Babe, wake up, it's that time of the year to binge watch Snooker highlight videos all night, and then never think about the game again. Thanks UA-cam, you've done this to me for like a decade+
To future players. As my father taught me, I will share his advice. Play 8ball with regulation size balls on a snooker table. Once I was good at 8 ball on a snooker table, bar and regulation tables were nothing. Reasons are the pockets are smaller on a snooker table and area is much larger. It accelerated the development of my eye. Good luck
@@asiseeit2041 so your playing on a snooker table with 2 1/4inch balls. That would help alot although the rail heights may affect your feel of bounces as it would react different. I only asked cos uk pool is played with balls under 2 inches smaller than snooker balls so would actually make it slightly easier. Good strategy though. And yes the pockets are tight as hell on snooker tables.
This video is a fantastic tribute to Efren Bata Reyes! His shots are not just about skill; they demonstrate a deep understanding of the game. It's mind-blowing to see how he can pull off those unbelievable shots under pressure. Thanks for showcasing these legendary moments! 🎱🔥
imho, Commentary or not, I appreciate there being time to see the layout of the balls and what was being attempted before the cue ball was hit. Many compilations feel rushed to me - requiring pausing or rewinding to see the initial layout.
@@paulchristie3306 I knew Kirk when he grew up. He used to play snooker at the Golden Cue in Scarborough, Ontario Canada. He went to Bendale high school but never went the school used to phone every weekday at 9:00am to make sure he was at the Golden Cue. Joe let him play for free and backed him if anyone wanted to play Kirk for money.
0:32 No. Not close. Watch at .25x speed. At least a quarter second late. Should've been running instead of jogging. 5:48 Has to be best of the best. Wow.
Neil's face was the winner, after Maguire's oddball. Best shots: - Murphy x2 - Walden Great shots from Rocket, Trump, Davis, Robertson, Heathcote, Williams, etc. Great vid, thanks a lot!
I was going to comment on a Jimmy White shot that was missed. But to be fair, and as someone else here has commented before me - this is actually one of the few compilations that has some amazing shots, some of which I hadnt seen before. Nice job!
2:10 Great shot by Selby, but since it's the shot that all of us useless bar-players would try (and miss!), it's a bit far fetched to add the "HIGH IQ!". 😂
I love Murphy's Escape/Red pot @5.35, the vision and talent to do it first try (having seen it done it took 6+? tries for someone on UA-cam to recreate it)
I've got a device attached to my phone. that when I speak it types the word. thank you very much. the same device can also translate writen word for me.
I have seen so many of these 'greatest shot' videos on youtube, but it is very rare that most of the shots on them are actually great shots. Kudos to ya, as it feels like you have actually done your research into great snooker shots to make this video, as I can see a strong case for each of these shots being one of the best in snooker history. Liked and subscribed :)
I am enjoying all the Americans in the comments going on about Reyes and not even understanding that they're not watching pool games. That takes *TRUE* stupidity.
For some they missed the real skill in the shot. To double a ball the length of the table is one thing but to generate the power needed to keep the backspin alive to the point of contact is truly impressive and to cap it off he managed to judge the spin loss over 10 feet to end plum on the black. I remember Davis trying to replicate that shot, he managed to pot the pink once in 25 attempts but never managed to keep the spin on the cue ball once.
@chrislaw4189 what does that have to do with choosing the best shot? By the way, there is one shot from him in the list, the extreme top spin on the black in order to open the two reds on the black cushion.
@@vladomatoski1634 Ah ok fair enough. I was pretty sure he was still banned, in which case he would not be eligible. I guess his ban must have now expired.
I made my living as a road hustler in the 80's. I had to make a lot of those difficult shots, but I had to make mine look accidental to keep the players at the table.
Probably shouldn't be on this list as it was a fluke. He simply overhit the shot and got lucky that it still went in. But I think the white also went in so he wasn't really that lucky after all.
Hay I am not snooker or billiards player. If you want to chest, wear a heavy wrist band and biceps band. And hit the ball as fast as possible. Make the cue (hitting stick, is that what it is called?) with high moment of inertia from the point of grip so it won't twist. If there are restrictions on what to wear, then wear them during training and not during testing.---suggestions by physics nerd.
