Broken cue stories

Mkbtank

Mkbtank

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Well, after 27 years of playing pool, I finally did it. I shot a bad shot, and hit my cue on the ground in frustration (idiot) and shattered the butt cap. Now it is set to be fixed no problem, and this is not something that I usually do.

The guy I was playing said... "Is that the first time you've ever done that?" Which made me laugh since I will never be doing it again. My opponent then told me that he once lost 15k to a guy, and after the match he broke his cue in half, which had cost him 10k. So I felt a bit better lol.

So, I thought I would ask here for some cue smashing or breaking stories to help me accept my dumb move.

Anyone?? Even if it was just something that you witnessed.
 
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Last call for Nine ball Miller lite series. I was in the final 16 winners side and playing good, but got sick, real sick for 3-4 days and got knocked out quickly.

I had this old cue butt like a Willie Hoppe, and had a cuemaker in N. Hollywood :) cut me a new shaft, and I thought I could turn a nice profit with what I had in it. Well during my sick days in the hotel room, with the event still going on, I had to at least hit a ball with my new shaft and old butt to see if it was a good fit an to try and feel good about something other than watching great TV.

IT....Sucked, the whole cue vibrated when I hit any shot with force. This cue hit sooooooooo bad I wouldn't even sell it to someone who I didn't like :). Well to make me feel better after being in the room for days fighting this ''whatever'' I had and my annoyance of the way the week played out I did this. I went around to the sunny side of the stucco commercial building/convention area, I took the cue, put it together and beat it to smithereens on the corner of the bldg., walked away, felt much better, and Later that evening still under the weather HAD to go to the pool room, and ran into this guy and said ''do ya wanna play some $50 sets''. Well I broke a sweat, we jacked the bet and I ended up $3,400 to the Good. Glenn Atwell never forgot who I was after that incident. :thumbup:
 
My first cue was broken in a bar fight. It was a Viking that I bought in Fairfield, CA around 1989. A couple years later, I loaned it to a friend for a couple weeks while I was floating on an aircraft carrier.

I wasn't there when this went down, but I know the story well. My buddy was partnered with a guy who goaded one of their opponents into playing him for $100 to his $10.

Shortly after the money game started, the ruse was exposed. The drunk that made the bet wanted out. He was belligerent and my cue happened to be leaning on the table. Well. he picked it up and swung it, only to find out that the hustler was well versed in martial arts.

He caught my cue in mid-swing and flipped it over, breaking it over the other guy's head. He pulled back the cue as if he was going to use it like a spear. Instead, he dropped it and made three strikes to the guy's head. As the drunk fell, the hustler caught him and threw him head first into the bar.

When the cops showed, they knew the hustler. He had trained them in martial arts!
 
Well mitch......good news is your still about 4 cues (and 6 shafts) from holding the house record.:thumbup:

On a side note i did the same exact thing..20 years ago....bounced my first cue (carl meyers) after a week of owning it and cracked the butt cap.
 
I was on the last cut on my lathe last weekend. I only needed about .010 of an inch and the gouge caught it funny and the cue came apart:(. I threw it in a box of broken cues and parts and started over.

I am not sure if this counts;)

Cuebuddy> never going to trust stabilized Redwood burl again.
 
I've never done it my self but I've seen my dad do it too 3 beautiful cues I told him next time give it too me ill put better use too it lol what a waste I seen another guy break his in half over a apa match lol soon as he did it I said hey I got some cues for sale lol
 
I have a couple but only one that happened to me.

I had a bryan Fisher that I accidentally hit the butt cap on a tile and it cracked in half and came off. I just replaced it and refinished the cue.

Back in the day, I used to help run a pool hall and we would go around and buy tables and refurbish them and sell them.

Well we find this turn of the century brunswick 9 foot with a one piece slate and sloping legs that a guy in Beverly Hills is selling cause he's getting a divorce.

He sold it with 3 identical 1974 RichQ eight point 4 high 4 low 4 veneers on each point and 36 MOP diamond and dot inlays on each to us for $2500 total. I still have one of the cues. Another one was stolen along with all the cues in the pool hall one night from a burglary(luckily I decided to take my cue home with me that night). And one became a jump cue....

I used to spin my cue around like a staff just messing around. Well I guess that the owner of the pool hall thought he could do the same with his cue, but it slipped out of his hands and hit the floor at an angle and split right along one of the points...

