OK, Say You Won The Lottery, BIGtime...

Kickin' Chicken

Kickin' Chicken

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(Inspired by JoeyA's "Connecticut Lottery Winner" thread)

...and you had two or three months to go on an EPIC pool roadtrip.

Let's hear about your plans, where are you heading and what are you doing when you get there?

Remember, money is no longer a problem. :thumbup:

Best,
Brian kc <--- will include my thoughts in a little while...
 
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If I won the lottery pool would be really low on my list of priorities. I would start a charitable foundation for medical research, travel the world and try to find a way to sustain my fortune so I could give more money away. I suppose my world travel would involve going to pool rooms.

I do love pool so I would do 2 things for pool. First I would have a room here in the Houston area exclusively for Junior players. This room would also include youth involvement in snooker and carom. With money comes access to other people with money. I would use that access to get sponsors for a tournament series of my design. I would never start a tour or annual tournament without getting other sponsors first.

That's what I would do with a major powerball win, until then its back to work I go.
 
All the states road trip

I would play a tournament in every state before coming back home and opening my new pool room.:)
 
Being an absolute cue nut (on a poor mans budget) I would visit,order/ purchase cues from many of the cuemakers and high end dealers. I would hit all the big tournaments and some events on the GSBT tour. I would play as much as I could with the very best players and stake whoever I felt like seeing at the time. I would also seek out as much instruction as I possibly could from players or instructors I most admire. I would also have to go to Vegas just to see a TAR match in person.
Please note... if money wasn't a concern, my road trip may extend well beyond 3 months.
 
Chances are my game would suffer if I had unlimited funds. My cue collection would grow considerably though. I play well enough to give most people in my area a game but for me to get to that next level would require endless amounts of time and dedication. (Something money couldnt give me.) I have too many hobbies and enjoy hunting and fishing just as much if not more than pool so I'd be making a lot of trips out west, to alaska, etc. I'd definitely hit up the large tournaments and cue shows every year but a so called "pool road trip" wouldn't be in the plans.
 
Pool Room

I was glad to see my first inclination was the same as so many others and that was to open a room that would promote the game of pool to as large a population as possible and (probably) loose money in the process.

My road trip would consist of my pool room to my home and back again. I travel quite a bit now and check out rooms every place I go, so that would not hold any new attraction for me.

Running a business without the concern of profitability, having a very well run room, now that would be fun!
 
I would talk Tikkler and Mars into creating a POOL CUE museum!!! A place to view old antique pool items and pool cues! Lets face it we can't take it with us and what happens to these true historic cue collections????

I would create the MARS wing, The Tikkler wing, The FatBoy wing and of course they can check out cues 10 cues at a time for home use and bring them back. Location would probably be Las Vegas!!! Talk some casino like RIO with top notch security to house the collection and maybe charge a fee to few the collection like most museums do. plus, rio houses the BCA championships and vegas is the home of APA championships and they could generate enough traffic to fund it's self.

if you say! 3,000 visitors a year thats 10 visitors a day 365 days a year and the charge is $10 to enter plus the casino buys 10 a day as comps for high rollers my math says 10x365=3650x$10= $36500 a year times 2 equals another $36500 or $73000 a year to fund itself!!!

I would create a Clash of the Titans format and set up matches all over the world and it would be KING of the hill format. I would have a 9 ball king of the hill, 10 ball king of the hill, One Pocket King of the hill and Bank pool king of the hill. The king gets home court advantage and when someone comes and beats you at home then you got to play at their home court and win to regain HOME court advantage. Once every 90 days a new qualifing tournament to earn the right to challenge the KING of the hill. The king gets All the streaming revenue from the event and loser goes home!!

KD
 
Haha, fun question.

I think I would move into a suite at the Palms in LV. Get me a pimped out Mercedes, then setup shop in the pit at Pool Sharks. I'd play anyone with the orange crush, or 19-4. Bet whatever you can show, min bet $10k. No shortstops, pros only. It would be amusing watching the rats squirm. I'd insult them, tell them they had no gamble, not pay once in awhile, and disappear for hours.

