Crucible Time...Rocket Time

[Reece]

Actually, maybe that should have read Nicey's mate

[Red Chilli]

Anyone noticed how he comes back after intervals and bangs in a few hundreds alot of the time? I swear he's a cokehead even when he plays

He's drug tested though, having previously had the Irish title taken off him for testing positive for cannabis. If he was taking coke, he'd fail a drug test so it'd be pretty pointless.

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147 Thousand Pound for one game

[Jayesh87]

147 Thousand Pound for one game

He is getting a new bentley (the car not the football player ) convertable.

[johnp]

147 Thousand Pound for one game

Think he'll get another 10k for the highest break too.

[mersey86]

Think he'll get another 10k for the highest break too.

Unless somebody equals or beats the 147.

[spud_gun]

Unless somebody equals or beats the 147.

erm...don't think you can beat a break of 147 in snooker.

[livvy145]

erm...don't think you can beat a break of 147 in snooker.

You can if you receive a freeball after a foul shot. The highest break possible is a 155.

[Jayesh87]

You can if you receive a freeball after a foul shot. The highest break possible is a 155.

Check you out

[mersey86]

You can if you receive a freeball after a foul shot. The highest break possible is a 155.

I remember David Vine explaining about 25 years ago that it would be possible to get a 162. You give your opponent a 155 start, get a free ball with a black to start, then the 147 to force a re-spotted black, you take first shot and pot it directly. It sounds dubious - I'd have thought the break comes to an end before the re-spotted black, and its a little far-fetched, but that's what they said.

[wiw]

I remember David Vine explaining about 25 years ago that it would be possible to get a 162. You give your opponent a 155 start, get a free ball with a black to start, then the 147 to force a re-spotted black, you take first shot and pot it directly. It sounds dubious - I'd have thought the break comes to an end before the re-spotted black, and its a little far-fetched, but that's what they said.

So it finishes 162-155?

[livvy145]

I remember David Vine explaining about 25 years ago that it would be possible to get a 162. You give your opponent a 155 start, get a free ball with a black to start, then the 147 to force a re-spotted black, you take first shot and pot it directly. It sounds dubious - I'd have thought the break comes to an end before the re-spotted black, and its a little far-fetched, but that's what they said.

Are you sure it wasn't David Icke who came up with that?

[Red Chilli]

I remember David Vine explaining about 25 years ago that it would be possible to get a 162. You give your opponent a 155 start, get a free ball with a black to start, then the 147 to force a re-spotted black, you take first shot and pot it directly. It sounds dubious - I'd have thought the break comes to an end before the re-spotted black, and its a little far-fetched, but that's what they said.

So you give them 155 points in fouls before either of you pot anything and then you get a free ball, hit a 155 and pot a re-spotted black?

The flaw in the argument is that to get a free ball to start the break you'd have to have a foul by your opponent first, so you'd have to give 159 points away first then your opponent fouls, then you hit a 155 and pot a re-spotted black.

My brain hurts

[mersey86]

So you give them 155 points in fouls before either of you pot anything and then you get a free ball, hit a 155 and pot a re-spotted black?

I think the context that was used was that you gave your opponent a 155 (or 159 as you alertly noticed) point handicap. Of course if you gave them 159 points in fouls the table would be a mess and 16 reds followed by 16 blacks would be unlikely. I am fairly confident in stating that this has never happened in a serious game of snooker. I do remember hearing that there has been a break in excess of 147 in a professional snooker game** and, I think, a total clearance involving 16 reds at the Crucible, though the break was somewhere in the lower 140s.

** from www.snooker.org
About six such clearances have been recorded. The
highest snooker break is not, as previously reported, Tony Drago's and
Eddie Manning's 149s. It's Wally West's 151. He made the break in the
final of a club handicap at Hounslow Lucania in 1976 against Butch
Rogers.

[Scratch]

And "Captain" Carter has just joined Ronnie with a break of 147 himself...the frame after Ebdon missed the 15th black of his own 147 attempt.

This games easy innit!!??