@@Andy-Bodhi Gosh - everyone is so uptight. Take a chill pill and calm down, it's just casual chatter. ( By the way, you didn't capitalize, "correct").
Ronnie has done 15 or so 147s, the most of anybody [ and that's in official matches, not exhibitions, or practice]. The record 147 break, by him, is variously quoted as 5min 20s, or 5:08, depending upon when the watch is started. There's a shot early in this video where he plays a red, left handed, almost along the cushion, into the top right green pocket, with massive screw, to come back for the black. That was the final black of one of his 147s.
There have been over 200 maximum breaks in competition play, with Ronnie holding the record for the most of those as well as the fastest. As far as I know, nobody has achieved the theoretical highest possible score of 155 in competition, but in 1995 Tony Drago did play a practice game featuring a "sixteenth red" free ball (opponent fouled leaving him unable to hit any red despite all fifteen of them being on the table). He potted brown as the free ball, added another brown as the "colour", and then cleared the table to get a break of 149 (not all were red-black combinations). Drago is also a champion pool player, known for fast play, so is also worth checking out.
When I was in the UK, I became rapidly obsessed watching snooker. Same as you, I didn't have a clue what the rules were at the beginning but I was mesmerized by the game nevertheless. I never missed a Championship at the Crucible on the telly. Ronnie will always be my hero 😉
It is about potting the ball and getting an angle on the next ball that will allow you get to choose an angle on the shot after that. If the shot is difficult such that you are unsure of potting it, you have to be aware of where you are leaving the cue if you miss. If you are shooting a red this means leaving yourself on a color without leaving your opponent a shot of a red if you miss.
And the points available for each colour. Snooker players like Ronnie can see a 147 from the break. A lot of the 'Amazing' shots, are only amazing in the context of the whole frame.
I watched something a few months ago that compared a 147 in snooker, a hole in one playing golf and a 9 dart finish from 501 in darts and my conclusion matched the podcaster. A hole in one is partly skill but mainly luck, a 501 is a result of repetition under pressure but a 147 is an example of perfection
Ronnie is widely regarded as the GOAT, when he is on form he is sublime, he can also play almost as good with his left hand as he does with his right, he has said in interviews he often thinks 2 or 3 shots ahead of the shot he is actually playing
Ronnie is a genius and nobody disputes he’s the best to ever play, but you better believe that every single professional player is thinking 2 or 3 shots ahead! Just part of the game.
Most american pool players have no clue how difficult snooker is. Im american and had never even heard of snooker until about 6 or 7 years ago. Just happened to have a snooker video and of course it was on ronnie pop up in my feed. And fell in love with the sport. I spent 2 years searching for a place with a snooker table that i could go to and play. I even put an ad on craigslist and facebook market place asking if anyone had one that i could come and play. Lol. I did get one call and the guy was about 5hours away but out schedules just didnt mesh. I did find a pool hall with a ten foot snooker table about 4 hours away finally. I drove there and booked a hotel for friday saturday and sunday. Lol. The guy told me the snooker table is never used so it would be mine all weekend. Unfortunately he didnt tell me it was a ten foot pool table that they just made the pockets smaller on. Lol. Not rounded pockets. Not snooker rails and not snooker cloth. But i stayed and played anyway. It was fun but just wasnt really snooker. I finally got my chance when i went to california for 6 months. There was a pool hall just a few blocks away. They have two 12 foot snooker tables. Proper snooker tables. I played almost everyday for the whole six months. Ill never forget the very first day i got there. Just looking at a table that is 12 feet long and 6 feet wide is so overwhelming. Especially with pockets that are only 84 mm's. Tiny. I met a guy that first day and he invited me to play on his table. Told him i had never played but i know how it is played and all the rules since i watched snooker daily on youtube. So he set a red ball down about a foot away from the corner pocket then set the cue ball about a foot behind the red ball. And told me to make the red ball in the corner. Simple shot right? Lol. It took me 8 tries to make that super simple and straight in shot. I knew the game was difficult but never expected that. But it took me awhile but i got the hang of making balls. My highest break in those 6 months was only 53 but i was more than happy with that. But now eveytime i go to a pool hall i ask if they have a snooker table or if they ever have had one. Some places say theyve had one in the past but nobody ever played so it was wasted space. And most places just say that people arent interested in playing snooker so they never got a table. Just pool tables. I think its sad because it is an amazing game. Amazingly hard. Super frustrating. But if you stick with it it makes you such an overall much better pool player. After playing snooker if i get on a pool table its just so easy. Your brain actually hurts after playing snooker because it is such a cerebral game where you constantly have to think. Its kind of like chess. And you have to have amazing control and an amazing stroke. My stroke improved so much playing snooker. Dont know why i just wrote a book here. Lol. But i wish more pool halls in the US would get snooker tables.
As a keen snooker player from England when I went to live in New York in the 90's I wiped the floor with almost every American i played at Pool. Playing Pool after snooker feels like child's play. Conversely when the guys from the NY office visited London and we took them to a snooker hall they struggled to pot anything :D
@frankiek2269 Yes, but he is regarded as the best pool player of all time. It is a bit of a leap in level. Could he beat O'Sullivan at snooker in a big final? Could Ronnie beat him in a big pool final? The answer to both is probably 'no'.
I was 16 the first time i played on a full size table. As a short person (170), I suddenly gained a new perspective and it was the first time I have struck a cue ball and missed the object ball with the intention of hitting it full face. over 12 feet, how you strike the ball really matters! If/when you go to a snooker club, do a video! Humility is your friend!
"Why didn't he go for the brown?" Well, the object was not only to pot a colour, but also to position the white for the next shot. Potting the brown would not have give enough of an angle to manoeuvre the white around the table for the consequent red. Snooker is not simply about potting, there is more to the game than that.
