Snooker and Pool Table Blog

Jimmy White and Ronnie O’Sullivan both scored consecutive 147 Maximums whilst playing an exhibition match in Trim, County Meath, Ireland.

White told The Sun newspaper “Ronnie had a 147 and because we were playing a doubles match he decided to have one more game so that the other lads could have a few shots and then I happened to have a 147. We worked out it has never been done in snooker before. It was an amazing feat and I am totally pleased.”

Birmingham Billiards researched this and found that although this is the first double maximum by two different players Peter Edbon did manage two consecutive 147’s in an exhibition against Steve Davis in 2003.

After being defeated by O'Sullivan in the World Championship, Carter wins Huangshan Cup Title beating Marco Fu 5 – 3 in China.
Carter was invited to the event at the last minute when O'Sullivan withdrew. After Carter took a 2 – 0 lead, Fu levelled at 3 – 3 with a total clearance of 139.

Once Carter has secured the 2 final frames, he moved to a career high of 7th in the world rankings.

Ding Junhui, China's number 1 was beaten in the semi finals 5 – 3. He has donated his £10,000 prize to the fund set up for victims of the Sichuan earthquake. Earlier today (23/05/08) the earthquake death toll jumped again, 55,239 people are now known to have died when over five million buildings collapsed.