Well oversimplified, just put those balls into one of those holes (pockets). These are fluked shots, where players were lucky and scored even though they missed the intended shot.
Red = 1, yellow = 2, green =3 then brown, blue, pink, black = 7. Pot a red, you get the chance to go for a colour. Miss and you lose your turn. When pot last red, you can go for one colour, then, pot colours in order. If you foul, 4 points to opponent, minimum - bigger penalty for a foul such as potting a pink. The table size is HUGE - about 4 pool tables worth. Hope this helps.
That's a great video because of the context you gave after each shot. Well done! This World Championship was unforgettable, one of - if not the best championship I've ever seen in the past 15 years.
For an amateur like me that plays billiards for fun sometimes, it is kind of hearthening to see that even the pros miss what seems to be straight-forward shots sometimes, especially long ones.
He was going for a safety. Just hit half ball and hope it end up on the cushion. There is no chance to judge the swerve so precise on such a long distance
@@HardxCorpsxKali players apologise after a lucky shot because it's good sportsmanship, ideally all their shots would be intentional and luck would play no role in the game so they know they're flukes because they look at the opponent and discretely shrug, raise their eyebrows, or wave their hand to apologise for the lucky shot
@@omaralonso4364 well I suppose that’s what most of them were doing but for Sullivan the shot was exactly intentional. There was nothing about that shot that was a fluke.
My fave snooker fluke is Ding going for a 147 against Ronnie. I think he miscues the yellow, but it ricochets into the middle pocket. Ronnie pisses himself laughing. Unfortunately Ding misses a shot right after, but it's a classic moment.
@@medved5925 Watching the first three, all were flukes. First one, pink ball went in different hole than intended, no problems there. Second one, he was positioning cue ball very close behind the black ball, so there was no easy shots for the opponent. Sinking the red ball meant that he had to now take that difficult shot himself. Third one, same as second, he positions the cue ball all the way at the top near the railing to give his opponent a difficult shot, a standard move to end your turns. But sinking it now made it difficult. These are my analysis, I could be wrong though.
@@SergeantXray Well, that seems very funny to me, that of all flukes in this video man from up there sign out Ronnie's fluke, there's a few shots in this video, that looks like attack much more. I think that was a joke. So I respond to joke with a joke. That's all.
You always have to shoot a red first (if one still on the table), which is worth one point. Then shoot non reds, which each have a different value. Doesn't matter which hole they go in or how they got there if legally shot.
As someone who sucks at billiards and still lines up combo shots, bank shots and really tight cuts that should work, I find it difficult to believe that some of these were flukes as some look like fully realized versions of the shots I try to line up and miss. That said, fluke or not, these are the kinds of shots I like to see.
In 8-pool i play (mostly tournament rules like APA) All those fluke shots wouldn't count, as you have to call the ball and pocket. Any crazy shot has to be called. But TBH snooker is such a more difficult game I don't care that they give them the flukes.
Flukes are just part of the game, no apology needed in my opinion. Both players should just grin and get on with it. I've seen Kyren Wilson actually gets angry when he flukes one, but name me a player who never flukes and I'll call you a liar. And if you make your ball but leave yourself snookered that's a fluke too, but no one apologizes for that!
No idea why this popped up on my recommended list. I don't play pool, have no clue what the rules of snooker are, and wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell of being able to play it, but this was satisfying to watch nonetheless.
This is how most snooker players even manage to pocket balls, and why amateur matches take so long. Less lokely to fluke a ball when not many left on the table
I like snooker, but I like pool a little better, because in pool you call your shot (or use the honor system) and a "fluke" is called "slop" (short for "sloppy") and even though the ball still stays in the pocket, their run ends right there (unless it's a kid, then slop usually counts).
it may be an unbelievably uninteresting game but hehe I like the click clack when they hit each other it's very nice and the clapping after every shot makes me think I'm playing Wii sports
Fan if they're aiming for a pocket and they get a pocket it's not a fluke, just a different shot to expected.. it's the safeties that sink that are really nice flukes
By the reactions of the audience and the faces of the players after nailing those shots, as a complete outsider I have absolutely not idea if they are playing hella good or absolutely bad.
