Has there been a pool player that insured his/her hands?
Hand Insurance???
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macguy said:
If your only determining factor of "value" is money, then you are right, however I have had many tell me that what I do, is living out the (or their) dream(s).
Now you tell me, what is the "value" of a dream?
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HAHAHAHA now if only putting the "bite" on the insurance company could be such an easy sell. Everything on the face of the earth is able to be insured. You would probably need some proof of income to get started: i.e verifible claimed income and the like. A actuary {sp?} and a slew of board members would figure out your premiums. lol.................................funny thing is im sure it has been done.......
CrownCityCorey said:
HAHAHAHA now if only putting the "bite" on the insurance company could be such an easy sell. Everything on the face of the earth is able to be insured. You would probably need some proof of income to get started: i.e verifible claimed income and the like. A actuary {sp?} and a slew of board members would figure out your premiums. lol.................................funny thing is im sure it has been done.......
They do it in motocross so you could probably do it for pool too. Although pool players don't make squat. Jeff Emig had a career ending injury. Hurt his back or something like that. He is fully recovered now but he can't go back to riding the bike because he would lose all the insurance money he got.
macguy said:
Well, if you had a billion dollars but didn't have a single dream, you are basically dead. If I could have a billion dollars but was not allowed to have any dreams I would pass. So the value of dreams is much higher than any amount of money.
I was once talking to a multi-millionaire who was miserable. I asked him when was the happiest time of his life. He told it was when he and his two sons got trapped in a blizzard and had to spend days battling to stay alive and when he knew they had survived it, it was the happiest day of his life.
A lot of poolplayers dreams are alive because of the IPT and I believe they are much better off to live their dream even if they lose than to never dream at all. The next few months for many will contain the most exciting days of their lives.
wayne said:
My wife and I were snowed in going through Brenner Pass in the Alps going from Italy to Austria at around 5000 feet. Fortunately someone came along and got us out, we would have certainly froze to death. In fact we were found on the last check of the pass before it was being closed due to the snow. They would not have found our bodies maybe for weeks or months.We were pretty happy.
I used to have a good friend who was in the trucking business. He was worth tens of millions from the business and real-estate. When ever we would be talking it always got around to when he started and he would be up in the middle of the night working on his trucks when he only had a few and his wife helping so they could be on the road the next day. There is no doubt he was happiest then struggling to get his business off the ground. He and his wife never had any kids and to the best of my knowledge when they both died it all went to their church.
Dreams are fine but they have to be combined with some ambition and a plan. Dreams by themselves are just that, dreams. That seems to be one of the problems with pool players, like this thing with KT, they think they need someone to make their dreams come true. People like to knock Charlie Williams but he is making things happen for himself. Same with Tommy Kennedy, he isn't getting rich doing what he does but he is out there doing it, not waiting for a handout. You make your life happen, you don't just dream.
I hate to say it, but that last paragraph you wrote is probably true and that is sad. If the IPT fails or they don't do well and get dropped a lot of them will be crushed. They can't see themselves as successful. Maybe owning a pool room, giving lessons maybe having a billiard supply, what ever, the pool player mentality has always been from my experiences, like a bunch of children just waiting for a handout.
Hand Insurance
Probably one of the best parts of watching Babe Cranfield practice was the stories. He told us one time he was traveling with Willie Hoppe to do an exhibition somewhere and they got a flat tire. Well of course, Babe worked and Hoppe watched because he wouldn't take a chance of injuring his hands. Not exactly insurance, but definitely lowering the odds.
Probably one of the best parts of watching Babe Cranfield practice was the stories. He told us one time he was traveling with Willie Hoppe to do an exhibition somewhere and they got a flat tire. Well of course, Babe worked and Hoppe watched because he wouldn't take a chance of injuring his hands. Not exactly insurance, but definitely lowering the odds.
i would think back problems are more prevalent in pool.
anyways,,,,for a company to determine HOW much one's physical assets should be insured for, you have to show just how much money you made (the insurance company will insure for xx% of your income).
so now you see the dilema of just how much a pool player is willing to divulge.
anyways,,,,for a company to determine HOW much one's physical assets should be insured for, you have to show just how much money you made (the insurance company will insure for xx% of your income).
so now you see the dilema of just how much a pool player is willing to divulge.
I saw a TV show about the "world best" darts player. It stuck with me because they said his dart arm was insured by Loydds of London for a million pounds. The segment was all about specialty insurance coverage. The darts guy was tottally tanked during the interview, but he was hitting ton80's all through the interview.
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Lloyds of London will insure just about anything INCLUDING Hands, and the Use of said Hands...