In a recent interview, Rona Bareket, Play89’s new protégé had stated that as opposed to what’s expected of her, she doesn’t plan to quit snooker in favor of pool. In other words, she says that the big money offered to women pool players will not tempt her to replace snooker with 9-ball.

Rona Bareket’s statement raises two questions. First, you must wonder why winning in pool tournaments is more profitable than in snooker. Secondly, we all know that the world’s top ranked men snooker players make millions of pounds, how come the world’s top ladies snooker players have to cross the continent to play pool?

Let’s take a look at Allison Fisher as an example. She won the first World Ladies Snooker Championship at 17 and even came in the Male Snooker ranking, but since her progression in snooker, she left her homeland of England to blend in the American 9-ball pool scene. As a pool player, Fisher aka The Duchess of Doom quickly became one of the highest earning players in the field, regardless to her sex. Where would she be now if stayed in the English snooker circuit?

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