaks in recorded, competitive play. This is the highest number of such maximums completed by any player in the history of the game. Moreover, this total does not account for his controversial decision,"
"1994–95 season, the maximum break remained a rare feat, with only 15 compiled official maximums. But starting with 1994–95, a maximum break has been achieved every season thereafter; the 13 maximums scored in the 2016–17 season is the highest number to date. The one-hundreth officially recognised maximum break in professional competition was made on 7 December 2013 by Mark Selby in the 7th frame of his semi-final match at the UK Championship against Ricky Walden. Since then, another 39 maximum breaks have been officially recorded in professional competition. Englishman Ronnie O'Sullivan has compiled fifteen ratified competitive maximum breaks, the most"
"still remaining on the table, creating a situation identical to as if there were 16 red balls on the table. This has happened only once in professional competition, when Jamie Burnett made a 148 at the qualifying stage of the 2004 UK Championship. A ""century of centuries"" refers to a total of 100 breaks of at least 100 points each. Only 15 players had reached this milestone in professional snooker tournaments by December 2001. With an increase in the occurrence of centuries in the past decades, another 27 players achieved this landmark by October 2011, and by the end of"
"below are the results for each round. The numbers in parentheses beside some of the players are their seeding ranks (each championship has 16 seeds and 16 qualifiers). There were 48 century breaks in the 1996 World Snooker Championship, a new record which would last until 1998. The highest break of the tournament was 144 made by both Peter Ebdon and Tony Drago. This was only the second time since 1980, when Kirk Stevens and Steve Davis both made a 136, that two players had the joint highest break of the championship. Stephen Hendry made 11 century breaks in the"
"as two reds hit a . Power Snooker play is kept to a quick pace through the use of a shot clock with all shots having a twenty-second limit. If the player exceeds the shot clock the player is penalised 20 points, and their opponent can resume play, or can elect to let the other player play on. A century break is rewarded with 50 bonus points, and if the player can repeat this in the second consecutive frame, this doubles to 100 points, and in a third consecutive frame, to 200 points. This reward for century breaks was, however,"
"Rules of snooker Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. It is played using a cue and snooker balls: one white , 15 worth one point each (sometimes played with fewer red balls, commonly 6 or 10), and six balls of different : yellow (2 points), green (3), brown (4), blue (5), pink (6), black (7). A player (or team) wins a (individual game) of snooker by scoring more points than the opponent(s), using the cue"
"Tie Break Tens Tie Break Tens is a tennis format in which only tie-break matches are played. There are no games or sets, only tie-break matches and the winner is the first player to reach 10 points and lead by a margin of two. Most other traditional rules of tennis are the same. The winner takes all prize money is US$250,000 for each tournament. To date prize money paid out totals over US$1 million. It is a short-format version of tennis, similar to other alternative forms of traditional sports, such as T20 Cricket and rugby sevens. The inaugural Tie Break"
"before any balls are potted, and leaves the player a free ball, the player can then nominate a colour and play it as a red for one point, then nominate a colour and pot it for its normal value. It is thus possible to score for 16 reds and blacks (16 * 8), plus the values of all the colours (27), resulting in a break of 155. Under tournament conditions, Jamie Burnett achieved 148 points. The highest possible score, as distinct from the highest possible break, is unlimited and depends on the value of points scored from the opponent's foul"
"moves to the next group, where they are joined by three more players until the seventh group. The winners play in the final group with the overall winner taking a place in that year's Premier League Snooker until 2012, and in that year's Champion of Champions from 2013. There have been seven maximum breaks in the history of the tournament. Shaun Murphy compiled the first at the 2014 event against Mark Davis in their league stage match of group two. Barry Hawkins achieved the second one-year later at the 2015 event against Stephen Maguire in their league stage match of"
"below: The ""rolling 147 prize"" for a maximum break stood at £20,000, and was split by both Michael Georgiou, in the last 128 round against Umut Dikme, and Jamie Jones in his last 64 match against Lee Walker. This was both players' first maximum break. Played from 24–26 August 2018. All matches were the best of 7 frames. These matches were played in Fürth on 22–23 August 2018. All matches were the best of 7 frames. Total: 43 Total: 6 2018 Paul Hunter Classic The 2018 Paul Hunter Classic was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place in August"
"is the highest in World Championship history, ahead of the 83 scored in 2009. For every century break made during the 17-day championship in Sheffield, the title sponsor, Betfred, was due to donate £200 to World Snooker’s official charity, the Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice. However, in line with the sponsor's declaration, the donation was rounded up to £25,000 as at least 70 centuries were achieved. There were 83 century breaks in the qualifying stage of the World Championship: 2015 World Snooker Championship The 2015 World Snooker Championship (also referred to as the 2015 Betfred World Snooker Championship for the purposes"
