THIS YEAR sure has been feast or famine for the world’s top men pool players. For six months, players around the globe waited and wondered when and where they’d have an opportunity to cross cues and compete. In the meantime, promoters sleepwalked through the first half of the year, backloading the calendar with event after event in efforts to take advantage of Asia’s seemingly insatiable thirst for big-visibility international tournaments, particularly Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines.
