Like every OTHER way to go broke.
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He started as a snooker player
Yes, as I wrote, taking the easy way...
Pros getting into amatuer events on small tables and take the money.
Then when facing real players on the 9ft... well...
As did Filler. I wish I could remember the Robin Williams line. The gist of which was, America is all the rejects from Europe.
Ladies think _they_ have a problem. The gene pool for quality performance here is being killed off. Bought off as @nicksaint26 says.
What about the free ride to college other sports offer and now NIL’s? You never addressed that key point as to why kids start to play. The free ride through college is worth more than most pool players make in their lifetime.
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When a kid at 10, 12 years old pick up a sport, he doesn’t think about any of that.
There is big money in Chinese 8ball.
You’re basically guaranteed to cash in just by signing up.
All it takes is a plane ticket and some money for food, they pay for the hotel and transportation and everything else.
So why don’t American players go after that money?
Simple answer is that the game is too hard for them and they don’t stand a chance.
The American players mentality is not where it should be for a professional athlete.
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Maybe in your country kids don’t think about that. And who won the most medals in the Olympics again.
Is pool played at the olympics?
American athletes have great mentality and supporting organizations for a lot of sports, just not for pool.
And why would you? Even here on a pool forum where we are all pool lovers, you don’t take pool seriously and as a sport.
It’s just a drinking game and a hustle
I do think pool is a very difficult sport to play. Unfortunately the lemon is not worth the squeeze here
Every real major sport for one.
I'mma guess expensive.
You are referring to American sports.
How are we doing in soccer, cricket and F1 racing? Edit Boxing the international sports
NBA NFL nascar and MLB are American do ofc those are doing well.
Think…..beyond America - which pool clearly is a global stage.
What global stage is America excelling in?
Beyond sport what are we winning in? Education
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I’m not talking about me but obviously you’re slow. Football paid my way through college and got me a degree in four years. I play pool for fun like 99% of others. Never thought of playing pool when I was a kid but did play every other sport like most Americans.
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Athletism by a big margin.
I like PED’s
I want nothing but the best from America.
Sadly in pool I don’t see America bouncing back anytime soon. This topic has been beat to death.
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no he didn't. very, very few of the european players started in snooker. even among the british players their roots are almost always english 8-ball.
what is true is that except for the UK, almost all players start on 9ft tables. even in countries were real estate is scarce, such as the netherlands, 9ft tables.
You are referring to American sports.
How are we doing in soccer, cricket and F1 racing? Edit Boxing the international sports
NBA NFL nascar and MLB are American do ofc those are doing well.
Think…..beyond America - which pool clearly is a global stage.
What global stage is America excelling in?
Beyond sport what are we winning in? Education
USA just won the ice hockey world championship.. but the most obvious answer is track and field
basketball is played in some countries here, but it's not a big sport