What if..............................?

[Colin Colenso]

Seems there's an opportunity here for a smart backer / manager, to fund top player's entry for a return on future winnings. Say 20% over 2 years.

eg. Fund 20 top players. Maybe 4 get and make combined 900k over 2 years. 20% of which is 220k.

Could net himself a good profit so long as contracts were secure.

It's a business opportunity waiting to happen.

 

[wayne]

The one fallacy, if there is one, is that having the financial backing means success and it doesn't. Ask anyone who has been in a Broadway show that closed in a few performances. Having money and an idea does not make it happen.

Although having financial backing doesn't mean success it certainly doesn't hurt the chances of success. There probably has never been a Broadway show that has been a success that didn't have huge financial backing. Having financial backing sure doesn't hurt in most cases.

Wayne

 

[wayne]

The I.P.T. is a success? I know, I know, it'll never happen, right? But what if it was, what if every professional pool player in the top 50 was a millionaire 10 years from now? There sure would be a lot of unhappy I.P.T. haters out there, huh! What would you have to BlTCH about then? Oh, I know, "ever since that damn I.P.T. thing started, I can't get a damn table without waiting in line for 2 hours." "Damn, every freakin' channel has pool pool pool, I'm sick of pool!" "I'm gonna try something new to hate, there's too many damn happy people in the pool world for me these days, I need misery in my life."
Oh well, it's just a "what if?" thing. We all know it'll never happen, right. It never worked before, how COULD it work this time? I'll just keep dreaming, maybe, just maybe, some day someone will come along and take pool to another level. Not in my life time, huh? Bummer

WELL DONE Rude Dog!!! I figured someone would come up with something to counter the IPT haters and you did the job. Plus you expressed it in such a way that it had made it difficult for them to counter you with any negative ramblings. WELL DONE!!

Wayne

 

[sjm]

If the IPT makes a profit despite paying out tens of millions in prize money, it will have done so by capturing the imagination of the public through pool. This is, indeed, the scenario we're all dreaming of, for if it comes to pass, Trudeau will have succeded in making pool high profile and, more importantly, attractive to the demographic that pool has long sought. If that happens, pool will become big business, and the players, the room proprietors and the tournament producers will all benefit.

 

[macguy]

Although having financial backing doesn't mean success it certainly doesn't hurt the chances of success. There probably has never been a Broadway show that has been a success that didn't have huge financial backing. Having financial backing sure doesn't hurt in most cases.

Wayne

You need to copy and paste the rest of what I said to keep it in context. The point was, you may look at someone who is investing a lot of money and say "They must know what they are doing". That is not always the case. The tragedy is when the money was there and the idea failed when it didn't have to. The blind followers may end up following these guys off a cliff when it wasn't necessary. Without a doubt though there must be players on the tour who have misgivings about the way it is being set up, they want this to be a success.