Snooker Best Shots Players Championship 2024 Recreated

Players Championship time and this one has more good, strange and unusual shots than we regularly see. However as usual we're still trying to find the best shot of the tournament by recreating all of them as accurately as possible before playing them in the fewest possible attempts. But we're beginning with Mark Selby who was playing at the top of his game in his match against Ronnie O'Sullivan. Not only does he manage to pop this red but he gets the cannon to the black perfectly to knock it on to the opposite corner and we know he was attempting this because he was queuing up to the black a few moments before he played the shot. Now in theory the pot on the red isn't too difficult here but I seem to be having great difficulty finding the right angle but at the same time I'm learning the path the cue ball has to take to make the cannon on the black so hopefully when I get it I should knock it on just like I have here. Not only does this snooker escape from Judd Trump look good as it helps him pop the brown and eventually go on to win the frame but he also wins every subsequent frame after this taking the match 6-2. I've got it on my second attempt but unfortunately I've run through enough after it. I'm using topspin and left hand side to make it arc off the cushion but this is really difficult to judge because if you just hit it slightly harder it runs up the cushion a little bit further and breaks a lot wider but I finally got it right. Next is Yeo Yulong with a well-timed cannon using topspin to arc the cue ball onto the black on the top cushion knocking it nicely over the corner pocket. I've just got to judge the speed and the topspin here to make the cue ball arc and my first attempts nearly got it right and I've made the correction nicely with my second meaning I've got this one pretty quickly as well. Zhang And has got himself in a little bit of difficulty and surprises commentators when he nominates the yellow but he managed to find a clean path for the cue ball to avoid all the reds and make contact with the yellow on the first time of asking. These types of shot are a lot easier for me because I can see exactly where the player struck the cushion and just try to copy the line. It's no guarantee that I'm going to get it but this time it worked. A pot down the cushion now for Mark Selby that was instrumental in this 6-0 whitewash of Ronnie O'Sullivan. Ronnie had taken an early lead in this frame and it looked like he was finally going to get his first frame on the board however Mark had other ideas. This one requires an accurate pot down the cushion but other than that I'm not sure it's as difficult as I first thought because of the position of the balls if you miss this shot it should go safe depending on where the red ends up. Five attempts is definitely less than I was expecting on this one though. Judd Trump finds a thin cut and a way back to bulk now after it looked like he didn't have any shot on whatsoever. I've lined this one up as accurately as I possibly can but I'm not sure if I've got the position of the reds right because in theory the cue ball should come in and out of the reds and back through to the right hand side of the pink and I'm not sure if I pot this it's going to do that especially as I'm over cutting it already and the cue ball's kissing the pink or going to the left hand side of it. In theory all I've got to do here is get the pot right and see what happens I can't really do anything with side spin to control the cue ball at this distance but I don't think I've quite got it lined up right and the cue ball has gone the wrong side of the pink I just don't know what I could have done about this. A nice simple double for John Higgins now let's see if we can also get this one straight away. Should be able to as it's a fairly straightforward double where I just need to stun the cue ball down to the black. I thought I missed it but I slightly potted it to the far jaw which meant the cue ball ran on a bit. Now Mark Allen's double from here definitely isn't simple and I know for certain he didn't play it but when has that ever stopped us before so let's see if we can get the red in the middle pocket from this position. It's going to be a bit of a challenge but I'm confident we're going to get there what's helped on my first attempt is I've got very close so I can sort of work it out and my second attempt has somehow gone in the pocket but which of these is the cheekiest double? I think I know. This week John's shot barely gets two but as he went on to win the frame even though it was a complete fluke Mark Allen's gets five and he's this week's winner. A pot out of the jaws of the middle pocket is next from Zanganda this one requires really good cueing and an accurate pot but I definitely think it's going to be gettable. After all you just got to get the angle right and pop the ball with this one which I've managed to do and the whites just about held up on time to stay on the black. Mark Selby has a pot on the pink now and manages to play the cue ball all the way around the angles and back for the reds. This one's from a quite an awkward position so he does well here to avoid the vault colours. This one requires a small trace of left hand side and quite a bit of backspin you then use the power of the shot to control the angle the cue ball goes around the table. As you can see with this one I didn't get into the cue ball enough and I think that's because I'm putting too much left hand side on the ball and not really enough backspin. That's why I can't quite stay on the right side of the brown because the cue ball's not travelling far enough up the side cushion before making contact with it. I think I got the spin right with that one I just haven't hit it hard enough so let's see if I can make the correction. It's a bit low on power but I'm heading on the right direction I've ended up in position on the red just about. I thought this well controlled shot round the back of the pink from Mark Allen was definitely worth a look next. As I just need to drag the cue ball around the back of the pink for the black it's going to be mostly about getting the angle