In most of these clips, the important point is where the cue ball stops, lining up for the next shot - any half-decent player can pot a ball, the art of the game is planning one or two shots ahead, and getting position for the next shot, so your opponent stays sat in his seat while you sweep up the points
Thing with Ronnie is, the cue ball is just a natural extension of him, he is the cue ball, he just knows what it will do/how it will act/where it will go, more than any other player to play the game, he's just better at nearly every part of the game all round than most players, but positionally/cue ball play, the goat!
12:00 "why did he risk that?" - look at the score. He was over 100 points in the lead with 13 on the table, he'd already won. Typically when that happens, players play out their runs until they miss, the opponent doesn't return to the table.
This the first time I've seen you properly impressed! A snooker table is a lot bigger than you think. Ronnie has been the best for many years, but all of the players are good
It's not just that the table is 2x by 2x bigger than a pool table [ 12' x 6' ], but the pockets are relatively tiny, NOT the enormous buckets you get on a pool table.
Ronnie O'Sullivan is with absolutely NO doubt the best snooker player of all times. Personally, i call him not a human but an extraterrestrial (even though i am a pool player and fan, i follow snooker from late 70's). Noone (with all due respect to at least a dozen snooker ''semi gods'') has played the game like he did/does. We are not talking about a super talent or a super great player, we are talking about a different level from all the other players who ever held a snooker cue in their hands.
If you watch the points at the bottom on the screen when u wondered why he risked screwing back into the side of the pocket after he potted the blue, he had already won the frame. He was just racking up style points. 😄❤
Some of those shots are amazing because of the situation of the game at the time the shot was played. For example, the left handed screw shot (back spin) from one end of the table back down for the black was to keep his 147 going - that was the best shot in the video for me 🙂
Best score achievable in snooker is a 147 and yes, plenty of professionals have done it, however, that does not mean it is easy by any stretch! There is the age old question of which is easier; a 9 dart finish in darts, a hole in one in golf, or a 147 in snooker! In my opinion, the level of consistency for a 147 makes the snooker feat the ultimate sporting challenge!
Love it when you're reacting to snooker. Not good myself but the tv doesn't do the table justice, I played a lot of pool and seeing a snooker table for the first time. Damn! It is huge, but people around you are usually calm so it's a great atmosphere. Hope you try it soon man
That's because a lot of older ladies like a well-presented man with an understanding of etiquette, who can do something well and can show them a nice kiss on the pink
For an amateur, to even get a colour after potting a red is a marvellous achievement! Even if you're good at pool. You can't ever be even better taught to be as good as him. It's a natural gift. Left or right handed shots - Ronnie at his height was just amazing
Fellow pool-playing American here - playing on a snooker table is so much fun, but also so torturous at the same time. It's like trying to play marbles on a football field 😂you get to appreciate any pot you can get on a snooker table. I hope you get the opportunity to play on one soon!
He went for the yellow because he needed correct angle to get the white down to the reds. So he gets 2 points less in that shot than with the brown. But had he potted the brown he wouldn't have any good way forward. You see that a lot, that players choose the yellow (2p) or green (3p) instead of brown (4p). And correct. If the Blue had been potted, it would be a foul, and the opponent would have gotten 5 points (usually a foul is 4 points, exept for the Blue, pink and black ball. (5,6,7).
The way he's able to be so precise is that as part of his training to become a professional snooker player, he/they earn a masters degree in trigonometry.
What most USA lads do not understand, and that tv cant convey... is the sheer size of the table. It is 12 foot by 6 foot. (3.6 metres x 1.8 metres). Then make the pockets 80mm wide for a 52mm ball. You honestly do not 'get it' until you see one and hit a ball on one in real life. Most people can pocket a ball on a pool table, but even an 'easy shot' on a snooker table is ridiculously difficult. I know plenty of lads whos highest score ever is 2 reds and 2 blacks.
Don't forget Ryan. When a player has made a significant break early in the frame, say 75 points, they now know that they are so far ahead in the frame and there is not enough points on the table for their opponent to come back and win the frame. Knowing that the frame is safe, the player then tends to relax and starts to show off and play exhibition shots just to please the crowd. Ronnie O'Sullivan, Judd Trump, Mark Williams, and Jimmy White where great for playing to the crowd. Judd Trump is so good at pleasing the audience that the commentators nicknamed his style as "Naughty Snooker." Check him out "Ridiculous Judd Trump Shots For 10 Minutes!" (10.20 mins).
If you can ever find one, just go and knock some balls around a snooker table and film it I know you have the upmost respect already but honestly it will blow your mind how these guys are playing three or four shots ahead, rifling every shot with insane spin on a surface as big as that with balls much smaller than pool balls and pockets unbelievably tight. I consider myself to be a very good pool player, lose my shit when it comes to snooker. Highest break of only 40 and I was absolutely over the moon with that. It's one of the most skillful games there is, I'm a pool man but snooker is just 10 times more difficult. The rocket is a demon that he can do that with both his right and left hand, a true true great of any sport let alone snooker
The first time i went to the british legion club with my dad back in the 80's i couldn't get over the size of the table compared to the pool tables in the pubs,took me a while to get used to them but won lots of games once i got the hang of it 😂never got a 100 break best was only 48,6 red 6 black i thought i was the new alex higgins who was a great player at the time
For the 3-ball plant again it's a tactical meta-game thing. It was not the easiest ball to pot on the table but it was what is called a shot-to-nothing. You have a shot you can play where you MIGHT pot the ball, but you can leave the white in a spot where if the red goes in you have position on a colour, but if you miss your opponent has no easy shot. If he had taken an easier pot on there was a chance that it would leave the red or the white in a spot that gave his opponent an easy setup if he missed. As it was, he left the white at the far end of the table, where all the reds where protected by the yellow and green.