@@SnookerPlanet Ok but most of the videos show flukes when someone is aiming for a hole, but the ball ends in a different. In this case the goal was for sure touch the red ball, and (if possible) to get it inside the bottom right hole. That's a very hard shot, but not impossible, and definitely closer to what he intended to achieve, than any other video in this compilation ;)
@@piotrfrozen Potting it was a fluke, there's no way at that pace he was going for the pocket. The far more likely outcome of that would have been setting the red up over the pocket. It has a safety shot and he fluked the pot. Use some common sense. Not even the best pros in the world can consistently and accurately hit full length swerve shots to pot, they aim to hit half the red and bring the cue ball back up the table.
I once had like 5 flukes in a match against my much better friend, he wasn't pleased, we then went on the darts and I somehow clutched a win on them too.
This somehow got recommended to me... Although those are all amazing shots, I know absolutely nothing about snooker. Is the table + pockets the same dimensions as in pool? Are the balls the same size/weight as pool balls? Can you play snooker on a pool table or are there tables that can be used for both? And What's up with the pink, blue, brown, yellow and green balls? No idea... :D
Table is bigger(substantially) at 12 by 6ft and the pockets are tighter than on a pool table. The snooker balls are slightly smaller than pool balls. In some instances you can play snooker on an English pool table but not on American pool table as snooker uses curved pockets(makes potting harder) while American pool tables have straight pockets. The scoring you can look up but you have to sink a red ball and then 1 coloured ball and then red again. The colours are worth significantly more points than the reds. Search up and watch O'Sullivan 147 only about 6 minutes long to see a quick demo
I think it's extremely disrespectful for the commentators to call everything a fluke. Especially when the player is clearly going after the sharp hits and risky plays..
I have no idea what are the rules of this game I randomly clicked on this video and for me all shots looks equally amazing 😂
Well oversimplified, just put those balls into one of those holes (pockets). These are fluked shots, where players were lucky and scored even though they missed the intended shot.
@@mrkv4k he probably meant the rules of snooker
@@mxdori9905 Which, oversimplified is ‘just put those balls into one of those holes’. Job done
Red = 1, yellow = 2, green =3 then brown, blue, pink, black = 7.
Pot a red, you get the chance to go for a colour. Miss and you lose your turn. When pot last red, you can go for one colour, then, pot colours in order. If you foul, 4 points to opponent, minimum - bigger penalty for a foul such as potting a pink. The table size is HUGE - about 4 pool tables worth.
Hope this helps.
Same
That's a great video because of the context you gave after each shot. Well done! This World Championship was unforgettable, one of - if not the best championship I've ever seen in the past 15 years.
And semifinal Trump - Williams - best match I've ever seen!
They really made this new wii sports with really good graphics, i still love how they kept the old cheering voices.
3:50 - that was no fluke - that was skill! (I guess he didn't mean to pot it - but the expression on his face says otherwise!)
I can’t agree with you more.
I agree
For an amateur like me that plays billiards for fun sometimes, it is kind of hearthening to see that even the pros miss what seems to be straight-forward shots sometimes, especially long ones.
Its encouraging, because it ahows that everyone misses sometimes
"A master/pro aren't they who never fail, they are just those that trained a lot to make sure they fail less"
- me, 2022
i like how they call it fluke back in my day we call it slop
@@Shadeon_ A pro is someone who has failed more times than anyone else has tried.
Find and practice on a snooker table. Compared to that, a billiards table is easy.
I guess it's that time of the year YT recommends me a snooker video and I binge watch them for the next couple of hours
You too, eh?
Blessed be the algorithm. Blessed be you, who shall now continue thy journey.
