Pick a game or sport, any of them! It is a longshot to become rich. Players in the NFL have an average two year career the last I knew with a lifetime of pain and minor injuries at best. Maybe one in a million or less that dream of playing in the NFL make it, and that might be your best chance at a pro game or sport career.
The odds suck at being in the top one or few percent in the world or less at anything, and that is what it takes to be a pro. Look at olympic athletes. Technically amateurs but most never had a childhood to get to be world class. The chinese government and others are selecting children, babies, with potential when they are three years old and telling them and their families where they will go to school and what pursuit they will follow to try to be world class in, the best in the world.
It's not easy to be a financially successful pool player, but don't kid yourself it is much easier to be financially successful anything else in the sport or game world. Generally speaking, you have to have a gift, and a hellacious work ethic! If I had a child that wanted to be an athlete I would try to guide them to a noncontact low impact sport with long careers.
It isn't easy in pool and pool may be one of the tougher sports or games to be financially successful in but it is a mistake to think it comes easy for any success at sports or games. There are few sports I would encourage my children and grandchildren to play. Pool is lower than most things on that list. That isn't to say other things are easy though.
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