I see that some comments are a bit on the down side. It's not fair to try and judge the game if you don't know what your talking about....I can almost guaranty that the ones that criticize this game cannot play most of the shots WHEN DEMANDED at the time regardless of either being in Snooker or Billiards. These type of players I regard them as fluke Player's. Danik Lucas is one of Australia's best Billiard Player's. I would challenge anyone who criticises the game of billiards, who thinks they know what there doing on the table and try to play this game at this level of Display. Just a piece of history for your understanding & Education, In the old days going back quite a few years, before you take up snooker you had to learn to play billiards, and be pretty good at that. The reason for this is to teach you how to strike the ball very well and angles. Bear in mind I do love any cue sports and I do agree it's not a spectators sport but neither is chess. There are people out there that admire in what they do in there field of sport and you have to respect that.
well said spent many 1000s of hours playing billiards with danik at Uni when he started...i spent most of my time in awe of the bloke...its a shame that in the video it doesnt show how skillful his play is at getting to the top of the table as he does it easily....
Hi Danik, Its Andrew Willett...i was there when his career started at Uni when he taught me to play and be part of a 2 man inter college team..we won 2 years in a row and both made the intercollege team....We practiced most nights till the early hours, Danik more than me...spent many hours walking around the table getting the ball out of the pocket for him...most of his college opponents didnt really understand the game and got pissed off when he spent ages at the table..fun for us..not for them..but loved watching his skill and concentration...he played some amazing shots, on a pretty average college tables in those days...he scored many 100s, i remember his excitement when he got his 1st one... and I watched him in his 1st Qld open coming 2nd I think and had a break in the 90s....so glad he went on to achieve what he did...
A royal game at which even the commoners excelled. In India we called them billiard salons! Now kids play pool on the smaller table. Billiards teaches you a lot about hitting the cue ball with various spins, side etc. I played billiards then snooker. Michael Ferreira and Geet Sethi are two notable world champs from India. But at different times with the five pot, three pot rules. Ferreira has a then record break of 1500 made at the Calcutta Club in the world billiards championship. Both snooker and billiards can be played even at a much older age.
I had a laugh too when I read some people think this game is easy. I absolutely love it. I'm only a standard player with a highest break of 76, so I'm not quite good enough to hold top of the table so I'm reliant on length of the table in-offs, cannons off cushions, etc. so in a way you see a lot more different shots at my standard of play.
He makes this look so easy it's ridiculous. The yellow never got more than six inches from the black spot and never left that line just left of the black even though he must have hit it over fifty times. I sometimes watch the league players in my club and they are all over the table!
Fantastic to watch this talented billiards player structure a big break. It looks easy, but I know from my few attempts at the game, it's far from that. Pity the game is not as big as it was.
The highest break ever in billiards is 499135 by tom reece in a match that lasted 5 weeks in 1907. His apponent had to turn up every morning then went to the cafe over the road. And some of you think this is boring (-:
I'm sure this is hard and an amazing feat but I can see why the other forms of the game took over and are more popular. I'd love to learn this, and have a table I could play it and snooker on, I think I'd learn alot from it.
i don't know about all the comments hating on billiards. Yes they longer breaks where the player sort of herds the balls in to one section and then skillflly keeps them in one place is maybe negative / boring but i have to say something in its defense ...i played it on my little table as a kid and learning about canons and purposely going in off another ball etc was different and made you think about the cue ball, cushions in a new way
joe2grand 100% agree at a not so skilled level some of the shots you have to play are totally different to snooker and thus teaches has thought myself a lot about cue ball control
joe2grand but I learn all of that playing snooker, remembering situations I was previously in and angles off of cushions, pace of shots... Cannons to open up the game... Snooker will make you a better billiards player imo not the other way!
ironically the break stops at 355 and it was the easiest of cannons, just slightly harder and push the red closer to the pocket and follow up with the pot
This is the way the game of billiards is supported to be played and I would love to be able to play like that but can't which is why I give it up as a bad job
Interesting to watch. And yes: I do realise that it takes talent and skill to play this at a high level. Every sport/game does. And I would like to have a go at it. Maybe I will some time. But yet I do prefer the pocketless version of billiards, and especially the three cushion variety. This game has too many ways to score points for my taste, which at least makes it look easy in comparison with pocketless carom billiards.
