Chris Dunhill emmigrated from Ireland with his parents and sister to Manchester but settled in Dukinfield where they had friends to socialise with. Chris was bought a pool table for his tenth birthday and fell in love with the game and eventually moved onto playing snooker at the pyramid club just round the corner in King street. Chris was determined to be the world champion of snooker one day so he made up his mind and practiced every day to build up his confidence with the help of his mate called Screwfix as he had a false hand that he screwed onto his arm. Chris eventually went on to publicise a new game called snooker 9 ball which was a mixture of snooker and pool which went down very well with the Canadians. This new game consisted with the new innovation of colour coded pockets which were the same colour of the coloured balls in snooker which was invented by the landlord of the Newmarket Tavern.