3:46 Thats not a lucky shot, that is a skillfull one.
Edit : there are many shots that are lucky, but some are for me just skilled ones
He was going for a safety. Just hit half ball and hope it end up on the cushion. There is no chance to judge the swerve so precise on such a long distance
I think he is right bcz to when spinning cue ball u dont know where its gonna finish so i think skillfull👍👍
I replayed this in awe too! That wasn't lust a fluke with a curveball :D
@@SnookerPlanet Yes, there isn't. On the other hand, if there is a snooker player who could do it, it's Ronnie.
@@LordKronsell I see lust, I read lust
Only one clip from Sullivan and it's just pure skill :D
I know I don’t understand how they said “fluke” when all of his shots are that exact same level of skill. Hahaha
@@HardxCorpsxKali players apologise after a lucky shot because it's good sportsmanship, ideally all their shots would be intentional and luck would play no role in the game
so they know they're flukes because they look at the opponent and discretely shrug, raise their eyebrows, or wave their hand to apologise for the lucky shot
@@omaralonso4364 well I suppose that’s what most of them were doing but for Sullivan the shot was exactly intentional. There was nothing about that shot that was a fluke.
He made a monster fluke on a re spotted black in the final which for some reason Wasn’t included
My fave snooker fluke is Ding going for a 147 against Ronnie. I think he miscues the yellow, but it ricochets into the middle pocket. Ronnie pisses himself laughing. Unfortunately Ding misses a shot right after, but it's a classic moment.
We all know that #3 wasn't a fluke. Ronnie O'Sullivan played that perfectly with his top notch skill and finesse.
Actually, all 33 position in that video wasn't a fluke. Every single player just played perfectly.
@@medved5925 Watching the first three, all were flukes.
First one, pink ball went in different hole than intended, no problems there.
Second one, he was positioning cue ball very close behind the black ball, so there was no easy shots for the opponent. Sinking the red ball meant that he had to now take that difficult shot himself.
Third one, same as second, he positions the cue ball all the way at the top near the railing to give his opponent a difficult shot, a standard move to end your turns. But sinking it now made it difficult.
These are my analysis, I could be wrong though.
Unless you people are just sarcasming all around, I can’t detect that shit
@@SergeantXray Well, that seems very funny to me, that of all flukes in this video man from up there sign out Ronnie's fluke, there's a few shots in this video, that looks like attack much more. I think that was a joke. So I respond to joke with a joke. That's all.
@@SergeantXray and yes, I'm not sure was he sarcasming, or serious too.
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don’t know. Single rule, randomly clicked, amazing video
The crowd's reaction makes me feel like I'm playing Wii Sports lol
It's amazing, that the thumbnail isn't clickbait
Though it takes allot of skill to do Snooker, a little bit of luck also helps, even with the Pro Players. Thanks for this video.
Finally after a long time with the flukes!!
Finally another planet Snooker Video!!! 😁😁😁
I have no idea how Snooker works but I see a pool table, geometry, points, and 33 super lucky(?) shots. This pleases my brain.
You always have to shoot a red first (if one still on the table), which is worth one point. Then shoot non reds, which each have a different value. Doesn't matter which hole they go in or how they got there if legally shot.
As someone who sucks at billiards and still lines up combo shots, bank shots and really tight cuts that should work, I find it difficult to believe that some of these were flukes as some look like fully realized versions of the shots I try to line up and miss. That said, fluke or not, these are the kinds of shots I like to see.
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Double hit from 4:02 to 4:05 is definitely amazing
Magnifique ♥️ 👍 O'Sullivan toujours au top
Number 16 was very cool. Oh, and in case you missed it, it's amazing what happens on a snooker table 12 be 6.
I think it's really good, that you've taken the time & the trouble, to put little comments on with the clips. Adds some context to it......👍
All of these shots are amazing
thx for upload🔥🔥
Great editing. Super shots.
the crowd going "Oohh!" and clapping every time just kills me for some reason
It's like the wii sports crowd
Ok... this is AMAZING...