Reece's highest officially recognised break was 901, which he compiled in 1916. Joyce Gardner, winner of multiple Women's Professional Billiards Championships, wrote that it was "entirely due" to Reece's support and encouragement that she decided to become a professional player. Only a flat earth man would know this.. x
You should try pulling balls out of pockets for three hours before you lose count then see what Danik says... Thunder and lightning are kind in comparison
they do say that the pro snooker pockets are tight. I guess to try and stop the amount of one visit frames and make things more interesting to the club player. That being said, these pockets would just be standard whereas the pro pockets are tighter than standard.
I understand 7, 8 and 9 ball. I even understand snooker and bar billiards but I don't have clue whats happening here. Why does he get to shoot again if he misses? Why does he shoot again after he scratches? Why is the red ball placed in different spots after being pocketed?
+lth5015 reading the rules of english billiards may be a start. but a breif run down is as follows. a losing hazard (scratch) is a scoring shot where you continue from the D and must shoot forward. 3pts in off red 2pts in off opponents ball. a winning hazard (pocketing a ball) is 3pts for red and 2pts for opponents ball however the opponents ball will not come back onto the table and you may only score 15 times without a cannon (so the break will end ) if the red ball is pocketed it will be replaced onto the spot (black spot for snooker) if pocketed twice in a row from the spot the red will then be respotted on the center spot (blue spot for snooker). and a canon will score 2 pts (your cueball hitting both other balls)
+lth5015 the concept of 'top of the table play' is to score a canon then a pot red or two to avoid the red going to the middle and move the opponents ball as little as possoble to keep the canon easy. controlling them and keeping them close together to continue the pattern as long as you can. whilst this looks easy from the video above it is not. most people bash the opponents ball out of position within a few shots or smother (snooker themselves for the canon or pot red) and the break ends. even top players around the world tend to knock the opponents white out of position then play a sequence of shots to bring it back. the beauty of the above break is the tiny amount of movement danik achieves on the opponents white. it takes lots of precise control.
+lth5015 watch at 3:40 when he is on 45pts. he scored the canon to the yellow ball. deliberately hitting the far side of the yellow to cut it backwards towards the spot. very risky as you can easily miss the thin edge. if he hits it too hard and covers the spot the red will go to the pink spot. try this 1 shot and you will soon discover both how difficult it is to get perfect and also how accurate your position must be to play the shot.
5 ways to score, pot red (3pts returns to spot) pot opponents cueball (2pts stays down), in off red (3 pts, continue from D), in off opponents cueball (2 points continue from D), and canon (2pts your cueball contacts other two balls). Other notable rules is two consecutive pot red from the spot and it will be then spotted once on the center spot (blue spot for snooker) so the idea of top of the table as displayed above is to pot the red only once off the spot, then canon, to avoid the ball being moved away.
burfodus yeah zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz oh sorry what was that I fell asleep... ⚪️🔴🔵⚫️ was dreaming of snooker 😂😂😂
Lee Barker someone such as yourself wouldn't be able to grasp or understand the rules of the game, this guy has more talent in his pinky finger than you've got in your whole body
@@seanslevin7056 I played for a couple of years with Danik at Uni days in the beginning, loved the game..1000s of hours most nights...he is a great snooker player also, seen him get many 100s in that and or clear the table consistently...i tended not to play him in snooker as i would only get 1-2 shots in a game at best...at least in billiards a shot every 10-15mins or so...i could drink a whole beer in between shots...lol
Unless I’m wrong, but don’t think I am this should only be a 58 break ... the red was potted twice into the same pocket and the red was not spotted onto blue spot :/ ???
