IPT has got their sh*t together!!

TommyT

TommyT

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This was lifted off the IPT site:
What is a 2006 IPT Tour Card worth? So far in 2005 after just two events, the IPT awarded historic and unprecedented prize payouts and hosted the largest paying tournament (2005 King of the Hill) in the history of billiards. Tens of thousands of dollars have been paid out throughout the qualification system for various performance challenges. This final tournament will be no different! In previous events, players who make the top eight but who do not qualify earned free entry fees into later events.

Since this is the final qualification tournament, six of the top eight players in this event who don't win Tour Cards will win their entry fees back! Also, any player who makes an 8 on the break will receive a $500 bonus. There will also be at least one performance challenge announced at the event itself that will have players trying to play their best pool. IPT members in 2006 will be playing in a minimum of four events for over $8 million in prize money. Each IPT member is guaranteed at least $13,000 in prize earnings, even if they don't win a single match. IPT Members in 2006 are also going to receive monies from IPT profit sharing which has the potential to be in the tens of thousands of dollars. In addition, the top 100 ranked players from the 2006 season automatically get to play in the 2007 season. Fifty other players must go through the grueling qualification tournament to win a 2007 tour card. Every 2007 IPT Member is guaranteed a minimum of $100,000. It is going to be much easier to be in the top 100 of the 2006 season (and win the 2007 tour card) than it will be to qualify for the 2007 IPT season through competition, so being on the tour in 2006 is quite advantageous. So I hope to meet many of you at this event.

Whoever is behind this wheteher it be Mike Sigel,KT, Deno or whomever. Has really given this a lot of thought. It's structured similiar to the PGA tour, in that the players must qualify to share in the riches. I don't know how any player that can compete at the pro level would not practice and try there hardest to qualify.
 
Having lots of $$ to throw around != having one's sh*t together.

Only time will tell if they, indeed, have their fecal matter collected properly. :P
 
trainer said:
it sounds like a bladder ailment..
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For the low, low price of $14.95 you can find out the way to the natural cure for it. Plus if you act now we'll throw in Mike Sigel's Break Secrets They Don't Want You To Know About and a 30 minute trial subscription to www.naturalstrokes.com where you can learn the fifty known pool strokes.

If you are one of the first ten callers, as measured by starting the count of callers when you call in, we will let you become a lifetime IPT official fan for the low, low, low price of just $2999 that's right folks just twenty nine ninety nine, less than a halfway decent plasma tv. Why watch it when you can live it. An official fan card is worth, well nothing yet but more than it's weight in gold plate in 2007. Actually how can you put a price on being part of the richest, most hyped reality tournament since WWE's RAW?

Pick up that phone now and you will get a toxin-free cue case made from the skins of all organic free-range baby llamas whose skins were harvested by indigenous Peruvian indians while hunting free range and toxin-free pythons. Inside that case you will find a colon cleansing cue - stick it right up there and just shoot those poisionous collections of corporate debris right out.

Just 2999 or three easy payments of 1999.

Hurry up - dial now before you are too sick too reach the phone.

:-)
 
onepocketchump said:
Plus if you act now we'll throw in Mike Sigel's Break Secrets They Don't Want You To Know About and a 30 minute trial subscription to www.naturalstrokes.com where you can learn the fifty known pool strokes.
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naturalstrokes.com?!? You sure that's a pool site? :D
 
Ho Ho Ho Ha Ha Ha

You guys are natural kidders.

Or do I detect a bit of jelousy?

Sorta remind me of a guy around here that when he gets knocked out of a tournament he can be heard bellowing, "I'll give anyone here the 7-ball".

Time will tell if the IPT is for real or just another passing fancy.

And is KT a con man? Or is the real con man Mike Sigel? That makes more sense to me. Who would a thunk it? First he gets KT to pay him outlandish prices for private lessons. Then 150K for playing LJJ. Then 100K for playing ER. And he is still getting paid 2K everytime he wins a game of 8-ball. MS is either the luckiest man alive in this century or a very, very good con man. He is not only the mouth but the man with the silver tongue which he developed playing on the road for ten years.

Okay, so I really don't believe any of what I wrote. But aren't conspiracy theories fun? Just like TV where Jack Bauer can do anything and everything.

Jake
 
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jjinfla said:
Ho Ho Ho Ha Ha Ha

You guys are natural kidders.

Or do I detect a bit of jelousy?
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Gimme a "K"!
Gimme an "E"!
Gimme a "V"!
Gimme an "I"!
Gimme an "N"!

What's that spell???

(this is where you shake your pom-poms)


There were people joking around in this thread. I think you meant to post in one of the other threads in the IPT section. I'm sure someone is arguing in there right now just waiting for you to show up. Go get 'em, tiger. :rolleyes:
 
Jimmy M. said:
Gimme a "K"!
Gimme an "E"!
Gimme a "V"!
Gimme an "I"!
Gimme an "N"!

What's that spell???

(this is where you shake your pom-poms)


There were people joking around in this thread. I think you meant to post in one of the other threads in the IPT section. I'm sure someone is arguing in there right now just waiting for you to show up. Go get 'em, tiger. :rolleyes:
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I'm shaking my pom poms Jimmy but I'm not sure its having the desired effect! :eek:

<shit here comes Jake! :eek:>

PS
Very funny post, I take it your not flying to weert then Jimmy? :confused:
 
Jimmy M. said:
What's the IPT?
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trainer said:
it sounds like a bladder ailment..
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Actually, you have entered my area of expertise.

This now becomes an ADA issue, as the Courts have recently upheld that elimination of waste is a basic life function. Thus, if you, (or I) PT require reasonable accommodation to eliminate waste, the accommodation is an entitlement, as per the ADA.:confused:
 
Black-Balled said:
Actually, you have entered my area of expertise.

This now becomes an ADA issue, as the Courts have recently upheld that elimination of waste is a basic life function. Thus, if you, (or I) PT require reasonable accommodation to eliminate waste, the accommodation is an entitlement, as per the ADA.:confused:
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very APT

:rolleyes:
 
TheOne said:
Very funny post, I take it your not flying to weert then Jimmy? :confused:
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Naa. I'm going to wait and try to qualify at the end of the year with all the other 2nd stringers. ;)
 
TommyT said:
This was lifted off the IPT site:
What is a 2006 IPT Tour Card worth? So far in 2005 after just two events, the IPT awarded historic and unprecedented prize payouts and hosted the largest paying tournament (2005 King of the Hill) in the history of billiards. Tens of thousands of dollars have been paid out throughout the qualification system for various performance challenges. This final tournament will be no different! In previous events, players who make the top eight but who do not qualify earned free entry fees into later events.

Since this is the final qualification tournament, six of the top eight players in this event who don't win Tour Cards will win their entry fees back! Also, any player who makes an 8 on the break will receive a $500 bonus. There will also be at least one performance challenge announced at the event itself that will have players trying to play their best pool. IPT members in 2006 will be playing in a minimum of four events for over $8 million in prize money. Each IPT member is guaranteed at least $13,000 in prize earnings, even if they don't win a single match. IPT Members in 2006 are also going to receive monies from IPT profit sharing which has the potential to be in the tens of thousands of dollars. In addition, the top 100 ranked players from the 2006 season automatically get to play in the 2007 season. Fifty other players must go through the grueling qualification tournament to win a 2007 tour card. Every 2007 IPT Member is guaranteed a minimum of $100,000. It is going to be much easier to be in the top 100 of the 2006 season (and win the 2007 tour card) than it will be to qualify for the 2007 IPT season through competition, so being on the tour in 2006 is quite advantageous. So I hope to meet many of you at this event.

Whoever is behind this wheteher it be Mike Sigel,KT, Deno or whomever. Has really given this a lot of thought. It's structured similiar to the PGA tour, in that the players must qualify to share in the riches. I don't know how any player that can compete at the pro level would not practice and try there hardest to qualify.
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Sorry, while I can agree this all sounds great, it is not as stated by the IPT "The players tour" because of the players that were not selected.

Secondly, all players that submitted their resumes before the deadline were told they were placed on an alternate list. Why then must these same players qualify when spots became available?

Thirdly, when are we, the rest of us non-IPT card holders going to get info about qualifying for the 50 spots in the first two events?

Fourthly, how much will these two qualifiers costs, along with the year end qualifier for the 2007 season?

Finally, where does all the qualifying (surplus) entry fees go?
 
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Banker Burt said:
Sorry, while I can agree this all sounds great, it is not as stated by the IPT "The players tour" because of the players that were not selected.

Secondly, all players that submitted their resumes before the deadline were told they were placed on an alternate list. Why then must these same players qualify when spots became available?

Thirdly, when are we, the rest of us non-IPT card holders going to get info about qualifying for the 50 spots in the first two events?

Fourthly, how much will these two qualifiers costs, along with the year end qualifier for the 2007 season?

Finally, where does all the qualifying (surplus) entry fees go?
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1) It is the IPT tour .... period.
2) The alternate list reached from 151 to over 3,000, and I believe, that
the alternative list just applied for the KOH tournament. Surely, you understand that #153 or #156 or #159 might not be qualified players to play on the tour, and should not be considered for a tour card JUST BECAUSE THEY GOT THEIR PAPERS IN EARLY.
3) The 50 more tour players come from 25 or less events after the 2006 events are over, in otherwords for 2007. I think it has been indicated that they may take the top 6 out of a qualifier for 2007 tour card, so less than 25 qualifiers would be needed.
4) I would imagine it will run $2,000 per entry, just like the qualifiers they have already conducted, but I don't know for sure.
5) The fees probably go into a the big 'accounting pot', and used for promotion, qualifiers, bonus payments, and maybe regular events. You have to remember KT is paying out thousands and thousands of dollars to conduct various events at different locations besides any payouts he is also paying. Tours have to have something coming in, they can't jsut have everything going out, or they will not last.
 
One thing Scott, He was refering to the additional 50 spots for the two open events, the us open and the world open that the IPT is holding.

The Us open is in July and they haven't released any of the qualifyer dates for it yet. There will be a total of 200 players in both those events..The 150 touring members and 50 additional qualifyers....I asked deno about this and he said that they will be releasing the qualifyer info for these events after the 2006 qualifyer events have all taken place sometime in the near future...
 
Snapshot9 said:
...4) I would imagine it will run $2,000 per entry, just like the qualifiers they have already conducted, but I don't know for sure....
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Subject to check ;), I think the entry fee for the 50 spots at upcoming "official" IPT tournaments will be $1,000. The current IPT members will pay a $199 entry fee.

Snapshot9 said:
...5) The fees probably go into a the big 'accounting pot', and used for promotion, qualifiers, bonus payments, and maybe regular events. You have to remember KT is paying out thousands and thousands of dollars to conduct various events at different locations besides any payouts he is also paying. Tours have to have something coming in, they can't just have everything going out, or they will not last.
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Also, subject to check ;), I think 10 percent of the qualifier entry fees are going to be disbursed to the current IPT members, with the exception of those who named an IPT member as a referral at the time they paid their qualifier entry fee.

JAM
 
onepocketchump said:
For the low, low price of $14.95 you can find out the way to the natural cure for it. Plus if you act now we'll throw in Mike Sigel's Break Secrets They Don't Want You To Know About and a 30 minute trial subscription to www.naturalstrokes.com where you can learn the fifty known pool strokes.

If you are one of the first ten callers, as measured by starting the count of callers when you call in, we will let you become a lifetime IPT official fan for the low, low, low price of just $2999 that's right folks just twenty nine ninety nine, less than a halfway decent plasma tv. Why watch it when you can live it. An official fan card is worth, well nothing yet but more than it's weight in gold plate in 2007. Actually how can you put a price on being part of the richest, most hyped reality tournament since WWE's RAW?

Pick up that phone now and you will get a toxin-free cue case made from the skins of all organic free-range baby llamas whose skins were harvested by indigenous Peruvian indians while hunting free range and toxin-free pythons. Inside that case you will find a colon cleansing cue - stick it right up there and just shoot those poisionous collections of corporate debris right out.

Just 2999 or three easy payments of 1999.

Hurry up - dial now before you are too sick too reach the phone.

:-)
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LMAO.....thats too funny!

Southpaw
 
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