Max break + ?

[thundershots147]

Max break + ?

Sorry I do apologise Jamie Cope made a 155 break in practise, I sorry for the confusion there.

[shanerayner28]

Max break + ?

drago made a 149 in 1999 i think was in the Guinness book of records

[alabadi]

i believe Jimmy White made 155 it wasn't a match though, he and Alan MacManus were doing some coaching videos and Jimmy got a 155.

here is the Youtube link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK4U1cC_5RQ

Alabbadi

[jrc750]

If that's the one i'm thinking about it was edited, Jimmy missed several shots during that break lol

[LittleMissAlexa]

Jamie Burnett holds the highest ever break in competiton, a 148. It was not televised and there has never been a telivised break over 147.

thats also the highest possible non total clearance (dont need the black for a 148)

[LittleMissAlexa]

drago made a 149 in 1999 i think was in the Guinness book of records

exhibition probably

[Gerry Armstrong]

Tony's 149 was in practice.

[The Statman]

It is actually possible to make a 154 break which doesn't include a free ball.

I'll leave you all to work out how ... or possibly reveal the answer later if nobody come up with it!

[Odrl]

It is actually possible to make a 154 break which doesn't include a free ball.

I'll leave you all to work out how ... or possibly reveal the answer later if nobody come up with it!

You pot a free ball, but are then called for a foul and a miss on the colour. Your opponent puts you back in, you pot the black, then clear the table just like in a "normal" maximum? :wink:

[Jonathan Bollen]

There was a 155 telly break done by Joe Davis. But I do have part of that break the ending of it. But poor pic and sound.

[circle]

Tony Drago made a 149 in practice against Mick Manning at Norwood SC in 1995

[the montrealer]

that may be the case, but other things like the longest shot on a smaller table being much shorter than that on a big table etc should be considered too

HI Just curious are you the Sayginer champion that plays 3 cushion billiards
cheers Leonard

[gazza147]

Yes Great Break with abit of Luck! but it is on a 10ft Table and not 12ft and as we all know its alot easier on 10ft but fair play he played some good positional play.

[cantpotforshíte]

It is actually possible to make a 154 break which doesn't include a free ball.

I'll leave you all to work out how ... or possibly reveal the answer later if nobody come up with it!

If your give your opponent 147 points in fouls before any points are scored, then do a total clearance with blacks so that the scores are tied, then win the toss and pot the re-spotted black? Would this count as a part of the break or am I barking up the wrong tree?

[SnookerFan]

I had this argument with a friend's husband when we were both at a wedding reception a while back. He said he'd seen a feature that claimed there'd been a 155 made. And I said there had been no such break ever made. The only maximum + extra had been the 148 made in qualifying by Jamie Burnett. There had been no 155. He said he'd seen a feature on the BBC saying that somebody had made one, and I said he couldn't have done, because no such one was made.

At this point I didn't realise that Jamie Cope was alleged to make one in practice. So after 118 118-ing it, and getting the answer along the lines of; "Jamie Cope made a 155 in practice, but no break of 155 has been made in competition" we were both proven correctish. It had been done as he'd claimed, but not done in a professional tournament which is also what he was claiming.

I'm pretty confident nobody has done it since Burnett at all, and I'm entirely sure nobody has done it on the televised stages of a tournament.