We need affluent people to shoot pool and be the FACE of pool. For example, golf is commonly known as a "rich man's game". Therefore, the regular folk always want to do what the "higher ups" are doing. That's why golf has caught on in the minority community and elsewhere. Now take pool. When someone first thinks of pool, they normally don't think "affluence" they may think "hustler or cigarette smoke" or what have you. Not exactly a good marketing tool. AGAIN, I LOVE POOL IT'S IN MY HEART. I WANT IT TO GROW. BUT IN ORDER FOR THAT TO HAPPEN WE MUST CHANGE THE APPROACH IN TERMS OF ADVERTISING AND MARKETING!! GET US SOME AFFLUENT FACES!! ✔✔✔✔
We need AFFLUENT people to shoot pool!! 💡
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We NEED pool chump to stop posting the same crap under different names
Rich people can have the 7.
I only know one dude that has any kind of money that can shoot WELL. He can give me the 7 and get richer. But I don't think it's a normal thing for a well-heel'd person of means to be any good at pool.
Call the garage, my Rolls is soiled.
Lesh
I only know one dude that has any kind of money that can shoot WELL. He can give me the 7 and get richer. But I don't think it's a normal thing for a well-heel'd person of means to be any good at pool.
Call the garage, my Rolls is soiled.
Lesh
We NEED a 35 page manifesto on how to fix pool and standardize "bar rules", and we MUST HAVE a proceduralized accounting of the more difficult strategies associated with higher-level play. First on the agenda should be the Ram Shot!
I don't think the problem with pool is who's playing it, how it's being advertised or that we're playing 9-ball instead of 8-ball...
I think it's more along the lines that today's society just isn't interested in pool...people want action packed sporting events with loud music and hot cheerleaders on TV. They want violence, sex and drama. Pool is flat out boring to watch for most people...heck even a lot of avid pool players don't care to watch...
Pool needs a major outside sponsor to fund a major pro tour to bring money back into the game but the sponsors don't want to put up any money because there is little to no return for them...Is Budweiser really going to sell more beer if they sponsor a pro billiards tour?...I think not...TV networks don't want to broadcast pool because people change the channel when they do regardless of who's sponsoring it.. That's an instant no go for outside sponsorship...
I think entry level interest in pool has deminished for several reasons...
1. I'm pretty sure pool interest skipped a generation due to a lot of parents (like mine) telling their kids to stay away from the pool halls! Pool halls had/have a negative stigma....
2. Instant gratification entertainment...Video games being the big one! They have packed so much entertainment into the games nowadays that rolling some balls around on the table with a stick is dull and boring. The scary part is I think the adults play just as much if not more than the youth...
3. Cost...it's not cheap to play pool! If you want to get good at the game you're going to need to spend a small fortune on table time to get there...cheaper to stay home and play the video game!
The list could go on but those are the main problems I see...
I think the long term solution to pools survival is to get pool into high school/college sports programs and after school programs in a league type format where they compete against other schools...this would at least plant the seed and spark the interest of the younger player...
Pool may never be a mainstream sport again and we may never see pro pool players making big bucks and getting treated like rock stars but if we want to see our local pool rooms flourish then pool as a whole must be self sufficient...We have to generate our own interest by encouraging new players to support our sport!
I think it's more along the lines that today's society just isn't interested in pool...people want action packed sporting events with loud music and hot cheerleaders on TV. They want violence, sex and drama. Pool is flat out boring to watch for most people...heck even a lot of avid pool players don't care to watch...
Pool needs a major outside sponsor to fund a major pro tour to bring money back into the game but the sponsors don't want to put up any money because there is little to no return for them...Is Budweiser really going to sell more beer if they sponsor a pro billiards tour?...I think not...TV networks don't want to broadcast pool because people change the channel when they do regardless of who's sponsoring it.. That's an instant no go for outside sponsorship...
I think entry level interest in pool has deminished for several reasons...
1. I'm pretty sure pool interest skipped a generation due to a lot of parents (like mine) telling their kids to stay away from the pool halls! Pool halls had/have a negative stigma....