Unlike pool if the ball you’re potting is close to the cushion (rail) actually hits the cushion before the pocket then it won’t go into the pocket as they are tighter than pockets on a pool table
Random fact: for a few months when he was 20, Ronnie O’Sullivan was the primary carer for his 8-year-old sister, because both their parents were in prison (his mother was convicted of tax evasion, and his father is a murderer)
He was also selling porn in his dad's sex shops whilst of school age, He won a tournament, was drugs tested after it and failed on cannabis. He was stripped of the title and fined He made his first century age 10, first maximum age 15 See, more Ronnie facts, I'm special just like you
@@johnloony68 The fact that stands alone... Won the world title, spent the entire following season away from snooker. Came back at the season's climax to defend his world title, and did. He didn't pick up his cue for a year, a year, and then retains his crown. The greatest, past/present/future
155 when your opponent commits a foul and the player is then snookered by the foul. The playef then designates a ball of their choice as "on", typically a colour as it gets respotted, then plays the black. 15 cherries remain to score a perfect clearance
I once plaed Johnny Archer 3x World Champion 9 ball player (at the time), in a $100 steak dinner charity event, and I broke and ran out, on a Gold Crown Brnswick 9 foot table. // But on a12 foot regulation BCE steel block rail snooker table, my highest run was only 38 points. & that feat was a rarity. // Got to love Ronny, he makes table clearances look easy & that quick play is his "read the table" shot brilliance.
this guy is a living legend of snooker!! during a competition after his first point of a game he asked the referee a little question: "what is the bonus for a "147"?" (a 147 is the perfect score!!! making 100 is already an accomplishment) the poor referee of the game, surprised, had to pass this question on to his colleagues who announced "no bonuses for a 147" despite this disappointing announcement, Ronnie still scored the other 146 points almost in one go.......
Loving the snooker stuff. I am a big snooker nut. Love all aspects of the game from the world championship right down the European/world u16s. I feel like now you lots of single shot videos. It might be worth watching something like a maximum 147 break. You could do Ronnie’s quickest one, or there was a great maximum made by Shaun Murphy in the snooker shootout last season which was a very special one. I was actually in the audience watching it live.
Alternatively, you could see a different side to snooker by watching the final frame of the 1985 world final, or the world semi final by Kyren Wilson and Anthony McGill. Both show snooker in a completely different light.
I'm surprised you asked what the highest possible score is, as you yourself have uploaded a video 4 months ago reacting to Ronnie's fastest 147 haha! Thanks for the video, great to see snooker getting some attention across the pond.
I played pool at a semi pro level for many years, but trained by playing snooker. It's so completely different in feel. If you've ever played pool and hit a shot which barely went into the pocket... I can assure you on a snooker table, you wouldn't have pot that same ball lol
The perfect score is 147. BUT, if your opponent had a few fouls, you can get more. For example : If your opponent touch a colour instead of a red, you get +5 or the value of the colour. Yellow, green, brown and blue = +5, pink = +6 and black =+7. NOT hitting any ball is also worth +5 points for your opponent. Then, there is the case of a free ball that can increase your score by up to +8 points : 147 + 8 = 155.
Ronnie is such a nice chap considering that he spent his childhood in snooker halls, very quiet and unassuming. And the greatest snooker player of all time. As others have said, watch his world record 147, it's poetic.
highest score is 147, but technically a 155 break is possible, The break involved a free ball, which therefore created an `extra' red, when all 15 reds were still on the table. In these very exceptional circumstances, the maximum break is 155
When your opponent commits a foul and the white ball is still on the table, if your next shot cannot hit any red ball full in the face, the referee will call "free ball" and you can nominate any colour on the table to act as a red ball. When that ball is potted, it goes back to its spot and you can play any colour and continue your break. Thus the maximum possible break is 155
Yes, 155 is the highest possible break in snooker? 147 is normally the maximum 15 reds 15 blacks and the colours. I’m surprised it’s not popular in America it’s a brilliant game. Love the video deserves a subscription. you should watch some of Judd trumps shots amazing
O'Sullivan sometimes gets, let's say, bored, and starts making more or less trick shots, I've heard that that's how he started playing left handed. 147 is top score, and O'Sullivan has made several, and other players too, but I belive that Ronnie has the most
spook/y is one of the few exceptions to the rule. Book, cook, look, nook are pronounced with an -uck sound, so if anything he pronounced it in the most logical way. English is famously inconsistent.
Ronnie is ambitious, when he was playing with his dominant hand he was ranked no1, a commentator once said that if he played with his weaker arm he'd b ranked about no7 in the world, he's such a talent, I only watch snooker when he's playing otherwise it can get pretty boring, every game he plays if a max 147 is on u can guarantee he'll b going for it
The first TELEVISED 147 was made by the Canadian Cliff Thorburn back in the early 1980s. The players at the other table broke off from their match to watch him complete it.
Not trying to be a dick here but that was the second one, with the first being by Steve Davis that same year in 1982. You kind of have things right though but for some of the finer detail, as Cliff's one was the first televised 147 during the World Championships. Cliff's fellow Canadian, friend and teammate by country snooker team tournaments, Bill Werbeniuk had been playing his match on the other table but his stopped so that he could stand by the table dividing screen and watch Cliff's break.
@@JazHaz - yes, that is correct. First televised World Champs 147. And John Spencer's would have beaten even Davis's as the first on the telly full stop if it weren't for the camera crew taking a break! (A 'break' of another sort I mean! Arf.)
3:08 yeah potting a red and a colour on the same shot or two colours at once if on a colour at the time is not allowed and is a four point foul if the colour involved is the yellow, green or brown or a foul to the points value of any other colours on any other ball, so five for blue, six for pink and seven for black. Potting more than one red in the same shot is fine though, so you would get two points for two reds, three points for three reds although that rarely (if ever) happens, but that is just as long as you were playing to pot a red at the time, as potting a colour and a red at the same time is a foul if on and only intending to pot a colour.
As many others have mentioned, snooker is about angles and pace, but also the angles can be altered by the use of side( english in pool) but also add the fact that the cloth has a nap which will affect the spin, pace and general run of the ball..