Total bollocks. Suggest you pick up a cue then in 20 years when you have the experience and skill you might understand why what you wrote is nonsense. By the way, power is produced by the shoulder and elbow not the biceps. If you force the shot you WILL miss. There is no twisting in a cue it is manufactured to make twisting impossible but you don’t know what you’re talking about so obviously that is why your comment was pure sewage. A two year old could do better.
0:30 .... And then pause half way through the 35th second ... According to the TV countdown he didn't make it in time ! Clock shows 0:00 and cueball hasn't moved
Put him on a regulation table without the aids of larger pockets and diamond markers to help calculate the shots and watch him founder against snooker pros. He's good, but there's a reason he never made it in snooker.
@@rocketsnooker147 likely accepted the adjudicator's verdict was correct. And it would have been diffict to challenge the decision when the crowd was so hyped. Truth is he didn't actually lose.
Gary lost out again last week in Manchester against Ronnie when the referee could him for hitting the pink before it hit the red. Admittedly it was close but frame-by-frame replay showed he did hit the red first. He ended up losing the match. Feeling a bit bad for the guy...
Great compilation! 'Shot of the decade' getting thrown around for 'shot of the tournament' nominees quite a bit though. :D And 'shot of the century' on a total fluke... man... :D
Stephen Maguire’s shot (1:22) doesn’t really belong in this compilation. It’s a fluke, not a “top shot”. It cheapens the rest of the list to include fluke shots.
He will lose the frame as his opponent has already more points than him even if ronnie pots both pink(6 point) and black(7 point). So he needs a snooker, thats why he was putting the cue behind the black ,if his opponent fails to hit the pink then there will be 6 or 7 penalty points
You are obviously way to young. Alex Higgins and Jimmy White had some amazing shots. I think Alex Higgins shot (although a fluke of a ball bobbling out of the pocket and rolling along the top of the cushion into the middle pocket beets any of those for the cue power alone.
Alex was an enigma. I truly beleive if the guy had managed to keep off the bottle he would have been unbeatable. My favorite was the long double at speed on the pink to lie on the last red at the same end. It required amazing accuracy and backspin maintained from one end of the table to the other, that takes enourmous power.
1:20 Can someone explain to me what's the astonishing part in Maguire's shot? It seems to me it's simply a mistake followed by the coincidental results.
you see people calling this sport but for me this lads are artist much better then this new age artist i mean i get my blood pressure down just simply sitting in chair and watching this, theree are like 10 shoots where i didnt even know where will he shoot and what ball is he after and i watch right in to it hahahahaha. magician
Babe, wake up, it's that time of the year to binge watch Snooker highlight videos all night, and then never think about the game again.
Thanks UA-cam, you've done this to me for like a decade+
LMAO
I can relate
I feel seen
yep! xD
To future players. As my father taught me, I will share his advice. Play 8ball with regulation size balls on a snooker table. Once I was good at 8 ball on a snooker table, bar and regulation tables were nothing. Reasons are the pockets are smaller on a snooker table and area is much larger. It accelerated the development of my eye. Good luck
UK 8 Ball or us? Ball sizes are very different
I stayed in a hostel for 3 years, and they had 2 full size tables. Playing pool on 7ft tables in pubs was completely different after that experience.
I live in the us
Then you understand.
@@asiseeit2041 so your playing on a snooker table with 2 1/4inch balls. That would help alot although the rail heights may affect your feel of bounces as it would react different. I only asked cos uk pool is played with balls under 2 inches smaller than snooker balls so would actually make it slightly easier. Good strategy though. And yes the pockets are tight as hell on snooker tables.
I’m a standard US billiards player, but man is there some talent on that foreign snooker field! Excellent show, thanks for the upload!
This video is a fantastic tribute to Efren Bata Reyes! His shots are not just about skill; they demonstrate a deep understanding of the game. It's mind-blowing to see how he can pull off those unbelievable shots under pressure. Thanks for showcasing these legendary moments! 🎱🔥
Stop talking nonsense, bot!
I love how ricky walden high fived mark selbys hand when he made a 147
I wish I had an idea as to what was going on. True feats of mastery. I will now have to look into this snookery
Great vid…that yellow pot off the jaws was just ridiculous 😂 their lack of reaction is astounding to me
Probably during COVID when there were no spectators
I best he was wishing for a crowd in that moment! 😂
The voiceover wasnt needed
Perhaps, but I appreciated being given the occasional context (i.e., what tournament, what round). And I liked that the voiceover snippets were short.
imho,
Commentary or not, I appreciate there being time to see the layout of the balls and what was being attempted before the cue ball was hit. Many compilations feel rushed to me - requiring pausing or rewinding to see the initial layout.
