Do sneaky petes really fool anybody?

No cue will fool a pool player. I know a guy that plays with the ugliest green thing you have ever seen.....but he is what I would call a very good short stop. You can't judge a book by it's cover...... or a pool player by their cue. If spending money on pool equipment translated into skill, I would have won the Derby many times over.:)
 
michael4 said:
I have never played with a sneaky pete, but i would like to get one.
Mainly to play my dad in his favorite dive bar. Everyone there uses house cues, even my dad who has nice cues at home.

It occured to me that whoever I am playing will surely know its not a house cue, correct?

I guess the guys on the other side of the room wont notice, and a sneaky is a lot less likely to be stolen. For the people I'm playing, is the message just "I have my own low-end cue" ?
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I don't use a SP to fool anyone. I simply like the hit of a full-spliced cue and I don't need the decorations of more expensive cues.
 
poolcrazy said:
Paul Huebler made some of the best 1 piece house cues known JMO
I use to leave one behind the bar. the only way you would know is to look at the bumper. That is what I would call A TRUE SNEEKY or as Paul called them HUSTLER CUES
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I have a Huebler. It's as solid as a rock.
The grain and shaft matches almost perfectly. I got tired of always having to look for it up in the racks with the house cues as well, so I stopped using it.
 
StuartK35 said:
I bought the Predator SP4 sneaky and I'm telling you that you really shouldn't leave it behind for long or it will get picked up. I was out last Friday night playing...took a trip to the bathroom and when I came back it wasn't in my cue claw....it was at the table next to us where a bunch of yahoos came in and grabbed all the cues they could find, including mine!
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Surprised they didn't take the cue claw, too. I'm becoming hesitant to take anything into a pool room or bar anymore. It's not the cues that are "sneaky", it's the clientele that you have to watch. More I think about it, unless you're playing with a friend or group of friends that vigilantly watch each other's stuff, you're going to lose your chalk, coin markers, cue claw, coat, case, CUE; basically ANYTHING left behind during a bathroom break. The day my own table gets set up can't come soon enough.
 
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