On North Korea: 'You could get snookered' McConnell also warned President Trump on the pitfalls of being "snookered" by North Korea.
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Trouble is, consumers are almost always snookered by this shady science.
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Maybe Russia also snookered him into cofounding the Congressional Black Caucus.
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Modern newspapers have less often been the snookererers than the snookered.
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THINK ABOUT TIMING Who tends to get snookered on high textbook costs?
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The owners have perhaps snookered a baseball union grown a touch complacent.
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But at least in the first round, Trump seems to have been snookered.
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Gary Ross, CEO of Black Gold Investors, said Trump essentially "snookered" OPEC by granting the exemptions.
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According to President Trump, our trade negotiators got snookered by those smart negotiators from other countries.
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Some bloggers have gone on to insinuate Conyers was "snookered" or, worse, doing Vladimir Putin's bidding.
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Mr. Dowd has since said that he believes Mr. Mueller "snookered" the Trump team into cooperating.
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But now he's admitted that he was snookered (if not schlonged) by a weasel like Ted Cruz.
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"This is horrific," Cruz said in reference to a report about Jones claiming he "snookered" the GOP.
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McConnell, speaking at an event in Kentucky earlier this month, warned Trump against getting "snookered" in the talks.
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Does he feel he has been snookered, or is he so anxious to declare victory that he overlooks that?
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For the sake of its own legitimacy, the court must do so and avoid getting snookered by Trump's lawyers.
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Mr. Dowd said that cooperation was the right approach but that Mr. Mueller had "snookered" Mr. Trump's legal team.
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Yesterday, they were supposed to be delivered, the documents by DOJ and they got snookered because the DOJ backed off.
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A Holocaust denier who is running as a Republican in a Chicago-area congressional district says he "snookered" the GOP.
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If Trump does have a plan to keep from being snookered by Putin, it probably involves something old and something new.
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Mr. Brassner's struggle with drugs brought him into contact with "shady characters, who snookered him out of masterpieces," Mr. Pivar said.
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Paul Krugman seems to imply that the whole Republican world has been snookered into believing that climate change is a hoax.
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"Besides proving that he was gullible and he got snookered, it's still not a smoking gun," said one former campaign adviser.
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The idea that our trade negotiators got snookered is laughable: we got almost everything we wanted in late-twentieth-century trade negotiations.
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Better Call Saul As longtime fans of "Better Call Saul" know, everyone in the show gets snookered at one time or another.
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To the Editor: As a liberal who feels snookered by, and voted for, President Obama, I look at what could have been.
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"I feel kind of snookered because I took him seriously," Toobin told CNN anchor Anderson Cooper during a segment about the conviction.
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"If you fall in love with the deal and it's too important for you to get it ... you could get snookered," he said.
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That did not sit well with many black leaders and voters, who Mr. Sanders seemed to be implying had been snookered or brainwashed.
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He&aposs a dangerous dictator, who has -- he and his father and grandfather... CAVUTO: Well, are you saying, Steny, that the president risks getting snookered?
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"We wring our hands about girls being snookered by the princess narrative, but we don't worry about boys being confused about their future as superheroes."
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The home security company that snookered a woman into signing what she believed was a cancellation request but that was, in fact, a renewal form.
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"It appears that Senator Scott has allowed himself to be snookered," Ethics and Public Policy Center president Ed Whelan wrote in the National Review last month.
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As he was leaving office, Duncan basically gloated about his lawyers having snookered the Republican-led Congress into enshrining the Common Core agenda into federal law.
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Trump's success in the race thus far is largely attributable to his insistence that he—more than anyone else in the party—won't be so easily snookered.
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In Bunny Gets Snookered, originally created in 1997, she uses those materials, along with metal wire, to create eight figures and arranges them around a snooker table.
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In this new comedy about the clacking sport of snooker (it's like pool and also not), directed by Daniel Sullivan, a star player risks getting snookered himself.
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"If you fall in love with the deal, and it's too important for you to get it, and the details become less significant, you could get snookered."
