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Are they new or just the same ones that have always been? I have tried out the soft on one of my playing cues and it functions just fine , although it does mushroom out like leather tips do, at least for the soft version .

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I ran 49 in my first game of league on 07/23/2026. New high run this year. 600 Fargo (2478 robustness). I probably could have gotten 60+ if I hadn't missed a relatively easy cut.

8 foot table at Volcano's in Hurst, TX.

Bob Jewett said:

A friend of mine took sort of the opposite approach. He put a Budweiser sticker on his Southwest.

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I shouldn't have used the layered tip. First kid to the table saw the moori tip and I had a dozen at the table in two minutes! The tables in there were some old Valley's from the eighties, cloth and all. That cloth was abrasive enough to cut the skin off your hands. I kicked and banked like I hadn't done in years, finishing off my last rack with two table length banks and two table length kicks, all four shots back to back. Really drove home that my glory days weren't on modern equipment. Often tougher equipment but different. I would have to put in the hours again to play on today's equipment and years have caught up with me. The gamblers have moved to poker and casinos, and I don't like tournament play.

Hu

skor said:

She is a good and talented player.
She could be better if she focuses more on her game rather than on her branding.
She admits that she doesn’t practice as much as she should.
She reached far beyond what I have expected and she deserves a well done but there is no way that she wins this with the next players she’ll have to face.

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Branding has to be part of what you do if you want to make a serious career in the game. Tournament winnings isn’t enough.. at least not yet.

I used to have some beautiful customs but I play at bars and it was more of a worry then it was worth. It’s like having a classic car that you’re always worried about taking it out because something will happen to it. So one year before a big Vegas trip that I was worried about taking my Timmy Scruggs on I switched to a cheap predator and played with that ever since.

Matt_24 said:

It really doesn't look that thin to me? No way the cue ball will go wild unless you overhit it.

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Like Bob said. I was thinking more about someone still learning the basics.

Shooting it to the corner you can put a full confident stroke on it. To the side you have to be more careful.

My dislikes are pretty simple. I like wrapped cues but I don't like two different textures under my grip hand so I am usually shooting a wrapless cue, often off the wall.

Something else I consider is the expansion rate of everything I put in a cue. I like silver, I don't like it's high expansion rate and tendency to pop finishes. I don't like organic and nonorganic components together, for the most part I don't use metal or stone or things with similar expansion rates. If I do use these things they will be at the end of the butt, not where they can fight with components with different expansion rates.

Old saying from street car days, "if it don't go, chrome it!" My stuff was designed to go. I painted over the one piece of chrome on my engine! Caused a major stink, the man living at the track saw all of the chevy engine orange on my engine and told everyone it was an experimental engine straight from Chevy!

A good thing we all think differently, keeps the manufacturers and builders in business!

Hu