Richest Pro Pool Players in the World

[lodini]

In your first discussion you compared Donovan McNabb to Jeanette Lee. Excellent example. But who do you think commands more money in endorsements McNabb or Lee?

I never compared JL to Donovan McNabb. Read it again, I was telling a story about brand association.

Actually, as long as we are on the subject, let's compare. Here's a good one... Serena Williams makes $10 million a year on her deal with NIKE. That is aside from her other deals with Avon, Wrigley's, McDonald's, Hewlett Packard etc. all of these over $1 million annually.

At this rate, Jeanette's $3 million annually from a combination of her 10+ endorsements, appearances, merchandise, etc. is peanuts! Does that help?

 

[Voodoo Daddy]

No one has mentioned Dick Lane yet? In Naples when they had the senior tour last, I had a few people tell me that Dick was involved in the family business and it was oil related. maybe its bs

Good call on Lane, if I remember right the franchise pool rooms Clicks are his. One they all missed <cause he is dead and not on the list of course> is Steve Mizerak. Made tons of dough because of pool...tons!

 

[CreeDo]

Her public speaking gigs are 5,000 minimum and go up to 10k.
She also does "The Spider" or whatever it's called. She has her own line of cues and a perfume. Her camp thingy costs 1,000 bucks a day.

We haven't mentioned Imperial (general pool stuff, gloves etc). On this page she mentions them and the bicycle club, and when asked if her endorsements are in the six figures she just says "yes". Doesn't rule out 7 figures, but anyway that was a while ago, when she was 24.
http://www.goldsea.com/Personalities2/Leejeanette/leejeanette3.html

Kinda funny, while googling this stuff, I bumped onto a court decision by accident... looks like jeanette lee had to fight a little bit with some lithuanian registrar to get jeanettelee.com, before that she was stuck with jeanettelee.tv.
http://www.arb-forum.com/domains/decisions/105214.htm

 

[JustPlay]

I never compared JL to Donovan McNabb. Read it again, I was telling a story about brand association.

Actually, as long as we are on the subject, let's compare. Here's a good one... Serena Williams makes $10 million a year on her deal with NIKE. That is aside from her other deals with Avon, Wrigley's, McDonald's, Hewlett Packard etc. all of these over $1 million annually.

At this rate, Jeanette's $3 million annually from a combination of her 10+ endorsements, appearances, merchandise, etc. is peanuts! Does that help?

Didn't I just state in previous post that I understood your point(s) I think I did that pretty clearily. Just becase a pool player is endorsed by a company doesn't nesscessarly translate in to big dollars as compared to a professional athlete, who most definitly brings in way more money than any pool player when it comes to endorsements (because of the fans they attract to each event they play, which is the key factor in all of this), thats my point. And if your going to use professional athletes as "examples" to get your point across, stay within the same game (pool).

Since someone mentioned some of JL endorsement and lessons. Do you think the "spider" sold millions? doubt it. Did JL $1000 pool lessons have people lining up around the corner. very unlikely. And unfortunitly, with Jeanette's bad back, it has been tough for her to play pool as well as going on the road to endose products and services she provides. To top that she has a family which takes up most of her time. With those factors (which by the way she has had for some years now) definitly decreases her annual income. I agree to stop adding to this beaten down thread as long as you do as well.

 

[allprobilliards]

Look, I don't know how else to explain this. But I'll give it a shot. Once someone becomes an endorser, he/she is used by the company in NUMEROUS ways that the general public doesn't see. For example, the quote I gave you all earlier about Gatorade hiring Jeanette for their hospitality suite at the Super Bowl. They didn't sell any Gatorade because she was there, but she surely entertained all the Gatorade big-wigs and their business-related guests! And that is just as important.

If a company like LG Electronics, which is one of hers, has Jeanette attend an event with a big distributor and does some fancy trick shots and schmoozes up the cheif decision maker... and that distributor chooses to do business with LG, then that deal is a direct result of the JL relationship. (in all probability, a large multi-million dollar deal) Poof!, instant ROI. (LG, by the way, is a $559 million dollar a year electronics giant, not your run-of-the-mill pool related product)

This is just one example, but so many things happen behind the scenes that the general consumer does not know about. And I can't believe that {some of} you guys just dismiss this stuff as "no, it definitely doesnt happen." It absolutely does.

Just FYI: LG has not sponsored Lee for nearly 5 years, and that deal only lasted about a year.
It was not LG main company, it was a distributorship in the Philippines, so highly doubtful she was getting alot of money for that.
Also, she is no longer with Imperial, for about 3 years now and also Bicycle casino never sponsored her.
A source I know that does business with her managment company explained some of this and also confirmed she makes under 500 k a year. Which makes my orginal guesstimate of 400k pretty close.
She does not make anything near 3mill yearly let alone 1 mill.

 

[lodini]

Just FYI: LG has not sponsored Lee for nearly 5 years, and that deal only lasted about a year.
It was not LG main company, it was a distributorship in the Philippines, so highly doubtful she was getting alot of money for that.
Also, she is no longer with Imperial, for about 3 years now and also Bicycle casino never sponsored her.
A source I know that does business with her managment company explained some of this and also confirmed she makes under 500 k a year. Which makes my orginal guesstimate of 400k pretty close.
She does not make anything near 3mill yearly let alone 1 mill.

OK, I give up.

Peace out!

 

[allprobilliards]

OK, I give up.

Peace out!

Dont take this the wrong way. Alot of info you gave is optimistic but also some of it informative.
The point of this thread was to show that the stereotype that all pro pool players are broke is false. Many examples of those making a great living.

