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Ebdon was only the second player to have made two competitive maximum 147 breaks in professional tournament play — these coming at the Strachan Professional and UK Championship, both in 1992. In the same year, he became the first player to make four centuries in five frames.
Ebdon is renowned for his strict fitness regime in order to condition himself for snooker, such as swimming one mile every day. In 2012 he adopted a high-carbohydrate, vegan diet, partly to improve sporting performance. In his first year of following the diet he lost two and a half stone and for September aimed to eat only raw food. He is a devotee of Napoleon Hill's classic motivational book Think and Grow Rich.
Ebdon has been criticised in the past for his exuberant outpourings of emotion after winning important frames or matches. However, since one particular outburst after potting the match ball against Stephen Lee during their 2001 World Championship second round encounter — repeatedly punching the air and shouting "Come on!" at the top of his voice — he has toned down his celebrations significantly.
Ebdon is also colour blind. In a frame in which the brown ball is in close proximity to a red, he usually asks the referee for help on which ball is which. During a match against Simon Bedford in the 2008 Grand Prix, Ebdon inadvertently potted the brown believing it to be a red. He made the same mistake again in the final of the 2012 Australian Goldfields Open.
During the 2012 Australian Goldfields Open world number two Judd Trump labelled Ebdon's playing style as "a joke" after his second round 5–4 win over Ding Junhui took almost 5 hours to be completed. The average time between shots was over 30 seconds and the average frame time was 32 minutes.
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