vintagecollectibles831 said:

Pool is not something you fall back on. I seen Johnny Archer was playing in an event recently, where 1st place paid $1200. That is right, $1200. I did not miss any zero's.

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As well, seeing Archer today, and seeing how brief Mike Dechaine's comeback was, suggests to me that once someone is out of it for a few years it is hard to get back into it, for whatever reason. To be fair, both are decades older than Sofia and were out of playing competitively for quite a while.

VarmintKong said:

You prevert.

Crazy though, I just realized that the release of Mas Borracho is closer to Parliament Funkadelic Mothership release than it is to the present day.

I guess my heavy metal Friday will have to be a funkin fun time Friday. I do need to work on my interplanetary funksmanship.

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Hard to believe that's Dennis Chambers.

skogstokig said:

if so her fargo is lagging. common with young improving players. she's 16 or so (and junior world champion)

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She just turned 18, and her Fargo is around 670, but in reality she plays closer to around 700, due to the lag. That's enough to dominate the non-import Americans, but it's far from sustainable internationally.

That said, she's young enough she could reach the 730-740 range required to be competitive (if still an underdog) in those big international tournaments. But she has clearly decided not to go that route. One can always go to culinary school to be a chef. The fact that she's deciding to do this now means, to me, that the finances in pool simply are not there, even with improvement.

She's a teenage girl. They do all kinds of unpredictable shit, all the time. It's her life to live.

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tell me you write this stuff.

iusedtoberich said:

Well this is a clickbait title for sure. How do you get she's retiring [which also means quitting pool] out of her post?

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That was my inference. Nothing intending to be click-baity. We'll see how much, if at all, she actually plays. At her age, it's very possible she's in and out of a number of various endeavors over the next few years, like most of us were.

skogstokig said:

if so her fargo is lagging. common with young improving players. she's 16 or so (and junior world champion)

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Pretty sure she is 18.

vintagecollectibles831 said:

She should do what ever makes her happy, no matter how poor the pay is. I imagine that she is probably very burned out on Pool, but I do not know. Probably just wants to try something new. I wish her the best. And, who knows, she might really start to miss the game, and want to take it back up full time.

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This thread was in no way implying she should not do anything she doesn't want to do. It is simply inferring from the decision the state of finances in women's pool in the US.

fastone371 said:

Don't tell my wife's cousin this, she owns a couple of restaurants in the US and is part owner of another in Singapore.

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It's an average. Most culinary school graduates start out at near- (or at-) minimum wage jobs and it can take years to get to even a basic livable wage (often sous chef) and then another few years if at all to be the head chef, which can be anywhere from decent to actually pretty darn good--but you also have to be pretty darn good.