Incrível ... jogadas fantásticas e excedem as poucas probabilidades!! Este jogo de Snooker ...faz com que eu goste ainda mais de Snooker!!
Williams had two chances but he bottled the final spot
Serious sports do having some fun :D great vid
This video might be a repost, but it's still a good one
There is only one fluke from Sullivan, because they all look like that - he just hits exactly what he wanted to hit.
In 8-pool i play (mostly tournament rules like APA) All those fluke shots wouldn't count, as you have to call the ball and pocket. Any crazy shot has to be called. But TBH snooker is such a more difficult game I don't care that they give them the flukes.
The best one, for me, was the one where he hit the ball and accidentally didn’t miss
The UA-cam algorithm has no idea what I want… but it knows what I need
....What....No way....Looked the other way....A breath of error....A fluke that reminds why frogs exist....love continues....
9:57 Best Reaction lol 😂
That's a Slopper: "Betcha didn't see that coming!" Slopped: "Yep" Slopper: "Me too"
Flukes are just part of the game, no apology needed in my opinion. Both players should just grin and get on with it. I've seen Kyren Wilson actually gets angry when he flukes one, but name me a player who never flukes and I'll call you a liar. And if you make your ball but leave yourself snookered that's a fluke too, but no one apologizes for that!
What's the significance of the hand wave?
Calculated.
I'm beginning to believe Higgins is immortal
O'Sullivan was my fav player when i was a kid, cable TV, Eurosport, man...
No idea why this popped up on my recommended list. I don't play pool, have no clue what the rules of snooker are, and wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell of being able to play it, but this was satisfying to watch nonetheless.
This is how most snooker players even manage to pocket balls, and why amateur matches take so long. Less lokely to fluke a ball when not many left on the table
Does the king reply😏
@9:12. is it still a flook if you are actually playing for one?
I like snooker, but I like pool a little better, because in pool you call your shot (or use the honor system) and a "fluke" is called "slop" (short for "sloppy") and even though the ball still stays in the pocket, their run ends right there (unless it's a kid, then slop usually counts).
This is just like everyone wit a couple beers plays pool at the bar with the boys. How did that go in...cheers!
I have no idea what the rules of snooker are but I enjoyed the video.
This made me realize when we had a pool table when I was a kid, everyshot that went in was a fluke back then
i love how the crowd sounds like a MII crowd in most of the shots.
O'Sullivan, Williams and Murphy... i remember these 3 names when i was a child over 10 years ago 😂
it may be an unbelievably uninteresting game but hehe I like the click clack when they hit each other it's very nice and the clapping after every shot makes me think I'm playing Wii sports
3:27 Wilson Fisk wasn’t happy about that shot.
Fan if they're aiming for a pocket and they get a pocket it's not a fluke, just a different shot to expected.. it's the safeties that sink that are really nice flukes
You can make a one long video on how many flukes Mark Williams has got in his time at the table lol
Is this the Bingham and Williams show
I have no god damn clue what’s going on but this video is so relaxing and whole some and I love it
does fluke mean something different in snooker, because some of these are not flukes.
Couldnt find the thumbnail shot :(
By the reactions of the audience and the faces of the players after nailing those shots, as a complete outsider I have absolutely not idea if they are playing hella good or absolutely bad.
"Fluke" sounds like it's all luck, but some of these shots were DEFINITELY all skill
I consider 3:46 not as a fluke. He definitely intended to put that red ball into that hole... :P
Definitely not. The chance of it is about 1%
@@SnookerPlanet Ok but most of the videos show flukes when someone is aiming for a hole, but the ball ends in a different. In this case the goal was for sure touch the red ball, and (if possible) to get it inside the bottom right hole. That's a very hard shot, but not impossible, and definitely closer to what he intended to achieve, than any other video in this compilation ;)
@@piotrfrozen Potting it was a fluke, there's no way at that pace he was going for the pocket. The far more likely outcome of that would have been setting the red up over the pocket. It has a safety shot and he fluked the pot. Use some common sense. Not even the best pros in the world can consistently and accurately hit full length swerve shots to pot, they aim to hit half the red and bring the cue ball back up the table.