Doesnt matter what pocket its potted in. It only matters if its off the spot. Once the red is knocked off its spot its just a pot. 2 consecutive times off the spot will have it spotted to the center.
burfodus oh ok sorry & very nice break :) .. I’ve been playing it wrong then lol .. tho only starting to play this from March this year and had 69 break :)
maintaining concentration for 20 minutes is not easy.... now i wonder what in Peter Gilchirst mind when he breaking 1000+ lol, have to maintain position all the time
mightynobble maybe try reading the rules, then you might know, you continue untill you do not score, a canon is worth two and is when the cueball contacts both other balls
Ive seen him get 100 breaks in snooker many times...i played at uni many hours most days with him...ive seen him clear the table many times..not from breaks though from memory...30yrs ago now
The forerunner to Snooker. Still played all round the world, but due to Snooker's popularity & this game being hard to understand the rules it doesn't get televised.
I am surprised no one has ever answered this in 5 years, no it does not go on the pink or pyramid spot, after two pots from the spot, it goes on the center spot, it will only go onto the pyramid or pink spot, if the center spot is occupied. N
@@aubreyaub Why do people respond to comments like "This is boring" with the riposte "It's actually a very hard game". What @julian_b 's highest score is doesn't come into it. He said the game was boring, not that it's easy.
Actually, the person picking up the balls is not the opponent. That person is called a "marker." The opponent just takes a seat. That's the break he gets.
I played most nights at uni for a couple of years with Danik..yes spent most of that time getting the ball out of the pockets...but I actually loved it..every now and then getting a shot myself..I could actually hold my beer and walk around and finish a whole schooner in between shots..lol..watching him close up doing some amazing shots was a priviledge...
Not my cup of tea at all but I can see the skill it takes, I just love 15 reds and 6 colours to play with. I'm not fully understanding of the scoring process to be totally honest, how you can miss pot but keep a break going just because of a cannon or in off?! Fair play though 👏👏👏
You can score by: - potting the red (3) - potting your opponent's cue ball (2) - potting your own cue ball in off the red (3) - potting your own cue ball in off the opponent's cue ball (2) - canon the red and your opponent's cue ball (2) - combination of any of these (example: canon + pot the red = 5) There are other somewhat intricate rules and regulations that I am not 100% familiar with, but that's the basics of scoring.
As a snooker player i don't get it, i do appreciate the shots & the white ball placement but its an open table with no obstacles & 6 massively open pockets. Boring as all hell to be honest & thats exactly what caused him the break interruption at 355, pure boredom....
Lol. Comments like yours always make me chuckle. People who don't play always fail to see the true difficulty of the game. In the beginning it's knowledge, control, accuracy, but then it becomes more about concentration and focus. Go play the simple lineup in snooker, all balls in a line any order and pot 200 in a row without missing, then you might understand the difficulty in concentrating for long periods. And in the old days they would make 2000 breaks. Thid break ended because he got slightly out if position after a slightly thin contact, that's What tiny errors can do in this game even though it looks easy.
@@qldsnooker I understand exactly where you are coming from with the difficulty in the positional play/shots & the concentration and focus needed to achieve a high break in billiards, what i dont get is the lack of excitement/entertainment/exhibitionism lol & skill which is the point of any game, billiards is a grind & struggle against yourself to test your stamina and resilience..... why even have an opponent ?. Anyway i see Billiards Launches 2024 Olympics Campaign, will be interesting to see if any get chosen seems Carom, Snooker and Pool are the favourites atm.
***** basic? lol, you obviously dont play it then, its a game of knowledge and control, there are more specific shots to learn in billiards than any other i have played, and i have played snooker, pool, 9ball and carom
***** maybe with your uneducated eyes, you look above and see a game thats very easy to play. Great players like Danik can make this game look very easy, but in reality, its very difficult and requires a LOT of knowledge. its only the basics of the game that seems simple, how to run through in off, stun in off, gather cannons, avoid smothers etc etc etc takes knowledge from all the different possible angles, and control the other ball at the same time for the next shot. I can make centuries at snooker and billiards but still can only hold top of the table for about 50 points and probably average 20. Danik holding top for 350 points is very impressive for those who understand how difficult it is. And Daniel, to correct you to your other points, Billiards is quite healthy with lots of multi century break makers around the globe. The main reasons the world billiards champs stopped for a while was snooker became popular and nobody could beat Walter Lindrum, arguably the greatest cueist across all cuesports in histroy.
