Dak21st said:

Happy birthday America. Haven’t shared these in a while since I’ve been pursuing the HRB collection, but here they are.
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JohnnyOzone said:

The #136 ranked PGA Tour player last year won over a million $.
But they typically have approx. 10 - 20 grand per week in expenses. The top guys might average 50K / week in expenses.

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Cornerman said:

I edited my post. The AZBilliards posts says Mataya got the high-run award in 1970.

If he won his first big straight pool tournament in the late 1960’s, and we know he was a gambler among gamblers, it would stand a reason he made it to Johnston city, IL when living in Detroit. Even if he was living in Las Vegas, I can imagine that he would do everything he could to get to that jamboree. But I don’t know. I’m just reading somebody else’s report that he was there and that he actually got a high run award in 1970 at Johnston city

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Cornerman said:

Both Sigel and Varner won over $100k USD in a single year for tournament winnings in the late 80’s. The 100th ranked golfer at the time also had won over $100K USD in those years as well.

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