I don't know what Pompano Harness does, but there's no way there could ever br betting on amateur jai-alai players for the simple fact that they need to be licensed properly by the state for wagering to be allowed on them. Even the locker room personnel carry the licenses just to work in the players' quarters, and there's no way the frontons would get licenses for amateurs. This idea could work if the amateurs were playing for a title of some kind which the crowd had some interest in. But basically amateur jai-alai is dead in the U.S. now. The strike killed amateur jai-alai. We can debate about whether the strike killed jai-alai overall, but there is no doubt that the strike definitely killed amateur jai-alai. For one a lot of the top amateurs went pro as replacements, but the main reason to me is it caused a negative sentiment on the part of the players' managers towards U.S. amateurs. Basically after the strike there was no more support for U.S. amateur jai-alai. Dania opened a school briefly then closed it. North Miami amateur lost the school and hardball court. I mean the World Cup for amateur jai-alai is taking place in Mexico next month and the U.S. does not even have any players there.
