Frost vs Alex - 1 Pocket Match on Monday for $40,000

I do have a question. The title of this thread said the match is for 40, but I am reading elsewhere that Alex pocketed 20.
 
That was brutal!!! Scott never got going at all. The table rolled off but it rolled off for both of them not just Scott. Maybe SVB will play Alex some one hole for the title.
 
JAM said:
I do have a question. The title of this thread said the match is for 40, but I am reading elsewhere that Alex pocketed 20.
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In the new modern era we don't say that the bet is 20k. In order to make it sound much bigger we say it's a $40,000 match because both side PUT UP 20k.

So like poker, it's a $40,000 pot, or in the middle.

I prefer to call it what it is, one pocket 8 ahead for 2.5k a game. But that doesn't sound as sexy as 8 ahead for $40,000.

Everything's marketing baby.
 
JB Cases said:
In the new modern era we don't say that the bet is 20k. In order to make it sound much bigger we say it's a $40,000 match because both side PUT UP 20k.

So like poker, it's a $40,000 pot, or in the middle.

I prefer to call it what it is, one pocket 8 ahead for 2.5k a game. But that doesn't sound as sexy as 8 ahead for $40,000.

Everything's marketing baby.
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If a tournament advertised in this way, I guess it would be quite different. A tournament might say "total purse" or words to that effect.

I'm not sure what the breakdown of the cash is among the parties, and frankly, it's none of my business. But in boxing, you read about these champion boxers winning a million and a half, and after they pay the trainer, cut man, corner man, the sponsor, the exhorbitant expenses needed to train, they're broke the next year.

20K is a nice sum in the pool world. Better than the majority of tournaments, that's for sure, and the expenses probably weren't as heavy as a tournament.

Good for Alex. Hope he doesn't spend it all in one place. :D
 
JAM said:
But in boxing, you read about these champion boxers winning a million and a half, and after they pay the trainer, cut man, corner man, the sponsor, the exhorbitant expenses needed to train, they're broke the next year.
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Why would a boxer be paying a sponsor?
 
I'm sure Scott won three games, maybe more. Alex won the first five, lost one to drop to four ahead. Then he won two to get to 6 up, lost one. And iirc he lost from the hill once too. I could be wrong, but I think it was 11-3 overall.
 
SakuJack said:
Why would a boxer be paying a sponsor?
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I selected the wrong word. The organizational entity backing the boxer is a better description, but I'm not sure what it's called on boxing. :embarrassed2:

And then there's Don King. :D
 
Alex put on a clinic. I can't say enough thank you'd to POV though. Awesome they put this up for free.
 
Would love to know who watched the entire set, from beginning to end, all 8 hours of it. :)
 
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