Incidentally, many professional snooker players don't like getting flukes. They prefer having skills rather than luck in this game. Especially during official matches.
So the shot at approx 13 min mark isn't a fluke. It's called a cocked hat double. His face is because he's not sure if brown passes pink to left middle.
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.
The 155 is possible in theory but has never happened in a tournament game. In fact, it has only ever happened once with any kind of camera recording the game, and that was a security camera in a practice hall.
Going for the yellow at 1:58 gives him a better angle to free up the next red. The brown is worth 2 more points but the chance to keep the break going is more valuable.
the key to understanding the beauty of these shoots is that they are the optimal ones. let me explain if you shot a red, you have to give yourself a position to a color one while preventing an easy red one for the opponent if you miss; if you shot a color, you have to give yourself a position to a red but if you miss, it is an easy red for the opponent. some color shots are so bold, a safety shot would be the easy answer but yeah, it's Ronnie! and the red shots are so safe while opening colors simultaneously, he gives himself 40 points if not clearing the table by his standards in the following shots. some sots are parts are 147 which adds to the pressure ( you notice the count on balls at the bottom, all reds and blacks ...).
Yeah, I'd like to know how much "fun" Ryan finds it. It's not frustrating at all going from pool (and especially American pool tables) to not being able to pot a ball to save your life! It does make you appreciate the pros though.
At 1:52 the question is asked "why did he go for the yellow? The brown would have given more points."While playing snooker the first focus goes to "position", no matter what color is being played. Of course, when the need comes to it and the player HAS to get as much points as possible the choice will go to the higher values (i.e. black, pink and or blue). But not paying attention to the positional play will always result in loss of the game, and thus loosing the match. Which of course can never be the intention.
Ryan, you need to watch some of the older snooker players (well, they are now) but when they were in their prime back in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Alex “Hurricane” Higgins, Dennis Taylor, Stephen Hendry, Steve “Interesting” Davis, etc. After you’ve watched some clips of these players in action, then find the clip where former player John Virgo does his party piece for the audience at the world championship, where he imitates the actions and mannerisms of the players I’ve mentioned (especially Alex Higgins). Make sure to watch the clips first to really appreciate how well John Virgo perfectly mimics all of them!
You have to watch Ronnies fastest ever 147 maximum break. 5 minutes and 20 seconds of absolute genius.
he already did a reaction to it a few months ago
@@scunner6828 Ah okay, I didn't realise - at the beginning he was talking as if he wasn't sure what a 147 was.
Wasn't it actually less than 5 20.? Something about the clock not starting at the right time?
@@Fwholecorrect, not only did the OP not check this UA-camrs videos he got other facts wrong...
5mins 8sec
@@Andy-Bodhi Gosh - everyone is so uptight. Take a chill pill and calm down, it's just casual chatter. ( By the way, you didn't capitalize, "correct").
Say after me:
SnOOker
SnOOker
SnOOker
S-nooooo-ker 😂
Snuhker
S nuke kerr
Yeah that's how you say it. And how I say it. But my Welsh friends say it differently
Snook as in spook.
Perfect score is 147. Ronnie has world record of the fastest 147.
And world record for spite 146es 🤣
Ronnie has done 15 or so 147s, the most of anybody [ and that's in official matches, not exhibitions, or practice]. The record 147 break, by him, is variously quoted as 5min 20s, or 5:08, depending upon when the watch is started. There's a shot early in this video where he plays a red, left handed, almost along the cushion, into the top right green pocket, with massive screw, to come back for the black. That was the final black of one of his 147s.
You can get a higher score than 147 though
he did a reaction to it a few months back
There have been over 200 maximum breaks in competition play, with Ronnie holding the record for the most of those as well as the fastest. As far as I know, nobody has achieved the theoretical highest possible score of 155 in competition, but in 1995 Tony Drago did play a practice game featuring a "sixteenth red" free ball (opponent fouled leaving him unable to hit any red despite all fifteen of them being on the table). He potted brown as the free ball, added another brown as the "colour", and then cleared the table to get a break of 149 (not all were red-black combinations). Drago is also a champion pool player, known for fast play, so is also worth checking out.
When I was in the UK, I became rapidly obsessed watching snooker. Same as you, I didn't have a clue what the rules were at the beginning but I was mesmerized by the game nevertheless. I never missed a Championship at the Crucible on the telly. Ronnie will always be my hero 😉
Remember its not just about potting the ball on lots of occasions it's about setting up the position for the next ball
like several shots ahead as well))
and ensuring, if you miss, that you don't give your opponent much on offer:)
It is about potting the ball and getting an angle on the next ball that will allow you get to choose an angle on the shot after that. If the shot is difficult such that you are unsure of potting it, you have to be aware of where you are leaving the cue if you miss. If you are shooting a red this means leaving yourself on a color without leaving your opponent a shot of a red if you miss.
And the points available for each colour. Snooker players like Ronnie can see a 147 from the break. A lot of the 'Amazing' shots, are only amazing in the context of the whole frame.
I watched something a few months ago that compared a 147 in snooker, a hole in one playing golf and a 9 dart finish from 501 in darts and my conclusion matched the podcaster.
A hole in one is partly skill but mainly luck, a 501 is a result of repetition under pressure but a 147 is an example of perfection
Ronnie is widely regarded as the GOAT, when he is on form he is sublime, he can also play almost as good with his left hand as he does with his right, he has said in interviews he often thinks 2 or 3 shots ahead of the shot he is actually playing
Ronnie is a genius and nobody disputes he’s the best to ever play, but you better believe that every single professional player is thinking 2 or 3 shots ahead! Just part of the game.
