2024 World Pool Championship
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Just curious... How do you know this?
They came up with solid pool. What they do with the money is their biz.
How can that be confirmed?
It can only be denied.
Fresh off the top of my head:
Great Whites Have Big Bites
Great Whites Have Big Bites
Yeah well assuming it’s true it wouldn’t have happened after the fact. I’ll lose a lot of respect for both players (particularly fedor) if true
Maybe. Another possible take is that if it was decided in advance that no money was riding on the final, the match was misrepresented to the viewing public.
Still, at least for me, great pool is great pool, and whether there was a saver or chop or neither, I enjoyed the final.
The key to savers and chops is to make certain to that nobody finds out about them. The reporting of a chop with no source cited seems strange here. Original poster could have said "according to an extremely reliable source" without naming the source, but saying "it seems" there was a chop is bizarre.
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Definitely some truth here.
Boy, if I was playing a match with 150K prize difference I'd want to make a saver.
I think promoters are in a weird spot. By advertising massive first prizes it sounds more flashy, but by having such a big prize gap it creates the circumstances which really incentivize players making deals.
In an ideal world they'd set up a prize payout that contained reasonable enough prize differences that players wouldn't feel pressure to make deals. And we could say in an idea world pool players would all make so much money that the prize pool was irrelevant to their behavior because they're all living large.
But we live in the real world. Pool players aren't deep pocketed and with those jumps this behavior is going to sometimes happen, and meanwhile matchroom needs to attract players and viewers and has incentives to create a snazzy first place. This might be a case of 'this is just how the world has to work'. Reality is never as pure as ideals. As long as we do our best I can forgive matchroom for setting the table this way and I can certainly forgive a player for making prudent decisions for life changing money.
If viewers feel mislead than I feel it is somewhat on the mainstream viewers collectively with how they respond to large prize pools. If people didn't get more excited about the match when more money was on the line then promoters wouldn't play that pumped up first place game. So in the end it comes down to our human behavior that drives the promoters that drives the players. When did 'x in the middle' start? Apparently talking about the total in the middle instead of the amount bet sounded better and drove more views. It is ultimately on us as an audience to vote on what we want with our attention. But we are humans and respond to big numbers so again, this might just be how the world has to work.
I think promoters are in a weird spot. By advertising massive first prizes it sounds more flashy, but by having such a big prize gap it creates the circumstances which really incentivize players making deals.
In an ideal world they'd set up a prize payout that contained reasonable enough prize differences that players wouldn't feel pressure to make deals. And we could say in an idea world pool players would all make so much money that the prize pool was irrelevant to their behavior because they're all living large.
But we live in the real world. Pool players aren't deep pocketed and with those jumps this behavior is going to sometimes happen, and meanwhile matchroom needs to attract players and viewers and has incentives to create a snazzy first place. This might be a case of 'this is just how the world has to work'. Reality is never as pure as ideals. As long as we do our best I can forgive matchroom for setting the table this way and I can certainly forgive a player for making prudent decisions for life changing money.
If viewers feel mislead than I feel it is somewhat on the mainstream viewers collectively with how they respond to large prize pools. If people didn't get more excited about the match when more money was on the line then promoters wouldn't play that pumped up first place game. So in the end it comes down to our human behavior that drives the promoters that drives the players. When did 'x in the middle' start? Apparently talking about the total in the middle instead of the amount bet sounded better and drove more views. It is ultimately on us as an audience to vote on what we want with our attention. But we are humans and respond to big numbers so again, this might just be how the world has to work.
"It seems that" - those three words are making a strong accusation with no evidence.
Who on here has never chopped a final? Common practice in the world of pool. Lot of struggling artists. No way they dumped the game. That trophy and title is a major legacy builder. The money kind of comes and goes in the world of high stakes gaming. Guarantied $175k is a smart hedge on an even bet. Did they look like they were dumping the way Kaci roared back? Forget those rumors and enjoy the show.
The win is more important. Cash, they can always get.
L.S. Dennis
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I don't know what if any of this is true, but just for the sake of argument it is true that would mean (in Gorst's part anyway) that he would have to pay taxes on the full amount of 250K while only receiving a partial amount after splitting. Just a thought..
This wasn’t your local $20 entry fee rated 8 ball event finishing up at 4am. Little different circumstances here.
If this were true then the difference in prize money for 1st and 2nd wouldn’t matter. This is a delusional take
wealmostlostdetroit
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Nobody said anything about dumping. $175k guaranteed and there's arguably another $50k in extras (prestige/legacy, WNT contract incentives, sponsorship deals, Mosconi points, whatever) if you win it.
Can also tell you first hand that there were splits in Last 32 and 16 as well.
What's delusional about sharing? Defies your sensibility?
This is a good point. I don't know how the offshore windfall (lol) principal works but he could try writing it off as a donation to Kaci's medical expenses.
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If you won´t tell any confirmed sources these are just bad rumors...