2. Instant gratification entertainment...Video games being the big one! They have packed so much entertainment into the games nowadays that rolling some balls around on the table with a stick is dull and boring. The scary part is I think the adults play just as much if not more than the youth...
3. Cost...it's not cheap to play pool! If you want to get good at the game you're going to need to spend a small fortune on table time to get there...cheaper to stay home and play the video game!
The list could go on but those are the main problems I see...
I think the long term solution to pools survival is to get pool into high school/college sports programs and after school programs in a league type format where they compete against other schools...this would at least plant the seed and spark the interest of the younger player...
Pool may never be a mainstream sport again and we may never see pro pool players making big bucks and getting treated like rock stars but if we want to see our local pool rooms flourish then pool as a whole must be self sufficient...We have to generate our own interest by encouraging new players to support our sport!
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What pool needs is hookers and booze and given recent societal shift, we are getting a bong station too.
Nobody cares about some greasy back alley gamblers game played by low-lifes, derelicts, and criminals.
You drink, smoke and every social situation starts with, "I'll give you the 7" or "can I get
the 7"
As much as we all loved the movie, all the Hustler really did was was put in a pay
weekly SRO with a broken hands and a suicidal depressive girlfriend with Daddy issues.
It taught most parents to have us avoid pool rooms and to never let us be friends with a
guy who's first name is that of a geographical location or something similar.
Pool is a cult event at best. It'll always have a participants and a following, but not quite to the level of ComicCon
Forget it, it'll never happen
You drink, smoke and every social situation starts with, "I'll give you the 7" or "can I get
the 7"
As much as we all loved the movie, all the Hustler really did was was put in a pay
weekly SRO with a broken hands and a suicidal depressive girlfriend with Daddy issues.
It taught most parents to have us avoid pool rooms and to never let us be friends with a
guy who's first name is that of a geographical location or something similar.
Pool is a cult event at best. It'll always have a participants and a following, but not quite to the level of ComicCon
Forget it, it'll never happen
I'm effluent.
Two days ago at the mansion.
"Jeeves, what say we go to the Billiard center and play One Pocket, my good man."
"Very good Sir, shall I go warm up the Bentley?"
"No, you can carry me on your back. It isn't that far and the exercise will do you good."
"Quite right, Sir. What was I thinking?"
An hour and a half later.
"Here we are Jeeves. Invigorating wasn't it?"
"Oh yes (wheeze)......Sir. I don't know...... (hack, hack) when I've had so much...... (puff, pant) fun. Let's do it again (puke)......as soon as possible"
Once inside.
"Fetch us a rack of balls, will you Jeeves, and bring me back a single-malt, if they have one."
"Very good, Sir."
Jeeves returns with a box of balls in one hand and a drink in the other.
"I'm dreadfully sorry Sir, but they have no Scotch. I brought you a Jack Daniels, instead."
"Very well Jeeves. Damn cretins."
"What shall we play, Sir? Nine-ball, Eight-ball, Rotation, or One Pocket?"
"Let's play One Pocket. I rather fancy the idea of only using one pocket. Much more efficient that way. Rack them up, old boy, and by-the-way, do you gamble?"
"On occasion, Sir."
Three hours later.
"Now let's see, Sir. You now owe me the Bentley, the house in the Hampton's, your two gold Rolex's, and oh yes, fifty thousand cash. Will that be all you miserable sonofa*****?" :dance:
Two days ago at the mansion.
"Jeeves, what say we go to the Billiard center and play One Pocket, my good man."
"Very good Sir, shall I go warm up the Bentley?"
"No, you can carry me on your back. It isn't that far and the exercise will do you good."
"Quite right, Sir. What was I thinking?"
An hour and a half later.
"Here we are Jeeves. Invigorating wasn't it?"
"Oh yes (wheeze)......Sir. I don't know...... (hack, hack) when I've had so much...... (puff, pant) fun. Let's do it again (puke)......as soon as possible"
Once inside.
"Fetch us a rack of balls, will you Jeeves, and bring me back a single-malt, if they have one."
"Very good, Sir."
Jeeves returns with a box of balls in one hand and a drink in the other.
"I'm dreadfully sorry Sir, but they have no Scotch. I brought you a Jack Daniels, instead."
