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Pro to me doesn't mean a guy that needs the 7 ball from top tier guys.
Pro means that they make their living off pool. There isn't a player on your list that comes close.
These guys play jam up...but none are world beaters. To make even 100k off pool you need to be top tier.
There's always room at the top, if you are good enough. Just don't see it from our neighbors to the north.
In 10 years what's his 401k gonna look like!
You have a very narrow definition of what a pro is. Especially if you think that one has to make 100K a year to be a pro.
Look at the list of golf pros, the list pays out to what, a couple hundred places? Yet, they have to be qualified as a pro to even compete. Are the bottom guys in golf then not pros because they are so far below the skill level of the very top guys?
Yeah, and you have a very narrow knowledge of how a golf pro gets paid. Pay doesn't go out to players on a list. Players get paid by entering tournaments, and then only if they make the cut. Pay attention.
Interesting. Tiger Woods had a $40M deal with Nike before he even picked up a club on the PGA Tour. Only get paid by making the cut.....who knew?
Oh. $100k is the watermark for a Pro player. My bad.
Can you give me a list of US players making 6 figures a year from pool?
Jason Klatt?
I think the problem is more your own ignorance of the topic, not Canadian pool. When you factor in Canada has 1/10th the population of the USA it actually is surprisingly strong when compared to the USA pro scene.
Great news
So give me the strongest player you are gonna bet Klatt will beat?
I don't consider his speed pro. I have high standards. And you can quit calling me ignorant...
I'm not sure you're going to find a lot of top pool players being produced in Canada. You'll probably find more high calibre snooker players here, as that was the game that was played here awhile back. We'll produce "decent" players, by world standards, but no world beaters.
Most Canadian kids grow up playing hockey and baseball. Pool wouldn't be high on the list. And pool tables tend to be in bars here, so you need to be 19 to get in to play, or you'll need to play in the afternoon, and most kids are in school at those times.
Well, I could act like every person on here that says they never miss. Based on the words of a few of the guys on here, they haven't missed since 1988.
In competition (all we have in our locations is 9 footers, btw), my high run in 9 ball is a 5 pack. On a tight ass Dufferin table. 8 ball, same thing.
Straight pool, I've never cracked 100. Been past 70 once. Been in the 60s a few times.
If that makes me a banger, I'm a banger. Now, back to FB....
So we do agree.
Those guys all play great pool, but to label hundreds upon hundreds of players as pros is just nonsense.
Can we set the pro label at 40k a year? That's what a shift manager at McDonald's pulls fulltime.
Strictly reduced
Alright guys. Lets leave the personal insults out of it.
I'm sure you are both the same length, so lets move on.
I'm sure you are both the same length, so lets move on.
Actuallllllllly......
Klatt shot a .972 in the Open which doesn't happen by accident... If you don't consider his speed pro you are out in left field.... Well actually you are so far and out I don't think it's still called left field anymore.....
His other numbers which do show a longer race are mid 800s... Journeyman pro... .900 and above is world class
That is up to you.
As other people have told you, your concept of a pro player is bazaar. I am not sure you even know what sport you are talking about when you scoff at 60k+ in two years of winnings. In most sports that is peanuts, in pool that sadly puts you pretty damn high on the list.
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