Six-Red-Snooker

Six -Red Snooker ( no uniform notation, and 6- Red- or Six -reds snooker ) or Super 6s is a variant of snooker, which is operated as a tournament.

Regulate

In the Six -Red Snooker is played differently than normal snooker, not 15, but with 6 red balls. The table and the number and position of the colored balls corresponding to those of the standard snooker, only the triangle with the red balls is reduced. Thus, the game is reduced to the Reds, there are a maximum 48 points to reach the game on the colors corresponds to the conventional game. A maximum break has thus 75 instead of 147 points. The idea of ​​this variant of snooker games are shorter and thus bigger tournaments in less time.

Tournaments

Six -red snooker International & Six -red World Grand Prix

The first major tournament in the new variant was held in Bangkok in July 2008. On the Six -red snooker International attended by numerous amateurs from Asia and 21 professional players from the Snooker Main Tour part. The tournament won Ricky Walden.

The following year, the tournament under the name Six -red World Grand Prix was held at the same place for the second time. Again, more than 20 professionals in the field of participants. It won Jimmy White.

In the third edition in 2010 ( under the name Sangsom 6- Red World Championship ) Mark Selby won the final against Ricky Walden 8-6.

The 2012 tournament was Mark Davis decide against Shaun Murphy 8-4 for itself.

World cup

A world championship was played for the first time from 14 to 18 December 2009 in the Irish Killarney. Among the players who took part in this World Cup, also included 28 professional players from the Snooker Main Tour.

At the World Cup took 118 players in 20 groups participate to 5 and 3 groups of 6 players. In these groups, the players all played against each other. Depending won game ( mode: four profit frames / Best of 7) there was a point. Case of a tie, the won frames were counted. In the groups with five players the first four players were the first three, in the groups with six players in the Knockout Round of 64 The winner came in each case to the next round. In the knockout rounds of matches until the semi-finals after the mode " Best of 9" ( five winning frames), played in the final " Best of 11" ( six winning frames).

The winner of the World Cup 2009 was Mark Davis. He won 6-3 over Mark Williams.

World Series of Snooker

At the World Series of Snooker 2008/ 09 was also played in the final tournament in Portimão, Portugal in the group stage with only 6 red object balls to shorten the frames. In the eighth and quarter finals were finally - played with 10 balls before again the regular ball set was used with 15 red object balls from the semi-finals - as a sort of compromise. In the subsequent World Series of Snooker 2009/10 there were no other games with six Red; However, the variant with ten instead of 15 balls still used for the first few laps.