Getting more exposure is about having someone (or an organization) in charge with the final say, and marketing. Until these two things are accomplished, nothing will change. I don't know, but would bet, there is an organization running pro darts, and they are extremely good at marketing and selling the sport/game.
Did I take up the wrong sport?
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You say that in jest but truth is the successful promoters in wrestling are very good at what they do and a lot can be learned from them.
In real sports you don't have the luxury of writing your own angles but a promoter has to be sharp enough to play off of the angles given to attract and keep the attention of an audience from event to event. And energy from the players would not be a bad thing, it would be very, very good. Every player should be on twitter and facebook woofing and generating story lines to follow with challenge matches, such as fightnight, occurring regularly. In fact, if I were a promoter my regular events would be made up of a handfull of Pros in my organization that I promote, maybe 30. My normal events would be a lineup of short, race to 7 type, challenge matches... short enough to keep the attention, maybe a race to 11 main event, and each event would bring something that leads the viewer to want to watch the next that I could promote. And then once a year there would be a grand championship tournament with the top 16 stars from my organization qualifying to get there... the winner being the 20-- Satori Grand Prix Champion and holding that title for the rest of their life.
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Lol. Maybe we should play some
btw, she's a personal trainer, you missed the mark once again
Also noticed it says you like pickle juice....we already knew that
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Yeah, many threads on the topic. And according to the experts, pool was ranked below cheerleading... it did not even make the top 25 sports. Though, to be fair, pool was a little higher than darts and bowling.
Yes challenge someone 1200 miles away. Was never trying to hit a mark, but as always I'm spot on, you humorless ****.:thumbup:
Dear Solomon--
You ask the question whether you took up the "right sport" when you took up pool and not darts or bowling or poker or something else. Your respondents have almost all replied from the perspective of money or success with the general public.
Recently, however, I have wondered whether I did not take up the wrong sport back in 1961 because I am not sure that pool and billiards are going to be a "lifetime" sport for me. I am now seventy-one years old and in fairly good health. It is now a serious concern for me whether pool will be available as a leisure time activity. When I say "pool," I don't mean playing on barboxes in a bar. I mean having a room with serious players playing on presentable 4 1/2 x 9's. I'd like a billiard table too. I also want some relatively sober camaraderie.
I am afraid that pool is not going to see me out. That is a consideration any young person thinking about getting involved in pool right now ought to consider. If a young person is eighteen or twenty and starting pool, he has to consider that pool may have only a twenty-year future and he will have to take up something else anyway when he is forty.
They don't deal Faro in casinos any more.
You ask the question whether you took up the "right sport" when you took up pool and not darts or bowling or poker or something else. Your respondents have almost all replied from the perspective of money or success with the general public.
Recently, however, I have wondered whether I did not take up the wrong sport back in 1961 because I am not sure that pool and billiards are going to be a "lifetime" sport for me. I am now seventy-one years old and in fairly good health. It is now a serious concern for me whether pool will be available as a leisure time activity. When I say "pool," I don't mean playing on barboxes in a bar. I mean having a room with serious players playing on presentable 4 1/2 x 9's. I'd like a billiard table too. I also want some relatively sober camaraderie.
I am afraid that pool is not going to see me out. That is a consideration any young person thinking about getting involved in pool right now ought to consider. If a young person is eighteen or twenty and starting pool, he has to consider that pool may have only a twenty-year future and he will have to take up something else anyway when he is forty.
They don't deal Faro in casinos any more.
Pool is not a bad sport, I have been playing pool over 55 years. It is fun, challanging, but it is not something I would have chosen as a profession.
Simple reason is no matter how good, or great you are there is no long term rewards from the investment of your time.
Why be a professional pool player, why not put your talent into say PGA Golf where the reward for excellence are how many time great than pool?
Simple reason is no matter how good, or great you are there is no long term rewards from the investment of your time.
Why be a professional pool player, why not put your talent into say PGA Golf where the reward for excellence are how many time great than pool?
Good pool playing abilities, let alone great, take too much brain power for most people and "close" almost never counts for anything in pool whereas there are all sorts of ways to score by accident in darts and cards. Bluffing doesn't exist in pool and luck isn't a big enough factor to win significantly in pool. My guess is that the watching masses can wrap their brains around darts and cards and figure on a subconscious level that those games are within their reach "if only I had a couple of hours a week to play." Few people can fool themselves into thinking that they have the brain power and hours of discipline to even be what we would consider a D player in pool so they just tune out. No audience, no money. Also, just watching pool takes a lot of brain power to comprehend.... the layman doesn't readily see what's going on to make things happen, as opposed to football for instance. People don't like what they don't understand and those masses increase exponentially. Consider yourself blessed that you get this game and that should be sufficient rewarding knowledge and hopefully you can make ends meet elsewhere.
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Pool isn't played by drunken idiots???
If playing darts is so easy, go get that $million dollar check
Btw, if it's gonna take 10yrs to improve at pool, I may have found at least one drunkenidiot
I enjoyed watching this sport. Especially involving dunkin idiots.
I suppose darts would be a little tricky for you, the ability to count being a pre-requisite.
BTW. Why the hell have you not had a ban yet, all you ever write are aggressive, trolling posts,
Having played Darts and Pool in leagues over the years, I can honestly say both require a great deal of skill, both require many hours on the practise table / board to become any good at all. I have done numerous 3 packs on the pool table, but I have never finished a 501 leg in 15 darts (which would be a pretty average leg for a pro)
The fact that SKY are involved and have the premier league with the world's top 8 darts players playing against each other every week in massive sold out venues means there is currently a lot more money in professional darts.
The fact that SKY are involved and have the premier league with the world's top 8 darts players playing against each other every week in massive sold out venues means there is currently a lot more money in professional darts.
I may be closer than you think genius. Where are you?
Man, those are hard to come by, I think they were "outlawed" decades ago.....
Yard Darts probably the most injury prone game invented for kids and drunks :thumbup: