How To Have A Successful Break In Snooker

How To Have A Successful Break In Snooker
Snooker is not like 8-ball or 9-ball pool at all, but similarly the break is crucial to a player’s success. Unlike the other two forms of pool, breaking the rack in snooker requires a lot more finesse then power.

What To Hit First?
In 8-ball/9-ball pool, common strategies of breaking the rack gravitate around power shots that lead to sinking balls. On the contrary, with snooker the goal is to strategically break only a small corner of the rack and have your ball return behind the D-line where your opponent will then have to maneuver their next shot around the colored balls.

What A Good First Break Can Lead To
If you are able to perform a successful break where your player is snookered and really has no shot, then you regain control of the table and are free to “clean up” contingent on your abilities. Also, by gaining initial control you have more opportunity to rack up colored-ball points (valued much higher then the red balls). In professional snooker, whenever the first player performs a successful break where the opponent must basically give up their first turn as a result of being snookered, the first person generally is able to gain a substantial lead that really puts a lot more pressure not to miss on their opponent.