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Snooker: Winner of Pot Black Achievement in World Snooker Championship 2007

Snooker: Winner of Pot Black48 (10)

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Win the Pot Black Championship in Snooker championship mode

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crowbo 360
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Posted on 12 August 10 at 11:07, Edited on 12 August 10 at 11:09
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The Pot Black tournament is a locked tournament. To unlock the tournament and automatically qualify you must achieve and maintain a Snooker World Ranking of 16th.

Once qualified you will have to win the first round, quarter-final, semi-final and final.

As a guide the defintion of a 'snooker' is where you are unable to hit the cue (white) ball directly onto the object (red or colours) ball without the using the cushions.

BEFORE STARTING TOURNAMENT ALWAYS ENSURE THAT TOURNAMENT LENGTH IS SET TO "SHORT".

An effective way to win these tournaments is to do the following...

1. Start your match and pause it straight away.
2. Select "AUTOSAVE" and switch to "OFF".
3. Play the frame as normal, obviously attempting to score as much as possible. Should you gain a lead of points that would require more than 2 snookers, you will more than likely win the frame as the AI will concede frame.
4. At this point, re-enter PAUSE menu, "AUTOSAVE" and switch to "ON". When frame is won your progress shall save.
5. Once frame is won return to step 2 and repeat as necessary.

Alternatively, should the AI opponent gain a lead of points that would require you to obtain more than 2 snookers, you will more than likely lose the frame. The AI tends to be very effective at getting out of snookers, especially if they would require only 1 cushion to hit the object ball. IF THEY GAIN AN UNOBTAINABLE LEAD THEN HIT GUIDE BUTTON AND EXIT TO DASHBOARD.

Then re-start and try again. You will need to re-start reasonably regularly as the AI has an uncanny ability to pot and gain position from reasonably 'safe'' positions on the table.

Here is a quick guide to ball values...
Red - 1 point
Yelow - 2 points
Green - 3 points
Brown - 4 points
Blue - 5 points
Pink - 6 points
Black - 7 points

A quick guide to total of points available with balls left on table...
15 Reds - 147 points
10 Reds - 107 points
5 Reds - 67 points
All colours (no reds) - 27 points
Ian 1485 hey there, was wondering do u hav 2 get a higher ranking in this game cause i was rank 10 and i played and won my match and yet the tournament ended. is it like the W.P.L. i think u need to be like top 5 to go further into the tournament?
Posted by Ian 1485 on 20 May 11 20:46:40
crowbo 360 It's been quite a while since I played this game so I can't fully remember what the specific requirements are to play through this tournament. I vaguely remember a similar thing happening to me and I think I relaoded and played again and beat the opponent to nil and got through. Hope this helps but because of the time elapsed I can't be 100% sure.
Posted by crowbo 360 on 21 May 11 16:20:34
Ian 1485 thanks 4 the answer. so it is something 2 do with the score then. i've past the tournament but when i come round it i'll try and destroy my opponent and c what happens.
Posted by Ian 1485 on 21 May 11 22:26:59