At the 2020 edition, the high break maker pocketed £15,000 plus a £40,000 bonus – nice work for John Higgins who achieved the feat.
However, it’s still a handy increase from a decade ago, when the 2010 UK Championship had a highest break prize of just £5,000.īut just look at how the prize money has changed at the World Championship. At the 2020 UK Championship, Wilson and Bingham will share just £15,000 between them – a handsome payday, for sure, but dwarfed by the £200,000 that the winner of the event will bank. That has forced the prize money down for the highest break at a single tournament, and of course with the players competing in more ranking events these days the prize pot has been forced to shrink yet further. Once upon a time, making a maximum break was rare indeed – just ten were made in the period 1982-91, compared to 86 in the years between 2011 and the present day. Once ranked 13 in the world, Cope developed ‘yips’ – an inability to completely control your arm and hands that an afflict cricketers and other sports – and was forced to announce his retirement after tumbling down the rankings. One of snooker’s most prolific big break makers is Jamie Cope, who made a 151 break in practice back in 2003 and then, two years later, made a 155 in a break witnessed by a number of spectators at his local club.
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He took a brown as his free ball, then potted the brown again before following up with 15 reds, 12 blacks, two pinks, a blue and then the colours in sequence. The highest official break ever made is 148 by Jamie Burnett in UK Championship qualification in 2004. Unsurprisingly, that is a very rare occurrence – indeed, it has never happened in recognised tournament play. If the opponent commits a foul and leaves a free ball, a player could pot a colour as their free shot followed by the black and then the 15 reds and so on in order….a total maximum of 155 is therefore possible. Technically speaking, it is possible to make more than 147 in a single visit to the table. It is the maximum score on the table, with 15 reds followed by 15 blacks and then the ‘colours’ potted in sequence – yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black. If you are a newcomer to snooker or are unfamiliar with its parlance, a maximum break is the perfect run of 147 points made in a row without a single missed pot. Wilson and Bingham’s efforts were the 162nd and 163rd official maximum breaks respectively, and come some 38 years since the first televised 147 made by Steve Davis against John Spencer in the fabulously-named Lada Classic back in 1982. The bad news for Wilson is that it means he will have to share the high break prize money with Bingham, and with the tournament still live who knows maybe a third player will come along and poop the party – after all, it was at the 2012 edition of this event that three 147s were made! Kyren Wilson notched the first in his victory over Ashley Hugill in the first round, and he was joined in the 147 club by former world champion Stuart Bingham just a day later. Once upon a time, making a 147 break in snooker was as rare as the proverbial hen’s teeth.Ĭomplete perfection is hard to achieve in any sport, but particularly so in snooker when the gods of fate – and the balls – often conspire to make matters as difficult as possible.īut the 2020 UK Championship has been unusual for a number of reasons, not least because it’s the first triple crown event to be played entirely without a crowd, but also because there were two maximum breaks made in less than 24 hours.
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