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SHEFFIELD – A uncommon cleanable interruption of 147 astatine the satellite snooker title earned a fortunate instrumentality 25,000 pounds ($33,000) connected Friday.
The acquisition for Brian Nicholls came with a twist, however.
For this year’s title astatine the Crucible Theatre, a random subordinate of the assemblage gets picked each league to beryllium the recipient of the currency prize should a subordinate implicit a maximum interruption — 15 reds, each followed by 15 blacks, and past each the colors.
Nicholls was the chosen instrumentality but helium was sitting connected 1 broadside of the Crucible, watching a lucifer betwixt Mark Williams and Hossein Vafaei, portion Mark Allen was compiling his 147 connected the different table.
With the 2 tables separated by a partition, Nicholls had to ticker connected 1 of the screens wrong the arena arsenic Allen finished disconnected his maximum. TV footage showed Nicholls celebrating aft the 39-year-old from Northern Ireland potted the last achromatic to grounds lone the 15th 147 made astatine the Crucible.
The wealth earned by Nicholls is much than is fixed to the first-round losers astatine the satellite championship. They person 20,000 pounds ($26,600) each.
As for Allen, helium is successful enactment to get astir $60,000 for making a 147.
According to the BBC, which is broadcasting the tournament, Nicholls had ne'er been to the Crucible earlier and was bought a summons by his lad arsenic a contiguous for his 75th birthday.
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