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"You fall in love with the deal and it's too important (to) you to get it, and the details become less significant, you could get snookered," McConnell said.
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This fabric takes on an unsettling alien spirit in the series, Bunny Gets Snookered (1997), first shown in the gallery of Sadie Cole, Lucas' dealer and close friend.
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This past week, Fingerlings were out of stock on Walmart's website, while parents complained that they had been snookered into buying counterfeits from sellers on Amazon and other sites.
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I was going to say Josef Stalin, but I think I read somewhere that he used to drink water instead of vodka so he could trick his enemies into getting snookered.
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Chanos had already bet on this via a short position that he took in 2015; the merger snookered that, and Chanos moved on to making Tesla his most talked-about position.
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Sure, as private enterprises, these social media outlets can restrict and delete as they please, but Americans should not be snookered into thinking such digital censorship can be done efficiently and fairly.
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It feels emblematic of the YBAs: They were radical in the sense that they were white working-class kids in Britain who cannily snookered the art system and became rich, famous and iconic.
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That would suggest that Trump has been completely snookered by Xi: reversing the simplistic anti-China stance he took during the campaign to an equally simplistic pro-China stance after meeting with China's leader.
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For now at least, Trump seems to have been snookered into the same kind of deeply frustrating diplomatic process with North Korea that he has complained about, but that is far better than war.
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Those efforts include floppy female half-figures from the "Bunny Gets Snookered" series and the abstract, coiled knots of the strikingly expressive "NUD" pieces, which can suggest entangled couples, malformed fists or Matisse sculptures.
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Dyson, having been snookered in its first big solid state investment — its 2015, $90 million buyout of Michigan startup Sakti3, which it essentially had to write off — will have been especially cautious examining Ionic's data.
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CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said Friday night that he felt "snookered" after learning that lawyer Michael Avenatti was convicted on charges of trying to extort athletic clothing company Nike for millions of dollars.
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People who know what they want -- and have a grip on the debates around it -- are less likely to be snookered by pleasing but dubious content meant to convince them of something that's just plain wrong.
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Just ask North Korea's Kim, who snookered Trump into thinking he'd made major concessions, went right back to building up his nuclear attack capacity, and still gets praised by Trump as our allies watch in horror.
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True, but whether or not "we the people" were snookered into accepting a deeply flawed individual as our president does not stop us now from coming to terms with the harms of his presence in the Oval Office.
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"The Trump administration's national security strategy and national defense strategy both discussed great power competition with China as a leading challenge for the United States, and I don't expect that Trump is going to get snookered," he said.
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And the pair are unsparing in their criticism of the FBI, claiming that the bureau was either willfully misleading in surveillance court applications or was simply snookered by Steele, whose contacts with the American press were revealed in a British court.
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And then there was the final one: Alabama's last chance was snuffed out when it was snookered into a penalty for too many men on the field after forcing Auburn into a punting situation with a little over a minute to play.
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But the risk that Trump will be snookered into a deal so he can tout himself as the heir to Teddy Roosevelt — Nobel Peace Prize, 1906 — is real, as is the possibility that he might strike it at South Korea's and perhaps Japan's expense.
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Ms. Lucas's "Bunny Gets Snookered" series, from 1997, offers a gallery of stuffed pantyhose forms slouching on their own chairs, mimicking skinny, limp half-bodies that borrow from the soft-sculpture aesthetic of Louise Bourgeois and Yayoi Kusama and, less often mentioned, the African-American artist Senga Nengudi.
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Our new picture of Loria, then, is of a moderately wealthy guy who spent years grubbing for a new stadium, finally snookered Miami lawmakers into handing him nearly a billion dollars, blew it on a stadium that didn't help his team's bottom line at all—but still is poised to walk away with $642 million more than he spent on the franchise thanks to the sheer dumb luck of owning a baseball team at the right time.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellPelosi, Schumer press for gun screenings as Trump inches away The malware election: Returning to paper ballots only way to prevent hacking First House Republican backs bill banning assault weapons MORE (R-Ky.) warned President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE on Friday not to get "snookered" by North Korea, as the president announced that a meeting this month with Kim Jong Un in Singapore was back on.
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If the ball on is a red, and is snookered by a colour after a foul, then logically the red is either the final one or all reds are snookered by a colour ball, meaning the free ball has to be a colour. If the ball on is a colour ball that is snookered by a red, a previous red must have been successfully potted; the snooker therefore must be self-inflicted and cannot have occurred as the result of a foul. If the ball on is a colour that is snookered by another colour after a foul, all reds must have been already potted; thus the free ball still has to be a colour ball. The scoring for a shot in which both the free ball and the actual ball on are potted depends on the point in the game at which it occurs.
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In frame 36, Davis set another Championship record break. McConachy took the first red but Davis then had a break of 99 including 12 reds. On 99 he snookered himself and fouled the blue.
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He missed the final yellow but snookered Swail, leaving the cue ball in the jaws of the pocket. Liang followed up with a safety shot but Swail snookered him behind the blue; Liang failed to hit the yellow ball so Swail had the white replaced. In his second attempt, Liang hit the yellow directly and went on to win the frame 74–34, and thus the match, 13–12. The incident in the last frame proved controversial as the referee replaced the cue ball in the wrong position, giving Liang a better sight of the yellow.
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A fairly easy three-rail bank shot on the castle. A challenging two-rail kick shot at the castle. A daring shot on the castle, from a snookered position. A kick shot would be a higher-probability shot selection for most players.
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Santa Anna gloated over Polk's naïveté;Fowler, Santa Anna of Mexico, pp. 251–55 Polk had been "snookered" by Santa Anna.Merry, plate 27 caption. Instead of coming to a negotiated settlement with the U.S., Santa Anna mounted a defense of Mexico and fought to the bitter end.
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Snookered By Bush Sorkin would leave the show at the end of the fourth year, with executive producer John Wells taking a more active role in story development.Regime Change By contrast, in the 2006 election, Republican candidate Arnold Vinick is portrayed as likeable, principled, and intelligent.
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With one red ball left on the table in frame nine, Hunter missed it five times from a snookered position and Davis accrued 21 points in fouls from Hunter. Davis won the 47-minute frame and the match with a score of 85–40. McManus defeated Gray 5–3 in a match which Gray's highest break was 98.
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200px A free ball is a player-nominated substitute for the ball "on" when a player becomes snookered as the result of a foul committed by the opponent. The snooker is considered illegitimate in this case, and the affected player is allowed to nullify it by nominating any object ball as being "on" for the first shot of his/her turn. Once the free ball shot is taken legally, the game continues normally; however, if the player who committed the foul is asked to play again, a free ball is not granted. For example, as illustrated in the provided picture, if the ball on is the red, but is snookered by the black due to a foul, the fouled player will be able to name either the blue or the black as the free ball.
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Cale stormed past Baker on the backstretch and Ruttman drafted into second; Baker dove under Ruttman and Elliott snookered them both on the high side in a three-abreast photo finish for second. The win was Cale's third in the 500 and was also the first time that an in-car camera of a car went into victory lane before a national CBS Sports audience (this tradition would eventually continue into the present day).
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In the first semi-final, Williams defeated Higgins 5–4 to continue his unbeaten run in the tournament. Leading 4–2, it appeared that Williams would win the match easily on a snookered brown ball in the seventh frame. However, Williams missed the brown ball and allowed Higgins to pot it and the blue ball to win the frame. Higgins made a break of 110 to force a final fame decider that Williams won with a game-victory clearance of 31.
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The player could then pot the chosen colour as if it were a red for one point. The colour will then be respotted, the player will nominate a colour to be on for the next shot, and normal play will resume. As a natural corollary of the rules, the free ball is always a colour ball. If the ball on is a red, then by definition it cannot be snookered via another red, as it merely provides an alternative clean shot with another ball on.
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After the game, Selby accused O'Sullivan of being "disrespectful" after O'Sullivan had played several hit-and-hope shots while snookered. He responded by saying "if I was as good as Mark at escaping from snookers, I could maybe get it safe". In the final against Kyren Wilson, O'Sullivan won the first session 6–2 before Wilson came back to trail 10–8. O'Sullivan then won the last eight frames of the match to claim his sixth World Championship title and his 20th title in the Triple Crown Series.
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A free ball scenario does not occur when the ball gets stuck at the edge of a pocket jaw (commonly referred to as "angled") in such a manner that the player is unable to hit any ball on. This is because according to the official snooker rules a ball is snookered only if its way is obstructed by balls not on. In this scenario, after a foul, the player may choose to either take the shot from the current position or ask the offender to play again, as per the usual rules on fouls.
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In the 1996 UK Championship he made a century break in just three minutes and thirty-one seconds against John Higgins. In the third round of the Fidelity Unit Trusts International he won the fifth frame 62–0 in just 3 minutes. In 1995, he made a break of 149 in practice against Nick Manning in a snooker club in West Norwood, London. Drago was left snookered after a foul and potted the brown as a free ball and again as the colour, before potting the fifteen reds with thirteen blacks, a pink and a blue, and all the colours.
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At one stage in the frame Dennis was snookered behind the brown "but jumped the cue ball clean over that obstacle" to make his escape. In the 25th frame Davis made a 56 break before fouling a red when preparing to pot the black, missing his chance of beating his Championship record break of 79. Davis then won the evening session 4–1 to level the match again at 15–15. On the fourth day Dennis again won the afternoon session 4–1 but Davis won all 5 in the evening to take a 21–19 lead.
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In the 2007 UK Championship he was eliminated in the first round, 7–9, by unseeded Dave Harold, while in the Masters he lost 5–6 to eventual runner-up Stephen Lee for the third successive year. Another first-round elimination followed in the 2008 Malta Cup, this time to Mark Williams. In the 2008 Welsh Open he lost his opening match against Michael Judge 4–5. In frame 7, when leading 4–2, he missed the pack completely with his break-off after miscuing, and also failed to hit the bunch on his next shot after being snookered.
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They shared frames five and six; Doherty won frame seven after O'Sullivan was snookered on the final red, and O'Sullivan took the next frame on the pink ball. Although Doherty scored a break of 61 in the ninth frame, he could not sustain his form and O'Sullivan claimed victory on the black ball from a 38 clearance. The last quarter-final saw Ebdon compete against White, in front of a calmer crowd. White made century breaks of 118 and 101 in the first and fifth frames, followed by another by Ebdon in the sixth, and the score went level at 3–3.
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He snookered Tian on the , but then missed a difficult shot to a corner; however, on rebounding from the pocket, the blue hit the and went into the other baulk pocket. Maguire later described this fluke as "just outrageous" and admitted he "got lucky". He added and black to steal the frame, and then took the next two frames to win the match 10–9. Three-time former world champion and third seed, Mark Selby, played debutant Zhao Xintong. Despite trailing 1–5 after the first six frames, Selby won nine of the next eleven frames, with two breaks of 131, to win 10–7.
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He reached the semi-finals of the UK Championship in both 2004 and 2005. The 2004 defeat was especially notable as Perry had led 8–7 and potted a colour to leave his opponent, David Gray, requiring a snooker – however, Perry's pot had also left him snookered on the final red, which he failed to hit, allowing Gray to clear the table and ultimately win the deciding frame with a total clearance of 139. This run left Perry provisionally fifth in the world, but he failed to win a match in the remaining five tournaments and dropped to 14th at the end of the season as a result. In 2005, he lost to eventual champion Ding Junhui.
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After this, players will only have a chance to move the cue ball when an () occurs, and the incoming opponent will get , permitting placement of the cue ball anywhere within the "D". The first shot must be played so that the red ball is contacted; however, it is not permitted to either pocket the red ball or leave the opponent snookered. Taken in turns, each player has a choice to either shoot for the ball with the lowest point value (a free shot); or, select any other ball (a penalty shot). On choosing a free shot a player must proceed with a continuation shot, and the free ball remains out of the game.
