What would you do for "Pool" if you hit the lottery?

I'd also either buy Brunswick's billiard division and restore them to the top tournament table, and/or buy Diamond, put Mark Gregory in charge, and have him redesign the tables so all the rails play exactly like GC rails.
 
Celophanewrap said:
When the power ball prize gets to be about 600 or 800 million I'd finance a a 3 year run
of an open entry pro tournament, a pool week (if you will) an 8 ball, 9 ball and 10 ball tournament.
The pay out would be a total of somewhere between 1 and 1.5 million ish. We'd figure out the breakdown later.
I'd put the money in the a verifiable bank account so anyone considering entering would
be able to see the cash is already there. For that week, we'd run some pro events, some
amateur events, some pro-am events, maybe a pro-celeb event for charity, see if I could get some of the local
pro athletes to participate.
Some major players would receive an invite and a guaranteed appearance fee in exchange for exhibitions or
master classes, challenge matches, etc...
Maybe run it side by side with a Pro Darts event and a Pit Masters BBQ event and
invite a bunch of local brewers for a beer event of some kind.
There would be a green room with some spectator seating accessible by pass or ticket.
I think the first year 128 spots for the 8 and 9 ball, 64 for the 10 ball, and we'd see if we
needed more or less for the following years and this wouldn't be limited to the men.
If I were to win powerball I think it might be fun to do that
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jimmyco said:
Hookers and blow.

No such thing as bad press.
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... or Hookers and blow (like Jimmy says - good idea)
 
336Robin said:
One of us is bound to hit the lottery one of these days. If you did, "What would you do for "Pool?"
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1. Buy a mansion.

2. Construct a room with two tables, a 41/2 by 9 pocket, and a 5X10 heated carom table.

3. That's all. Even a lottery can't save pool entirely.

All the best,
WW
 
This has been discussed on here a lot. I guess I don’t really understand the mentality. IMO there are so many things more deserving of a cash boost than pool. I would buy a sweet cue and play more tournaments. That’s about it.
 
Icon of Sin said:
Probably get a few cues... and maybe a nicer table at home.
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Me too.

I would also show up at SBE to meet you, Jimbo, Scooter, Eric, Koop, Murray, and the others (likely have to twist Steve's arm but I'd get him there too)... might even buy yall a beer :thumbup:

Dave

BTW I got my hands on a Lambros sneaky for the collection a while back :)
 
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Nostroke said:
Pool hit the lottery with Kevin Trudeau-What did it do for pool at any point? I guess if proved that even with big $$ payouts and phonied up interest in the sport like putting models and rich looking people in the audience-nothing can be done for pool.

Sustainability is required and no lottery or KT like figure will accomplish that. Just relax and enjoy pool with the rest of us cultists. Our day may come but it isn't anytime soon.
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I would set up a Tour more along the lines of the old Camel Tour with stops that included the rust belt where fans would come out in droves.
I also would be in charge of the payouts to prevent someone taking all the cash.
Selected vendors that are trustworthy .
 
iusedtoberich said:
I’d invest it in the market with stocks that pay good dividends. Then every year I’d withdraw a small amount to host a nice tournament. I’d structure the amount withdrawn so that It would be an annuity investment that would live on indefinitely.
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I like the way you think!
 
336Robin said:
One of us is bound to hit the lottery one of these days. If you did, "What would you do for "Pool?"
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If I hit "The Big One" I would set aside a chunk of dough and put it into a perpetual trust that would do two things:

First, it would buy the property and build three (later five) "billiard academies," one on the East Coast, another on the West Coast, and another in the Heartland. These would be top of the line rooms with 16 tables for bar leagues, a dozen 9' tables for the professionals, and half a dozen heated carom table for 3C tournaments. There would be full food, bar, pro instruction and shop, and seating built in for exhibitions and tournaments.

The second thing, in the Midwest, would be a billiards museum, built in a huge renovated loft building that would take visitors through the history of the game, from its earliest days to the present, complete with dioramas, TV clips, tables, cues, balls, and everything else. Scenes from "The Hustler" and other movies included.

Why think small?

Lou Figueroa
 
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you could buy , donate, invest....whatever you like

if you don't have a business plan that can show profit it all ends the same

KT with his millions could not make it work because of this

me, I'd probably do a medium sized pool/poker room, owned not rented property, best in class everything, and youth programs...hire the right people to run it and try and break even and consider it a hangout spot

I'd likely run ad words campaigns and use my digital marketing knowledge to target massive amounts of people

hell I've considered doing the above without any lottery, lol, minus the excess staff, making too much $$$ though selling people expensive shit they don't need:confused:
 
Don't ask what I would do for pool , ask what pool would do for me!
Famous JFK new speak, adapted to fit my situation.
 
Direct a new pool movie. Any ideas on the storyline? I am thinking of having Shane Van Boening star in the lead role.
 
I'd trolly my fat happy ass back to my newly finished home pool room and let y'all argue in peace. :)
 
Quickly conceding that I last bought a lottery ticket in the early 1980's, I think that if I hit the lottery I would fully finance two pool events, one for women and one for men.
 
sjm said:
Quickly conceding that I last bought a lottery ticket in the early 1980's...
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“We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.”

-Willard Van Orman Quine
 
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I'd buy a big house in the best neighborhood. Gut the basement, put in pool
tables, theatre seating and stream the Big Match ups.
 
I'd open a poolhall/fly fishing shop in Northern Michigan and I wouldn't care if it made a dime. You might want to call before coming, might be out fishing and not open.

I knew the answer to the OP question about 10 years ago.
 
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