You just won the Lottery!
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I'd replace the 5x10 Brunswick that my local hall has with a real 6x12 snooker table. I'd also sponsor weekly no handy cap tournaments on the 9 foot tables.
I'd open a few pool rooms,not only in my country but world wide:wink:
I'd get back for a practicing at least 10 hours daily:wink:
I'd buy a new BB shaft and some cues too:wink:
I'd take a trip all around the world:wink:
I'd buy myself a house and a Diamond table:wink:
Finally,I would pay a Paramount company for making a hole new movie with Gene Hackman
I'd make a deposit to Wendy
I'd get back for a practicing at least 10 hours daily:wink:
I'd buy a new BB shaft and some cues too:wink:
I'd take a trip all around the world:wink:
I'd buy myself a house and a Diamond table:wink:
Finally,I would pay a Paramount company for making a hole new movie with Gene Hackman
I'd make a deposit to Wendy
bring back Bonus Ball & Michaela?
buyout the US Open & QMasters & sell to someone for $1?
for starters, all drinks & table time would be "on us" @ BreakTime - for a month!
but i'd keep it personal for those who truly appreciate it - all expenses paid to Vegas for AZBers, and simply throw-down in a 5-star hotel on a ton of tables, and do what we do! all vendors/streamers would be accomodated in exchange for their services.
it'd be a "pay it forward" party!
:happydance::dance::dance::happydance:
buyout the US Open & QMasters & sell to someone for $1?
for starters, all drinks & table time would be "on us" @ BreakTime - for a month!
but i'd keep it personal for those who truly appreciate it - all expenses paid to Vegas for AZBers, and simply throw-down in a 5-star hotel on a ton of tables, and do what we do! all vendors/streamers would be accomodated in exchange for their services.
it'd be a "pay it forward" party!
:happydance::dance::dance::happydance:
Tournament Centers
I have always liked the idea of a Free Standing Building somewhere near a Urban area near an airport but sort of out of the town. I would build these out of modular construction and they would be set up to televise and stream events and it would be setup with seating in the arrangement so that whenever there were matches people would be notified by email addresses that matches were going on and they could come, pay a small admission, be able to see what was going on. buy food and snacks and have a place that was friendly to Pool Players, Instruction etc. It would be a place that sponsors would know that their sponsorship would be noticed.
I have always liked the idea of a Free Standing Building somewhere near a Urban area near an airport but sort of out of the town. I would build these out of modular construction and they would be set up to televise and stream events and it would be setup with seating in the arrangement so that whenever there were matches people would be notified by email addresses that matches were going on and they could come, pay a small admission, be able to see what was going on. buy food and snacks and have a place that was friendly to Pool Players, Instruction etc. It would be a place that sponsors would know that their sponsorship would be noticed.
I did? I just won the lottery? Holy shit let me go tell the missus.
The first thing I'm going to do is quit my job at the turkey processing plant. I'm sick to damn death of standing in that little room, knee deep in blood and turkey shit, slitting those skinny little throats as they come by one after another. Yes sir, that's exactly what I'll do. Quit my job.
Then I'll go down to Pop's and buy everyone a beer. Yea, that's it. I'll walk in like I own the place and say. "Set 'em up Pop. Drinks are on me." And Pop will say. "What did you go and do Junior, win the Lottery?" And I'll say. "No, I'm just pretending I did because some guy on AZ Billiards asked me to." And Pop will say. "You know, that kid is dumber than a sack of hammers. I think his parents were cousins."
After eight, or nine beers, and a couple of shots of Tequila with the barmaid, I stagger out of Pop's place, get into my pick-up truck and drive home. When I get there I'm so drunk I miss the driveway and crash into our mailbox and get stuck. I step out of the truck and fall two feet into a drainage ditch half filled with water. Shit the bed, if things couldn't get any worse, they just did. It was my neighbors mailbox that I knocked down and he's out in the yard yelling and screaming something about suing my ass off. My wife comes out, all two hundred pounds of her and six months pregnant, grabs me by the ear, marches me into our home on wheels, and starts chewing on my butt like it was a happy meal. I can't take any more of this crap so I go into the bed room and fall head first into a pile of dirty laundry. I don't wake up until noon the next day.