burfodus woah woah hold on man, just his opinion, doesn't mean one is uneducated because they don't enjoy what you enjoy, kind of got your head up your own ass pal!!?? Very clicky community I'm seeing here from you billiards boys, I can see why it died out now! Clicky as fuck! I was willing to put the boringness aside for the players skill but.... You can keep your ballshit billiards 😂😂😂
@@qldsnooker I understand it's obviously a very nuanced game, like any game when you really get into the nitty gritty of it all, bit surely snooker is much more complex. There's so many more balls in play, so much more work in navigating your way through a break, you basically have the entire table open to play any angle you want in billiards it appears from this video
@@1invag all I can say is, this video does a very good job of making it look basic and easy. Like watching someone play golf and land center on the fairway every time and lay up 2 foot from the pin. you would think it's an easy game also.
Wow, sejlali1, I'm not sure what's worse, your horseshit about making a century at billiards or your maths! 16 blacks (reds) off the spot = 48. Where do you get 112 from? Oh, you are counting 7 for the red when it's only worth 3. No wonder you think you made a century. What you nearly made was a half century. And given that the rules of billiards only allow two consecutive pots off the spot before it goes to the centre spot, have a go at that rotation and report back in on how many you make.
I see the skill but what a shit sport where it can be manipulated into this position, essentially if your that good your break only ends when you lose concentration/ get bored/ arm hurts or the cows come home.
@@qldsnooker It's only impressive if you're prepared to be drilled into submission. It would be very impressive if I stood rock still in a field for 120 hours, but it wouldn't be a spectator sport.
Billiards was the first game I played, then I went to snooker. The angles from billiards teach you a lot.
This is marvellous. Amazing cue control.
I see that some comments are a bit on the down side. It's not fair to try and judge the game if you don't know what your talking about....I can almost guaranty that the ones that criticize this game cannot play most of the shots WHEN DEMANDED at the time regardless of either being in Snooker or Billiards. These type of players I regard them as fluke Player's. Danik Lucas is one of Australia's best Billiard Player's. I would challenge anyone who criticises the game of billiards, who thinks they know what there doing on the table and try to play this game at this level of Display. Just a piece of history for your understanding & Education, In the old days going back quite a few years, before you take up snooker you had to learn to play billiards, and be pretty good at that. The reason for this is to teach you how to strike the ball very well and angles. Bear in mind I do love any cue sports and I do agree it's not a spectators sport but neither is chess. There are people out there that admire in what they do in there field of sport and you have to respect that.
TheQMastr well said mate
well said spent many 1000s of hours playing billiards with danik at Uni when he started...i spent most of my time in awe of the bloke...its a shame that in the video it doesnt show how skillful his play is at getting to the top of the table as he does it easily....
Love this break.Fluent, relaxed and simple.
Hi Danik, Its Andrew Willett...i was there when his career started at Uni when he taught me to play and be part of a 2 man inter college team..we won 2 years in a row and both made the intercollege team....We practiced most nights till the early hours, Danik more than me...spent many hours walking around the table getting the ball out of the pocket for him...most of his college opponents didnt really understand the game and got pissed off when he spent ages at the table..fun for us..not for them..but loved watching his skill and concentration...he played some amazing shots, on a pretty average college tables in those days...he scored many 100s, i remember his excitement when he got his 1st one... and I watched him in his 1st Qld open coming 2nd I think and had a break in the 90s....so glad he went on to achieve what he did...
What great top of the table play. I know what to practice next time at the table. Absolutely brilliant. the key is in the smooth stroke.
A royal game at which even the commoners excelled. In India we called them billiard salons! Now kids play pool on the smaller table. Billiards teaches you a lot about hitting the cue ball with various spins, side etc. I played billiards then snooker. Michael Ferreira and Geet Sethi are two notable world champs from India. But at different times with the five pot, three pot rules. Ferreira has a then record break of 1500 made at the Calcutta Club in the world billiards championship. Both snooker and billiards can be played even at a much older age.
I remember billiards from when i was young but can't recall the rules / scoring. Would love to play again. After.. 30 plus years
I had a laugh too when I read some people think this game is easy.
