Pro Event Opinion

justnum

Billiards Improvement Research Projects Associate
Silver Member
Pro players that play major events are blessed with skills on the table. Its easy to imagine how much confidence they have after all their success.

But in strong fields that is when a strong player deals with lessons of losing. Each event can have one winner.

Chasing the dream of winning major events, rewards the few and sometimes lucky. The less fortunate, transition to organizers others to house pro and some to more tragic consequences.

Life is challenging, knowing you can be successful is worth chasing when you have a shot. Some people only have a chance at surviving. Seeing players reach for that dream, is why I watch pro pool events. This is a sport where everyone is qualified to play and win regardless of physical status. The players that have made a career out of billiards shows that the dream can be long lived.

In today's culture popular sports have favored the physically specialized. Billiards sports do not favor gender or physical dominance. Billiard sports favor players of determination and concentration.
 
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The reason billiard sports is financially struggling is because anyone thinks they can be a pro player. The entry into the billiard world has little to no cost.

In order to show people the value of the billiard community, that will take some re-branding. The pros are an ethnically diverse group of people with stories as humble and varied as any work force. The benefit of that representation shows the value in community, a community for everyone. Unlike other industries that favor body type or financial status (auto/horse racing).

The direction of the community is to support all types of people through billiards excellence, men, women, and young adults.
 
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