The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Pool Craze

Black-Balled said:

Seems to me the infighting of the managers would have been more likely to stunt pool in the PI.

The building of 'stables' that would limit what events their players were allowed to compete in may have been well intentioned, but pool- even in PI, obviously- isn't big enough to support itself as it is, much less a watered down version.

Then you have the murder of one of the biggest opponents to the direction pool was headed, Edwin Reyes...and the shooting of the other cuemaker too (forgive me for forgetting his name at the moment).

death has a way of making people keep their thoughts to themselves. It also is guaranteed to reduce support from outsiders.

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