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The Highest Snooker Break in History · Mark and Pete

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  The highest snooker break in history.
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  Welcome to Mark and Pete. Now we're reporting today on
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  something that wasn't supposed to be done at break.
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  That's bigger than the highest break.
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  Yes, this is Mark and Pete, 2 blokes with half an opinion.
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  Here's our first thought. A smorgasbord of snooker, if you
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  can make a maximum break or possibly exceed it if you are
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  able, for goodness sake, it could be a big mistake while
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  folk are still dining at the table.
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  Yes, I would always advise it's probably best to sort of wait
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  till everybody's cleared up. But in actual fact, yes, Ronnie
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  O'Sullivan, yes, the greatest snooker player in history, as
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  many people who would actually agree, has created yet another
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  record. Yes, he's created history by
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  making the sport's highest ever professional break at 153, and
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  this was done at the World Open in Yushan.
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  Mr. Pete, we know that Ronnie O'Sullivan has got great
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  accolades, but yet again, he's created another achievement on
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  the great Green Bays. What say you of this fine
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  achievement? What?
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  Yeah, it's it's fitting that it's Ronnie O'Sullivan because
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  as you say, yes, it just the best snooker player when if you
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  look back at the history of snooker, well, going back to the
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  80s when it was started to be widely televised and you had
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  Steve interesting Davis, who was seen as quite boring, hence
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  hence the name and then and dominating the scene.
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  And from then on the the standard just got higher and
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  higher. When we Fast forward to Ronnie
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  O'Sullivan coming on the scene, commentators were saying all the
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  time, he's like a different level in that some people, you
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  know, flower and have had a great time.
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  They're knocking in the brakes, whether if they're a potting
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  machine or they're doing great safeties.
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  So they dominate and then they go.
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  But Ronnie O'Sullivan is going to be around forever.
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  And it does seem to be the case. Racking up a 153.
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  Of course, if you think about it, 153 does mean that he made a
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  mistake though. Well, it depends on whether you
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  agree. Let's let's get into the detail.
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  You're absolutely right because technically, if you do actually
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  clear 15 Reds and 15 blacks with all of the colours, it should be
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  a 147. That's typically what most
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  people would see. But actually what does happen
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  technically if your player makes a mistake and leaves you in a
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  snooker, you do have the right to nominate one of the colours
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  as a individual red, meaning a one point, and then you can go
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  on taking the colours. Not in Reds.
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  That's the point. That's white greater than the
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  Max, correct? But the key is this, he potted
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  the green as an extra red, but he then took basically 2 pinks
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  instead of maximum all of the Reds.
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  So what? Yes, one of the times that he
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  would have potted a black, which is 7 points, he spotted a pink
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  instead. Yeah.
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  So the point being is is that he didn't quite get the maximum,
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  but I'll say it's a reasonable achievement.
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  Well, it's two ways of putting it.
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  Did he get the maximum or did he get more than the maximum?
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  But yes. But he didn't quite get the
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  maximum. Not maximum Max.
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  Anyway, I'm getting. He could have got 155 basically.
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  If he. Did actually the potted all the
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  poor blacks? Yes.
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  Correct. Yeah, But yes, Incredibles as
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  surpassing the actual the one, the traditional 147 maximum
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  break. I mean, I believe I'm writing
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  saying that someone in professional Suki, you know, on
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  television has got gotten a 148 before, which was, you know,
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  again, due due to a mistake in the snooker, as you were
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  pointing out earlier. But this, yeah, this is the
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  highest in history. So Ronnie Sutherland,
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  Sutherland, although he didn't, I believe he lost in the final
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  of this particular competition, but really cementing his
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  reputation as the greatest of all time with another first.
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  Yeah, I think that one of the things that is incredible about
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  this is that he also holds another record, which is the
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  fastest 147, and he did it in something like 5 minutes.
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  And absolutely he did that, you know, in a major tournament.
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  And of. Course.
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  So you know, he hasn't quite pipped some of his closest
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  rivals and one obvious thing because as we are in
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  broadcasting mode right now, we're just about to see the
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  World Championships unfold. They basically take place next
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  month. But the point here is, is that
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  he currently holds 7 world titles, which is the same as
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  Stephen Hendry. Now the fact is, is that if he
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  were to get another one, then he would be completely out on his
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  own. He would have obviously
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  surpassed all of his peers and all of his modern day heroes.
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  I wouldn't bet against him. I mean, well, no, you wouldn't.
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  Yeah. It's, I'm just saying it's, it's
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  a real lesson in, in, in keeping at something.
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  You know, the fact that he keeps going and doing this is when
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  other people fall away after, you know, a reasonable career.
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  He's still going. There's something to we can
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  learn from his tenacity to just keep going.
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  He he has reportedly had mental health issues he had, but he's
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  come back from them, bounced back and he's he's still going
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  in this really high pressure game.
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  So he he just seems to have that equanimity about him in that
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  after the each frame, after a frame finishes, he's friendly to
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  the opponent. He's not seeming unpleasant and
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  he's not making things more stressful than they need to be.
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  He's keeping the game in its place.
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  And I think that that's that's at least part of the reason why
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  he can keep going. Well, I think that one of the
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  other things apart from obviously his natural ability is
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  the motivation to be the all time best.
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  Now he's probably already got that accolade, but the
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  difference is this he recognises that there are certain
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  achievements that he can still go for, like getting, you know,
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  maximum breaks or possibly even maybe one day he will get a 155.
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  Who knows? But the fact of the matter is,
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  is that those little things keep him in the game.
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  Now we know that we've seen him of ebb and flow out of some of
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  the tournaments in recent times, but the fact is he is still
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  regarded as a world class player.
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  And to your point on his day, he's almost unbeatable.
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  And, and I think when you look at snooker players as well, for
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  anybody who's actually played the game, they make it look
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  very, very easy. If anybody's actually tried
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  playing a game of snooker and trying, even putting a
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  consummate break of say 40 to 5060, it's very difficult.
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  But they those, the standard that they managed to maintain is
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  extraordinary. And there's no doubt that Ronnie
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  O'Sullivan is somebody who's entertaining.
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  Well, let's just say if you if you actually go up to one of the
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  professional sized snooker tables, they seem massive.
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  You can hardly, hardly see the pockets at the other end.
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  But for an ordinary person, it's just, they're just too big.
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  I mean, I could never, you know, judge the angle over such a
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  distance. So yeah, the level of skill is
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  very, very high. So it's just impressive to
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  watch. I mean, you end up watching it
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  on the television, which sort of flattens it and you have the
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  camera overhead and you can see it.
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  But when you're actually at the table, it's rather daunting.
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  Well, it is daunting and I must admit to Mr. Pete, let's be
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  honest, if you were to go and play against Ronnie O'Sullivan,
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  you'd just go to pod.