I absolutely love it. I'm only a standard player with a highest break of 76, so I'm not quite good enough to hold top of the table so I'm reliant on length of the table in-offs, cannons off cushions, etc. so in a way you see a lot more different shots at my standard of play.
michaellithgow agreed at amateur level it's quite fun to play
Brilliant player IMO. He reminds me of Ronnie O'Sullivan in that he makes it look really easy, hardly pausing at all between shots, even the in-offs.
He makes this look so easy it's ridiculous. The yellow never got more than six inches from the black spot and never left that line just left of the black even though he must have hit it over fifty times. I sometimes watch the league players in my club and they are all over the table!
Fantastic to watch this talented billiards player structure a big break. It looks easy, but I know from my few attempts at the game, it's far from that. Pity the game is not as big as it was.
Fantastic to watch are you joking!!
Beast!! Need more hd billiard videos online!
wow this is kind of a cool game....cheers from the USA
The highest break ever in billiards is 499135 by tom reece in a match that lasted 5 weeks in 1907. His apponent had to turn up every morning then went to the cafe over the road. And some of you think this is boring (-:
His opponent probably thought it was boring 😂
AND!!......during the match,Reece was asking his opponent what he thought of the table and what sort of chalk did he use!!!.....hahahaha!!!
I'm sure this is hard and an amazing feat but I can see why the other forms of the game took over and are more popular. I'd love to learn this, and have a table I could play it and snooker on, I think I'd learn alot from it.
Such a dignified old gent!
Great skill and very watchable it is poetry in motion
i don't know about all the comments hating on billiards. Yes they longer breaks where the player sort of herds the balls in to one section and then skillflly keeps them in one place is maybe negative / boring but i have to say something in its defense ...i played it on my little table as a kid and learning about canons and purposely going in off another ball etc was different and made you think about the cue ball, cushions in a new way
joe2grand 100% agree at a not so skilled level some of the shots you have to play are totally different to snooker and thus teaches has thought myself a lot about cue ball control
joe2grand but I learn all of that playing snooker, remembering situations I was previously in and angles off of cushions, pace of shots... Cannons to open up the game... Snooker will make you a better billiards player imo not the other way!
You could play this on a 6' x 3' pool table and it would still be a beautiful game. First bloke to 100 points wins the rack?
Are the pockets generally easier than in top level snooker?
My friend and i play billiards at the local hall, we're bringing it back :-D
ironically the break stops at 355 and it was the easiest of cannons, just slightly harder and push the red closer to the pocket and follow up with the pot
I'm sure he'll take your advice!
This is the way the game of billiards is supported to be played and I would love to be able to play like that but can't which is why I give it up as a bad job
Interesting to watch. And yes: I do realise that it takes talent and skill to play this at a high level. Every sport/game does. And I would like to have a go at it. Maybe I will some time. But yet I do prefer the pocketless version of billiards, and especially the three cushion variety. This game has too many ways to score points for my taste, which at least makes it look easy in comparison with pocketless carom billiards.
Reece's highest officially recognised break was 901, which he compiled in 1916. Joyce Gardner, winner of multiple Women's Professional Billiards Championships, wrote that it was "entirely due" to Reece's support and encouragement that she decided to become a professional player. Only a flat earth man would know this.. x
well thats 20 minutes of my life i wont get back.
You should try pulling balls out of pockets for three hours before you lose count then see what Danik says...
Thunder and lightning are kind in comparison
they do say that the pro snooker pockets are tight. I guess to try and stop the amount of one visit frames and make things more interesting to the club player. That being said, these pockets would just be standard whereas the pro pockets are tighter than standard.
excellent break
BE THE BALL ! ⚪
That's some serious ball control...
whenever im feeling down I only need to come here and read some comments.
I understand 7, 8 and 9 ball. I even understand snooker and bar billiards but I don't have clue whats happening here. Why does he get to shoot again if he misses? Why does he shoot again after he scratches? Why is the red ball placed in different spots after being pocketed?
