Ronnie O'Sullivan has made a record 17 maximum breaks, including two in one match this season

When does a 147 become a 180?

When you're Ronnie O'Sullivan, making more history. That's when.

In a year when snooker's maximum break, once considered as suppositious as the Himalayan Yeti, has repeatedly shown up for the cameras, it fell to O'Sullivan to show that nobody does it better.

When he sank his second maximum in barely two hours at the Saudi Arabia Masters in August, O'Sullivan secured a record £180,333 in bonuses.