Only in the Philippines indeed!

not just in billiards, but in other circumstances as well. some govt offices mandates that we must apply for this, pay for that or else. it's an obvious red tape. and this drives out some investors and yes, even professional players.

I do not now if the Games and Amusement Board and the Bureau of Immigration have done their homework prior to imposing the work permits and license requirements on 128 foreign players. They must have missed seeing that the World 10-Ball Tournament will also bring in billiard fans and tourists who will surely stay in hotels and spend their dollars in our country when they fly in to watch the tournament. Cancelling the event will only result in more losses for our country.

One of the reasons I think the Philippines is a poor country is because we have bad business sense."puro kabig" ( always wanting to take but seldom gives). It reflects not only in this administration but in the past as well, they make you shell or dole out a lot money first before you even earned so it drives away a lot of not only foreign but local investors as well, it's fine if money we generate goes to where it is intended, but I doubt such as the case of health and ofw funds. Billiards is one aspect where we have advantage over the rest of the world, they want to kill that too?. Government never had a hand or support developing our world class players, they learned their skill playing and gambling in dark, smelly corner billiard halls just like all of us before Efren "bata" Reyes showed the world how Filipinos play the game. Now they want to kill all of this? Go ahead, just like how they killed our talented inventors who bring good inventions abroad cause patent protection is quite uncertain here