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Who would be the best sponsor for pool?
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gpeezy
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I was just gonna say beer. Tap Tap
Good idea but not legal in every State....SPF=randyg
Any company in the Forbes Top 100 would suffice...if it was like most major sports youd have the majority of them participating...just sayin!
The_Abbott
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The versus network.
Hooters 
gpeezy
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1. Slimfast
2. Denny's or IHOP
3. Any beer company
4. Nicorette Gum
2. Denny's or IHOP
3. Any beer company
4. Nicorette Gum
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Larry Flynt,,,,,,,,,,,!!
Presumably the thread question is basically about profesional pool and professional pool tournaments and the question poser isn't just asking for wish list daydreaming.
The only conceivable large potential sponsors of professional pool are right where they have always been.....in the gambling industry.
Every other potential sponsor amongst the larger corporate organisations is touched in some direct or indirect way by one or both of 2 basic factors preventing any possibility of any major investment by them......
1. A perception (quite possibly a well justified one) that their brand name should not under any circumstances be asociated with a seedy, disreputable pastime like pool.
2. A perception (definitely a justified one) that the numbers of people likely to be interested enough to watch pool without associated betting activity will never come remotely near the numbers needed to justify large investment. Basically pool spectators (live, tv or internet) aren't going to buy the sponsors products in large enough increased numbers to cover the outlay made.
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Gambling bosses wouldn't mind associating their brand image with pool or any other down market pastime and probably already recognise that a far bigger spectator farm can be harvested if viewers can bet on the activity concerned live. Huge numbers of people worldwide will bet on anything taking place live, even those who have never seen a pool table will bet on match outcomes, let alone the known millions who play pool regularly, many of whom are by nature predisposed towards gambling anyway.
The law is a limiting factor on that at the moment. Without the gambling industry on board with the ability to operate legally re betting on live pool transmissions the bottom line is that pro pool is not going to have any very large sponsor.
Until that happens some very hard working people will beaver away at putting on events with limited sponsorship and pro pool will continue to muddle along and make the best of it.
There might even continue to be an occasional fairy godfather (a Sheikh here, a businesman there etc etc) putting up some dollars now and again until boredom, a perception that he's being shafted, a new more interesting 'toy' or his bankruptcy kicks in....but none of that will alter the fact that unless and until it is legal for the gambling industry to get on board there wil be no 'big' money invested in sponsorship in a structured and reliable long term way and no prospect of the pro game growing through sponsorship.
This is a gross over-simplification of course.....but I think the bottom line is probably pretty realistic and to be fair it's a bit of an airy-fairily vague question in the first place :smile:
The only conceivable large potential sponsors of professional pool are right where they have always been.....in the gambling industry.
Every other potential sponsor amongst the larger corporate organisations is touched in some direct or indirect way by one or both of 2 basic factors preventing any possibility of any major investment by them......
1. A perception (quite possibly a well justified one) that their brand name should not under any circumstances be asociated with a seedy, disreputable pastime like pool.
2. A perception (definitely a justified one) that the numbers of people likely to be interested enough to watch pool without associated betting activity will never come remotely near the numbers needed to justify large investment. Basically pool spectators (live, tv or internet) aren't going to buy the sponsors products in large enough increased numbers to cover the outlay made.
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Gambling bosses wouldn't mind associating their brand image with pool or any other down market pastime and probably already recognise that a far bigger spectator farm can be harvested if viewers can bet on the activity concerned live. Huge numbers of people worldwide will bet on anything taking place live, even those who have never seen a pool table will bet on match outcomes, let alone the known millions who play pool regularly, many of whom are by nature predisposed towards gambling anyway.
The law is a limiting factor on that at the moment. Without the gambling industry on board with the ability to operate legally re betting on live pool transmissions the bottom line is that pro pool is not going to have any very large sponsor.
Until that happens some very hard working people will beaver away at putting on events with limited sponsorship and pro pool will continue to muddle along and make the best of it.
There might even continue to be an occasional fairy godfather (a Sheikh here, a businesman there etc etc) putting up some dollars now and again until boredom, a perception that he's being shafted, a new more interesting 'toy' or his bankruptcy kicks in....but none of that will alter the fact that unless and until it is legal for the gambling industry to get on board there wil be no 'big' money invested in sponsorship in a structured and reliable long term way and no prospect of the pro game growing through sponsorship.
This is a gross over-simplification of course.....but I think the bottom line is probably pretty realistic and to be fair it's a bit of an airy-fairily vague question in the first place :smile:
