Pool players future

Slasher

Slasher

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I often wonder what some of these pool players plan on doing when they get old.
I have seen what has happened to some pro snooker players after they are past it and not capable of winning anymore, even the ones that made a lot of money at their peak, and it aint a pretty sight.
I see some of the younger players trying to make a living at the game, but by the time that fails it may be to late for them to get a real job.
The pickins outside the top few spots is slim and only a few will ever get there.
I have noticed some of the players that were never quite good enough to play pro but managed to get by as amatuers are now getting old and their winning days are numbered if not over, they never had jobs or training, so what will they do?
Funny that someone is willing to sacrifice so much for this game.
 
Not very good if they don't have any other skills or do not save their money.
Let's put it this way. If you spend HUNDREDS or THOUSANDS of hous developing another skill other than pool, you'd most likely make more money at it.
 
Why don't you ask Mike Segal what the secret is. He seems to have made it. There are a lot of others who didn't die paupers.
Some put on expeditions. Ever see Jimmy Carras draw the cue ball five lengths of the table. I would pay anybody to see them do it. He didn,t die a pauper either. I wouldn't trade my life for the life of a pro pool player and they probably wouldn,t want to trade either. Look at Keith McCready, what a nut man, but he loves it. Wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. Sit down and talk to him sometime, he will blow your mind. He has thousands of stories about life on the road and at the tracks. He could write the funniest book in the world. To each his own.
Don
 
I walked right past him a few times at the cue club in Vegas, next time I will stop and chat, or listen! :)
 
You owe it to yourself. I met his gal friend and discovered we were born in the same hospital in Wash. D.C.. Keith came over and the three of us talked for about an hour. He was an exercise rider for Wayne Lucus's quarter horse days in California. I know, people slam him caus he likes his buds. (cold buds). You ever see anybody just keep getting better the more they drink? I have.
Don
 
I saw him trying to get some kids off a 10' snooker table. They were playing for like 2 bucks a game and wouldn't give up the table........So Keith grabbed a cue and played a 4 or 5 handed $2 a game 6 ball. He was breakin and runnin out, and steady telling these guys he was gonna bustem and win the table. Before long he threw 80 bucks in one dollar bills on the table.....he busted them all. Then he proceeded to play 20-40 payball 6 handed!
 
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"Has he ever been asked to do a book?"

Keith has posted on this board before that he is in the process of writing a book with his girlfriend. I guess she's helping him to put it down on paper. I'd definitely buy it. He is a character and one heck of a good pool player.

The problem of getting hooked on pool and not acquiring the skills to do something else is not exclusive to pool. I recently heard about a young man that is a towel boy for a professional basketball team. He makes a lot of money doing that and it's all cash. He can't find any job that pays as good at his age. He's going to have to either give up being a towel boy and make a lot less money working a 9 to 5 job or he's going to be stuck being a 50 year old towel boy some day with no pension to look forward to. Life is full of tough decisions and most of us have had to face up to them. I could have been a star, now I'm just another pretty face, ha ha.
 
Some pool player when thay get OLD just look for nickel and dime game till there checks come at the end of the month.Or sit a the old poolplayer home talking about the GOOD OL' DAYZ..
 
what happens when someone is blessed with a gift? well, if the gift is pool, it's one of life's greatest jokes. almost everyone with a great talent are a prisoner of it. and that is why pool players do it. they can't help it.

and unless they're a top 3-5, and can declare income, they will only make a living on a cash basis,,,,which means they can't save.
 
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