Breaking your cue.
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i broke a cue in 2 pieces once, i was a C player. HAd the cue about a year, missed a easy 9 ball to win the set $50 I think, maybe a $100, this was in 86. I had never thrown a cue on the floor until then, I did-but not hard I toss it out infornt of me, didnt slam it down(I have seen guys do this) and it rolled away in 2 pieces, WTF? we all said. What happened is there was a huge mineral deposit just below the joint where it broke, its a miracle it made it off the lathe and was played with without breaking.
to thin day i have never tossed a cue on the ground since, I have tossed a cue on the table but not hard, just so it slides a bit, and thats rare.
When Archie the Greek beat Bobby Baldwin for $1,500,000 over 2 nights at the Rum Runner in Vegas afterwards, Bobby snapped his cue in half(cant remember what it was-was a good cue i remember that), he walked outside and pushed the pieces into the trash can. My friend got the shaft-John Canada(super nice guy). He was all happy and called me "I got the million dollar shaft". I had just moved to LA and missed the festivities:frown:. I lost touch with John but he sure was happy he got the shaft. cant remember forsure about the butt, i think it was destroyed-thats a guess, the shaft is a fact.
I find uttering a bit of profanity relieves the frustration as well as breaking a cue and is much cheaper. At least I think it does, I've never broken a cue. I play with custom cues that aren't cheap, throwing away a couple of thousand dollars over missing a pool shot seems a bit silly to me. My cues are all straight and hit great, made by quality cue makers. None of them have ever missed a single shot, it's the chump holding them that misses all too often. So why blame the cue?
I try to laugh off dogged shots, at worst I may knock the rail with my fist or pound the butt of the cue on the floor a couple times though I try to avoid this also as I had my cue bounce at a unexpected angle and hit the floor.
Yep, I saw live Olazathabal (spelling?) the pro golfer get mad at a major and intentionally hit something in the ground with this club and broke his wrist/live. But if ya mix in some alcohol, all bets are off. If ya have em get some rocky mtn high he'll leave it the fk alone.
JC
Coos Cues
I have found no correlation between how players expect themselves to perform and how they are actually capable of performing. It's the B players however that seem to have the largest gap between expected and actual performance. They ran a table once and now they think that's their speed.
JC
I have been playing pool 42 yrs. and have never broke my cue, regardless of how upset I may have been in my younger yrs., now I don't get upset, I just move on!
David Harcrow