Are they going to do a season 2 of hustlers?

ChicagoJay

ChicagoJay

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Anyone know if they are going to do a season 2? Or any other Billiards reality shows coming out? I was a lurker in these forums when that show came out, I seen mixed feelings about the show. Some liked it, Some hated it.

I for one would like to see more reality shows like that. Not particularly because I am a huge reality fan. Just because I would like to see the shows do for Billiards for what shows like that did for poker. More pool halls will flourish instead of shutting the doors. The cue makers and suppliers business will double or triple. We also would see many new faces and fresh fish around by the dozens.

It would be good for the sport
 
ChicagoJay said:
Anyone know if they are going to do a season 2? Or any other Billiards reality shows coming out? ... because I would like to see the shows do for Billiards for what shows like that did for poker .... More pool halls will flourish instead of shutting the doors. The cue makers and suppliers business will double or triple. We also would see many new faces and fresh fish around by the dozens. It would be good for the sport
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Dear ChicagoJay.

I hope to God Husters is over and done with.
The show sucked IMO quite frankly. Totally unrealistic.

How do you surmise the show would boost the pool market
by allowing pool halls to "flourish" and the supply market will "double or triple?"

By the way, poker was professionally packaged and presented as a
full version product when it appeared on the tube.
(albeit as a quasi-reality show, but what you saw at the tables was basically how it is in real life.)
TV didn't "do anything" for poker other than showcase that product.

It's what Kevin Trudeau was attempting to do with the IPT.
Had he not been in trouble, it might have taken off as well.

And, no.
The Hustlers would not be good for the sport.
I hope to hell it never comes back.
 
boogeyman said:
Dear ChicagoJay.

I hope to God Husters is over and done with.
The show sucked IMO quite frankly. Totally unrealistic.

How do you surmise the show would boost the pool market
by allowing pool halls to "flourish" and the supply market will "double or triple?"

By the way, poker was professionally packaged and presented as a
full version product when it appeared on the tube.
(albeit as a quasi-reality show, but what you saw at the tables was basically how it is in real life.)
TV didn't "do anything" for poker other than showcase that product.

It's what Kevin Trudeau was attempting to do with the IPT.
Had he not been in trouble, it might have taken off as well.

And, no.
The Hustlers would not be good for the sport.
I hope to hell it never comes back.
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Yea why would we want pool on tv. I'm glad it's off. If pool ever became popular again people like you wouldn't have anything to complain about. The show wasn't made for your generation (or mine for that matter) it was made for the younger generation who finds this kind of show more entertaining. There is not enough excitement for the new no attention span generation to watch people quietly rolling balls in pockets. You gotta start some where.

I hope it comes back. I enjoyed the characters on the show
 
Anyone know the status or any info on that big secret project that CJ was talking about a bunch awhile back?
 
trob said:
Yea why would we want pool on tv. I'm glad it's off. If pool ever became popular again people like you wouldn't have anything to complain about. The show wasn't made for your generation (or mine for that matter) it was made for the younger generation who finds this kind of show more entertaining. There is not enough excitement for the new no attention span generation to watch people quietly rolling balls in pockets. You gotta start some where.

I hope it comes back. I enjoyed the characters on the show
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Then why is poker on TV? Every night I flip through my channels and have five guys dressed like the Unibomber staring. Talk about no excitement. It's like watching a doctor's office waiting room.
 
Nine ... corner said:
What's your stance on Bonus Ball? :p
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Same as it has always been, Nine.
I thought it was a great concept,

The owners packaged it as a product to be disseminated it in a professional manner.
I wished it had taken off.

It was real team competition with all the bells and whistles.

The Hustlers? Give me a break.
It was a fairytale, a carousel.
 
KAP1976 said:
Then why is poker on TV? Every night I flip through my channels and have five guys dressed like the Unibomber staring. Talk about no excitement. It's like watching a doctor's office waiting room.
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It's all in the way it's packaged.

It has little to do with "excitement."

Package a product correctly and people will take interest.
Interest translates into sponsorship dollars.

It's called marketing.
Simple. As. That.
 
