The latest issue of Billiards Digest revisits the IPT and other major pool happenings in the past.
Mike Panozzo's column is quite an interesting read. Here's a couple snippets:
Letters came from established pros, foreign players wanting to take a shot in the U.S. (Darren Appleton and Karl Boyes among them), hustlers, road players and bums. Trudeau wanted a mix of players. In addition to wanting the top players, Trudeau wanted storytellers and characters. After all, the IPT was going to be as much show as competition.
Pool has enjoyed other big moments. The launch of the Women’s Professional Billiard Association Classic Tour and the significant success the WPBA enjoyed on ESPN were terrific. The Pro Billiards Tour’s hook-up with Camel and the subsequent Camel Pro Billiards Series was solid. And, of course, the post-”Color of Money” explosion led to perhaps the single biggest boom period for the sport and industry.
For my money, though, I’ll take those magical months during which pool looked and felt like a professional sport.
Source: December: Revisionist History [Retrieved 10 December 2016]
Cool Efren shot entitled "Reyes scores pool's biggest ever prize."
This issue is a great read with highlights of the good moments during the IPT era. For some, the IPT is considered the best years of pool, and for others, it is considered a black plague of pool. Either way you look at it, it still goes down in the history books as attempt to make pool a professional sport.
Trudeau has been imprisoned since 2014, in the Federal Prison Camp, in Montgomery, Alabama. He is scheduled for release in July of 2022. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, December 5th, rejected Kevin Trudeau's bid to overturn his criminal contempt conviction and 10-year prison sentence for exaggerating the content of a weight loss book he marketed through infomercials.
The photo news people use is mine --> HERE
Mike Panozzo's column is quite an interesting read. Here's a couple snippets:
Letters came from established pros, foreign players wanting to take a shot in the U.S. (Darren Appleton and Karl Boyes among them), hustlers, road players and bums. Trudeau wanted a mix of players. In addition to wanting the top players, Trudeau wanted storytellers and characters. After all, the IPT was going to be as much show as competition.
Pool has enjoyed other big moments. The launch of the Women’s Professional Billiard Association Classic Tour and the significant success the WPBA enjoyed on ESPN were terrific. The Pro Billiards Tour’s hook-up with Camel and the subsequent Camel Pro Billiards Series was solid. And, of course, the post-”Color of Money” explosion led to perhaps the single biggest boom period for the sport and industry.
For my money, though, I’ll take those magical months during which pool looked and felt like a professional sport.
Source: December: Revisionist History [Retrieved 10 December 2016]
Cool Efren shot entitled "Reyes scores pool's biggest ever prize."
This issue is a great read with highlights of the good moments during the IPT era. For some, the IPT is considered the best years of pool, and for others, it is considered a black plague of pool. Either way you look at it, it still goes down in the history books as attempt to make pool a professional sport.
Trudeau has been imprisoned since 2014, in the Federal Prison Camp, in Montgomery, Alabama. He is scheduled for release in July of 2022. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, December 5th, rejected Kevin Trudeau's bid to overturn his criminal contempt conviction and 10-year prison sentence for exaggerating the content of a weight loss book he marketed through infomercials.
The photo news people use is mine --> HERE
