Maximum Break

Maximum Break ( in Germany also perfect frame) is a special feature of the billiard Snooker variant.

Locht you all the red balls (value 1) and to each of the black ball ( value 7) alternately and then the colored balls (worth a total of 27 ) in the correct order without the opponent comes to the table, you reach the maximum score of 147. the maximum break is an outstanding performance of a player and is always a special highlight in a snooker match. So far, 105 official maximum breaks have been achieved.

At a break only the points scored by a player after the other are counted. Credits through fouls the opponent indeed be attributed to the points account, but not recognized as a break.

A maximum break was rewarded for a long time with an extra premium, was 20,000 pounds at most tournaments. Due to the strong increase in number of such breaks this rule, however, was 2010/2011 largely abolished.

Historical

The first known maximum break was played on September 26, 1934 in Griffith, New South Wales, Australia by EJ Murt O'Donoghue, followed by the Canadians Leo Levitt in November 1948. The first officially ratified CenturyBreak played Joe Davis on 22 January 1955 ( officially acknowledged but it was not until the following March ) at the Leicester Square Hall in London in a free game against Willie Smith. The first played in a professional tournament was the maximum Break by John Spencer against Cliff Thorburn on 13 January 1979 with Holsten camp tournament Fulcrum Centre, Slough, it has not been recognized as such because the table was too large bags. It would also have been the first televised maximum when the camera crew would not have gone to the tea break. Steve Davis played the first televised maximum break at the 1982 Lada Classic.

The first tournament -Maximum Break on German soil was made ​​in March 1994 by Mike Henson at the Gifhorn Open.

Chronology

The following table lists all professional tournaments achieved, official maximum breaks on. Televised Breaks are marked with (TV).

Statistics

Records

Achievements of individual players

It is worth mentioning especially Ronnie O'Sullivan, who has not only achieved the most, but also the five fastest maximum breaks. The set up by him ever since 1997 at 5 minutes and 20 seconds ( which is about nine seconds per perforated ball corresponds ). Because this game tempo O'Sullivan got its nickname "The Rocket ".

The first time at the 2010 World Open discharged played maximum of Ronnie O'Sullivan vs. Mark King can certainly be considered the strangest yet. O'Sullivan seemed the situation on the table after the first two perforated balls so well liked that he at the Dutch referee January Verhaas ever inquired as high as the premium for a maximum break in the tournament was. This amused the BBC commentators and very surprised both his opponent Mark King and the referee. Ronnie O'Sullivan interrupted for almost one and a half minutes his game until Verhaas had put the answer in the experience and telling him that although there would be a premium of £ 4,000 for the highest, but no separate premium for a maximum break. O'Sullivan played his break down sovereign and interrupted again before the last to be punched ball. He went to his opponent and gave him her hand to indicate a joke, no longer wanting to play on, because the usual extra bonus was not awarded. It was not until finally, at the request of the Dutch referee, he punched out even the black ball and completed the 147th

As the only player so far it's John Higgins managed to achieve two consecutive official tournaments each a maximum break ( in 2003).

2008 Ronnie O'Sullivan and Allister Carter had to share the bounty of its maximum at the World Cup. Since this case (two maximum breaks in the same tournament ) for the first time entered, the rules were modified: The prize money for the maximum break is split, depending on the frequency of the 147er breaks. If, for example, a player two, others only achieve the one, the money would have a ratio of 2 /3 and 1/3 to be divided.

Special case: 16- Reds clearance

With a free ball on top of the Breaks even higher scores than 147 is achievable. Such a break but is only interpreted as a maximum break when, after the free-ball and black was perforated; so that the maximum number of 155 points would result. Such a run is called 16- Reds clearance since sunk along with the free-ball a total of 16 instead of the usual 15 red balls.

The highest ever officially break in professional snooker is played in 148 was achieved in the second qualifying round of the UK Championship in 2004 by Jamie Burnett in his 9:8 victory over Leo Fernandez.