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Pool isn't lucky in any way. There's no answers to your questions. Smart money would have found them by now if there were. If we could have the excuse, like tennis, to dress 17 year old hot chicks up in tights and prance them around on courts, we'd have a chance. But just by sheer coincidence...

If I shot like Dennis orcollo and nobody knew who I was and I was in San Diego, seriously I'd go down to the beach and enjoy myself there. And the people who know sad know what I'm talking about. Not long ago had an amazing pool scene with a handful of all potentially great players. Now...

It's really painful to watch a pro pool player, even a top caliber offensive one, struggle even during obvious offensive innings. There's something in his psyche there that just needs to be addressed. I know he's been doing well, but I just can't imagine that pace and thinking style will produce...

Marathon runners is your example? http://www.espn.com/sports/endurance/story/_/id/9156850/endurance-sports-how-much-does-winning-major-marathon-pay Nobody cares if there's no money bro. If the NFL disappeared tomorrow, we'd start to see collegiate football fall off immediately. Why? Because...

Well, as we all know, the olympics are quite a unique setting. Let's break this down though. What percentage of Michael phelps net worth would you say resulted from the olympics? Further, do you really think the advertisers and copprtations who set it all up aren't making money? Is may be the...

Show me a large sports crowd, and then let me know how much the players are making. That's all the data you need.

As I was alluding to, golfers are boring as hell, yet people show up in droves to watch them. The reason is, these guys are having to make six foot putts, and the consequences of missing can be like 100k. A triple bogey could cost someone triple digits. Take the prize funds out of these...

I said golfers are boring, not golf. And, they are absolutely boring. I could not think of a more boring subset of people actually. Look, pool is a zero sum game. Orcollo wins 10 grand, but then svb would of had to have lost ten grand. Nothing happened. I know we're not sophisticated enough to...

Leagues are the worst thing that ever happened to pool. I agree they are a business and should do their best to make as much as possible though. I think they ended pool in America though. Either that, or the timing of all the good players disappearing in relation to when leagues popped up is...

Yeah, but what would happen to Thorston tomorrow if a player equal to him offered him the eight ball for 20k. Thorsten would probably shit himself and say no. World class means different things to different people I suppose. Thorsten has certainly proven he's a world class tournament player. If...

But golfers are super boring too, much more so than pool players, and it gets watched like nobody's business. It's not the characters, we've actually got some really good characters in my opinion. The thing that kills pool is you ain't going nowhere no matter what you do. It's a total waste of...

Whatever it is I bet they get crap. It's beautiful for the corporations in these situations because they have all the lawyers and experience. If pool players could afford agents then it would be another story. The agent would actually negotiate what the player's sponsorship is actually worth...

I'm not even joking here, why don't Alex and Dennis get together, play for a grand, borrow a friends video camera (like the old one angle accustat videos which were great for learning purposes), upload the match to a file transfer service and charge money for people to purchase it. No cost...

And Pool matches never get rigged? Especially ones where every single bettor thinks one party is going to win. That could never happen.

Yes, I would be fine with seeing that. That is the game so I'm not sure why I would not be ok watching it. If I wanted to watch something different, I'd watch one pocket. Plus, you can just change to alternate break. And please, people always act like every single game will be decided on the...

This may be an entire thread topic, but why do we need to stop people from making a ball on the break?

In my opinion the toughest part of playing with a light cueball is the deflection get magnified.

Thanks for a thoughtful, logical (something oftentimes missing around here) post.

P) the players who have been playing for 34 years and over Seriously, I think the players, especially the old timers, are their own worst enemy. Biting the hand that feeds at any opportunity they get.

Are the American players able to go to another country, win a single tournament, and have enough money for 10 people to live on for a year in their home country? They could probably do that if they were able to get good enough at snooker. And yes, if an American pool player went over and won a...