I had a thought the other day and I felt it would be beneficial to share it on here in hopes that it could positively influence IPT players. Who am I to be giving advice? I am nobody, I would just hope you would read the below statement and decide for yourselves if it has any merit.
To make my point I will quickly describe a situation and talk about two possible subsequent scenarios, and how one of those scenarios is much better for IPT players and pool in general.
SITUATION: Lets say Keith Mcready has a strong flashback and places 2nd in a future IPT even and wins $100,000.
SCENARIO 1: Keith goes to the track and loses $50,000 and then he throws a $10,000 party and loses the remaining $40,000 in vegas.
SCENARIO 2: Keith plays Parica 9 to 7 and loses $40,000. Getting no rolls, he then loses $50,000 to Tang Hoa (I know whis may sound ridiculous, but I am just making a point). Keith then runs into John Schmidt who just beat parica for $20,000. Keith gets the 8 from him and robs him for the 20K. John would not have had this money if Keith wouldn't have lost to parica.
Anyway, I know it's a childish story, but you get the point. If you guys gamble amongst yourselves that money will always stay in pool players' hands. Not only that, but you will have the opportunity to win the money back and it will just constantly circulate creating more interest in pool as well. More rooms will open, there will be more new players, better equipment in the rooms and on and on.... The whole problem in the past (at least from what I can discern) is that you couldn't make a big score off another pool player because nobody had any money, especially like the casinos do. But with the future payouts, I feel this will be less of a problem. Further, if you lose to other players, in the future your amount of action will increase and you will have more negotiating leverage becasue you go off and people will want to play you. In a casino none of these benefits are realized.
I've heard Kevin Trudeau say that he feels pool can be more like golf. I believe at this point that it's possible for pool to become bigger than golf. Can you imagine if Tiger Woods and Nick Faldo matched up for $100,000 after both of them did good in the Masters. Golfers are such knits, that would never happen, but I know it has the potential to happen in the pool world, and boy what a spectacle it would be, and what interest it would create.
Hopefully I didn't offend anybody, I feel most of you already know what I said, but i felt maybe I could get some of you to think about it more, and that's always a good thing.
To make my point I will quickly describe a situation and talk about two possible subsequent scenarios, and how one of those scenarios is much better for IPT players and pool in general.
SITUATION: Lets say Keith Mcready has a strong flashback and places 2nd in a future IPT even and wins $100,000.
SCENARIO 1: Keith goes to the track and loses $50,000 and then he throws a $10,000 party and loses the remaining $40,000 in vegas.
SCENARIO 2: Keith plays Parica 9 to 7 and loses $40,000. Getting no rolls, he then loses $50,000 to Tang Hoa (I know whis may sound ridiculous, but I am just making a point). Keith then runs into John Schmidt who just beat parica for $20,000. Keith gets the 8 from him and robs him for the 20K. John would not have had this money if Keith wouldn't have lost to parica.
Anyway, I know it's a childish story, but you get the point. If you guys gamble amongst yourselves that money will always stay in pool players' hands. Not only that, but you will have the opportunity to win the money back and it will just constantly circulate creating more interest in pool as well. More rooms will open, there will be more new players, better equipment in the rooms and on and on.... The whole problem in the past (at least from what I can discern) is that you couldn't make a big score off another pool player because nobody had any money, especially like the casinos do. But with the future payouts, I feel this will be less of a problem. Further, if you lose to other players, in the future your amount of action will increase and you will have more negotiating leverage becasue you go off and people will want to play you. In a casino none of these benefits are realized.
I've heard Kevin Trudeau say that he feels pool can be more like golf. I believe at this point that it's possible for pool to become bigger than golf. Can you imagine if Tiger Woods and Nick Faldo matched up for $100,000 after both of them did good in the Masters. Golfers are such knits, that would never happen, but I know it has the potential to happen in the pool world, and boy what a spectacle it would be, and what interest it would create.
Hopefully I didn't offend anybody, I feel most of you already know what I said, but i felt maybe I could get some of you to think about it more, and that's always a good thing.