Lee making 400-500k a year and 90% of it from endorsements and appearances is a pretty fantastic career! definitely means she's a millionaire

 

[lodini]

Just FYI: LG has not sponsored Lee for nearly 5 years, and that deal only lasted about a year.
It was not LG main company, it was a distributorship in the Philippines, so highly doubtful she was getting alot of money for that.
Also, she is no longer with Imperial, for about 3 years now and also Bicycle casino never sponsored her.
A source I know that does business with her managment company explained some of this and also confirmed she makes under 500 k a year. Which makes my orginal guesstimate of 400k pretty close.
She does not make anything near 3mill yearly let alone 1 mill.

If LG is hasn't been a sponsor of hers for 5 years, your source should tell her management company, because they still have them listed on her website as a sponsor.

 

[watchez]

From a simple search of the AZBilliards website--

Dragon Promotions has proven to be highly successful in involving large corporate sponsors in and outside the billiard industry. Some of DP's track record highlights include CJ Media(Division of Samsung, the $90 billion giant ranked 46th Fortune Global 500), The Hyundai Group ($60 billion ranked 76th Fortune Global 500), and Lotte Group ($26 billion specializing in hotel,food,department stores). I am sure that Charlie is pocketing some of this sponsorship change.

Alexandria, VA, February 20, 2007 - Jeanette Lee, aka ?The Black Widow,? has agreed to speak on the health benefits of hot tubs on behalf of The Hot Tub Council (HTC) of the Association of Pool & Spa Professionals (APSP). The partnership goes into effect immediately. [As part of the partnership with the Hot Tub Council, Ms. Lee will have a presence on the HotTubLiving.com Web site talking about her personal health challenges and how hot tubs have helped her recovery.

Lee also works with her foundation, the Jeanette Lee Foundation, to help raise money for the Women?s Sports Foundation, serves as a Trustee for the Women?s Sports Foundation and actively participates in fundraising events for various charities.



Whenever you have your own Foundation, you have some bucks. Many pro football/baseball/basketball players have their own Foundations, put their brother or mother in charge in order to pay them a nice yearly salary.

 

[watchez]

You can also add Corey Duel as a Pro Player that makes a nice yearly living before he hits a ball. Not millions, but he is comfortable.

 

[raybo147]

I guess we can't really call Steve Davis a pool player, although he did play quite a lot for several years. He has been a multi-millionare since the early eighties and still makes a fortune in endorsments and TV work. He is a household name in the UK to the level of any sports star here in the US.

 

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[Marvel]

The prince that was playing Django in the Mideast or Asia. He plays in some pro pool events and owns a nice little mideast country on the side.

Hu

Yeah, his father or uncle or anyway Brunei's Sultan, was said to be the richest man on the planet maybe 20 yrs ago b4 microsoft and internet and stuff..

 

[Marvel]

isn't Semih Sayginer royalty? i might be wrong i don't know much about players but i thought i heard that somewhere

He is not, but he's been a lot in TV in his home country cos of his extremely good trick shots and extremely good performance skills with microphone..

Not a royal though

 

[jay helfert]

jeanette is parlaying her name buy reyes has staying power. he will be who he is in the phillipines until the day he dies,,,he is set for life. jeanette's profile will not last.

btw,,,at one time, it may have been jennifer chen. besides her media/entertainment celebrity in taiwan, she was sponsored by some non-pool companies(i think a tech company was one). if there's ever a "stupidest" poll, i vote for her.

I vote for Michael Vick.

 

[td873]

A high income doesn't necessarily make one rich. It's how one manages their money that really counts.

A high income makes it much easier to "get" rich. If you are making only $30K a year, it'll be a lot harder to afford a Ferrari than someone making $300K. Sure, making $300K doesn't make you rich, but in 10 years, you might be. If you're making 30K, well in 10 years, even with good money management, odds are you'll still be 1/10th as "rich" as the other guy - simply because the other guy has much more discretionary income to "manage".

-td

 

[olauzon]

A high income makes it much easier to "get" rich.

the suggestion and this deserves it's own thread.

 

[Marvel]

Efren has done well for himself, probably winning more money than anyone else over the last ten years. It seems as if he has won all the really big prizes, or many of them anyway. He has also been enriched by the Philipine government for his accomplishments.


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Jay, Efren has probably won twice or three times as much money in the past ten (or some more) years from tournament pool, than any other pro. (Even without the IPT, he could have won twice as much as the second..)

And, more importantly, Efren has been on TV ad's in Philippines advertising San Miguel Beer and McDonalds + probably many other companies. I heard even his wife has been on telly advertising some beauty products..

The biggest amount of dollars I've heard he earned from an exhibition, was 100 000$, but that he probably had to share with Django..
This was said to have happened in Dubai.


I'm not saying he's matching anywhere near you're tellin Black Widow is, but from male touring pros he must be in his own league.
Of course the payments in Philipinnes tv ad's are nowhere considering to US (even probably the local channels in the US), but if I may compare this situation proportioned to the standard of living in the Philippines, he is a 'multi millionaire' there. Just notch below the top Snooker stars in UK, but of course this is very relative and off topic, and then again, there's rumoured to be about 60+ persons living from Efrens earnings..

 

[JoeyA]

You must be with the IRS.

Not with the IRS but while we're on the subject, how much wood do you purchase each year?

Cue makers make all of the big bucks and should be at the top of the list.

JoeyA

 

[Scaramouche]

See what snooker players get just from playing

http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Millionaires.htm