That was when I saw the beauty and detail that went into making high end cues and I decided to start making cues.

Jaden
 
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Mkbtank said:
Well, after 27 years of playing pool, I finally did it. I shot a bad shot, and hit my cue on the ground in frustration (idiot) and shattered the butt cap. Now it is set to be fixed no problem, and this is not something that I usually do.

The guy I was playing said... "Is that the first time you've ever done that?" Which made me laugh since I will never be doing it again. My opponent then told me that he once lost 15k to a guy, and after the match he broke his cue in half, which had cost him 10k. So I felt a bit better lol.

So, I thought I would ask here for some cue smashing or breaking stories to help me accept my dumb move.

Anyone?? Even if it was just something that you witnessed.
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I've been told by the 
old timers that a pretty well known St. Louis player (not Louie) used to have 
a reputation for breaking sticks, as did a contemporary of his -- a much 
lesser known player.

They said that in one month the rail birds counted nine cue 
sticks broken by the better known player and ten by the other fellow. The 
final act in this 30 days of carnage was the lesser known fellow losing a set 
for healthy wager, calmly leaving the pool hall, emptying out his rather 
large cue case on the sidewalk, carefully lining up five cues (with their 
shafts) on the curbstone and driving over them as he left the pool hall, 
never to be seen again.

Other rather memborable moments in cue-unmaking history in St. Louis include a 
well known, rather large (physically and figuratively) fish who liked to toss 
his pool cue around when defeat came his way. On one occasion, he threw his 
cue, javelin style, at a wall -- a perfectly shaped cue sized hole remains in 
the pool hall wall to this day. On another occasion, this player left the 
pool hall and, once again javelin style, threw his cue onto the pool hall 
roof and drove off to nurse his rage.

More recently, we had another fellow who had a pretty expensive Meucci. He 
dogged a ball and stuck the butt of the cue into the corner pocket. His 
reputation for cue destruction was pretty well known, so several of the 
regulars yelled out, "Don't do it, I'll give you a hundred for the cue!" He 
just smiled at 'em and yanked sideways anyway, dismembering the cue.

Thankfully, it's a lot calmer around here nowadays.

Lou Figueroa
 
Island Drive said:
Last call for Nine ball Miller lite series. I was in the final 16 winners side and playing good, but got sick, real sick for 3-4 days and got knocked out quickly.

I had this old cue butt like a Willie Hoppe, and had a cuemaker in N. Hollywood :) cut me a new shaft, and I thought I could turn a nice profit with what I had in it. Well during my sick days in the hotel room, with the event still going on, I had to at least hit a ball with my new shaft and old butt to see if it was a good fit an to try and feel good about something other than watching great TV.

IT....Sucked, the whole cue vibrated when I hit any shot with force. This cue hit sooooooooo bad I wouldn't even sell it to someone who I didn't like :). Well to make me feel better after being in the room for days fighting this ''whatever'' I had and my annoyance of the way the week played out I did this. I went around to the sunny side of the stucco commercial building/convention area, I took the cue, put it together and beat it to smithereens on the corner of the bldg., walked away, felt much better, and Later that evening still under the weather HAD to go to the pool room, and ran into this guy and said ''do ya wanna play some $50 sets''. Well I broke a sweat, we jacked the bet and I ended up $3,400 to the Good. Glenn Atwell never forgot who I was after that incident. :thumbup:
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North Hollywood - Bert Schrager?

After scratching in the side at an ungodly, impossible angle( literally coming off the bottom rail 4 inches from the corner) to scratch on the 7 and and lose a hill-hill set, I tossed a piece of chalk at the pocket and raked the balls. My stunned opponent stopped frozen in his tracks and gave me such as look that I was embarrassed. I've never done anything like that again.
 
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I would never break my cue. I do get tempted to toss it into the lake behind my house after a bad night. I did throw a $75 Doc Frye over $2.00 game shot in the mid 60's. I was making $42.00 a week at the time. The cue did not got damaged and I swore I'd never toss one again.
As far as tossing goes.... I threw something at the ground years ago...it hit my leg and left a nice bruise. Maybe it's good to break something ( a cue) and get it out of the system.
Anyway... Proficient Billiards is waiting for your cue. Scott does some seriously nice repair work...or maybe it's time to upgrade.
Good thread..Real People...Real Stories:killingme::killingme:
 
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