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What is the highest billiard break?

A maximum break
maximum break
A maximum break (also known as a maximum, a 147, or orally, a one-four-seven) is the highest possible break in a single frame of snooker. A player compiles a maximum break by potting all 15 reds with 15 blacks for 120 points, followed by all six colours for a further 27 points.
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(also known as a maximum, a 147, or orally, a one-four-seven
) is the highest possible break in a single frame of snooker. A player compiles a maximum break by potting all 15 reds with 15 blacks for 120 points, followed by all six colours for a further 27 points.
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What is the highest billiard break record?

Peter Gilchrist
  • Representing Singapore in Billiards & Snooker.
  • 1147.
  • Highest Break (Match):
  • 1346 – World record (New Zealand Open, Hamilton Cosmopolitan Club). 157 unf in 150 up – World record.
  • Green Baize Maple cue.
  • Green Baize Granite.
  • 1278.
  • 1000, 693, 644, 621, 567.
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What is the highest tournament break?

The fastest recorded century break in tournament play was by Tony Drago at the 1996 UK Championship – he took 3 minutes 31 seconds (211 seconds) to score one hundred points. The youngest player to record a century break is Michael White, who scored his first century in March 2001 at the age of nine.
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Has there ever been a 155 break in snooker?

A snooker player has just made history by scoring a mind-blowing break of 155 and it's luckily been caught on camera. Thepchaiya Un-Nooh, 36, managed to achieve it in an extremely quick seven minutes and 43 seconds, certainly living up to his nickname of F1, which he received for his remarkable speed around the table.
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What is the worlds highest snooker break?

Official 147s
  • Steve Davis made the first ever official 147 at the 1982 Lada Classic. ...
  • Stephen Hendry has made 11 maximums, including three at the Crucible.
  • Ronnie O'Sullivan has 15 maximums to his name – a record.
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Who has had the most 147 breaks?

Players who have made the most 147s
  • Ronnie O'Sullivan - 15.
  • John Higgins - 12.
  • Stephen Hendry - 11.
  • Stuart Bingham - 9.
  • Judd Trump - 8.
  • Shaun Murphy - 7.
  • Ding Junhui - 6.
  • Neil Robertson - 5.
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Who has the fastest 147 breaks?

Ronnie "The Rocket" O'Sullivan made a maximum 147 break in the quickest time ever recorded, five minutes and eight seconds, in the first round of the 1997 World Championship.
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Did Ronnie o sullivan refuse maximum break?

O'Sullivan refused to pursue the maximum because the prize for a 147 was £12,000, and he didn't deem it worthy of his efforts. "If it had been more, I'd have gone for the 147," O'Sullivan told BBC Sport.
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What was Ronnie O Sullivan best break?

While his 147 constructed in five minutes and eight seconds at the 1997 World Championship transcends snooker, it was only achievable because all the reds were in the open to cherry pick. It is much more difficult to discover a winning formula when the odds are stacked against you.
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Has there ever been an impossible snooker?

An impossible snooker shot that has blown the minds of professional players and fans alike following a demonstration by Jimmy White, has finally been explained after the star teamed up with a scientist from the University of Sheffield.
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What is the biggest tournament on earth?

The FIFA World Cup is the biggest sports tournament in the world, attracting a record number of viewers every four years.
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Which is the highest paying tournament in the world?

FIFA World Cup

FIFA is played among 32 teams from FIFA's member associations. The teams play after qualifying for the final tournament.
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What is the longest ever game of pool?

Mosconi set the world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition in Springfield, Ohio on March 19–20, 1954.
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What is the highest possible break in snooker 155?

WHAT IS A 155 SNOOKER BREAK? A 155 break is the absolute maximum break you can get in snooker and it is very rare. It can only come about when a player fouls at the beginning of the game (when no balls have been potted yet) which leads to a free ball.
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What is the longest pool match?

A publican from South Devon has broken the Guinness World Record for the longest ever pool marathon, clocking up more than 100 hours of continuous play in four days.
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What is Ronnie O Sullivan fastest break?

O'Sullivan, 46, already holds the record for the fastest maximum 147 break ever made – potting the 15 reds, 15 blacks and all the colours in five minutes and eight seconds.
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Why is Ronnie O Sullivan so good?

"He is just such a great snooker player, it is not rocket science," Higgins told the Metro. "He has got better cue ball control than anyone ever has in the game. "It gives him so many more opportunities to win frames which, add them up, to win frames, to win rounds, to win tournaments, it is simple maths really.
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How much does Ronnie o sullivan get for winning?

How much prize money has Ronnie O'Sullivan won? Ronnie O'Sullivan has amassed prize money of £12.6 million during his glittering career – including £500,000 for winning last year's World Snooker Championship.
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How much money did Ronnie o sullivan get for 147?

Ronnie O'Sullivan will refuse any attempts to make his 16th professional 147 break - as a maximum is only worthwhile for a £50,000 prize.
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Who was the first person to hit a 147?

Joe Davis (UK) was the first snooker player to achieve an officially ratified maximum break in snooker, a feat that requires a player to pot all the balls on the table in a single turn and in a specified order – all 15 reds (15 points), each followed by the black (105 points), and then all six colours (27 points).
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Has there ever been a 147 in the World Championship final?

Ronnie O'Sullivan - 2008 World Championship

It was the second time a maximum had completed a Crucible victory - with his opponent Mark Williams being the first to do so three years earlier of course - and also the second time a 147 has been scored by a player who goes on to win that same World Championship.
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