My wife is screaming at me. "Well, Mr. Rockefeller, your boss just called and said I should tell that lazy drunk of a husband of mine that he need not bother coming in tomorrow. He's fired."
"As for me." She continued. "I'm taking the kids to my mothers. I'm through with you!"
Sonofa*****, I thought. Maybe I did win the Lottery after all.
The first thing I'm going to do is quit my job at the turkey processing plant. I'm sick to damn death of standing in that little room, knee deep in blood and turkey shit, slitting those skinny little throats as they come by one after another. Yes sir, that's exactly what I'll do. Quit my job.
Then I'll go down to Pop's and buy everyone a beer. Yea, that's it. I'll walk in like I own the place and say. "Set 'em up Pop. Drinks are on me." And Pop will say. "What did you go and do Junior, win the Lottery?" And I'll say. "No, I'm just pretending I did because some guy on AZ Billiards asked me to." And Pop will say. "You know, that kid is dumber than a sack of hammers. I think his parents were cousins."
After eight, or nine beers, and a couple of shots of Tequila with the barmaid, I stagger out of Pop's place, get into my pick-up truck and drive home. When I get there I'm so drunk I miss the driveway and crash into our mailbox and get stuck. I step out of the truck and fall two feet into a drainage ditch half filled with water. Shit the bed, if things couldn't get any worse, they just did. It was my neighbors mailbox that I knocked down and he's out in the yard yelling and screaming something about suing my ass off. My wife comes out, all two hundred pounds of her and six months pregnant, grabs me by the ear, marches me into our home on wheels, and starts chewing on my butt like it was a happy meal. I can't take any more of this crap so I go into the bed room and fall head first into a pile of dirty laundry. I don't wake up until noon the next day.
My wife is screaming at me. "Well, Mr. Rockefeller, your boss just called and said I should tell that lazy drunk of a husband of mine that he need not bother coming in tomorrow. He's fired."
"As for me." She continued. "I'm taking the kids to my mothers. I'm through with you!"
Sonofa*****, I thought. Maybe I did win the Lottery after all.
Pool the great business opportunity.
I think you are right in that pool needs more help than just what dollars alone will provide. Im convinced that if one had money and used it wisely that pool could transform itself and a lot of that transformation would be the realization of the life cycle of the pool player. The greatest problem in that life cycle would be the moving in of new people to the sport. If we get that happening from the right demographic then pool would be a great business to be in once again. I remember watching the Brunswick clip on YouTube about how great the business opportunity was for pool. I think it still can be but on a bigger larger level. There are a lot of big businesses built around pool and they all want to survive.
I think you are right in that pool needs more help than just what dollars alone will provide. Im convinced that if one had money and used it wisely that pool could transform itself and a lot of that transformation would be the realization of the life cycle of the pool player. The greatest problem in that life cycle would be the moving in of new people to the sport. If we get that happening from the right demographic then pool would be a great business to be in once again. I remember watching the Brunswick clip on YouTube about how great the business opportunity was for pool. I think it still can be but on a bigger larger level. There are a lot of big businesses built around pool and they all want to survive.
1. Buy/bribe influence in the local school board to allow a table in all the area middle and high schools. Justify it with a math/physics/geometry kind of spin. Let the kids get a taste for game at the same early age that I did. If kids want, they can come in before school or after school to play as well. The early taste is what sets up the addiction later on in life. With school, they'll only be able to play on it for a limited amount of time.
2. Open a family oriented pool room in town. 20-30 nice and well cared for tables and equipment. No alcohol (hard for a parent to call it a 'seedy poolroom' when no one is drunk). Staff a couple house pros that enjoy showing the kids the fundamentals and the occasional trick/stroke shot.
3. Host a regional tourney with a modest purse every couple months and try to attract the big names. Let the kids attend and see what real pool looks like.
