33 best flukes, lucky snooker shots from World Snooker Championship 2022 Featured: Mark Williams, Judd Trump, Ronnie O'Sullivan, John Higgins, Neil Robertson, Thepchaya Un-Nooh, Yan Bingtao, Shaun Murphy and other top snooker players
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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 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.
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
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 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).
@@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.
