SpiderWebComm said:
NOTE: Allen personally asked me to post this to AZ Billiards - as to get his message out asap (he doesn't want to setup an AZB account). This message is only directed to professional players - and he encourages all pros to e-mail him at his address below with comments.
To All IPT Players:
Please calm down and give KT a chance. At the first chance, I'm hearing talk about lawsuits. Why not talk about what we can do to help KT make this tour successful? He still has paid more money to professional players than any other promoter or organization ever.
I believe he was a little unlucky because of the government banning gambling on the Internet. If his intentions were not to pay us at all, he wouldn't even pay a million-dollar prize fund. Before KT came around, we never played for this amount of money before. It's not all his fault anyways, if the players were organized - we would not be in this situation.
I believe for any hope of pro players making serious money on a televised tour, we need to stick together and support KT and the IPT for the future of professional pool.
Regards,
Allen Hopkins
Professional Pool Player
allen.hopkins@hotmail.com
It's not all his fault anyways, if the players were organized-we would not be in this situation.
Paint me stupid, but, what in the hell does this mean? How in the world do you begin to blame this situation on the players? What would or could the players have done to stop KT from spreading all his offensive BULLSHIT.
The simple side of all this is really quite simple. KT's big mouth wrote a check that his hummin bird ass couldn't cash. He lied about his wealth and about excrowing money to fund the IPT. He stood in Orlando and made a speech attempting to sell 200 people on this. He was the savior. They weren't going to be able to sleep that night. They could hold their heads high and so on and so on.
If the players were organized, they would not be in this situation. What the hell, again, does this mean? Show how the players are at fault here?
Mr Hopkins, I've enjouyed watching you play this game for decades and have always considered you one of the best talents to play the game. You have gone on to promote and create some great events. You desreve the HOF, no doubt about it.
I do believe that you need to re-think your stance here. Sure, KT paid good money in Orlando and in Vegas. Thanks, He was supposed to do that. He paid up, just like he was suppose to. Just as you have always done. Why, you were supposed to.
Reno came and since, there has been nothing but, Bull$shit and lies. Now, as one of the best to have ever played the game, you suggest that the players BACK his play. They are to encourage this slippery POS to continue? They are to enable him to write another chapter in this cheap "DIME STORE NOVEL".
Pool doesn't desreve this crap and quite frankly, I thought YOUwould deserve and expect better treatment.
If the player were organized they wouldn't be in this situation!! You are exactly right, because they never should have played until this person, of all people, had "POSTED"!! Why weren't any of you veterans wiser?