+lth5015 reading the rules of english billiards may be a start. but a breif run down is as follows. a losing hazard (scratch) is a scoring shot where you continue from the D and must shoot forward. 3pts in off red 2pts in off opponents ball. a winning hazard (pocketing a ball) is 3pts for red and 2pts for opponents ball however the opponents ball will not come back onto the table and you may only score 15 times without a cannon (so the break will end ) if the red ball is pocketed it will be replaced onto the spot (black spot for snooker) if pocketed twice in a row from the spot the red will then be respotted on the center spot (blue spot for snooker). and a canon will score 2 pts (your cueball hitting both other balls)
+lth5015 the concept of 'top of the table play' is to score a canon then a pot red or two to avoid the red going to the middle and move the opponents ball as little as possoble to keep the canon easy. controlling them and keeping them close together to continue the pattern as long as you can. whilst this looks easy from the video above it is not. most people bash the opponents ball out of position within a few shots or smother (snooker themselves for the canon or pot red) and the break ends. even top players around the world tend to knock the opponents white out of position then play a sequence of shots to bring it back. the beauty of the above break is the tiny amount of movement danik achieves on the opponents white. it takes lots of precise control.
+lth5015 watch at 3:40 when he is on 45pts. he scored the canon to the yellow ball. deliberately hitting the far side of the yellow to cut it backwards towards the spot. very risky as you can easily miss the thin edge. if he hits it too hard and covers the spot the red will go to the pink spot. try this 1 shot and you will soon discover both how difficult it is to get perfect and also how accurate your position must be to play the shot.
burfodus fuck me you love the sound of yourself don't you Dofus or whatever your name is... Zzzzzzzzzzzz
I don't play billiards, nor do I really understand the rules, but how is it a break if he keeps missing?
5 ways to score, pot red (3pts returns to spot) pot opponents cueball (2pts stays down), in off red (3 pts, continue from D), in off opponents cueball (2 points continue from D), and canon (2pts your cueball contacts other two balls). Other notable rules is two consecutive pot red from the spot and it will be then spotted once on the center spot (blue spot for snooker) so the idea of top of the table as displayed above is to pot the red only once off the spot, then canon, to avoid the ball being moved away.
burfodus yeah zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz oh sorry what was that I fell asleep... ⚪️🔴🔵⚫️ was dreaming of snooker 😂😂😂
Lee Barker someone such as yourself wouldn't be able to grasp or understand the rules of the game, this guy has more talent in his pinky finger than you've got in your whole body
@@seanslevin7056 I played for a couple of years with Danik at Uni days in the beginning, loved the game..1000s of hours most nights...he is a great snooker player also, seen him get many 100s in that and or clear the table consistently...i tended not to play him in snooker as i would only get 1-2 shots in a game at best...at least in billiards a shot every 10-15mins or so...i could drink a whole beer in between shots...lol
@@freedomofchoicelover3734 I was there but I don’t remember you being there. I had a drink with him and have his phone number.
thanks for the upload, good to see another new billiards video. How tall is danik btw? looks atleast 6'2
I played 1000s of hours with Danik..I am 6ft 1...he is shorter than me..maybe 5.9-6ft at best...might be the angle of the camera is deceiving
where in QLD is the action? I might be moving up from Vic
Very very nice , indeed , love the speed and confidence , you fucking nailed it buddy
Unless I’m wrong, but don’t think I am this should only be a 58 break ... the red was potted twice into the same pocket and the red was not spotted onto blue spot :/ ???
Doesnt matter what pocket its potted in. It only matters if its off the spot. Once the red is knocked off its spot its just a pot. 2 consecutive times off the spot will have it spotted to the center.
burfodus oh ok sorry & very nice break :) .. I’ve been playing it wrong then lol .. tho only starting to play this from March this year and had 69 break :)
All these years I've actually been playing billiards when I've lost a proper game and I'm messing about with whatever balls are still on the table...
lol...same here...lost many a pool game by sinking the 8 ball then going in / off at the same time...
He should never have missed that easyish pot at the end! Lovely skilful break, though.
maintaining concentration for 20 minutes is not easy....
now i wonder what in Peter Gilchirst mind when he breaking 1000+ lol, have to maintain position all the time
Lindrum, marshall, foldvari, lucas..
