SNOOKER fans love to be mesmerised by their favourite stars scoring maximum breaks during the biggest tournaments in the sport.
brings you the lowdown on how players can achieve a maxi and who has made the most.
What is a maximum break in snooker?
A maximum break in is the most amount of points you can score during a single 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 Snooker Championship?
Maximums have been a rarity at the Crucible in Sheffield.
Despite the tens of thousands of frames that have been played during ‘s biggest competition, only 14 have ever been made at the famous venue.
Two were made in 2023 – by 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 ).
Stephen Hendry has made the most 147s at the Crucible, with three, while O'Sullivan is the only other player to have made more than one.
The Rocket, famously, has also given up the opportunity to score more 147s because of the prize money on offer.
The Essex cueist previously stated he .
Who has the most maximum breaks in snooker?
Players who have scored more than one maximum break:
- – 15
- John Higgins – 13
- Stephen Hendry – 11
- Shaun Murphy – 10
- Stuart Bingham – 9
- Judd Trump – 8
- Ding Junhui – 7
- Mark Selby – 6
- Neil Robertson – 5
- Tom Ford – 5
- Marco Fu – 5
- Kyren Wilson – 5
- Gary Wilson – 5
- Mark Allen – 4
- Thepchaiya Un-Nooh – 4
- Ryan Day – 4
- Mark Williams – 3
- Ali Carter – 3
- David Gilbert – 3
- Barry Hawkins – 3
- James Wattana – 3
- Jamie Cope – 3
- Stephen Maguire – 3
- Liang Wenbo – 3
- Robert Milkins – 3
- Ryan Day – 3
- Xu Si – 3
- Zhang Anda – 3
- Jackson Page – 2
- Noppon Saengkham – 2
- Cliff Thorburn – 2
- Peter Ebdon – 2
- Nick Dyson – 2
- David Gray – 2
- Kurt Maflin – 2
- Mark Davis – 2
- Zhou Yuelong – 2
- Graeme Dott – 2
- Jackson Page – 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.