Oh wait... That's been done already.

I think I'd just buy an island and get the $*!@ away from humans.

:grin:
 
I've put in a lot of daydreaming on this subject. I'm not gonna bore everyone with my "plan", nor am I gonna try and type it all on my phone :p

What I will say is that I would definetely travel, and play a lot. I'd go to all the big events, like DCC, turning stone, etc. I'd schedule time for real instruction, probably from a couple of folks. I'd try to meet up with some of the folks who post here, and get to know them in person. see a TAR match.

There's plenty more. It's a fun mental diversion.
 
travel for a year hitting up all the major tourneys here and in phillipines then come home and open a pool room.
 
A Z B Newell Coach

I would rent a 2012 Newell luxury coach and hire a professional driver to tour the United States, playing at every major tournament in the country. I would invite me pals to travel with me and AZBers would get special invites for the parties I would host at every stop.

There would be action at every stop, but everyone would have to "EARN" it, meaning that it would not be a donation. Yeah, I would probably give them 51/49 the best of it matching up but that's about it. :D

At each event, I would make an added money donation based upon the number of entrants.

Stan Shuffett would be riding up front with me, lecturing on the finer points of training for competition and pool excellence. He would be paid top dollar for his services and friendship.

Boradriver would be in charge of the parties and would have unlimited use of the checkbook for that purpose.

I would form a Board of Directors designed to develop professional pool players into pool room owners. They would not be given a pool room but would have to attend classes to learn how to manage one. After that, they would be put in charge of a pool room that they help purchase/build/create. They would be given two years to develop the room into a profit maker. After two years if they are not making a profit, the pool room would be returned to the Board of Directors. If after two years they are making a profit, 10% of the gross sales would be turned back over to the Board of Directors to fund additional pool room purchases.

DocHutch would be the traveling physician designed to keep the players fit and everyone who traveled with the AZB Coach would have to take Tai Chi daily and drink herbal teas.

The Board of Directors of the corporation created to manage this enterprise would also be the think tank and we would have volunteer members around the country keeping their ear to the ground, listening to the dreamers and forwarding those dreams on to the Think Tank.

The AZB Think Tank would grind away doing the heavy lifting to make the AZB Newell Coach enterprise a productive contributor to the pool world.

We would utilize the services of AZB members first for products and services wherever we go.

On our trip across the country, we would include RealKingCobra and he would pick and choose who he helps refurbish their home tables.

Once a year, we would have the grand-daddy of all tournaments with handsome prize money added and guranteed for 25% of the field. We would also hire a prominent attorney from Seattle Washington to enable us to have a Calcutta wherever we went and the Calcutta would also pay 25% of the field. :p

We would have Smorgisms printed all over the touring coach/bus and www.azbilliards.com would be on a special plate that could be seen from 100 feet away. If someone spots the traveling AZB Newel Coach, they could give an update on AZB and win a prize of their choice, ranging from pool lessons with their favorite instructor or pro player, to a meal out on the town with the traveling band of merry makers.
 
On the road again ...

I happen to like traveling and playing pool in different venues. Unfortunately I haven't ventured very far from home. With money as no object, I'd plan on a world-wide road trip that included Pool in the Phippines, Snooker in the UK, English Billiards in Austrailia, Pyramid in Russia, 3-Cushion in South America and even 5-Pin in Denmark. That should take care of my fix. The two-chick thing would be automatic.
 
I would fund three years of a structured Junior and Professional pool tour. If the tour is not self-sustainable after that, it may be doomed forever.

I would fund my own TV production to attempt to bring pool mainstream. I would rent an RV and hire a professional camera crew. I would give 5 pool players each $20,000 to gamble with (managed by me to avoid collusion and cheating as much as possible) and go on a cross-country road trip. The requirement would be that at every stop the players have to put the entire $20,000 in play even if it has to be against each other (not necessarily all in on one bet, just guaranteed $20,000 in action). Last man standing wins.


I would also build a room with two tables, a kitchen, four bedrooms and two bathrooms. The room would be available by schedule for any major match. This way, anyone who wanted action would no where to come.
 
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