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

I'd buy a new house with a dedicated billiard room and stock it with everything top of line. Multiple tables of different sizes and types for pool, billiards, snooker. I'd support custom cue makers by buying my dream cues. I might take a trip around the country going to, playing in, and watching tournaments. I'd also try to visit different pool rooms in every state.
 
Texas Carom Club said:
Buy 12 or so carom tables
Some 8s some 9s some 10s
Heated and not

Build an awesome room on a nice lot
Pay the top euro players to come over and teach us how to play all the games

Straight rail balkline 1 cushion amd 3c


Grow leagues
Do what it took to have major tournaments and dare i even say world cups with the best players a few times a yr
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Id also build a shop on the same lot as the Club id make
For making cues and tables
Affordable basic. American carom cues and tables
 
Great thread....

If I were to win the lottery...immediately I would beef up the Joss Northeast 9 ball tour and make it the highest payout tour in the world, with the turning stone tournaments being the king of the hill.

Second, I would use the new finances to get other financial partners from within the pool industry and fund/construct/maintain a full time pool arena (modeled after snookers crucible) and create an epicenter for the sports great world championships and master championships....what would result is a concrete structure that television schedules and guarantees can be issued. No more relying on casinos and other venues to hold televised pool. We are now in control.
 
I'd start a Pro Tour that held a tournament once a month the 1st year.
Prize money would pay $100,000 to the winner and another $100,000
paid to the field. I'm think ESPN would be interested and the 2nd year
I'd increase the money and approach a major television network to see
if coverage could be arranged. I'd also re-launch what Brunswick did
back in the 50's with the way they had the top pros touring the nation

I'd sign the top 10 men and top 10 women to a sponsorship contract and
have them tour the United States conducting skills demonstration and
maybe even pool clinics. I'd approach cue-makers and case makers to see
if they wanted to attend a pre-determined schedule of these exhibitions.and
set up an exhibits area. These would be one day events held on a weekend.

Lastly, I'd start a national pool cue registry for recording the purchase/sale of
pool cues in general and in particular, for reporting stolen pool cues. I might
also include a escrow service for 3rd party sales & verifying a cue's authenticity.


Anyway, that's what I'd do or else just write a jumbo check and tell some promoter
to approach me with a solid business plan for energizing and growing participation
in a game myself and so many others have come to dearly love.


Matt B.
 
Buy a new house with a separate structure for music and THE best home room ever..
with a 9 or 10 foot Centennial... house cues are all Hoppes, always cold beer on tap.
Oh, and what I'd do FOR pool? Start a proper pool tour and get ESPN to pull the trigger!
 

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Post up a $500,000 prize for a straight pool challenge. The lucky chap who breaks the record of running more than 526 balls gets the cheese.
 
I'd contact Mike Zuglin and Pat Fleming and organize a professional tour with them. I like the way they do things.
 
I would let the dollar circulate. More cues and Mark Gregory Table.
I would have every poolroom bathroom in the country cleaned up. Some are gas station grade.
Would open a small room somewhere only to hang out with friends.
 
Buy cues and gamble.

Pool is a hobby, reality is I'd spend more money on fishing and probably play even less.
 
Depends on the size of the lottery. If it's one of those mega-power-ball type deals where there is a few hundred million, well then...let the good times roll.

First, I set up a scholarship (or several) for any US student who wins a junior national tournament to go to ANY post secondary school of their choice. I will pay one of the big time promoters to run.

Then I set up a "southeast swing" and a "midwest swing" of several tournaments that will, combined with the Joss and west coast swing, help kick start my national "tour" for pros. Of course I would hire a marketing firm to promote this endeavor, and I would hire a couple people who do nothing but secure sponsors/raise funding.

Oh. Yeah, My Majors would be US Open, Derby City, a new venue I will have built in Johnston City (because, why not), Turning Stone, and the Music City Open.

I would hire Joe Rogan as my Director of Entertainment and Lead PR spokesman.

Now, for the real stroke of genius. I build a 5 duplexes on a campus that surrounds a huge building that house 10-15 of the best 7 foot and 9 foot tables. I then pay SVB, Bergman, Skye, Thorpe, and corey and the amateur player of their choosing) 1 MILLION Dollars a year for a 2 year commitment to my program (the amateurs get 500k):

-Year -1 they live on campus and have to put in 8 hours a day on pool, either at the table, studying film, etc. I will have a rotating schedule of the greats (archer, strickland, varner, Efren, etc) to come in a have a "residency" where they will spar with and teach my pros and amateurs. All room and board will be paid during this time.

-Year 2- My pros are now ready to take over the pool world. I will stake them in every major international tournament in the world (for 60% of winnings). They will travel to the Philippines and lay it to waste. They will travel to China and be asked to leave because they are embarrassing everyone over there. Roy's Basement stays in the basement out of fear of my super turbo charged pros. Meanwhile, My amateurs back on campus have moved up to fill the pros spot and have selected 5 NEW amateurs to take their place. The cycle continues until Americans win the Mosconi Cup and the folks on AZB can finally rest easy.
 
Not a damn thing. I've been paying pool time and buying cues for 40yrs now. Been to tournaments, backed players, etc. I might buy a nice new cue but that would be about it. Don't feel the need to do anything for pool. The powers-that-be have shot themselves in the foot so many times over the years its hard to believe. Why would i fire good money after so much bad?
 
garczar said:
Not a damn thing. I've been paying pool time and buying cues for 40yrs now. Been to tournaments, backed players, etc. I might buy a nice new cue but that would be about it. Don't feel the need to do anything for pool. The powers-that-be have shot themselves in the foot so many times over the years its hard to believe. Why would i fire good money after so much bad?
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Kill joy.....
 
Celophanewrap said:
Kill joy.....
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Gotta be joy before you can kill it. Being around pool has been kinda like watching a self-inflicted gunshot in REALLY SLOWWWWWW motion. I love the game but in 40yrs it hasn't gotten anywhere since i started. Sad but true. I do think that B. Hearn could be pool's saving grace. What he did for snooker is off-the-charts. We'll see.
 
ghost ball said:
Post up a $500,000 prize for a straight pool challenge. The lucky chap who breaks the record of running more than 526 balls gets the cheese.
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If they used the same equipment it would happen, quick. Put today's players on a big-bucket 4x8 and they might run a thousand.
 
Some Good Ideas!

There's been some really good ideas in this thread. Keep them coming!

I really like the put the money in trust sort of thing, open it up to private and corporate
donations and bequests, dole out the interest to tournaments, educational endeavors and such.

If I had the money, I can see me owning homes all over the country in fancy, smanchy
neighborhoods with Pool Tables, lots of rooms and a staff to cook everyone breakfast!
at about 11 o' clock the next day! The neighbors would love me!
 
I'd sponsor a tournament.

It would be an All-World Cue Sports Pentathlon; the best players in the world, 5 disciplines, $1 million first prize. Players compete in 3-cushion, snooker, Russian pyramid, 9-ball and 1-pocket. All players play all games, the best all-around wins $1 million.
 
I'd move to Vegas and open a "Cat House" for pool players only.....of course I would include the ladies in these decadent plans by also opening a "Chippendales Review" club as well.....lolo
 
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