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What is the highest break recorded in snooker and who has scored the most 147s?
SNOOKER fans love to be mesmerised by their favourite stars scoring maximum breaks during the biggest tournaments in the world.
The highest score available without fouls is 147 - made when the black is made each time after a potted red.
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What is a maximum break in snooker?
A maximum break in snooker is the most amount of points you can score in one visit to the table, which is 147.
A 147 is scored when a player pots all 15 reds with a black on each occasion for 120 points, followed by the remaining colours and finishing on the black again for the final 27 points.
How many 147s have been made at the World Championships?
Maximums have been a rarity at The Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.
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Despite the tens of thousands of frames that have been played during snooker's biggest competition, only 14 have ever been made at the famous venue.
Two were made last year - by Mark Selby in the final and Kyren Wilson in the last 32 - which is only the second time two have been made in one tournament, after it happened in 2008 (Ali Carter and Ronnie O'Sullivan).
Stephen Hendry has made the most 147s at The Crucible, with three, with O'Sullivan the only other player making more than one.
The Rocket, famously, has also given up the opportunity to score more 147s because of the prize money on offer.
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The Essex star previously stated he has been "on strike" since the prize money was cut.
Who has the most maximum breaks in snooker?
Players who have scored more than one maximum break:
- Ronnie O'Sullivan - 15
- John Higgins - 13
- Stephen Hendry - 11
- Stuart Bingham - 9
- Judd Trump - 8
- Shaun Murphy - 7
- Ding Junhui - 7
- Mark Selby - 5
- Neil Robertson - 5
- Tom Ford - 5
- Marco Fu - 5
- Kyren Wilson - 5
- Gary Wilson - 5
- Mark Allen - 3
- Mark Williams - 3
- Ali Carter - 3
- Barry Hawkins - 3
- James Wattana - 3
- Jamie Cope - 3
- Stephen Maguire - 3
- Liang Wenbo - 3
- Robert Milkins - 3
- Ryan Day - 3
- Cliff Thorburn - 2
- Peter Ebdon - 2
- Nick Dyson - 2
- David Gray - 2
- Kurt Maflin - 2
- Mark Davis - 2
- David Gilbert - 2
- Thepchaiya Un-Nooh - 2
- Zhou Yuelong - 2
- Graeme Dott - 2
Has anybody scored more than 147 in a single break?
During qualifying at the UK Championship in 2004, Jamie Burnett scored a 148 against Leo Fernandez in very infrequent circumstances.
The Scot potted the brown as a free ball, then sunk the brown again, followed by 15 reds with 12 blacks, two pinks and a blue, then the six colours to end.
What is the Golden Ball and will it be used at the World Championships?
The Riyadh Season World Masters of Snooker, which was won by O'Sullivan in March, upset snooker purists after tournament organisers introduced a new ball on the table
The tournament introduced a controversial new 23rd ball, known as the 'Riyadh Season ball', which will be gold.
It was worth 20 points and could only be potted if a player is on course to make a maximum break - the 20 points would take the maximum total from 147 to 167.
During the tournament the ball came off the table as soon as it was impossible to score a maximum, which was in the vast majority of frames.
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Only John Higgins came close to being able to secure one, but missed a late pot.
After no one scored with the golden ball Turki Alashikh announced that the prize money to pot the ball would be increased from £500,000 to $1MILLION in 2025.
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