4. See the benefits in 5 years when the wait for each table is at least an hour and a half.
2. Open a family oriented pool room in town. 20-30 nice and well cared for tables and equipment. No alcohol (hard for a parent to call it a 'seedy poolroom' when no one is drunk). Staff a couple house pros that enjoy showing the kids the fundamentals and the occasional trick/stroke shot.
3. Host a regional tourney with a modest purse every couple months and try to attract the big names. Let the kids attend and see what real pool looks like.
4. See the benefits in 5 years when the wait for each table is at least an hour and a half.
Prolly just buy some cues and gamble more...
I'd sponsor LA Open 10-ball , NY Open 10-Ball and US Open 10-ball.
Here we gooooo
1. Try my damndest to get pool in the olympics via promotion, bribes, etc.
2. Truly organize US Tournaments as much as possible with recordings of matches as well as statistics. There would be state, regional, and national tournaments as well as sanctioned city tournaments that award players points. There would be two tournaments both with calcuttas 1 pro and 1 open. The tournaments will include 1 pocket, 10 ball and banks. The open tournament will have money added require entry fees from pros and amateurs alike. The pro tournaments give players points. The goal is to have enough points after 3 months to move from the state circuit to the regional circuit. Points are based on the number of players in the tournament and where each player finishes. Points will be awarded to players based on their place in the tournament. In order to win the players must make it in the top quarter of the tournament. 16=4 32=8 64=16 128=32.
1st place=20(# of players in top quarter) 2nd=15( # of players in top quarter) 3rd= 10(# of players in top quarter)
I'd have to workout how to do the other places but it would be a similar method. Players with the minimum required points move on to the regional tour which also lasts 3 months. There are 3 regions. West, Central West, Central East and East. Players tour around each region and then host a final 128 player tournament. The top 32 from each move on to play a national tournament of 128 players. The regional finals and nationals are why the points matter. These tournaments will be seeded. Each regional champion gets $25k and the national champ gets 100k.
Every tournaments requires entry fees. The entries increase as the season progresses. Entry for the pro tournament goes in the tour to help pay for expenses and such. All pro tournaments will be held after the open event. Now. Open events will work in conjunction with pro events in the exact same way except that the opens qualify players for the pro events. So non pros that can hang with the pros are eligible to win pro points. Obviously filling the open tournaments would be almost too easy there would have to be a way to make sure there wasn't a barrier to entry.
Anyways sorry for the typos and grammar mistakes. I really went off on this post lol.
1. Try my damndest to get pool in the olympics via promotion, bribes, etc.
2. Truly organize US Tournaments as much as possible with recordings of matches as well as statistics. There would be state, regional, and national tournaments as well as sanctioned city tournaments that award players points. There would be two tournaments both with calcuttas 1 pro and 1 open. The tournaments will include 1 pocket, 10 ball and banks. The open tournament will have money added require entry fees from pros and amateurs alike. The pro tournaments give players points. The goal is to have enough points after 3 months to move from the state circuit to the regional circuit. Points are based on the number of players in the tournament and where each player finishes. Points will be awarded to players based on their place in the tournament. In order to win the players must make it in the top quarter of the tournament. 16=4 32=8 64=16 128=32.
1st place=20(# of players in top quarter) 2nd=15( # of players in top quarter) 3rd= 10(# of players in top quarter)
I'd have to workout how to do the other places but it would be a similar method. Players with the minimum required points move on to the regional tour which also lasts 3 months. There are 3 regions. West, Central West, Central East and East. Players tour around each region and then host a final 128 player tournament. The top 32 from each move on to play a national tournament of 128 players. The regional finals and nationals are why the points matter. These tournaments will be seeded. Each regional champion gets $25k and the national champ gets 100k.
Every tournaments requires entry fees. The entries increase as the season progresses. Entry for the pro tournament goes in the tour to help pay for expenses and such. All pro tournaments will be held after the open event. Now. Open events will work in conjunction with pro events in the exact same way except that the opens qualify players for the pro events. So non pros that can hang with the pros are eligible to win pro points. Obviously filling the open tournaments would be almost too easy there would have to be a way to make sure there wasn't a barrier to entry.
Anyways sorry for the typos and grammar mistakes. I really went off on this post lol.