In snooker, what is the definition of a long pot?

Question

I heard it was something like a pot where there's 6' between cue ball and object ball. What if the cue ball and object ball are close together, and the player sends the object ball into a pocket which is 6' away from the object ball? Does that count?

Answer 1

Over half the length of the table ie 12ft table 6ft 1 in shot

Answer 2

Definition Of Snooker

Answer 3

In snooker, a long pot is any pot into any of the corner pockets on a snooker table where the cue/object ball began in the opposite, lengthwise half of the snooker table. To rephrase for simplicity's sake, a long pot is any pot in which the cue ball or object ball crosses an imaginary line joining the middle pockets. (modified from Billiard Forum)

Answer 4

I don't actually know the answer to this question but was looking at the answers...... Surely if it is a shot that is 6" between object ball and pocket then this would apply to almost every shot?? 6" really isn't very far.........
Is this really right???

Answer 5

yes the object ball must be 6" from any pocket to be a long pot

Answer 6

I play a bit of snooker and to me i would say they both count,although the one with the greater distance to the object ball would probably be harder.

Answer 7

It's arbitrary! There is nop hard and fast deifinition of a long pot. I played a lot of snooker, and to me a long pot was anything more than 3 foot from the white! I remember I potted one of those one time! They don't call me the 'Soft breeze' Higgins for nothing, you know! Actually I am quite surprised, 'cause my name is not Higgins!