Most american pool players have no clue how difficult snooker is. Im american and had never even heard of snooker until about 6 or 7 years ago. Just happened to have a snooker video and of course it was on ronnie pop up in my feed. And fell in love with the sport. I spent 2 years searching for a place with a snooker table that i could go to and play. I even put an ad on craigslist and facebook market place asking if anyone had one that i could come and play. Lol. I did get one call and the guy was about 5hours away but out schedules just didnt mesh. I did find a pool hall with a ten foot snooker table about 4 hours away finally. I drove there and booked a hotel for friday saturday and sunday. Lol. The guy told me the snooker table is never used so it would be mine all weekend. Unfortunately he didnt tell me it was a ten foot pool table that they just made the pockets smaller on. Lol. Not rounded pockets. Not snooker rails and not snooker cloth. But i stayed and played anyway. It was fun but just wasnt really snooker. I finally got my chance when i went to california for 6 months. There was a pool hall just a few blocks away. They have two 12 foot snooker tables. Proper snooker tables. I played almost everyday for the whole six months. Ill never forget the very first day i got there. Just looking at a table that is 12 feet long and 6 feet wide is so overwhelming. Especially with pockets that are only 84 mm's. Tiny. I met a guy that first day and he invited me to play on his table. Told him i had never played but i know how it is played and all the rules since i watched snooker daily on youtube. So he set a red ball down about a foot away from the corner pocket then set the cue ball about a foot behind the red ball. And told me to make the red ball in the corner. Simple shot right? Lol. It took me 8 tries to make that super simple and straight in shot. I knew the game was difficult but never expected that. But it took me awhile but i got the hang of making balls. My highest break in those 6 months was only 53 but i was more than happy with that. But now eveytime i go to a pool hall i ask if they have a snooker table or if they ever have had one. Some places say theyve had one in the past but nobody ever played so it was wasted space. And most places just say that people arent interested in playing snooker so they never got a table. Just pool tables. I think its sad because it is an amazing game. Amazingly hard. Super frustrating. But if you stick with it it makes you such an overall much better pool player. After playing snooker if i get on a pool table its just so easy. Your brain actually hurts after playing snooker because it is such a cerebral game where you constantly have to think. Its kind of like chess. And you have to have amazing control and an amazing stroke. My stroke improved so much playing snooker. Dont know why i just wrote a book here. Lol. But i wish more pool halls in the US would get snooker tables.
53 is good! The book was fine!
@@neilreading3552 Only 53 lol.
And no, I am not laughing at the 53 part but at the use of the word only!
"Snucker" *punches monitor - takes deep breath*
hahahah
I think that's actually his revised attempt to pronounce it correctly! #LongWayToGo
@@ryanwuzer Google offers to translate "hahahah" to English. So ironic in context.
They say it that way in South Wales too.
Every time I hear "snucker" I can't help but chuckle. It's like how a little kid would say it!
As a keen snooker player from England when I went to live in New York in the 90's I wiped the floor with almost every American i played at Pool. Playing Pool after snooker feels like child's play. Conversely when the guys from the NY office visited London and we took them to a snooker hall they struggled to pot anything :D
That’s because you never ran into Efren. Lol. Or took Efren to London.
Well he lives in the Philippines so it's unlikely but yes Efren is good at both
@frankiek2269 Yes, but he is regarded as the best pool player of all time. It is a bit of a leap in level.
Could he beat O'Sullivan at snooker in a big final? Could Ronnie beat him in a big pool final? The answer to both is probably 'no'.
@@frankiek2269Efren has never played snooker and we all know why
@@frankiek2269 Are you really comparing an average Joe who works a regular job for a living with probably the greatest pool player ever?
I was 16 the first time i played on a full size table. As a short person (170), I suddenly gained a new perspective and it was the first time I have struck a cue ball and missed the object ball with the intention of hitting it full face. over 12 feet, how you strike the ball really matters! If/when you go to a snooker club, do a video! Humility is your friend!
"Why didn't he go for the brown?" Well, the object was not only to pot a colour, but also to position the white for the next shot. Potting the brown would not have give enough of an angle to manoeuvre the white around the table for the consequent red. Snooker is not simply about potting, there is more to the game than that.
No. He could have easily got on a red off the brown. He wanted to free the pink and black and the yellow gave him the right angle to do that.
Music to my ears.
@@fatroberto3012 That's false. There was only one red to play for, and there wasn't enough angle on the brown to get to it.
Ronnie has 15 x 147 breaks in competitive games. Ronnie truly is the GOAT
that red with deep screw, was played Left Handed, and he needed position for a 147, best shot ive ever seen
In most of these clips, the important point is where the cue ball stops, lining up for the next shot - any half-decent player can pot a ball, the art of the game is planning one or two shots ahead, and getting position for the next shot, so your opponent stays sat in his seat while you sweep up the points
Thing with Ronnie is, the cue ball is just a natural extension of him, he is the cue ball, he just knows what it will do/how it will act/where it will go, more than any other player to play the game, he's just better at nearly every part of the game all round than most players, but positionally/cue ball play, the goat!
12:00 "why did he risk that?" - look at the score. He was over 100 points in the lead with 13 on the table, he'd already won. Typically when that happens, players play out their runs until they miss, the opponent doesn't return to the table.
This the first time I've seen you properly impressed! A snooker table is a lot bigger than you think. Ronnie has been the best for many years, but all of the players are good
It's not just that the table is 2x by 2x bigger than a pool table [ 12' x 6' ], but the pockets are relatively tiny, NOT the enormous buckets you get on a pool table.
Ronnie O'Sullivan is with absolutely NO doubt the best snooker player of all times. Personally, i call him not a human but an extraterrestrial (even though i am a pool player and fan, i follow snooker from late 70's). Noone (with all due respect to at least a dozen snooker ''semi gods'') has played the game like he did/does. We are not talking about a super talent or a super great player, we are talking about a different level from all the other players who ever held a snooker cue in their hands.
If you watch the points at the bottom on the screen when u wondered why he risked screwing back into the side of the pocket after he potted the blue, he had already won the frame. He was just racking up style points. 😄❤
Some of those shots are amazing because of the situation of the game at the time the shot was played. For example, the left handed screw shot (back spin) from one end of the table back down for the black was to keep his 147 going - that was the best shot in the video for me 🙂
Best score achievable in snooker is a 147 and yes, plenty of professionals have done it, however, that does not mean it is easy by any stretch!
