Having watched, for decades, these high rollers in the pool community, I always come back to this question.......
How do these people afford to risk such huge amounts of money?
Most, that I've seen, profess to have no career, no profession, no investments, and all that. Where do they get the cash to bet 5000...10000...20000, etc. etc.?
I've had a fair career over the years and have a couple of pensions and a comfortable 401K, but man oh man, if I lost a thousand dollars betting on some darn fool pool game, I'd be kicking myself for a month.
(and I can just hear my wife....."You lost a thousand dollars betting on a POOL GAME when we could've used that to go on a cruise? I should slap you crosseyed")....etc.etc.etc.
I see these people and from outward appearances they dress and look like they just got out from sleeping in the park. Scruffy clothes, unshaven, loud, noisy, and confrontational....
Where do they get all this money they're waving around in these action rooms.....?