Let me ask you something if you think you're so damn smart to throw around the names of Pro's from other sports as if that gives your bullshit some kin of validation. Did basketball start out with PRO'S? Did baseball start out with PRO'S? Did golf start out with PRO'S? How about football, did that start out with PRO'S? YOU and the mentality of everyone like you, by the millions are the set back to pool becoming a real sport. Pool is older than all the sports Isited above, and yet.....400+ years later, is still so unorganized it's sickening, and it's all because of property like you, because you refuse to show this sport the respect it deserves.....and get the hell out of the way and let there be some organization brought forth that DOES separate players by skill level so that there's no doubt that if someone is called a Pro, it's because they've earned that right! Not to be mistaken by someone who just simply says....I play at Pro level....because you can beat everyone at your local bar. When someone asks, what does it take to be a Professional pool player....instead of 35 pages of bullshit answers and ideas, the answer would be as simple as....show the world you have more skills that the top 128 players in the world currently holding the rank of "PRO" status!!!! That my dear boy is what draws the line between SEMI-PRO....and "PRO"....leaving the rest of the worlds players in the sandbox with the rest of us "AMATEURS " THEN, AND OLNY THEN will this sport have a chance of gaining the sponsors it so richly deserves making PROFESSIONALS the money and endorsement deals they've earned, just like all other PROFESSIONAL SPORTS FIGURES!!![/QUOTE
There is no money in POOL poor mans game the money is in
Snooker where the players make millions if they are good