There is the age old question of which is easier; a 9 dart finish in darts, a hole in one in golf, or a 147 in snooker! In my opinion, the level of consistency for a 147 makes the snooker feat the ultimate sporting challenge!
Love it when you're reacting to snooker. Not good myself but the tv doesn't do the table justice, I played a lot of pool and seeing a snooker table for the first time. Damn! It is huge, but people around you are usually calm so it's a great atmosphere. Hope you try it soon man
I used to run a old peoples home and they all watched snooker avidly!!!! If you ever see the crowd a lot of them are old ladies and men!!!!
That's because a lot of older ladies like a well-presented man with an understanding of etiquette, who can do something well and can show them a nice kiss on the pink
"Why did he try that?" because he's Ronnie O'Sullivan and we're not 😂
I've watched him live and he is an incredible player.
For an amateur, to even get a colour after potting a red is a marvellous achievement! Even if you're good at pool.
You can't ever be even better taught to be as good as him. It's a natural gift. Left or right handed shots - Ronnie at his height was just amazing
By the way, if you enjoy snooker and Ronnie, it's worth watching Jimmy White's greatest pots. Some of his stuff was even more outlandish!
Fellow pool-playing American here - playing on a snooker table is so much fun, but also so torturous at the same time. It's like trying to play marbles on a football field 😂you get to appreciate any pot you can get on a snooker table. I hope you get the opportunity to play on one soon!
He went for the yellow because he needed correct angle to get the white down to the reds.
So he gets 2 points less in that shot than with the brown. But had he potted the brown he wouldn't have any good way forward.
You see that a lot, that players choose the yellow (2p) or green (3p) instead of brown (4p).
And correct. If the Blue had been potted, it would be a foul, and the opponent would have gotten 5 points (usually a foul is 4 points, exept for the Blue, pink and black ball. (5,6,7).
The way he's able to be so precise is that as part of his training to become a professional snooker player, he/they earn a masters degree in trigonometry.
Yes that's right. Msc. (Trig) Oxon. (probably) A man who certainly knows his cosecant from his cotangent
What most USA lads do not understand, and that tv cant convey... is the sheer size of the table. It is 12 foot by 6 foot. (3.6 metres x 1.8 metres). Then make the pockets 80mm wide for a 52mm ball. You honestly do not 'get it' until you see one and hit a ball on one in real life.
Most people can pocket a ball on a pool table, but even an 'easy shot' on a snooker table is ridiculously difficult. I know plenty of lads whos highest score ever is 2 reds and 2 blacks.
Don't forget Ryan. When a player has made a significant break early in the frame, say 75 points, they now know that they are so far ahead in the frame and there is not enough points on the table for their opponent to come back and win the frame. Knowing that the frame is safe, the player then tends to relax and starts to show off and play exhibition shots just to please the crowd. Ronnie O'Sullivan, Judd Trump, Mark Williams, and Jimmy White where great for playing to the crowd. Judd Trump is so good at pleasing the audience that the commentators nicknamed his style as "Naughty Snooker." Check him out "Ridiculous Judd Trump Shots For 10 Minutes!" (10.20 mins).
Ronnie set the fastest 147 in history in a time of 5min 20s. He has held that record since 1997. Nearly 30 years ago!
On a snooker table you can't pot a ball if you come off the cushion (rail). It's not illegal but the pockets are just too small.
If you can ever find one, just go and knock some balls around a snooker table and film it I know you have the upmost respect already but honestly it will blow your mind how these guys are playing three or four shots ahead, rifling every shot with insane spin on a surface as big as that with balls much smaller than pool balls and pockets unbelievably tight.
I consider myself to be a very good pool player, lose my shit when it comes to snooker. Highest break of only 40 and I was absolutely over the moon with that. It's one of the most skillful games there is, I'm a pool man but snooker is just 10 times more difficult. The rocket is a demon that he can do that with both his right and left hand, a true true great of any sport let alone snooker
Pool is a fun game but you can see here the amazing skill and game play of snooker that just puts it at a different level
The first time i went to the british legion club with my dad back in the 80's i couldn't get over the size of the table compared to the pool tables in the pubs,took me a while to get used to them but won lots of games once i got the hang of it 😂never got a 100 break best was only 48,6 red 6 black i thought i was the new alex higgins who was a great player at the time
For the 3-ball plant again it's a tactical meta-game thing. It was not the easiest ball to pot on the table but it was what is called a shot-to-nothing. You have a shot you can play where you MIGHT pot the ball, but you can leave the white in a spot where if the red goes in you have position on a colour, but if you miss your opponent has no easy shot. If he had taken an easier pot on there was a chance that it would leave the red or the white in a spot that gave his opponent an easy setup if he missed. As it was, he left the white at the far end of the table, where all the reds where protected by the yellow and green.
Snooker players are masters of geometry, and when they make a shot they're already 2-3 shots ahead.
Unlike pool if the ball you’re potting is close to the cushion (rail) actually hits the cushion before the pocket then it won’t go into the pocket as they are tighter than pockets on a pool table
Ronnie O'Sullivan the greatest player of all time GOAT 🐐
Century Break Is remarkable. A 147 is legendary, and this guy did it more than once. One of the best!
He's done it 15 times.
ONE OF the best?? Empty phrase! Tell me one name who is better.
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Some of the shots that you were amazed by were played left-handed!!!
Ronnie is naturally righthanded but can play just as well left-handed!
