12 Best Snooker practice routines for break building

Break building is the key to high-scoring, consistent snooker. It’s not just about potting balls—it’s about planning ahead, controlling the cue ball, and maintaining momentum. In this post, we’ve put together 12 of the best snooker practice routines to help you improve your break building, sharpen your shot selection, and maximize your scoring potential.

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Break Building

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Easy

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1. Reds on Spots

Pot the reds, and after each pot, replace the ball back on the spot. You cannot pot the same ball twice in a row.

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2. Half Colours Clearance

Place the cue ball on the specified spots and clear the table from there. Once finished, replace all the balls including the cue ball, and continue the break.

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3. Line Up with Blue

Place the cue ball anywhere, and clear the table. Once finished, replace all the balls, including the cue ball, and continue the break.

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4. Pink & black clearance

Pot the Pink with follow through and position the cueball to pot the Black. Once done, replace all the balls, including the cue ball, and Continue until you miss.

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Medium

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1. The T

Place the cue ball anywhere, and clear the table. Once finished, replace all the balls, including the cue ball, and continue the break.

2. Rhombus with Black

Place the cue ball anywhere, and clear the table. Once finished, replace all the balls, including the cue ball, and continue the break.

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3. Half Line Up

Place the cue ball anywhere, and clear the table. Once finished, replace all the balls, including the cue ball, and continue the break.

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4. Split from the blue

Place the cue ball on the specified spots and split the pack.

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Hard

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1. The V

Place the cue ball on the specified spot and clear the table from there. Once finished, replace all the balls except the cue ball, and continue the break.

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2. Alternate Reds

Place the cue ball behind the first red, and clear the table from there. Once finished, replace all the balls including the cue ball, and continue the break.

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3. Barry Hawkins' Routine

Clear the table. However, you should pot the horizontal pack of reds into the middle pockets only, and the ones near the blue should go into the baulk corner pocket.

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4. Cannon the reds

Place the cue ball on the specified spot and try to put the black and cannon the reds respectively.

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