Sean Murphy’s first shot how he managed to get the correct amount of side from the pocket jaws and the top cushion is more difficult than it looks, rattling the jaws can put side on the ball already, and he compensated for that. for me that’s the most impressive shot.
In snooker, when a game starts there are 15 red balls worth 1 point, and one ball each of the other colors with yellow worth 2 points, green 3 points, brown 4 points, blue 5 points, pink 6 points and black 7 points, and the white ball which is the only ball the players are allowed to touch with the cue (the stick). When a player starts their turn at the table they MUST make sure that after they hit the white ball with the cue, the first ball it makes contact with is a red ball if there is one available. If they hit a red ball and pocket it, then they must now make sure to hit one of the other colored balls first, and it is considered a foul if they hit another red first at this time (For example at 6:04 when Williams does that shot for the yellow ball when he is surrounded by tons of reds). If they pocket a colored ball, then that player adds their value to their score, get to continue playing at the table, and the colored ball gets put back on the table, while red balls once pocketed stay out of the game. If the turn player does not pocket a ball, or pockets the wrong kind of ball (Eg. pocketing a colored when they must hit a red, a red when they must hit a colored, or the white ball at any time) then their turn ends and the other player gets their turn. After all the red balls have been pocketed, then the colored balls must then be pocketed in order of their worth (so yellow, then green, then brown, then blue, then pink and finally black), and at this stage they do not get reset unless they were pocketed out of order, which is a foul (To explain why 6:45 is NOT a foul, even though Ding pocketed the black with no reds on the table, you must still pocket a colored ball after pocketing the last red, and that ball gets reset, before you have to pocket the colored ones in order). This is the reason there are varying amounts of balls on the table. Sometimes, the best play is not to pocket a ball, but to instead put the opponent in a position where it is almost impossible to not foul. A good example is at 3:50 when Davis puts his opponent in a 'Snooker'. This means that there are NO direct paths between the white ball and the red balls.
That shot of Davis vs Robertson is my favourite ever defence/snooker reaching shot. How much fantasy one need to think to pull out something like that? Not even talking about how difficult the shot was and how he landed perfectly behind the brown. All of that at the age of 52. What a fucking legend.
Looks like the most difficult shot of them all to me, and there is no slowmotion or rerun like on the other shots, strange 😊, I know they use the clip in the beginning of the video but still... What a shot🎉
im a pool player who' never had the chance to play snooker bc i cant find a table anywhere but i love watching it. was just wondering what makes some shots so difficult? for example selbys shot at the 1:05 mark, is it just the distance, or is it bc the pockets or angle is much tighter in snooker? appreciate anyone who could clear it up
it's both of the reasons you said, snooker table pockets are unforgiving, and the angle was tight, and it was from a long way, and it was also the speed in which he played it, most players would've rolled it in to give it the best chance of wiggling in
Ronnie really wanted Ding to get that 147. I remember watching it live and when he got a fluke on that yellow, we all thought it was meant to be.. sadly, it wasnt 😢
Tbh, this was one of the best attempts for a 147 I have seen. After that spectacular black I didn't expect those misses on the yellow (that he fluked) and the miss on the green ... that black was by far more difficult than those.
Brilliant playing, but the most impressive thing for me is the difference between early TV cameras, and what we have today. The last frame I could hardly make out the balls :)
@@KindredBrujah I remember a commentator saying, " he is playing the red ball which is next to the green " when watching in black and white, It made sense if you understood the game, but not a lot of use to people new to snooker.
I had to put that first shot in slow mo and watch it a few times, still trying to figure out the mechanics, next trip to the pool hall is going to be a grind fest lol.
There was a shot by Alex Higgins that wasn't included... He was drunker than any man should ever be . But he played a shot up the cushion and potted it.. It was outrageous
You have to pot red - color - red - color, so you have to alternate. Reds are not coming back, colors come back while there is at least one red still on the table. Each ball has it's own points for pocketting it. One who gets more points wins the frame. That's the short summary, basically.
What's mad is that it's been the same group of players on the pro circuit now for what seems like a hundred years. There seems to be a serious lack of young talent making it's way through in snooker.
As someone that was born on a billiard table, I am utterly confused as to why some of these bog standard shots are amazing? I saw one single shot that was impressive. Many of these shots used pocket bumpers to even drop the ball. Are we talking about rule shots or technical skill shots?
in my years of playing pool and wasting years of my life doing so i have made many of those shots many, many times and i never was even a professional. best shot in history? I THINK NOT
You do know that there are denoiser programs out there and you do know that one doesn't even have to amp up noise in the first place to make the sound annoying, don't you?
Having watched this and Stephen Hendry's 'Cue Tips' where he occasionally plays top pool players and wins regularly, I don't think there is any argument that snooker players are the most talented. Sure, pool players see the 'patterns' that show them how to clear up from the break but a good snooker player could easily learn this skill. Pro snooker players have ventured over to the other side, some playing at the highest level. But if the skills of both games were so easily interchangeable, why don't we see pool players competing for the big money offered by most pro snooker tournaments?