Course it was, for us blind people.
Exactly, it's over exaggerated bull, I'm surprised he didn't say 'watch this death defying shot'😅
Yeah I agree it served no purpose
1:32 He didn't look shocked* to me.
Me pareceu mais indignado 😂😂
Jimmy white and his banana shot was one of the best I have seen.
@fook. When he was playing Kirk (coke) Stevens ?
@@paulchristie3306 I knew Kirk when he grew up. He used to play snooker at the Golden Cue in Scarborough, Ontario Canada. He went to Bendale high school but never went the school used to phone every weekday at 9:00am to make sure he was at the Golden Cue. Joe let him play for free and backed him if anyone wanted to play Kirk for money.
And his Masse shot out of a snooker against O'Sullivan.
Where is Jimmy white shot against Ronnie o Sullivan.
in history... there's not a shot in here older than 15 years
I understand virtually nothing of the game but the shots look really cool! Wish I could play pool like that ^^
A top 32 and not an Alex or Jimmy shot among them? You're having a laugh, mate!
I love how they manage to give the balls a rotation to further move em
Great compilation
Many thanks!
Really great video keep up the great work!
0:32 No. Not close. Watch at .25x speed. At least a quarter second late. Should've been running instead of jogging.
5:48 Has to be best of the best. Wow.
It was one of the best snooker videos. that was perfect😂
I love the "thats right" face at the end of these
Neil's face was the winner, after Maguire's oddball.
Best shots:
- Murphy x2
- Walden
Great shots from Rocket, Trump, Davis, Robertson, Heathcote, Williams, etc.
Great vid, thanks a lot!
5.36 minutes shoot
I just say HOW??? 🤯🤯
WHAT???? 🤯🤯
its unbelievable 🔥
One of the few videos where the thumbnail’s super-imposed yellow line was accurate to the video.
I was going to comment on a Jimmy White shot that was missed. But to be fair, and as someone else here has commented before me - this is actually one of the few compilations that has some amazing shots, some of which I hadnt seen before. Nice job!
My algorithm has gone mad, I watch this after bunch of glass making, glass blowing, but I really like this video👍
2:10 Great shot by Selby, but since it's the shot that all of us useless bar-players would try (and miss!), it's a bit far fetched to add the "HIGH IQ!". 😂
Some cracking snooker played here, I can't understand why there are so many negative comments, just enjoy.
I love Murphy's Escape/Red pot @5.35, the vision and talent to do it first try (having seen it done it took 6+? tries for someone on UA-cam to recreate it)
I don't even know what snooker rules are, but those shots look so unreal and masterful
Sean Murphy needs to work on his 'cat that got the cream' look.
It was a cool shot!
I'm blind. so the voice is good
If you are blind than how can you type😅
If you are blind than how can you type
I've got a device attached to my phone. that when I speak it types the word. thank you very much. the same device can also translate writen word for me.
No offence but if you’re blind what is the point in watching snooker
@@PeterWoodIV i used to be a very good player in my youth
The voiceover is good. It provides context and the names of the players.
In his prime the best long potter who ever lived or still lives Stephen Hendry.
Shaun Murphy's two shots are the two greatest snooker shots of all time!
Heathcotes Yellow against Day was played for and got, One of the Greatest Snooker Shots in History.
The Shaun Murphy one is the most impressive to me.
I have no idea whats going on but impressive anyway.
This man’s voice goes through me
Extremely annoying
Joe Swail is missed on the snooker scene big time.
I have seen so many of these 'greatest shot' videos on youtube, but it is very rare that most of the shots on them are actually great shots.
Kudos to ya, as it feels like you have actually done your research into great snooker shots to make this video, as I can see a strong case for each of these shots being one of the best in snooker history.
Liked and subscribed :)
Thanks❤️
More importantly STEPHEN LEE was there for all these shots!
@@rocketsnooker147 No worries mate ... oh wait, I wasn't the original commenter. Sorry 'bout that! 'Poligies to Auri ! !!
Murphy trick shot is effen Reyes level..
¡Excelente! Un video bien explicado, gracias
I am enjoying all the Americans in the comments going on about Reyes and not even understanding that they're not watching pool games. That takes *TRUE* stupidity.