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trob said:
Yea why would we want pool on tv. I'm glad it's off. If pool ever became popular again people like you wouldn't have anything to complain about. The show wasn't made for your generation (or mine for that matter) it was made for the younger generation who finds this kind of show more entertaining. There is not enough excitement for the new no attention span generation to watch people quietly rolling balls in pockets. You gotta start some where.

I hope it comes back. I enjoyed the characters on the show
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Great reply!!
Obviously Hustlers was not produced for hard core pool players, rather I am guessing it favored the bangers and the social players. When you watch the show for what it was it was a pretty entertaining. Did the people who hate the show and think it is the worst program ever produced stop and consider for a moment that just maybe Mike Dechaine would have have said "hey guys, Im a professional pool player and you are not painting a very realistic picture here"? I am sure their goal was not portray a real week in the local pool hall but rather a little entertaining television based on pool.
This might surprise some of you but Hustlers was a made for television show, not coverage of a live sporting event. FWIW the Easter Bunny is not real either.
 
Even though the show had several shortcomings I enjoyed it . I will watch any pool related show just because I love pool !

Pool of any kind is scarce on TV as it is . I appreciate whatever I can get in that regard !
 
KAP1976 said:
Then why is poker on TV? Every night I flip through my channels and have five guys dressed like the Unibomber staring. Talk about no excitement. It's like watching a doctor's office waiting room.
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The one and only reason poker on TV took off like it did is the hole card cam. Without the ability to see the players' hole cards, no one would watch. But that "insider knowledge" gave televised poker the edge it needed -- at least to anyone even casually interested in the game.

Pool doesn't have an equivalent element to exploit, not to mention nowhere near the same purses at stake that poker can showcase. Pool on TV might fare a bit better if there was a huge pile of cash perched in view nearby, like done in many poker tournaments when it gets to heads-up play. As it is, the best purses in pool barely amount to a single bundle of the hundreds of bundles of cash displayed in poker finals.
 

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sjb said:
The one and only reason poker on TV took off like it did is the hole card cam. Without the ability to see the players' hole cards, no one would watch. But that "insider knowledge" gave televised poker the edge it needed -- at least to anyone even casually interested in the game.

Pool doesn't have an equivalent element to exploit, not to mention nowhere near the same purses at stake that poker can showcase. Pool on TV might fare a bit better if there was a huge pile of cash perched in view nearby, like done in many poker tournaments when it gets to heads-up play. As it is, the best purses in pool barely amount to a single bundle of the hundreds of bundles of cash displayed in poker finals.
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Hole card cam wasnt even close to why it was popular, it just added to poker, you posted why it was popular. A table piled with cash, to the younger generation it looked like fast easy cash. And showing a average joe take down onne of the big tourneys
 
boogeyman said:
Dear ChicagoJay.

I hope to God Husters is over and done with.
The show sucked IMO quite frankly. Totally unrealistic.

How do you surmise the show would boost the pool market
by allowing pool halls to "flourish" and the supply market will "double or triple?"

By the way, poker was professionally packaged and presented as a
full version product when it appeared on the tube.
(albeit as a quasi-reality show, but what you saw at the tables was basically how it is in real life.)
TV didn't "do anything" for poker other than showcase that product.

It's what Kevin Trudeau was attempting to do with the IPT.
Had he not been in trouble, it might have taken off as well.

And, no.
The Hustlers would not be good for the sport.
I hope to hell it never comes back.
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More popularity & more players = More business for pool halls & suppliers. Poker was packaged good but not even close to real life, they cut 16 hour days into one hour showing the best action and bad beats, they didnt show a hour of folding thats for sure.

I would rather see the Billiards industry grow and flourish, not guys that have owned there business for 20 + years having to close the doors
 
boogeyman said:
Same as it has always been, Nine.
I thought it was a great concept,

The owners packaged it as a product to be disseminated it in a professional manner.
I wished it had taken off.

It was real team competition with all the bells and whistles.

The Hustlers? Give me a break.
It was a fairytale, a carousel.
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If they had run 10 ball like that it would have had a real chance. 8 ball even more. Bonus ball ,while a great game for players with knowledge of the game, was uninviting to nonplayers.
 
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