What's wrong with pool?

[Paul Schofield]

Lots of players do both just like lots of pro players do
I play in Tap league and shoot on a regulation table. Lots of big table players play in amateur leagues. :thumbup:

I have said this many times. The regulation table players venture on to the little tables. The little table players have no interest in the regulation tables. I am saying "If we are trying to promote our game as a sport, don't count on those miniature-pool players for anything."

 

[chevybob20]

Pool appeals to the wrong demographic. Just look at what happened when DCC venue changed from a run down hotel with hookers, drugs and general unruliness. I was sitting in the upper deck at the casino and the guys next to me were complaining that Diamonds was trying to "Class it up".

I hope that anyone that wants money in pool understands that people with money, the middle and upper middle class, aren't impressed with a drugged out pool player with his shirt off barking at the other player to bet it up live on streaming video. I'm not saying the problem is gambling. Someone else said it best, "pool players". There is gambling in other sports but those other sports don't carry the stigma that pool does.

Imagine a gangsta with his hat on back wards wearing a wife beater running up to someone on the first tee box at the local country club barking "Hey MFer, $10 dollars a hole and I wants 3 mulligans. Whats the problem, are you a nit that won't bet waters wet?" The day this is allowed at the country club is the day mom stops dropping junior of at the golf coarse.

I don't consider myself any different than the pool players that I'm talking about. I do understand why people with money don't want to go in a pool hall. I grew up in a lower middle income family and worked hard to improve myself. I have seen this from both sides. If pool is to go mainstream, most of the people playing the game now would hate the change that would have to occur.

 

[Ghosst]

If I had a dollar for every time a thread was started on this topic...

Even if it's repetitive, I enjoy these threads because you do see some good ideas come out and a consensus on what changes need to be made. The pair of pictures that were presented and what Paul is saying make great sense; you just have to distance your feelings from it so you see the point.

 

[MitchAlsup]

Banks, I think you are reading too much into all this. Let's try this:

If those 6000 or 7000 amatuer players were regulation table players that played Nine-Ball, those stands in the pro event would be packed every minute.

Conversely, if the Pros played 8-ball those 6000-7000 amateurs would watch every single nuance (table size irrelevent).

The reason the Pros went 9-ball is that 9-ball fits in the typical TV time period between comercials. And now, look what that has wraught--this vast decline.

 

[Paul Schofield]

The reason the Pros went 9-ball is that 9-ball fits in the typical TV time period between comercials. And now, look what that has wraught--this vast decline.

I really don't know if the above is true. If you say so.

I do think that the pros secretly despise Eight-Ball. If they never had to play another game of it again, they wouldn't.