Appleton/Lee Brett Issues

[Scott Lee]

Gene...Maybe sleeping in your van, and eating two meals a day at McD's, with NO travel more than 100 miles...you MIGHT be able to live on $75/day. The real number is much closer to double that...and that is staying at Motel 6/Red Roof. $4 gas is a killer any way you look at it.

Scott Lee ~ someone who has been "doing the road" 200 days a year for 18 years
http://poolknowledge.com

A teacher on the road doesn't have the time to practice or even rest enough because they're trying to make enough money to cover the nut of the road. About $75.00 per day if you cut as many corners as you can.

 

[Slasher]

When he fell in the tree shredder they called him Chip. When he got his fake legs and one was a foot shorter than the other by mistake, they called him Skip. When he fell in a hole and got covered up with dirt they called him Barry. :smile:

Best,
Mike

They painted him brown, stuck a sheep under his arm and a pig on his head and called him Mohamhead Aslam

 

[genomachino]

Your right Scott......

Gene...Maybe sleeping in your van, and eating two meals a day at McD's, with NO travel more than 100 miles...you MIGHT be able to live on $75/day. The real number is much closer to double that...and that is staying at Motel 6/Red Roof. $4 gas is a killer any way you look at it.

Scott Lee ~ someone who has been "doing the road" 200 days a year for 18 years
http://poolknowledge.com

I always get a room wherever i go for the week. I usually wheel and deal and get it for $200 to $250. Plus I cook all my own food or eat at Subway. One footlong lasts me most of the day.

Once I get there the gas is minimal. I usually do plenty of lessons in one spot so once I get dug in I'm on super saver mode.

This is one reason i keep my lessons at a cheaper price.

I'm not getting rich by any means but I'm having allot of fun.

For the week I usually have $250 for the room. $100 worth of gas and about $150 for food and Subway that I get. So I have $500 spent before I give a lesson.

The good news is I just won $850 in the tourny here so that really helps to cut expenses for the week. It's like free money.

If someone wants to play that's free money also.

I don't get much action though so most of my income to cover things are from the tournys and the lessons.

But your right it is very expensive out here.

And it can be a grind trying to stay in stroke. It's hard to teach and play.

I know the same can be said for Lee Brett. I know why he plays bad sometimes. it's hard to play good when you don't play all week. Just when you start to hit a gear the tourny is over.

 

[KRJ]

I always get a room wherever i go for the week. I usually wheel and deal and get it for $200 to $250. Plus I cook all my own food or eat at Subway. One footlong lasts me most of the day.

Once I get there the gas is minimal. I usually do plenty of lessons in one spot so once I get dug in I'm on super saver mode.

This is one reason i keep my lessons at a cheaper price.

I'm not getting rich by any means but I'm having allot of fun.

For the week I usually have $250 for the room. $100 worth of gas and about $150 for food and Subway that I get. So I have $500 spent before I give a lesson.

The good news is I just won $850 in the tourny here so that really helps to cut expenses for the week. It's like free money.

If someone wants to play that's free money also.

I don't get much action though so most of my income to cover things are from the tournys and the lessons.

But your right it is very expensive out here.

And it can be a grind trying to stay in stroke. It's hard to teach and play.

I know the same can be said for Lee Brett. I know why he plays bad sometimes. it's hard to play good when you don't play all week. Just when you start to hit a gear the tourny is over.

You mean all that "free" money you got in Chicago (Addison) not too long ago....

Nobody would play him... master players and shorts stops of all shapes and sizes were there and NOBODY wanted to play Geno.... i was even kinda shocked on that... but heck, maybe they smelled defeat and didn't want any

 

[jay helfert]

I always get a room wherever i go for the week. I usually wheel and deal and get it for $200 to $250. Plus I cook all my own food or eat at Subway. One footlong lasts me most of the day.

Once I get there the gas is minimal. I usually do plenty of lessons in one spot so once I get dug in I'm on super saver mode.

This is one reason i keep my lessons at a cheaper price.

I'm not getting rich by any means but I'm having allot of fun.

For the week I usually have $250 for the room. $100 worth of gas and about $150 for food and Subway that I get. So I have $500 spent before I give a lesson.

The good news is I just won $850 in the tourny here so that really helps to cut expenses for the week. It's like free money.

If someone wants to play that's free money also.

I don't get much action though so most of my income to cover things are from the tournys and the lessons.

But your right it is very expensive out here.

And it can be a grind trying to stay in stroke. It's hard to teach and play.

I know the same can be said for Lee Brett. I know why he plays bad sometimes. it's hard to play good when you don't play all week. Just when you start to hit a gear the tourny is over.

God bless you Geno, out on the road trying to make a living at pool in the 2000's! It was hard enough in the 70's, I don't want to think about how difficult it would be today. Buddy, you're a dinosaur! There ain't many left like you, only a handful.

In the late 60's and early 70's I had a record like the Globetrotters and I was playing every day, five and ten dollar 9-Ball, twenty dollar One Pocket, and even a dollar or two a game Eight Ball in the bars. If I made a hundred bucks (forty or fifty wasn't bad either) it was a damn good day and I could put another fifty in the bank :wink:. In 1972 I had accumulated 15K after eight years of non stop pool and I bought my first poolroom. I never HAD to go on the road again. Thank God!

 

[lfigueroa]

It's really hard to stay in stroke on the road. Even in the days when I was just playing on the road I had to go back home after about a month because I was just wore out. Needed to eat right, excersize and sleep good for a few weeks.

What I found is it's even harder to stay in stroke when your doing allot of lessons. It's really, really hard to stay in stroke when your doing 2 to 3 lessons a day.

I played Lee in Tunica. he just got there in time, had hardly no sleep and I gave him some asprin for his headache. He played terrible but in the same circumstance so would everyone else.

I have players that think I can't play very well also. I play real bad sometimes. Didn't play all week, too many lessons, blood sugar is way off, i'm diabetic, didn't get enough sleep, it happens.

On the same token I can name off about a dozen pro players that don't ask me to match up anymore. Maybe more. Been there, done that and they didn't like it too much.

Many players that go to these tournaments are in top stroke and have been getting ready to play at an event. A teacher on the road doesn't have the time to practice or even rest enough because they're trying to make enough money to cover the nut of the road. About $75.00 per day if you cut as many corners as you can.

I play in the tournaments for fun because I love pool and sometimes I get in stroke during the event and do pretty good. Like this last weekend. I had a chance to win a pretty big one. I ended up with third.

I can't say much about the Darren thing but I'm sure there's more to it than meets the eye.

And him playing Ralf. We all think we play bad when we lose. Has Ralf won much in the last year? I don't know.

Anyway I'm just trying to defend the playing part of a teacher on the road doing allot of lessons. And Lee fills that role for sure. it's tough to stay in stroke and play well all the time.

Don't be too hard on Lee.

The Indians have an old saying. Don't judge a man until your walk a mile in his moccasins.

Just my 2 cents worth but I've been there and done that and I'm still doing it. I have about 6 months solid on the road now teaching and playing everywhere I go. .

Anyone out there want to go on the road and get some of this your welcome.

There's another old saying. Home Sweet Home.

Mine is Home, Home on the road. Not for the meek and mild.

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I would just like to say that this is one of the best, most insightful, AND most honest posts I've ever read on AZ and want to say a heartfelt, "thank you" to Geno. Well done.

Lou Figueroa