I just read in Pool & Billiard Magazine that Karen Corr now has a job. Anybody know what that is? Working in a pool hall? Traveling instructor? Anything pool/billiard related? Or is she making pillowcases in a factory?
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Karen Corr's Job
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Good for her.
Getting old and having nothing but pool shooting to depend on isn't a very encouraging future, in my opinion.
I often wonder how many of them who've made big scores, invested in property or land instead of pissing it all away gambling and being the big shot.
Pats on the back and praises about "what a big heart you had" don't mean much when the hair gets gray.....and the electric company says: "where's the payment, jack".
Again, good for her!
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Good job Karen, very impressive! I'll be a fan now.
Super awesome.
Good for her...and for our world, too.
Good for her...and for our world, too.
Good for her! Pretty sad that one of the top woman pool players in the world, and formerly one of the top woman snooker players in the world can't make as good an income as a nurse, but I'm not surprised.
You're assuming men pro pool players don't need a real job on the side to make a decent living?
Well that’s one of my main points about Siming Chen. She is a product of the Chinese Communist State. She is hardly some “ free range “ player.
Only the cream of the crop can support themselves playing pool in the West.
When I was at Derby City ten years ago Alison Fisher played. Did she finish in the money?
When Karen Core played in the US open did she finish in the money? Finishing in the money won’t pay for all the expenses of competing.
Outside of first and second place there are just crumbs.
I know you make a living off the game, but seriously...you thing playing pool should pay as well as nursing?
Reality check, aisle 6... please.
The payoffs at the Major pool tournaments held annually are fairly good. Try $5,000 for 5-6th in the U.S. Open for example (40K on top!). The one caveat that leaves out all but the very best players, is that for most of the big events you have to travel the world to play in them. Chris Melling just won 75K for Second place in a Chinese Eight ball event, and the Chinese team picked up 60K for winning the World Cup. There is a decent living to be made in pool if you are an elite player.
How about a player like Dennis Orcollo grabbing 50K twice in matches with Scott Frost and Tony Chohan (yes he did lose one also). Every time Dennis comes over here, he spends two or three months playing almost every week, and consistently grabs several thousand or more in each tournament he plays in. He won nearly 50K at DCC last year! Playing pool is his job and he makes a nice six figure income doing it.
Same goes for the women. If you're willing to travel to China, they regularly have big dollar pool tourneys for the women, who are very well known and popular over there. The problem for Western women is who they have to beat to get it! There are at least a dozen Chinese women who play close (or equal) to Siming's speed (she doesn't win every tourney over there!).
The payoffs at the Major pool tournaments held annually are fairly good. Try $5,000 for 5-6th in the U.S. Open for example (40K on top!). The one caveat that leaves out all but the very best players, is that for most of the big events you have to travel the world to play in them. Chris Melling just won 75K for Second place in a Chinese Eight ball event, and the Chinese team picked up 60K for winning the World Cup. There is a decent living to be made in pool if you are an elite player.
How about a player like Dennis Orcollo grabbing 50K twice in matches with Scott Frost and Tony Chohan (yes he did lose one also). Every time Dennis comes over here, he spends two or three months playing almost every week, and consistently grabs several thousand or more in each tournament he plays in. He won nearly 50K at DCC last year! Playing pool is his job and he makes a nice six figure income doing it.
Same goes for the women. If you're willing to travel to China, they regularly have big dollar pool tourneys for the women, who are very well known and popular over there. The problem for Western women is who they have to beat to get it! There are at least a dozen Chinese women who play close (or equal) to Siming's speed (she doesn't win every tourney over there!).
Dennis O. is one of the premier players in the world. He was the top Pinoy money player where there is an action economy.
The Chinese players both nationalists and the communists are subsidized by the state. What you are proposing will leave western female players in bread lines.
Western female players can’t complete against the men and make it pencil. It don’t pencil for most of the men at this time.
The payoffs at the Major pool tournaments held annually are fairly good. Try $5,000 for 5-6th in the U.S. Open for example (40K on top!). The one caveat that leaves out all but the very best players, is that for most of the big events you have to travel the world to play in them. Chris Melling just won 75K for Second place in a Chinese Eight ball event, and the Chinese team picked up 60K for winning the World Cup. There is a decent living to be made in pool if you are an elite player.
How about a player like Dennis Orcollo grabbing 50K twice in matches with Scott Frost and Tony Chohan (yes he did lose one also). Every time Dennis comes over here, he spends two or three months playing almost every week, and consistently grabs several thousand or more in each tournament he plays in. He won nearly 50K at DCC last year! Playing pool is his job and he makes a nice six figure income doing it.
Same goes for the women. If you're willing to travel to China, they regularly have big dollar pool tourneys for the women, who are very well known and popular over there. The problem for Western women is who they have to beat to get it! There are at least a dozen Chinese women who play close (or equal) to Siming's speed (she doesn't win every tourney over there!).
Does Orcullo bet his own money? With a backer he's not going to make rent.
Not talking just about Karen's situation here. But in general nursing seems like a pretty good career choice for any aspiring pool player.
It's pretty good $$.
You can do it half-time or some other fraction if you are wanting to earn some rent $$ while really focusing on pool.
You can pretty much get a job anywhere and then a year later move and get a new job.
You can take a hiatus and then bet back into it.
You can choose to work not a fixed schedule but rather just be on call. That way you can leave home to to the west coast swing, and then a few months later leave home for another swing...
It is in many places possible to work "full time" as 3 12-hour shifts a week.
If you later quit the pool grind, you've got a good career.
And while you are doing all that and another player is subsidized by the state you don't have snow ball's chance in hell of winning.
SVB and Dennis O. win because they are at the table most of everyday they are on the planet.