While that can sometimes be true that claims of pool related business helping the sport are sales pitch and not reality, it certainly doesn't have to be true (as you seem to be trying to imply) and indeed probably isn't even usually true. Even in cases where a pool related business is thinking solely of themselves and not trying to be charitable in the least, they can still be and often are a benefit to the pool community. Any pool tournament that honors their promises would be such an example that is a benefit to pool. That is simply indisputable IMO. Pool is better off with them than without them.
Then you also have those cases where a business has some charitable component to it as as well (that charitable component could be anywhere from very tiny, or it might be as important a component to the owner as their own self interests). From most appearances it looks like Pat's International 9 ball Open falls in this category. There are some decent indications that he is doing it as much as a labor of love and desire to contribute to the sport as for his own personal profit. He does more than he needs to, and almost certainly does things that are good for the sport or the players but that eat into his potential profit margin. Even Matchroom gives up some of their profit margin doing things that they don't need to do and that they won't see a return in investment on. But even if Pat and Matchroom didn't do these extras that eat some of their profit margins, by just simply having tournaments that honor their promises they are still without question a benefit to the sport.
Your plans, if I remember the details of them correctly (including that you are not intending or expecting to make a profit from them), are largely or even primarily charitable in nature with the intended beneficiaries being professional pool players. More power to you for spending your own money in the way that you desire if that is indeed what you end up doing, but don't begrudge somebody else for how they want to spend theirs, or for wanting to have a business rather than a charity.
You know, I wish I could lay out all the details to what I'm working on, and who I'm attempting to work with, but I just can't at this time.
But I will say this, if I succeed in my plan, pool and many, many other sports we forever be changed for the good of the participants and all those associated with each one of them.
But to be clear, pool players need to belong to a pool players Association, with a male and female President of each. The 7 sanctioning bodies that govern pool world wide need to submit one me.ber from each organization to form the world sanctioning body of this sport, to oversee the organization and continued growth at all levels.
This sport needs to stop being treated like it's an American game, played by American players only....and realize and accept the fact that this is an international sport, played in every country on the planet, and be treated as such.
World champions need to be able to defend their titles in match play, and stop having them put up for grabs in a tournament with anyone being the winner. Tournaments need to be used to produce number 1 contenders to challenge the world champions in match play.
Major sponsors who advertise need to have that money, 100% of it passed on down the line through the 7 sanctioning bodies to support the interest and continued growth of pool in their respective regions, but only letting the pool players who are members of the world Professional pool players Association compete for it as ADDED money to local tournaments. That means if you can't join as a member, you're not paying an entry fee just to try and win the added money to the events.
The top 64 Pro players need to be signed to a 2 year contract, with a salary, plus tournament winnings, and after each monthly tournament, they get broken up into 8 groups of 8 players each, then sent out to take on the top 24 players in each region as a pro tour stop monthly, and compete without any handicap and under Professional rules of play, with 50% of the field always being paid.
We'll see if my plan pays off shortly.
Ps, this has nothing to do with my glue sales as there's no way I could support over $10,000,000 a month in prize money and saleries.
This video was great because it was a side view of the table, and you could see the racking process perfectly. All the other videos (that are still up incidentally), are from the end view of the table, and the player's body blocks the racking process. I edited my post above to describe in text the racking process.
