How Much Money Have You Made Playing Pool?

How much have you won?

  • Nothing I dont gamble!

    Votes: 11 8.7%

  • $0-$100

    Votes: 16 12.7%

  • $100-$1000

    Votes: 21 16.7%

  • $1000-$2500

    Votes: 8 6.3%

  • $2500-$5000

    Votes: 18 14.3%

  • $5000-$10000

    Votes: 4 3.2%

  • Over $10000

    Votes: 36 28.6%

  • More then I can count!

    Votes: 12 9.5%
  • Total voters
    126
Fast Lenny

Fast Lenny

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Im curious to see what people have made in this game lifetime and make sure to deduct your losses from the total,this is on you playing and winning gambling on yourself in tournaments and matching up,not picking a horse or backing someone. :)
 
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I think you should revise this poll and include some negative dollar amounts. Then I would have something to choose from.
 
"those were the days my friend"

There was a roughly ten year period when I pulled a nice middle class living out of wagering on my pool game. It wasn't really gambling because I was soon so far in the black that I'll never be in the red in this lifetime on pool wagers.

How much did I win in those ten years? I can guess pretty accurately but I don't know. I gambled on pool not less than 3500 days in those ten years and I won 80% of my bets. Of course I had my overhead to meet too. For tax purposes I'd say I broke even!

Hu
 
Ed Simmons said:
I think you should revise this poll and include some negative dollar amounts. Then I would have something to choose from.
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Haha,well maybe there will be another thread and we can do that,this is a positive one about money won. :)
 
Ed Simmons said:
I think you should revise this poll and include some negative dollar amounts. Then I would have something to choose from.
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I was thinking the same thing. Who is actually up playing this game?:D
 
I don't gamble (at least not yet), but I have won four or five tournaments at the local bar and placed second or third in several others. I've probably made enough in those to pay for a nice Schon or a Jacoby ;) .

Maniac
 
Fast Lenny said:
Im curious to see what people have made in this game lifetime,this is on you playing and winning gambling on yourself in tournaments and matching up,not picking a horse or backing someone. :)
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Is it gambling in tournaments

or

1. gambling,
2. in tournaments,
3. matching up (which I don't see as its own category).

Fred <~~~ should play more
 
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skor said:
Nothing I don't gamble!
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Skor as much as you play you don't gamble? I find that hard to believe! I mean if this is the same Skor as on Seybert's!
 
When my buddy and I were hitting the bars way back when, for a couple of years, betting for beers and dollars, I kept track for a while...I was clearing only $150 a month....but that paid for the beer! My maximum bet was usually $10 a rack with the normal bet $1-5.

I was just a small-timer having fun while still working my business,

Jeff Livingston
 
Locally the time for good gambling is dead. Back when I first moved to the region I was 20 and I started gambling. Lost 5k my first year. The next year I won just over 17k and continued to stay around that number for the next three years. Now, if I make 5k a year playing I am very lucky. If you aren't winning tournaments there isn't much money to be made.
 
Fast Lenny said:
Im curious to see what people have made in this game lifetime,this is on you playing and winning gambling on yourself in tournaments and matching up,not picking a horse or backing someone. :)
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What you think everyone can win? For every dollar won, one is lost. Net zero gain.


There are a few pros that can outrun any spot almost and a few locksmiths too but most everyone else is in the hole or near even Id guess.
 
Being a B player i think..I 'd beat C and D players for the cash and lose to A players and better..So even if I made a few thousand in a year I likely lost the same amount to better players..Of course my game improved but the cash never hung around forever..

To combat this if i made a nice score I would buy stuff so i had something to show for the win..Instead of always putting the money straight back into ACTION
 
poolplayer2093 said:
i'm still in the hole but one day i'll climb out
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After 35 years? I;m not sure but made some prettyt hefty scores and not too sure what they cost me.
 
Fast Lenny said:
Im curious to see what people have made in this game lifetime,this is on you playing and winning gambling on yourself in tournaments and matching up,not picking a horse or backing someone. :)
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Your pole only had winnings - are you not interested in how much we have lost?

I for one say that I have lost money over the years.
 
Nothing here , I'm just not a strong gamlber.

That's right , when there's money on the line I just crumble.

Folks 'round here nicknamed me 'ATM'.

Oh well.



In a completely unrelated vain of thought , I could be talked into a money game if anyones interested . . . but I'll need some. . . /cough cough/ . . . weight.










:D
 
When I was a kid, learning to play, rather than teach you the tricks of the trade, the better players would play you for a few bucks plus time. I took quite a few "lessons".

Didn't really play at all for over twenty years.

During the 90's I kept my head above water winning a decent amount of local handicapped tournaments in New York.

I no longer play tournaments, nor do I gamble.

Jim
 
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