12 by 6 feet 👍🏻
@@wibblewabblewoo6249 and no markers on the tables to help you calculate the angles either
Somehow I'm convinced that only the Brits would make this a spectator sport.
Very popular in China too, Americans don't have the attention span for it ;)
Alex Higgins pink down the length of the table then pots the black one handed best two shots ever
Against Virgo in unofficial frame?
@@rocketsnooker147 do you think Ronnie aside anyone could've did what Alex did with the pink and black ???
@@markjeffers4663 I don't think so bro, the cue ball control on those two shots was insane.
For some they missed the real skill in the shot. To double a ball the length of the table is one thing but to generate the power needed to keep the backspin alive to the point of contact is truly impressive and to cap it off he managed to judge the spin loss over 10 feet to end plum on the black.
I remember Davis trying to replicate that shot, he managed to pot the pink once in 25 attempts but never managed to keep the spin on the cue ball once.
Strange promoting to have vests as part of the official uniform. “What if we made all the contestants look like valets on break?”
Not putting the replays in it even slow mo is a crazy editing choice
You are missing the Stephen Lee screw back with reverse side on the blue against Mark Williams. That's the best shot ever played.
No, Stephen Lee is banned for match fixing.
@chrislaw4189 what does that have to do with choosing the best shot? By the way, there is one shot from him in the list, the extreme top spin on the black in order to open the two reds on the black cushion.
@@vladomatoski1634 Ah ok fair enough. I was pretty sure he was still banned, in which case he would not be eligible. I guess his ban must have now expired.
why wouldn't it be eligible? Doesn't say best shots from snooker players who aren't banned does it?
I came for Semih Saygıner! 🎉❤❤❤
When you hype up every shot as "The best shot. The shot of the decade. Blah blah blah." it devalues every single shot.
Their not hyping up every shot, just the ones that have been included in the video about the best shots in history!!!
I made my living as a road hustler in the 80's. I had to make a lot of those difficult shots, but I had to make mine look accidental to keep the players at the table.
1:32 😂
Top commentary!!
What about OUT of history?
Are you sure these 6:00 7:12 9:30 11:04 is one of the top 31 in history ??!!
I did the same more than 100 times
Can someone explain that Steven Maguire shot? Wasn't too hard to put it in the hole, and he even scuffed it.
Probably shouldn't be on this list as it was a fluke. He simply overhit the shot and got lucky that it still went in. But I think the white also went in so he wasn't really that lucky after all.
Hay I am not snooker or billiards player. If you want to chest, wear a heavy wrist band and biceps band. And hit the ball as fast as possible. Make the cue (hitting stick, is that what it is called?) with high moment of inertia from the point of grip so it won't twist. If there are restrictions on what to wear, then wear them during training and not during testing.---suggestions by physics nerd.
That was *almost* English. Sadly, however, it was mostly gibberish.
Total bollocks. Suggest you pick up a cue then in 20 years when you have the experience and skill you might understand why what you wrote is nonsense.
By the way, power is produced by the shoulder and elbow not the biceps. If you force the shot you WILL miss. There is no twisting in a cue it is manufactured to make twisting impossible but you don’t know what you’re talking about so obviously that is why your comment was pure sewage. A two year old could do better.
Obviously only a modern snooker viewer.. little or nothing before 2000..
0:35 the clock went to 0 before the ball went in.
The ball has to be struck before the clock goes to zero not it going in.
1:09 i@@mikeorgan1993😢thyj
If you play it in slowmo at .25 That the clock runs out and hits zero before he even hits the ball. I was rooting for the guy, but yeah
@@mikeorgan1993😊😅
"Name the best 32 Snooker shots and explain why they're all Ronnie O'Sullivan."
Nice collection, thanks for posting.
Gary Wilson safety vs Trump, easily top 3 ever
No reynes here hahahahahahaha
he doesn't play snooker. this video is about snooker. does it hurt being that stupid or does it come naturally for you?
I turned off the sound, the voice over is too irritating
why because it's American??
@@chozusmakavelli No. It’s hurting my ears because it’s too sharp.
@@chozusmakavelli nee hoor. Omdat het veel te scherp is, zie ook andere commentaren. Ik heb verder niets tegen amerikaans-engels.
@@marsjel1962 ik haat ook veramerikaniseerde Engelse mannen.
No way that Anthony mcgill shot got in there....is this his UA-cam channel?😂😂😂
Great 👍
ничего не понятно, но очень интересно!