Great players
Do they make up the rules and points as they go along? How can you stay at the table if you didn't pot anything?
mightynobble maybe try reading the rules, then you might know, you continue untill you do not score, a canon is worth two and is when the cueball contacts both other balls
Why go to that much effort when I can make an ignorantly flippant comment which results in you telling me the rules?
I looked this up after watching some snooker clips because I was curious. I'm so confused
They can score by either potting the red, going in off or by hitting both balls with the cue ball I think
@@gregjacobs8544 Aaaaaah right, I see
@@ThinLynottFan looked this up after I watched a video about Joe Davis "the godfather of snooker"
cannon for 96 was great
i wonder what this guys max snooker break is
Ive seen him get 100 breaks in snooker many times...i played at uni many hours most days with him...ive seen him clear the table many times..not from breaks though from memory...30yrs ago now
damn...these ears!
+albernererhelge probably get better phone reception than vodafone
Whatever happened to billiards,always enjoyed watching and playing when I was young,I guess it's gone out of fashion?
the hell is this game never heard or seen b4
The forerunner to Snooker. Still played all round the world, but due to Snooker's popularity & this game being hard to understand the rules it doesn't get televised.
why do u think this game is dead? lol
becouse of many resson 1 people or player should aford to play and pay. other thing should devote some time for this game.
Its not dead, Billiards is played everywhere. N
there is a reason why snooker overtook billiards in popularity
at 0:57 I thought it went on the pint spot, lol
Neil Jerzynek I need a pint after watching that and reading bordofus's comments zzzzzzzzzzz 😂😂😂
I am surprised no one has ever answered this in 5 years, no it does not go on the pink or pyramid spot, after two pots from the spot, it goes on the center spot, it will only go onto the pyramid or pink spot, if the center spot is occupied. N
Undoubtably a very talented player. Undoubtably a very boring game.
Your best score being?
Undoubtedly youre the worlds greatest idiot...you don't even give yourself a chance
@@aubreyaub Why do people respond to comments like "This is boring" with the riposte "It's actually a very hard game". What @julian_b 's highest score is doesn't come into it. He said the game was boring, not that it's easy.
yeah he does, not bad eh.
I saw an old video where the guy locked the yellow and red in the corner and scored 2's for eternity. It was very boring though.
I think they changed the rules later to limit the number of points that could be scored that way.
ready for take off
Those ears, every red re-spot, just ears everywhere.....
I’ve played/watched snooker 22yrs. Never played billiards, seems to selfish to have your mate picking balls out pocket all the time.
Actually, the person picking up the balls is not the opponent. That person is called a "marker." The opponent just takes a seat. That's the break he gets.
I played most nights at uni for a couple of years with Danik..yes spent most of that time getting the ball out of the pockets...but I actually loved it..every now and then getting a shot myself..I could actually hold my beer and walk around and finish a whole schooner in between shots..lol..watching him close up doing some amazing shots was a priviledge...
I wish that referees EARS wouldn't keep getting in the way!! ha ha!
+Mrphilharmonic he can pick radio 1 up on them
The guy completely steals the show imho. For some reason he reminds me of Lloyd the bartender from "The Shining".
My highest break is only about 50 lol
5
Not my cup of tea at all but I can see the skill it takes, I just love 15 reds and 6 colours to play with. I'm not fully understanding of the scoring process to be totally honest, how you can miss pot but keep a break going just because of a cannon or in off?! Fair play though 👏👏👏
You can score by:
- potting the red (3)
- potting your opponent's cue ball (2)
- potting your own cue ball in off the red (3)
- potting your own cue ball in off the opponent's cue ball (2)
- canon the red and your opponent's cue ball (2)
- combination of any of these (example: canon + pot the red = 5)
There are other somewhat intricate rules and regulations that I am not 100% familiar with, but that's the basics of scoring.
As a snooker player i don't get it, i do appreciate the shots & the white ball placement but its an open table with no obstacles & 6 massively open pockets. Boring as all hell to be honest & thats exactly what caused him the break interruption at 355, pure boredom....
Lol. Comments like yours always make me chuckle. People who don't play always fail to see the true difficulty of the game. In the beginning it's knowledge, control, accuracy, but then it becomes more about concentration and focus. Go play the simple lineup in snooker, all balls in a line any order and pot 200 in a row without missing, then you might understand the difficulty in concentrating for long periods. And in the old days they would make 2000 breaks. Thid break ended because he got slightly out if position after a slightly thin contact, that's What tiny errors can do in this game even though it looks easy.