When you learn to play on a full size snooker table trust me watch this again it'll be even more amazing
Random fact: for a few months when he was 20, Ronnie O’Sullivan was the primary carer for his 8-year-old sister, because both their parents were in prison (his mother was convicted of tax evasion, and his father is a murderer)
He was also selling porn in his dad's sex shops whilst of school age,
He won a tournament, was drugs tested after it and failed on cannabis. He was stripped of the title and fined
He made his first century age 10, first maximum age 15
See, more Ronnie facts, I'm special just like you
Ronnie also once headbutted a snooker official in 1996.
@@johnmc3862that was a Glasgow Kiss, though...
@@johnloony68 The fact that stands alone... Won the world title, spent the entire following season away from snooker. Came back at the season's climax to defend his world title, and did. He didn't pick up his cue for a year, a year, and then retains his crown. The greatest, past/present/future
155 when your opponent commits a foul and the player is then snookered by the foul. The playef then designates a ball of their choice as "on", typically a colour as it gets respotted, then plays the black. 15 cherries remain to score a perfect clearance
The Green wasn't a Fluke, it's a shoot called a Cocked Hat Double.
I'd always heard it called a "Marcus Double" but I believe that's more regular pool not snooker they said that, at least where I live it was.
I once plaed Johnny Archer 3x World Champion 9 ball player (at the time), in a $100 steak dinner charity event, and I broke and ran out, on a Gold Crown Brnswick 9 foot table. // But on a12 foot regulation BCE steel block rail snooker table, my highest run was only 38 points. & that feat was a rarity. // Got to love Ronny, he makes table clearances look easy & that quick play is his "read the table" shot brilliance.
this guy is a living legend of snooker!!
during a competition after his first point of a game he asked the referee a little question:
"what is the bonus for a "147"?"
(a 147 is the perfect score!!! making 100 is already an accomplishment)
the poor referee of the game, surprised, had to pass this question on to his colleagues who announced "no bonuses for a 147"
despite this disappointing announcement, Ronnie still scored the other 146 points almost in one go.......
Loving the snooker stuff. I am a big snooker nut. Love all aspects of the game from the world championship right down the European/world u16s. I feel like now you lots of single shot videos. It might be worth watching something like a maximum 147 break. You could do Ronnie’s quickest one, or there was a great maximum made by Shaun Murphy in the snooker shootout last season which was a very special one. I was actually in the audience watching it live.
Alternatively, you could see a different side to snooker by watching the final frame of the 1985 world final, or the world semi final by Kyren Wilson and Anthony McGill. Both show snooker in a completely different light.
I'm surprised you asked what the highest possible score is, as you yourself have uploaded a video 4 months ago reacting to Ronnie's fastest 147 haha! Thanks for the video, great to see snooker getting some attention across the pond.
I played pool at a semi pro level for many years, but trained by playing snooker. It's so completely different in feel.
If you've ever played pool and hit a shot which barely went into the pocket... I can assure you on a snooker table, you wouldn't have pot that same ball lol
Ronnies positioning is sublime, he brought it to a new level.
The perfect score is 147. BUT, if your opponent had a few fouls, you can get more. For example : If your opponent touch a colour instead of a red, you get +5 or the value of the colour. Yellow, green, brown and blue = +5, pink = +6 and black =+7. NOT hitting any ball is also worth +5 points for your opponent. Then, there is the case of a free ball that can increase your score by up to +8 points : 147 + 8 = 155.
The guy is a genuis. His 92 break at the Crucible...mind blowing!!!
For our American friends who've never played on a snooker table, it's like looking down a freeway
Ronnie has made 15 147s in tournament play, unknown quantity in practice, he also plays left handed when he wants to. The REAL GOAT.
Ronnie is such a nice chap considering that he spent his childhood in snooker halls, very quiet and unassuming. And the greatest snooker player of all time.
As others have said, watch his world record 147, it's poetic.
America holds its own national championship, if you look you'll find a snooker table somewhere near you.
Lol. seen these multiple times..I was thinking well im a simple guy, a ronnie reaction vid..ill watch it! Great intro😀
He is that precise because he is the GOAT.
highest score is 147, but technically a 155 break is possible, The break involved a free ball, which therefore created an `extra' red, when all 15 reds were still on the table. In these very exceptional circumstances, the maximum break is 155
Love watching these videos.😊👍
ha ha ha
When your opponent commits a foul and the white ball is still on the table, if your next shot cannot hit any red ball full in the face, the referee will call "free ball" and you can nominate any colour on the table to act as a red ball. When that ball is potted, it goes back to its spot and you can play any colour and continue your break.
Thus the maximum possible break is 155
With Ronnie, everything is about position, whether for the next shot or in 3 shots time 👌👌
Yes, 155 is the highest possible break in snooker? 147 is normally the maximum 15 reds 15 blacks and the colours. I’m surprised it’s not popular in America it’s a brilliant game. Love the video deserves a subscription. you should watch some of Judd trumps shots amazing
O'Sullivan sometimes gets, let's say, bored, and starts making more or less trick shots, I've heard that that's how he started playing left handed.
147 is top score, and O'Sullivan has made several, and other players too, but I belive that Ronnie has the most
I'd love to hear your pronunciation of spooky
spook/y is one of the few exceptions to the rule. Book, cook, look, nook are pronounced with an -uck sound, so if anything he pronounced it in the most logical way. English is famously inconsistent.
But yet they don't pronounce pool 'pull' 🤔
@@Ascension721 The word "snood" is pronounced snoo-d, not "snuhd". Spoon is spoo-n not "spuhn". Spool is spoo-l, not "spuhl". And so on.....
Ronnie is ambitious, when he was playing with his dominant hand he was ranked no1, a commentator once said that if he played with his weaker arm he'd b ranked about no7 in the world, he's such a talent, I only watch snooker when he's playing otherwise it can get pretty boring, every game he plays if a max 147 is on u can guarantee he'll b going for it
the biggest skill is not just putting the balls but also getting the position on the next ball
It’s not just the precision required to pot the balls, it’s also being able to put the white where it’s needed for the next shot.
The first TELEVISED 147 was made by the Canadian Cliff Thorburn back in the early 1980s. The players at the other table broke off from their match to watch him complete it.
