The Snooker World Championships always throws up some wonderful pieces of skill on the baize and Mark Williams may have come up with the best of the lot, the no look pot- even if he definitely didn't mean it.
This year's world championships kicked off on Saturday and as always there's already been a couple of big shocks with former world champions, including the current holder, already knocked out in the shapes of Mark Selby and Shaun Murphy.
For the next two weeks until bank holiday Monday the men who have the que control in the world will continue to battle it out on the baize and whilst we're all waiting for Ronnie O'Sullivan to give us the highlight reel we expect it's Mark Williams who has landed a shot that might not be beaten.
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The Welshman, another former world champion, faced Jimmy Robertson in his first round match and took some inspiration from Liverpool forward Roberto Firmino with the perfect no-look pot:
The Welshman went on to win the match 10-5 and the seventh seed is now awaiting the winner of Neil Robertson and Robert Milkins' match with Robertson surprisingly 5-8 down and facing elimination at the time of writing, he would be the sixth seed to bow out in the opening round.
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Throwback To The Time Ronnie O'Sullivan Scored A 146 On Purpose
To many people, snooker is an infinitely boring game, tailored to the retired as they sip on pints of John Smiths, complaining about the world.
Others recognise the brilliance of the 'sport', and the rest, well, they just like Ronnie O'Sullivan.
Rocket Ronnie, who has just been involved in a great final of the UK Championships at the Barbican, finishing second to the Jester from Leicester, Mark Selby, has gone a long way to make the sport entertaining due to the fact he could pot the black with a blindfold on and one hand tied behind his back.
And it doesn't matter whether this is right or left handed. More importantly, though, he makes a point of purposely not scoring a 147 break to protest against the money bonus.
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To understand, you really need to know the skill required to score a 147. To do so you have to pot all 15 reds, with each one being followed by the black. This will land 120 points. To then get the next 27 points to achieve a 'maximum', you have to pot the yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and finally the black.
Given how hard it is to do, Ronnie often takes offence at the low figure award for achieving it. So, from time to time, he ducks out at 146...
Earlier that year at the Welsh Open, the winning prize for a 147 was £10,000, an amount of money he found pretty insulting.
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Playing Barry Pinches, after having a bit of banter with the commentators regarding the prize, Ronnie purposely pots a red, leaving the white behind the pink, rather than the black. To the surprise of the stunned, silent audience, he sinks the former, subsequently making his highest possible score 146.
There's not much controversy in snooker, and an awful lot of the time there's not much excitement. Rocket is pretty much the closest you can get to rock 'n roll snooker.
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