Between an amature and a pro in pool????
Jason K-Wood jumps up and plays John Schmit heads up for $20,000 in the middle and is in the game most of the time, I have seen him play better than he did the other night. JS has played better too, I congraduate him on winning. It was a great match they played, no body was stealing. True the "Pro" did win but i'm a amature and I cant get to 20 playing JS or K-Wood in a race to 100.
At the end K-Wood joked and jokeingly said "I'll play any amature" or something close to that.
I have spoke to both of them since the match and congratulated them. There was no loser in that match it could have went the other way if they raced to 120 who knows???
But it got me thinking how is it that 2 closely matched players have different ranking status, JS won the US Open, is that why he is a pro? In golf there are specific guidlines that define the ranking of pros and the rest of the players, at least I think there is. With computers a system could be set up and managed easily in a data base format that could make it easy to determine who is a pro by what they have achieved in specific events, not action that dosent count. Or something similar. I know the pool tours in the south are having problems with amature events or the same guy(Larry) wining most of the events, they neet to have a 2 level format it seems open and not open. I'm not knocking Larry, I really like him and am damn proud of him for doing what he is doing and has accomplished, but it does make it harder to fill a tournment when you know who is gonna win it, its a handful to figure this all out, Larry is a Pro-I think. See this is the problem who is and who isnt and WHY??? Archer and Earl speak for themselfs...
I know for a fact there are Pro's that cant beat K-Wood and there are a couple amatures that might have the best of it playing JS. So its possible for someone if they wanted to stay amature would have to avoid playing some events-is this why there is no system set up? so guys can fly under the radar? to me thats a weak excuse now with the internet, K-Wood outed himself the other night, he was already known. so he is a bad example.
Back to the originoal question why is JHS a pro and K-wood isnt? or other players for that matter.
And again my congrats to John S. and K-Wood, these 2 great players are my friends and there was no loser in their match. The both have a Private house at "Casa de Fatboy" anytime they are in Vegas.
Jason K-Wood jumps up and plays John Schmit heads up for $20,000 in the middle and is in the game most of the time, I have seen him play better than he did the other night. JS has played better too, I congraduate him on winning. It was a great match they played, no body was stealing. True the "Pro" did win but i'm a amature and I cant get to 20 playing JS or K-Wood in a race to 100.
At the end K-Wood joked and jokeingly said "I'll play any amature" or something close to that.
I have spoke to both of them since the match and congratulated them. There was no loser in that match it could have went the other way if they raced to 120 who knows???
But it got me thinking how is it that 2 closely matched players have different ranking status, JS won the US Open, is that why he is a pro? In golf there are specific guidlines that define the ranking of pros and the rest of the players, at least I think there is. With computers a system could be set up and managed easily in a data base format that could make it easy to determine who is a pro by what they have achieved in specific events, not action that dosent count. Or something similar. I know the pool tours in the south are having problems with amature events or the same guy(Larry) wining most of the events, they neet to have a 2 level format it seems open and not open. I'm not knocking Larry, I really like him and am damn proud of him for doing what he is doing and has accomplished, but it does make it harder to fill a tournment when you know who is gonna win it, its a handful to figure this all out, Larry is a Pro-I think. See this is the problem who is and who isnt and WHY??? Archer and Earl speak for themselfs...
I know for a fact there are Pro's that cant beat K-Wood and there are a couple amatures that might have the best of it playing JS. So its possible for someone if they wanted to stay amature would have to avoid playing some events-is this why there is no system set up? so guys can fly under the radar? to me thats a weak excuse now with the internet, K-Wood outed himself the other night, he was already known. so he is a bad example.
Back to the originoal question why is JHS a pro and K-wood isnt? or other players for that matter.
And again my congrats to John S. and K-Wood, these 2 great players are my friends and there was no loser in their match. The both have a Private house at "Casa de Fatboy" anytime they are in Vegas.
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. is he now a pro?
