Wasn't disclosed. Don't ask me how I know. :wink:
Most Money Made in Tournaments for Career???
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Wasn't disclosed. Don't ask me how I know. :wink:
Actually Efren 'only' got 350K when he won the IPT event. They held back 30% or 150K. He is probably the all time money leader with around two million total. I'm guessing Earl and Buddy are the next two. Buddy has won over 200 tourneys (big and small) in his career. Ralf is probably close to a couple million by now as well with all his money won the last 15-20 years. Doubtful that any pool player has reached the 2.5 million mark yet. The biggest 'earner' in pool has to be Jeanette with several million banked in her career, only a small portion being tournament winnings. But even she is surpassed by Terry Bell and Larry Hubbart who have gotten wealthy thanks to the APA.
I would imagine that Steve Davis has a net worth of about six times the value of Stephen Hendry's fortune. Obviously a lot of it is not directly from the game but comes from investments that he (or Barry Hearn) have made over his 34 year long career.
It would amount to roughly $90,0000,000.00 and he even owns part of Stephen's home country - a forest in Scotland!
Some ten years ago there were some figures published which stated that 27 snooker players has career winnings of $1.5 million. Since that time, this figure would have risen to over 60 players.
Billiards players - how the other half live. The World Snooker Championship last 17 days and the prize money amounts to a measly $1.75 million. It is currently being played at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield where first losers leave with a whopping $20,000 in their pocket.
Pan to Qatar, Manila or UAE where their total prize funds barely reaches the amount that the Winner alone will pick up on 2nd May.
It would amount to roughly $90,0000,000.00 and he even owns part of Stephen's home country - a forest in Scotland!
Some ten years ago there were some figures published which stated that 27 snooker players has career winnings of $1.5 million. Since that time, this figure would have risen to over 60 players.
Billiards players - how the other half live. The World Snooker Championship last 17 days and the prize money amounts to a measly $1.75 million. It is currently being played at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield where first losers leave with a whopping $20,000 in their pocket.
Pan to Qatar, Manila or UAE where their total prize funds barely reaches the amount that the Winner alone will pick up on 2nd May.
Cool! I too own a part of my home country. 1.25 acres. What a co-in-ke-dink!
For sure. It is what it is, and then there's the expenses, savers, taxes, and the chop-chop with the stakehorse/backers which, in some cases, cuts the figure in half.
However, these are thoroughbred pool players, and what they may be lacking in some area, they just might be fulfilled in others, such as being happy, doing what they love to do best. It is a trade-off. I don't know a whole lot of successful married men with families who are pool professionals. The lifestyle doesn't afford one to be home very much if you're going to be a pro, especially with more and more tournaments being held overseas.
Those who can hack it, God bless 'em. I still say, Mama, don't let you babies grow up to be pool players, unless they live in the Philippines!
The cost of living in the Philippines is so low that it makes Efren's income that much more valuable. Add to that his spartan lifestyle and expenses being payed by his sponser/s.:thumbup:
I wonder how many families he supports back at home though.
Allison, Karen, Julie, Kelly and all the other UK linked ladies are in the USA because unlike the men's game, there is no money in Ladies Snooker.
But I would like to see someone like Ramil Gallego or Lee van Corteza try their skills on the snooker circuit.
I don't know why Wu Chia Ching didn't make use of his time in the Taiwan/Singapore wilderness to test his talent at an alternative cuesport.
He hadn't played 8 Ball until 5 days before he won the World 8 Ball Championship.
He just sat and watched matches, learning as he went along and educated himself to the title.
Such talent would make him capable of creating a big impact on the world of snooker because his cue action (stroke) is so solid. Likewise, Chang Jung Lin and Ko Pin Yi have the fundamentals to succeed.
Simply because they're not nearly good enough at snooker to do so. I doubt any of them would even crack the top 100. Back in the 80's Mizerak and Rempe tried their hand at proffesional snooker and tried to qualify for the World Snooker Championships and they failed badly. They were losing in the early qualifying rounds to 3rd tier players who themselves had no chance in the main event. And keep in mind that the standard in snooker back then wasn't nearly what it is today, it would be much tougher today: Some players who failed to qualify for this years event:
Ken Doherty (former world champion, made it to the finals as recently as 2003)
Jimmy White (6 time world finalist and one of the most talented to ever pick up a cue)
Steve Davis (6 time world champion, made the quarter finals last year!)
and many other solid players who would wipe the floor with any pool player. Players like Reyes, Pagulayan, should have taken the game up seriously when young then it might be a different story.
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But there's more of them. If you take even the womens earnings in snooker, it will come out more than most men's earnings.
I'm watching the snooker now on BBC. Ebdon vs Bingham and my favourite referee... Michaela
No doubt Earl. Besides all of his other victories , he took down the Million Dollar Challenge in the first tournament it was available.
Stephen Hendry by a long shot.
My opinion is that if Efren had focused on Snooker as an 18 year old, they wouldn't be talking about Steve Davis or Stephen Hendry quite so much today. The only snooker player with Efren's special kind of skills is Ronnie O'Sullivan. Lucky for the Brits there were no snooker tables in Angeles all those years ago. :wink:
Ahhhhhhhh, word!
You may be right, then again the same can be said about alot of players in different cue disciplines. I feel strongly that if Frederic Caudron or Blomdahl had taken up one pocket they'd be as good or better than Reyes. I've always thought that Reyes would be better suited to 3C, his creativity would be a bigger asset there than in snooker. I think SVB would've been a great snooker player...Buddy hall too.
I'm watching the snooker now on BBC. Ebdon vs Bingham and my favourite referee... Michaela
Ebdon's one of my favorites! I love his tenacity. Best World Championship final ever was when he beat Hendry 18-17 in 2002, it was epic! The semi-final of that event was also great where he beat Matthew Stevens in another close match and then roared and fell on the floor like a maniac.
I totally agree about Blomdahl, he would have been World Champion in any cuesport he chose to play....without a doubt in my mind still the best all-around cueist in the world today. Caudron is probably the best billiards player today, certainly the best balkline player ever. His knowledge of the physics of the balls is incredible and the finesse to actually carry it out is out of this world...those kinds of skills would be invalueable in a game like one pocket. I think if he played one pocket we would see things that no one has seen before.
I saw a video of Caudron demonstrating that "line nurse" where he nurses the two object balls up and down the line, it was insane. Sort of like a rail-nurse only there's no rail!
Ebdon lost the match. Even when he couldn't win it annymore he kept on trying to get Bingham snookered with only a few balls on the table. That lasted for about 10 minutes and then he gave up. Only Ebdon would do that. I really admire his fighting spirit.