What does it mean "unfortunelly"?
There's something to be said about calling your shots. These flukes are exactly that. Unplanned and unexpected. Like drawing to an inside straight
Love the slo mos of the sorry but not sorry hand gesture
Really surprised u never included ronnies fluke on the re spotted black in the final, was expecting that to be number 1
It wasn't a fluke. Players usually aim for this shot into the side pocket. They play a safety, but it has a chance to go in
idek what snooker is and this was in my recommended
10:26 Rocket Man🥳🥳
I have been watching The Magician clips lately. It makes me think all the shots here are calculated
In a couple of these clips, you see the guys waving their hand, palm down. Is this them acknowledging the fluke or something else?
Yes
As someone with no knowledge of this kind of pool, all I can hear is "THAT STILL ONLY COUNTS AS ONE!"
Really? Here, too? Give it a rest, sheesh
My motto is “No one can prove it wasn’t skill.”
I think you should look up what a fluke means. Half of these were just well placed shots.
Everyone makes mistakes
I once had like 5 flukes in a match against my much better friend, he wasn't pleased, we then went on the darts and I somehow clutched a win on them too.
I like when audience saying "oouhh" 😆
just a say but that hand u put up also means just seat down ive scored hahahaha
What's funny is that rookie players like me can ONLY score by lucky shots like these ones.
This somehow got recommended to me... Although those are all amazing shots, I know absolutely nothing about snooker. Is the table + pockets the same dimensions as in pool? Are the balls the same size/weight as pool balls? Can you play snooker on a pool table or are there tables that can be used for both? And What's up with the pink, blue, brown, yellow and green balls? No idea... :D
Table is bigger(substantially) at 12 by 6ft and the pockets are tighter than on a pool table. The snooker balls are slightly smaller than pool balls. In some instances you can play snooker on an English pool table but not on American pool table as snooker uses curved pockets(makes potting harder) while American pool tables have straight pockets. The scoring you can look up but you have to sink a red ball and then 1 coloured ball and then red again. The colours are worth significantly more points than the reds. Search up and watch O'Sullivan 147 only about 6 minutes long to see a quick demo
@RickTheRedBrick Snooker UK pool tables are tiny! I'm used to playing on 9ft tables
Never seen this version of pool before. Does the holding the hand up mean that you didn't mean to do that?
3:46 looks pretty intentional to me.
Not sure why 20 was considered a fluke unless I missed something? Intentional curve and an amazing pot.
Finally
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Half of these aren't even luck shots, they are exactly what the shooter intended...
I mean who is the Juan guy that they are calling after a point all the time
Yan's corner pocket shot didnt look like a fluke. Where he was aiming seemed miles off the pocket to begin with
What exactly are the origins of this percentage in the thumbnail? What nonsense.
26s in and you're already showing me a shot that isn't a fluke at all.
has china always been a presence on the snooker scene?
Not all of these were flukes, some of them were genuine skill
You'd think the live audience knows very well about the game. But the applause after an obvious fluke shows otherwise.
i love how literely everyone is clapping as if it was intentional
Love how some of them act like " yeah i planned that " but it's not
7:25 the miniature hit
I've noticed that they keep using Jedi powers with their hands to control the ball, is it legal?
I think it's extremely disrespectful for the commentators to call everything a fluke. Especially when the player is clearly going after the sharp hits and risky plays..
what if you pot two reds, do you only get one point!?
2 points
The 25th was pretty amazing, but I say that it cost some of his points because he had just given up some points hitting the colored balls.