0:30 .... And then pause half way through the 35th second ... According to the TV countdown he didn't make it in time ! Clock shows 0:00 and cueball hasn't moved
Actually Gary accepts the defeat. So, it wasn't checked in depth.
I miss willie thorne, legend!
Good player but like watching paint dry. Sorry.
I don't know how they even think about playing some of those shots, but then they have perfect execution as well! Amazing skill.
No one can do the magic tricks of efren reyes the GOAT
Put him on a regulation table without the aids of larger pockets and diamond markers to help calculate the shots and watch him founder against snooker pros. He's good, but there's a reason he never made it in snooker.
From 4 or more then that I was thinking who to correct my ue actions
Why is jimmy white shoes so massive and he is 5 foot 8
Shaun murphys shot isnt hard at all but it does look good.
Swail hit the ball just after the timer hits zero. Can slow it down and check it for yourselves.
Maybe but Gary accepts the defeat.
@@rocketsnooker147 likely accepted the adjudicator's verdict was correct. And it would have been diffict to challenge the decision when the crowd was so hyped. Truth is he didn't actually lose.
wonder if they allowed it cause ball was in play before the alarm was going off
Gary lost out again last week in Manchester against Ronnie when the referee could him for hitting the pink before it hit the red. Admittedly it was close but frame-by-frame replay showed he did hit the red first. He ended up losing the match. Feeling a bit bad for the guy...
Great compilation! 'Shot of the decade' getting thrown around for 'shot of the tournament' nominees quite a bit though. :D
And 'shot of the century' on a total fluke... man... :D
5:35 To me thats the best shot ever
I'm not trying to make this shot smaller as it is 4:10 didn't Alex Higgins made that shot as well?
Apparently I've been playing the wrong game all this time. All of my crappy pool shots look like they would be awesome snooker shots.
can't believe that these are real 😅
Voice over - fail.
No replays - fail.
Content - win.
Where are the whirlwind and the hurricane?????
There was a couple of great shots some of these are basic snooker shots.
They were all shots I would take.
6:43 inacreditável
Some of these shots are shots I’ve made lol. Not saying that some of these aren’t impressive, but some of them are dull. Waste of time.
Oh! I'm soo old... I remember Hendry's shot 🤦
Stephen Maguire’s shot (1:22) doesn’t really belong in this compilation. It’s a fluke, not a “top shot”.
It cheapens the rest of the list to include fluke shots.
Sometimes flukes are fun to watch.
Where is Efren Reyes the GOAT
He doesn't play snooker!
What's that last one all about? Commentary fooled snooker shot? What the hell does that mean?
The thumbnail shot is 5.34 your welcome 👍
My name is Sam Oates bideford and demi the dog
Yeah, I don’t get snooker. It’s like rugby; it looks similar to a game I know, but still significantly different.
Veo a la australiana bailando breaking en los JJOO y no me explico como este deporte no esta...
10:20 why would O'sullivan not pot the pink ball here ? I don't understand that part of the game
He will lose the frame as his opponent has already more points than him even if ronnie pots both pink(6 point) and black(7 point). So he needs a snooker, thats why he was putting the cue behind the black ,if his opponent fails to hit the pink then there will be 6 or 7 penalty points
Very impressive but doesn't anyone play regular pool anymore?
Pool is a different game and played on small size tables
You are obviously way to young. Alex Higgins and Jimmy White had some amazing shots. I think Alex Higgins shot (although a fluke of a ball bobbling out of the pocket and rolling along the top of the cushion into the middle pocket beets any of those for the cue power alone.
Alex was an enigma. I truly beleive if the guy had managed to keep off the bottle he would have been unbeatable. My favorite was the long double at speed on the pink to lie on the last red at the same end. It required amazing accuracy and backspin maintained from one end of the table to the other, that takes enourmous power.
The same shots have been shown so many times. :( :( :(
What’s the deal with the pink ball
1:20 Can someone explain to me what's the astonishing part in Maguire's shot? It seems to me it's simply a mistake followed by the coincidental results.
you see people calling this sport but for me this lads are artist much better then this new age artist i mean i get my blood pressure down just simply sitting in chair and watching this, theree are like 10 shoots where i didnt even know where will he shoot and what ball is he after and i watch right in to it hahahahaha. magician
Where is Alex Higginsons pink and black 1 handed shots against JV.