right which I don't seem to have worked out on my first couple of shots so I need to correct that and get position on the black. That's pretty good and three attempts is probably about right for this one. Ronnie O'Sullivan really cues this one well in his first match and gets the white back to the top side of the blue. I do think I can just about play this with a regular cue ball on my table but it does mean that I'm going to have to cue through this about as fast as I can and that's going to make the pot a lot more challenging and I'm struggling to do that without jumping up in the air but because I've lined everything up right when I finally struck through the middle of the cue ball it went in. This is another good positional shot off the black from Mark Selby as he goes in and out of bulk to come back for a red on the top cushion however this time this one doesn't look too difficult and it just seems like you have to hit it hard enough. So I'm just trying to top spin this one off the top cushion using a small trace of left hand side. Hopefully this will make it arc back towards the green and come back down the table for the red. It's just going to be controlling that arc that's a problem and I've slightly overdone it or underdone it with my first couple of attempts so hopefully I can get it fairly close but unfortunately I keep over hitting it and not controlling how wide the cue ball breaks off the top cushion. This is actually a lot harder to play than I was expecting. I thought I just had to bash it and hit it up and down and I wasn't expecting it to be so difficult to get the cue ball back in the right place. Effectively you've got to make the cue ball spin back towards the green arcing it round it almost off the top cushion and I just can't seem to get that right. So I think I'm going to have to stick with this one because I simply can't top spin it enough at the right angle. Judd's powering the blue in now to get back round the angles for a red at the top end of the table and lands in position on it absolutely perfectly. One of the things that was worrying me about this shot before I attempted it was that you have to hit it quite hard and on my first attempt here I think I've made it jump out the pocket and possibly on my second. My third it's definitely jumped out the pocket though so I'm really having to try hard to keep it on the table but that means I can't quite play the shot as hard as I want to. However if I can avoid bouncing it at all I've got a chance and I've managed to get enough top spin on this one to flick it around the angles and I've just about ended up on the red. Mark Allen gets this in off now in the final when Zhang Ander leaves him in the middle of the balls with seemingly no real shot on but he manages to still pull this one out. I think Mark was attempting to screw back a little bit further because he was only just on the black and he would have left reds on had he had missed it but two attempts is pretty good with this one. Tom Ford plills off this really nice cannon on the pink now to find himself nicely in position on a red however it doesn't help him too much as he ends up losing the match to Ali Carter. With this angle I've basically just got to pot this one with a small trace of right hand side to try and get the correct cannon on the reds. My first attempt was close but I didn't quite get the right cannon and I just don't seem to be able to pot it now but I keep getting the cannon right every time I miss the pot. I don't think I'm seeing this one very well and if I was I probably would have got it already but I'm pretty happy with the cannon I got in the end. Ali Carter has this frame ball red along the top cushion which crucially drops in against Judd Trump. He eventually then goes on to win the match 6-4. These go in so much easier on my table so it isn't really a true test but I was happy to see it go in straight away. Dings pot from tight on the cushion here is actually a really thin cut but he manages to get it and go on to win the frame however he still ends up losing out to John Higgins in this match. With my first attempt on this one I actually hit where I intended but it was a little bit thicker than I first thought and it took me a little while to get the angle and I think three attempts is actually pretty good with this one. We've got John Higgins' shot right after we find Knight of Knee in Calgary, Alberta which is there. This is a crucial match from John Higgins in his match against Ding as he finds a red into the corner pocket which wasn't necessarily going to leave him in a completely safe position meaning there was quite a bit of risk attached to it. Again it's all about getting the angle right and also top spinning the cue ball around the red that's in front of it. You've got to play it fairly fast or this won't happen so I've got to get both of those things right and I've managed to do that in four attempts so that's not too bad. Mark Allen now with a well struck shot that's pretty similar to that Ronnie O'Sullivan shot we saw earlier so let's see if I can cue it the same and get the same result out of it. This one would be a little bit easier but I'm cueing very close to the brown so it takes a little more concentration to avoid hitting it as I push the cue through but it's the same as before really I've got everything lined up right so as soon as I strike through the centre of the cue ball it's going to go in the pocket. So for the results it was close but I'm giving third place to Mark Selby with this positional shot of the black. It was definitely a lot harder than I thought it was going to be and I couldn't really keep the white close enough to the red. Second place goes to Judd Trump with this cut. It may look straightforward but the way he found a path back to bulk at the same time was just ridiculous but first place goes to the pot and cannon from Mark Selby. This really isn't easy but he manages to absolutely nail it. I must have made hundreds of these shot recreation videos by now so here's the previous two and remember don't just watch play and make the commitment to becoming a better player by subscribing to the channel and visit the website. See you later.