Recent content by Cashman

For me, its all dependent how long I’m down for. I own a business that transports special needs and disabled people. About 50% of the business is doing school kids. The other is a mix of group homes and day programs, and some physiotherapy clients. I’m totally shut down right now. The current...

Agreed completely. The single elimination ratchets up the tension even more then normal. I hope more tournaments move towards incorporating some type of single elim into their draw. I know a lot of players don’t think it’s fair, but in this case I think the needs of the sport and spectator...

30+ years of constant TV exposure, and the ability to legally place a wager on matches has helped grow snooker. I also personally believe it’s a superior product for TV compared to 9 ball. The colours are easy to tell apart just based upon placement and the game is simple to understand on the...

This is a great post. Building on it, are two other factors I can think of. 1)it’s expensive as hell nowadays to go try get into action. Travel expenses take so much of the gravy. 2) all that illicit money that gets gambled, that used to filter down and through the pool player economy isn’t in...

I’m close friends with a guy that lived the life for 20+ years. Good enough to beat anyone on any given day, not quite strong enough to beat fields of killers. He won one good sized event, $15,000ish in all those years. He made a living though. There was enough locals willing to donate cheap...

Less then 100 posts in those 10 years. Probably only 20 posts at the old CCB in however many years I was there. Never a prolific poster. :). But, I still read at least 2-3 times a week.

You would be correct. Although I actually live about 30 minutes away, and work mostly in Alberta. Saskatoon still has a few halls last time I was there, how healthy they are I don't know.

A little background. Without being to specific, I live in one of the fastest growing cities in Canada. In the last 5 years housing prices have doubled on the high end, tripled on the low end. We have arguably the strongest economy in the country, more jobs then workers, and companies have taken...

That's cold man. I looked you up on AZ database. You've had some nice finishes, you obviously have some game, but how can a player with less then 10k career earnings be considered a "Pro". I've seen the same thing happen on a smaller scale in my local market, and it sucks. Guys almost...

According to Archie, his stake was closer to 4 million when he started his dice run. Aside from the Baldwin pool match. Most of that won playing HU razz versus Stu Unger and Chip Reese (and a few others). Otherwise I agree with what you're saying in this thread. The odds say that, over the...

Hopefully this works. I'm horrible at posting on a phone. http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=125823

They forgot to pay the fat lady. She left Vegas and promptly retired from singing.

What other small sports are getting paid? Darts? That's U.K. Entirely different TV model, and it pulls a surprisingly good rating. Beach Volleyball? Lots of press releases about them signing a deal, nothing about what type of fees. How do you know their getting paid? NHL, no rights fees in the...

Regarding T.V. rights fees, lets compare pool with something in the same stratosphere, not the NFL. The PBA,(bowling) just recently signed a new T.V. deal. Their deal provides them with no rights fees, but for the first time since the mid-90s the deal will actually pay for their production...

I was heavy into poker for a couple years. The live game is still really strong, but the online game has gone way downhill. It's become such a grind to play low and midstakes, table after table of software using grinders(myself included, I'm not judging) beating the fish into a pulp.The online...