Not trying to be a dick here but that was the second one, with the first being by Steve Davis that same year in 1982.
You kind of have things right though but for some of the finer detail, as Cliff's one was the first televised 147 during the World Championships. Cliff's fellow Canadian, friend and teammate by country snooker team tournaments, Bill Werbeniuk had been playing his match on the other table but his stopped so that he could stand by the table dividing screen and watch Cliff's break.
First televised bud. Steve Davis was the first. I have the 147 Steve cue that was manufactured. My oldest son has her nowadays tho
No. It was Steve Davis in the 1982 Lada Classic.
I believe Cliff's was the first at the Crucible but not 100%
@@JazHaz - yes, that is correct. First televised World Champs 147. And John Spencer's would have beaten even Davis's as the first on the telly full stop if it weren't for the camera crew taking a break! (A 'break' of another sort I mean! Arf.)
Ronnie is best ever but Judd Trump is best snooker player to watch play his insane cuepower and potting ability makes him an excellent entertainer
3:08 yeah potting a red and a colour on the same shot or two colours at once if on a colour at the time is not allowed and is a four point foul if the colour involved is the yellow, green or brown or a foul to the points value of any other colours on any other ball, so five for blue, six for pink and seven for black.
Potting more than one red in the same shot is fine though, so you would get two points for two reds, three points for three reds although that rarely (if ever) happens, but that is just as long as you were playing to pot a red at the time, as potting a colour and a red at the same time is a foul if on and only intending to pot a colour.
The highest possible score is 147. Ronnie holds the world record time of 5 minutes 8 seconds. Sefinately worth a watch.
Context is important, those “exhibition” style shots were mostly after the game was won on points. But he is the greatest player, no doubt.
As many others have mentioned, snooker is about angles and pace, but also the angles can be altered by the use of side( english in pool) but also add the fact that the cloth has a nap which will affect the spin, pace and general run of the ball..
Incidentally, many professional snooker players don't like getting flukes. They prefer having skills rather than luck in this game. Especially during official matches.
Ronnie O'Sullivan: a human trigonometry calculator!
So the shot at approx 13 min mark isn't a fluke. It's called a cocked hat double. His face is because he's not sure if brown passes pink to left middle.
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.
His cue ball control blows my mind! How can you just hit a ball once with the tip of a stick and make it move with such accuracy! Its insane
For those who are not aware, a standard tournament size pool table is 9 feet x 4.7 feet. A snooker table is 12 feet x 6 feet!
@SR1Records not forgetting that the pockets on pool tables are huge compared to how tight competition snooker tables are
You don't go just for the points [went for the yellow instead of the brown]. It's the position after for the next pot [and beyond]. @2:00
Exactly, snooker is tactical.
The 155 is possible in theory but has never happened in a tournament game.
In fact, it has only ever happened once with any kind of camera recording the game, and that was a security camera in a practice hall.
Instructions for Americans.
Say "snooper" (someone who snoops).
Replace the 'p' with a 'k'.
That's how "snooker" is pronounced.
UA-cam, cube, Luke, rebuke, rebuker, Snooker.
Are those the same in your accent? In Canada half of them have a glide. Like, "Cyub", "R'byuk".
The shot you thought was a fluke into the middle bag off the cushions,is a cocked hat double shot he knew what he was playing 😂
Going for the yellow at 1:58 gives him a better angle to free up the next red. The brown is worth 2 more points but the chance to keep the break going is more valuable.
The camera doesn't really show the size of a snooker table, when you first approach a table it can be a bit daunting - 12 ft long by 6 ft wide
the key to understanding the beauty of these shoots is that they are the optimal ones. let me explain if you shot a red, you have to give yourself a position to a color one while preventing an easy red one for the opponent if you miss; if you shot a color, you have to give yourself a position to a red but if you miss, it is an easy red for the opponent. some color shots are so bold, a safety shot would be the easy answer but yeah, it's Ronnie! and the red shots are so safe while opening colors simultaneously, he gives himself 40 points if not clearing the table by his standards in the following shots. some sots are parts are 147 which adds to the pressure ( you notice the count on balls at the bottom, all reds and blacks ...).
If you've never seen a snooker table, not only is the table 12 foot long, but the pockets are smaller and tighter than on a US 8 ball pool table.
Ryan giving Ronnie tips on snooker 😂😂😂
There must be a table somewhere near you Ryan, love for you to play and report back.
Yeah, I'd like to know how much "fun" Ryan finds it. It's not frustrating at all going from pool (and especially American pool tables) to not being able to pot a ball to save your life! It does make you appreciate the pros though.
4.23 that green to middle is absolutely outrageous .. to hit that so hard and pot it clean and get all that action on the white .. unreal ..
4:20
Like others said, you gotta watch the fastest 147 ever.pure magic.
At 1:52 the question is asked "why did he go for the yellow? The brown would have given more points."While playing snooker the first focus goes to "position", no matter what color is being played. Of course, when the need comes to it and the player HAS to get as much points as possible the choice will go to the higher values (i.e. black, pink and or blue). But not paying attention to the positional play will always result in loss of the game, and thus loosing the match. Which of course can never be the intention.
147= Perfect. Oh wait, what a huuuuge coincidence the same guy has the fastest 147 in history.
Ryan, you need to watch some of the older snooker players (well, they are now) but when they were in their prime back in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Alex “Hurricane” Higgins, Dennis Taylor, Stephen Hendry, Steve “Interesting” Davis, etc.
After you’ve watched some clips of these players in action, then find the clip where former player John Virgo does his party piece for the audience at the world championship, where he imitates the actions and mannerisms of the players I’ve mentioned (especially Alex Higgins). Make sure to watch the clips first to really appreciate how well John Virgo perfectly mimics all of them!
12:49 The green was more of a calculated risk than a fluke. We've all done that a few times in our lives playing snooker.