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However, if said snooker is achieved by having the free ball obstructing the ball on, then the strike is a foul and a penalty of the value of the ball on is awarded to the opponent. The reason is that the free ball was to be treated as the ball on, and one cannot snooker a ball on by another ball on (following the same logic that a red cannot snooker another red when red is on). The only exception to this is when there are only two balls remaining on the table, namely pink and black. If the opposition somehow fouled trying to pot pink, and illegitimately snookered the striker with the black, then it is fair for the striker to snooker the opposition "back" with the free black ball.
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Stephen Maguire achieved breaks of 121, 83 and 111 en route to whitewashing his compatriot McManus 5–0 in a match that ran for just over 90 minutes. John Higgins, the 2000 Welsh Open champion, was defeated 5–3 by the unranked Higginson. Trailing 3–0 Higginson took advantage of an error from Higgins to achieve successive breaks of 68, 50, 60 and 121 and won the match in the eighth frame following a fluked green ball and putting Higgins in a snookered position behind the brown ball. left The 2006 Malta Cup champion Ken Doherty took a 5–3 win over Swail from breaks of 49, 79, 116, 47 and 84 with Swail producing two breaks of 87 and a 65 to prevent his opponent from claiming an easy victory.
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The balance point of a cue is usually 16 to 18 inches from the butt end. Minimum length for a snooker cue The official rules of both snooker and billiards state that "A cue shall be not less than 3 ft (914 mm) in length and shall show no change from the traditional tapered shape and form, with a tip, used to strike the cue-ball, secured to the thinner end." This rule was introduced following an incident on 14 November 1938 when Alec Brown was playing Tom Newman at Thurston's Hall in the 1938/1939 Daily Mail Gold Cup. In the third frame, Brown potted a red, after which the cue ball was left amidst several reds, with only a narrow way through to the black, the only colour not snookered, and which was near its spot.
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His combination of exceptionally fast play and emotional temperament has made him a popular character in snooker, although he was famously criticised by Steve Davis for hurling his cue at the table and storming out of the arena following his 1–5 quarterfinal defeat to Mark Bennett in the 1996 Grand Prix, with Drago later accusing his opponent of bad sportsmanship, because the latter had twice in the match suggested that Drago missed the object ball deliberately while snookered. Similarly, he became visibly angry with Peter Ebdon during their second round match in the 2003 World Championship, in which Ebdon repeatedly left the arena between frames. Drago took this as an attempt to disrupt the flow of his game, but apologised publicly when he later found out that Ebdon had been ill during the match. Drago is known for his consistently high-speed play.
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He lost 10–1 to Stephen Maguire in the final. It was during this tournament that Gray scored his first maximum break – the 50th ever made in professional play – in the fifth frame of his last-32 match against Mark Selby (whom he had defeated in the 2003 Scottish Open final). His semi-final against Joe Perry was particularly memorable as Perry appeared to have won the match 9-7 by potting a colour leaving Gray requiring a snooker, but Perry himself was snookered on the next red, failed to hit it, and didn't score another point as Gray cleared the table then hit a 139 total clearance in the deciding frame. Gray defeated Jimmy White (his long-time practice partner)Player profile on World Snooker 10–5 at the 2006 World Championship, but in the second round Peter Ebdon beat Gray 13–2 with a , becoming one of the few players to have lost two best-of-25-frame matches in a World Championship so emphatically.
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Soundhog is also responsible for a notorious series of tracks released under the pseudonym of The Freelance Hairdresser (a play on the name of Bastard Pop pioneer Freelance Hellraiser), whose most famous creation is "Marshall's Been Snookered" which featured a vocal by rapper Eminem over a ragtime tune used by the BBC as the theme for its "Pot Black" snooker programme ("Black and White Rag" by Winifred Atwell). Although meant as a joke, the track attracted a lot of attention, including a glowing review in The Village Voice. Later this theme was followed up by "Marshall's Been Done To Death" using various UK TV themes segued together as a backing track. Both tracks received major exposure in the summer of 2002 on the Chris Moyles afternoon show on BBC Radio 1, although never credited, and led to a week-long contest in which listeners were invited to create their own tracks along the same lines.
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