"Very well Jeeves. Damn cretins."
"What shall we play, Sir? Nine-ball, Eight-ball, Rotation, or One Pocket?"
"Let's play One Pocket. I rather fancy the idea of only using one pocket. Much more efficient that way. Rack them up, old boy, and by-the-way, do you gamble?"
"On occasion, Sir."
Three hours later.
"Now let's see, Sir. You now owe me the Bentley, the house in the Hampton's, your two gold Rolex's, and oh yes, fifty thousand cash. Will that be all you miserable sonofa*****?" :dance:
Golf catching on in the minority communities didn't have anything to do with minorities wanting to do what the "higher ups" were doing. As a matter of fact, a majority of major country clubs actively discouraged minorities from playing at their establishments. I want get too deep into the circumstances of golf catching on in minority communities, but I think you misjudged why it happened.
That might be just the thing this game needs... To make me want to never play again.
It's like saying the porn industry needs to find religion.
You think golf is the answer, steal the lingo: cue becomes club, table/course, break cue/driver, break-and-run/hole-in-one.
MMA is the model.
Pool really isn't doing as bad as everybody always makes it sound on here. Sure the pros don't make a great living and I wish they could for their sake, but at the amateur level I think pool has been on the upswing for several years now. Maybe it's just a geography thing but in the Midwest there are tournaments every weekend and I even saw something really cool at a recent large bar table event. Right in the midst of over 40 some bar tables was 2 beautiful Diamond tables and the responses seemed to be overwhelmingly positive.
Pool is not dead.
Pool is not dead.
There is some boxer that made a couple of bucks that lives in some country that likes pool a little bit, Portugal, Poland, some P name. A few players come out of that every 10 years or so, maybe 1 or 2 were OK shooters
Jordan has a bunch of pics playing pool.
Nearly every McMansion is not complete unless there is a Billiard Room in it, with a 10,000 table that may never get used LOL
If everyone wanted to do what the "higher ups" were doing, then Polo would be bigger than the NFL......
two booms
Here we go again, pool needs gentlemen, no smoking establishments, blah,blah
blah. Well there were two major booms in pool in the last 50 or so years. After the
two movies. After the Hustler, pool took off. All of the do gooders said " Everyone
just ignored the seedy part and saw what a grand game it was, and wanted to play'.
" If we can just clean it up boy oh boy that will really bring them in.". Same bullsh--
after TCOM. Boy I bet if Fast Eddie and Fats would had been playing league wearing
bowling shirts, in a well lit no smoking place, and leaping up to run over and shake
hands after losing there is no telling how popular this game would be When all that
squeaky clean crap starts pool suffers. This is a gambling game with all night smoke
filled rooms full of every kind of crazy ass character. And until it goes back to that
it will stay dead. What will it take to figure that out. Sure we would all like to see
big sponsors, tv, big money. But it is not going to happen. Pool rooms made money
after the two movies that were about GAMBLING, and HUSTLING, but a lot of people
just want to ignore that just like the Liberals want to blame their loss on everything
other than the real reason they lost.
jack
Here we go again, pool needs gentlemen, no smoking establishments, blah,blah
blah. Well there were two major booms in pool in the last 50 or so years. After the
two movies. After the Hustler, pool took off. All of the do gooders said " Everyone
just ignored the seedy part and saw what a grand game it was, and wanted to play'.
" If we can just clean it up boy oh boy that will really bring them in.". Same bullsh--
after TCOM. Boy I bet if Fast Eddie and Fats would had been playing league wearing
bowling shirts, in a well lit no smoking place, and leaping up to run over and shake
hands after losing there is no telling how popular this game would be When all that
squeaky clean crap starts pool suffers. This is a gambling game with all night smoke
filled rooms full of every kind of crazy ass character. And until it goes back to that
it will stay dead. What will it take to figure that out. Sure we would all like to see
big sponsors, tv, big money. But it is not going to happen. Pool rooms made money
after the two movies that were about GAMBLING, and HUSTLING, but a lot of people
just want to ignore that just like the Liberals want to blame their loss on everything
other than the real reason they lost.
jack
