Six red snooker
Six-Red-Snooker (no uniform spelling, also 6-Red- or Six-reds-Snooker) or Super 6s is a variant of snooker that is also operated in tournament form.
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In six red snooker, unlike normal snooker, 6 red balls are used instead of 15. The table and the number and position of the colored balls correspond to those of the standard snooker, only the triangle with the red balls is smaller. There are two rules that differ from normal snooker. After 5 “foul and miss” times in a row, the shot is not repeated again; the “fouled” player may position the ball at any point on the table and continue playing from there. In addition, when playing on a color, you must not hide the cue ball behind the colored ball that is “on”. As a result, the game is shortened to the reds, a maximum of 48 points can be achieved, the game on the colors corresponds to the conventional game. A maximum break therefore has 75 instead of 147 points. The idea of this variant of snooker are shorter games and thus larger tournaments in a shorter time.
Tournaments
Six-red Snooker International & Six-red World Grand Prix
The first major tournament in the new variant took place in July 2008 in Bangkok. In addition to numerous amateurs from Asia, 21 professional players from the Snooker Main Tour took part in the Six-red Snooker International . The tournament was won by Ricky Walden .
In the following year the tournament was held for the second time under the name Six-red World Grand Prix . Again there were more than 20 professionals in the field. It won Jimmy White .
In the third edition in 2010 (now under the name Sangsom 6-Red World Championship ) Mark Selby won the final against Ricky Walden with 8: 6.
The 2012 Tournament was Mark Davis against Shaun Murphy with 8: 4 to decide for themselves.
6-Red WM 2009
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| Venue: | INEC, Killarney , Ireland |
| Opening: | December 14, 2009 |
| Endgame: | December 18, 2009
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| Winner: |
 Mark Davis
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| Finalist: |
 Mark Williams
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| Highest Break: | 78 () |
World Championship
A world championship was played for the first time from December 14th to 18th, 2009 in Killarney, Ireland . The players who took part in this World Cup also included 28 professional players from the Snooker Main Tour.
118 players in 20 groups of 5 and 3 groups of 6 players each took part in the World Cup. In these groups the players all played against each other. One point was awarded for each game won (mode: four winning frames / Best of 7). In the event of a tie, the frames won were counted. In the groups with five players, the first three, in the groups with six players, the first four players entered the knockout round - there the number was initially reduced to 64. The winners progressed one round each. In the knockout round games up to the semi-finals, the “Best of 9” mode (five winning frames) was played in the final “Best of 11” (six winning frames).
The 2009 World Cup winner was Mark Davis . He won 6-3 over Mark Williams .
World Series of Snooker
At the World Series of Snooker 2008/09 at the final tournament in Portimão, Portugal, only 6 red object balls were used in the group stage to shorten the frames. In the last sixteen and quarter finals - as a kind of compromise - 10 balls were played, before the regular ball set with 15 red object balls was used again from the semi-finals. In the subsequent World Series of Snooker 2009/10 there were no further games with six reds; however, the variant with ten balls instead of 15 is still used for the first rounds.
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A maximum break in Six Red Snooker consists of 75 points. A foul by the opponent and a resulting free ball can add additional points. The absolute maximum number of points possible was only achieved once at an official Six Reds tournament: The Egyptian Wael Talaat scored 83 points in a break in 2014 at the IBSF World Amateur Championship.
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- ^ Wael Talaat set a Record High Break in 6Reds , Vivek Pathak, IBSF, June 20, 2014
Web links
- World Championships website ( memento of October 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- World Cup 2009 at the Global Snooker Center ( Memento from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English)