LJJ is an attractive woman, who can play pool, looks good for television and is one of the biggest names in womens pool, even today. The same for Mike Sigel. He is obviously the best between the two of them. Mike is very talkative, gets good reactions from the crowds, not to mention he is still one of the most popular pool players over the last 25 years and is a successful business person and also is good for television. They both fit the profile of what most people see on television..
If this event goes well, then most likely everyone will see, Jean Balukas, Allison Fisher, Karen Corr, Eva Laurence and so forth. The payday is just too big for any of these players to pass up. It could also be women v. women, man v. man in these big payday events.
Yes, we all would like to see a better match between todays quality players, but that is just the pool players in all of us who think that way. We have to start looking at it from an entainment point of view and build on it and hopefully by this time next year, we will be seeing current champions battling it out for a $100K and $50K prize funds, like we should have been 20 years ago!
