Alix Higgins ( VERY AMZING A. MAXIMUM 147 BREAK )

The Hurricane entertain me as always by his attacking style and the way to display his balls LOL .. OOOPS I MEAN the snooker balls .. any way dont get mad about the last frame just watch the performance.. ENJOY..
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Alexander "Alex" Gordon Higgins (18 March 1949 -- 24 July 2010),[4] also known by his nickname of Hurricane Higgins, was a Northern Irish professional snooker player who was twice World Champion and twice runner-up. Higgins earned the nickname The Hurricane because of his speed of play.[5] Higgins was also a former World Doubles champion with Jimmy White and won the World Cup three times with the All Ireland team. He also came to be known as the People's Champion because of his popularity.[6] Higgins made 46 century breaks during his career.[1]

Higgins is often credited to have brought the game of snooker to a wider audience and contributing to its peak in popularity in the eighties.[7]

Higgins had a reputation as an unpredictable and difficult character.[citation needed] He was a heavy smoker,[8] struggled with drink and gambling,[7][9] and admitted to using cocaine and marijuana.[5] Diagnosed with throat cancer in 1998,[10] Higgins was found dead in his Belfast home on 24 July 2010.[11]


Legacy
Higgins was an inspiration to many subsequent professional snooker players including Ken Doherty, Jimmy White, and Ronnie O'Sullivan who in an interview stated "Alex was an inspiration to players like Jimmy White and thousands of snooker players all over the country, including me. The way he played at his best is the way I believe the game should be played. It was on the edge, keeping the crowd entertained and glued to the action."[47]

His very unorthodox yet effective play was perhaps best encapsulated in a celebrated break of 69, made under extreme pressure, against Jimmy White in the penultimate frame of their World Professional Snooker Championship semi-final in 1982. Higgins was 0--59 down in the frame and probably one ball away from exiting the Championship, but managed to compile an extremely challenging clearance during which he was scarcely in position until the colours. In particular, former world champion Dennis Taylor considers a three-quarter-ball pot on a blue into the green pocket especially memorable, not only for its extreme degree of difficulty but for enabling Higgins to continue the break and keep White off the table and unable to clinch victory at that moment. In potting the blue, Higgins screwed the cue-ball on to the side cushion to bring it back towards the black/pink area with extreme left-hand sidespin, a shot Taylor believes could be played 100 times without coming close to the position Higgins reached with the cue-ball (he arguably went too far for ideal position on his next red but the match-saving break was still alive).[48][49]

In Clive Everton's TV documentary The Story of Snooker (2002), Steve Davis described Higgins as the "one true genius that snooker has produced",[50] despite the autobiography of a contemporary leading professional Willie Thorne characterising Higgins as "not a great player".[51] Higgins arguably fulfilled his potential only intermittently during his career peak in the 1970s and '80s; Everton puts this down to Davis and Ray Reardon generally being too consistent for him.[52]

Regardless, Higgins' exciting style and explosive persona helped make snooker a growing television sport in the 1970s and 1980s. Higgins also made one of the first 16-red clearances (in a challenge match in 1976); it was a break of 146 (with the brown as the first "red", and sixteen colours: 1 green, 5 pinks and 10 blacks).[53]

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[TheStrokeofGenious]

Either you're retarded or you like deceiving people but this isn't a maximum. Change the title, I hate getting lied to.

[MrHarreee]

Was waitlng for the green to go in coz i was excpecting a147, change the title

[JimShanFTW]

Not as good as Ronnie.

[JapanDan144]

Every time I watch this, I just wish Alex would pause a bit and take his time on that last black; but then, that was never his style. Such a brilliant player and character. This attempt is every bit as good as, and better than many, of the 147s that have ever been made. RIP Alex. You are so greatly missed.

[wiganrlfcwigan]

Alex was brilliant,even at his worst was capable of something really special.see if you like my snooker on you tube j(mike Burke of Wigan)

[fabulousgerro661]

Although there was false advertising it was an excellent break.

[teece99]

fucking dickhead

[theodorehui]

i dislike the title but like alex higgins

[destanhw]

Alex Higgins' got an unorthodox way of cueing. Doesn't stay down on his shot all the way through, but what a player!

[6anatolyy4]

wankk

[bigcherry99]

this break proves alex higgins is the greatest player of all time

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this was the closest anyone had got to a 147 at this point in time

[S7R31F]

Such an ugly cue action yet so good