"National Snooker Championships four times back to back, in the same 1985–1988 span as his national English billiards streak. In the 1989 event, held at Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, though he did not take the title, he did achieve the world's first amateur maximum break of 147 in official competition. He has never placed in the top snooker world rankings, however. Sethi is the only person in the history of cue-sports to have scored a maximum (147) in competitive snooker and a 1000+ break in competitive billiards. In the 1992 World Professional Billiards Championship, Sethi constructed a world-record English billiards of"
"if there are only nine reds left, only 99 (= 9 × (1 + 7) + 27) points may be scored. An exception exists if the opponent and leaves the incoming player on all the remaining reds. In such a situation, the player can nominate one of the other as a red, known as a """", which carries the same value as a red for just that shot, and therefore, a century break is still possible with only nine reds left. Breaks above 147 are possible (up to 155) when an opponent fouls and leaves a with all fifteen reds"
"67–19 in the final. This was the first time that no century break was made in the competition. The highest break was 96 from Graeme Dott. The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below. The ""rolling 147 prize"" for a maximum break stood at £15,000. 2017 rules. Matches and session times are listed below. Matches began within approximately ten minutes intervals. Random draws were conducted prior to each round. Thursday, 23 February – 12:00 Thursday, 23 February – 19:00 Friday, 24 February – 12:00 Friday, 24 February – 19:00 Saturday, 25 February – 19:00 Sunday, 26 February"
"frames throughout a single season, a threshold that only some 60 other players had surpassed throughout their entire careers. Ronnie O'Sullivan holds the record for the most career centuries with over 950 century breaks. A century is a score of 100 points or more within one at the table, without missing a shot. The player does this by potting and alternately, where the coloured balls are repositioned on their starting locations. After repositioning the coloured ball paired to the last red on the table, the six coloured balls are potted in order of their increasing value. Because a break is"
"and potentially dangerous. Lets (replayed points) are common, as the striker should not play the ball if doing so risks hitting another player with it. Matches preferably are observed by a ""marker"", who has the duty to call ""Play"" after each good stroke to denote that the ball is ""up"". Games are to 15 points, unless the game is tied at 13–all or 14–all, in which case the game can be ""set"" to 16 or 18 (in the case of 13–all) or to 15 or 17 (in the case of 14–all) at the option of the player first reaching 13"
"tiebreaker"" and ""best-seven-of-12-points tiebreaker"". The first lasts a maximum of 9 points, and awards victory in the set to whichever player or team first reaches 5 points – even if the other player or team already has 4; the margin of victory can be a single point. Because this ""9-point"" tiebreaker ""must"" end after a maximum of 9 points, even if neither player or team has a 2-point (or greater) margin, Van Alen also called it a ""sudden-death tiebreaker"" (If and when the score reached four points all, both players faced simultaneous set point and/or match point.). This type of"
"rolling three consecutive marks (strikes or spares in any combination, or a larger bonus for three strikes in a row), and for rolling a cumulative score of 400 or higher in the three games, or ""strings"", of which each match consisted. The highest series achieved in the history of the show was a 500-triple by Paul Berger, in 1992. The bowler was given an additional cash prize for reaching 500. For most of the year, this competition was restricted to men only, with a few weeks devoted to matches for women only; other televised matches were also held, involving mixed"
"in snooker and blackball, consisting of the middle 50% of the . This change defeats the common break-from-the-side-rail technique for pocketing the 9 ball on the break and winning the game instantly. While 9 ball breaks are still possible, they are much more difficult under the new rule. This requirement was recently added to the Europe vs. US all-star team event, the Mosconi Cup, but has not otherwise been seen much by North Americans. Yet a third EPBF change, used on the Euro-Tour for several years, is the """" rule, a stringent requirement that in order for a break shot"
"red ball. Points are scored by potting the balls, by sending the cue-ball into a pocket ‘in off’ one of the other balls, or by getting the cue-ball to hit both the other balls (a cannon). The winner is the player who reaches an agreed score first, or who has the highest score after a certain time. In ""snooker"" there are 22 balls: 1 cue-ball, 15 reds and 6 colours. A player must first pot one of the red balls (scoring 1 point) and then one of the colours, which are worth between 2 points (yellow) and 7 (black). The"
"two extra balls for achieving a strike in the tenth frame, or one extra ball for achieving a spare. This allows for a potential of 12 strikes in a single game, and a maximum score of 300 pins, a perfect game. The player with the highest pinfall at the end of ten frames wins. Although, if there is a time limit and if time runs out before the end of ten frames bowling stops, and the person with the highest pinfall wins the game. In general, one point is scored for each pin that is knocked over. So if a"
"for a set, the player will get 20 points for each set. The maximum score is 148 which is accomplished by getting 7 pucks in 2, 7 pucks in 3, 9 pucks in 4 and 7 pucks in 1. It totals to 7 × 20 + 4 + 4 = 148. However, if the player accomplishes the max score of 148 in 2 sub-turns, they are returned one puck, increasing the maximum possible score to 152. The most famous manufacturers of ""sjoelbakken"" (""sjoelen"" boards) are Homas, Heemskerk Sport and Schilte, who mass-produce the game for the continental European market and"