Six-red snooker (sometimes spelled six-reds, 6-red, and also known as super 6s), is a variant of

snooker Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sports, cue sport played on a Billiard table#Snooker and English billiards tables, rectangular table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six Billiard table#Pockets 2, pockets, one at each corner and o ...

, but with only six initially on the table as opposed to the standard fifteen.

Overview

In Six-red snooker, the traditional game of

is shortened, with fewer red-balls to pot. All the usual Snooker rules apply with the following exceptions: #There will be no more than five consecutive Foul and a Miss calls at any one time. #After four consecutive Foul and a Miss calls, the referee will warn the offending player that should a Foul and a Miss be called again the following options are available to the non-striker: ##play himself from where the balls have come to rest; ##ask his opponent to play from where the balls have come to rest; ##place the cue ball anywhere on the table, but this option cannot be taken if play has reached the "snookers required" stage. #A player cannot snooker behind a nominated colour at any time. The maximum break in six-red snooker is 75, as compared to 147 for traditional snooker. The table is the same size as in the traditional 15-red game. The format was designed to feature shorter frames, due to fewer red balls. It was hoped that the format would revive the popularity of snooker as a spectator sport, in the same way

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has done to

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said that six-red snooker could be one way of helping boost the game's popularity.

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also said he would be interested in playing the format. The first international tournament in this format was contested in July 2008, with

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defeating

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in the final. A six-red tournament was held during the

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as a sideshow, involving one-frame knockout matches. In the final veteran Tony Knowles defeated 13-year-old

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52–18. Tickets were initially free; however, future events would have been pay-to-enter. The first world championship was held in Ireland between 15 and 18 December 2009.

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beat Mark Williams 6–3 in the final, becoming the first world champion of the six-red snooker format. Since this time, the

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has been contested in the regular season calendar, and also in the

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Ten-red snooker

A similar game consisting of ten red balls, rather than six is also played. Popular in the women's game, ten-red had a World Women's 10-Red Championship held annually in Leeds, England, from 2017 to 2019.

Overview

Ten-red snooker

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