@@qldsnooker I understand exactly where you are coming from with the difficulty in the positional play/shots & the concentration and focus needed to achieve a high break in billiards, what i dont get is the lack of excitement/entertainment/exhibitionism lol & skill which is the point of any game, billiards is a grind & struggle against yourself to test your stamina and resilience..... why even have an opponent ?. Anyway i see Billiards Launches 2024 Olympics Campaign, will be interesting to see if any get chosen seems Carom, Snooker and Pool are the favourites atm.
@@qldsnooker Why are you commenting on the difficulty of the game? He said the game was boring, not that it's easy.
Don't get it.
Billiards is the most boring game ever. I thought football was shite but this is a different level.
***** basic? lol, you obviously dont play it then, its a game of knowledge and control, there are more specific shots to learn in billiards than any other i have played, and i have played snooker, pool, 9ball and carom
***** maybe with your uneducated eyes, you look above and see a game thats very easy to play. Great players like Danik can make this game look very easy, but in reality, its very difficult and requires a LOT of knowledge. its only the basics of the game that seems simple, how to run through in off, stun in off, gather cannons, avoid smothers etc etc etc takes knowledge from all the different possible angles, and control the other ball at the same time for the next shot. I can make centuries at snooker and billiards but still can only hold top of the table for about 50 points and probably average 20. Danik holding top for 350 points is very impressive for those who understand how difficult it is. And Daniel, to correct you to your other points, Billiards is quite healthy with lots of multi century break makers around the globe. The main reasons the world billiards champs stopped for a while was snooker became popular and nobody could beat Walter Lindrum, arguably the greatest cueist across all cuesports in histroy.
burfodus woah woah hold on man, just his opinion, doesn't mean one is uneducated because they don't enjoy what you enjoy, kind of got your head up your own ass pal!!?? Very clicky community I'm seeing here from you billiards boys, I can see why it died out now! Clicky as fuck!
I was willing to put the boringness aside for the players skill but.... You can keep your ballshit billiards 😂😂😂
@@qldsnooker I understand it's obviously a very nuanced game, like any game when you really get into the nitty gritty of it all, bit surely snooker is much more complex. There's so many more balls in play, so much more work in navigating your way through a break, you basically have the entire table open to play any angle you want in billiards it appears from this video
@@1invag all I can say is, this video does a very good job of making it look basic and easy. Like watching someone play golf and land center on the fairway every time and lay up 2 foot from the pin. you would think it's an easy game also.
Hmmm, okay. To each their own, I suppose...
So the Aim of the game is to canon a pink ball and/or pot a red into one of two pockets. How utterly Boring.
It's not interesting without knowing the rules. Here they are ua-cam.com/video/RfCLcTPE6ls/v-deo.html
Wow, sejlali1, I'm not sure what's worse, your horseshit about making a century at billiards or your maths! 16 blacks (reds) off the spot = 48. Where do you get 112 from? Oh, you are counting 7 for the red when it's only worth 3. No wonder you think you made a century. What you nearly made was a half century. And given that the rules of billiards only allow two consecutive pots off the spot before it goes to the centre spot, have a go at that rotation and report back in on how many you make.
You get 1000 points for a black on my table 🤗🤗
yawn, boring think il stick to snooker
I see the skill but what a shit sport where it can be manipulated into this position, essentially if your that good your break only ends when you lose concentration/ get bored/ arm hurts or the cows come home.
God have mercy, that was dull. It's about as entertaining as chess.
black dog you try and play,when you get your head out your arse let me know,bet you wouldn't make it to a 10 break
Boring af
what a boring game compared to snooker
abysmal... why videotape this
+Handsome_Hero probably because for people who know what he is doing its very impressive, sorry that you dont understand.
@@qldsnooker It's only impressive if you're prepared to be drilled into submission. It would be very impressive if I stood rock still in a field for 120 hours, but it wouldn't be a spectator sport.
What a boring game.