Do You let Your Opponent Use your Gear?

Do You let Your Opponent Use your Gear?

  • Yes.

    Votes: 10 8.5%

  • No.

    Votes: 42 35.9%

  • It depends.

    Votes: 61 52.1%

  • Where is Earl?

    Votes: 4 3.4%
  • Total voters
    117
Fast Lenny

Fast Lenny

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I am just curious if you guys out there let people use your stuff if you in competition such as gambling, league or tournaments. I am talking about break cue, jump cue, bridge, or talcum/cue paper or whatever. I personally have never not let anyone who I was playing not use my jump or break cue but usually its good friendly action. What about you?
 
Negative ghost rider, the pattern is full. Practice not necessarily a big deal, cash money on the table.....nope no can do. Use a bar cue if you don't have your own, there are plenty laying around if needed.

Edit: So I don't sound like a complete ass, but only partial...if playing for a drink or maybe a cheap $5 game with a friend not a big deal...there's the soft side coming out.
 
I won't share cues with an opponent but anything else is fine. I don't see how using my batman bridge is going to significantly alter the course of the match.
 
I don't use a jump cue or a break cue anymore. A house cue and a good stroke can give you just as good if not a better break. And jumping should, in my opinion, only be done as an absolute last resort. There's just too much room for error.

That being said, when I did use these things, I never had a problem allowing others to use them. If I'm going to play someone, I prefer to play them when they are at their best. If it means they borrow something of mine, so be it. I would hope that they extend the same courtesies to me should the situation arise, but I don't count on them to. Still, I try to be as cordial and courteous as possible. If an opponent ask nicely, sure.
 
oh heck no, that's sacrilege. i let them when were just playing for kicks, but never in a league or tournament.
 
things that make ya go Hmmmmmm

I don't think I would allow the use of my playing cue under any circumstance......break and jump cues would be subject to review. A team mate that had shown some level of maturity and consideration for others......yes......a team mate that spends his time drinking and leaves his cue sitting against the table while he/she goes to piss.......never.
 
Brain cannot compute....

My answer is only ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND! no its too easy for anything to happen even on accident to your cues, and I would not want to hold anyone responsible for damage other than myself. Now if I happen to have one of my el-cheapo specials then sure they can use it, even for the money...especially if thats the only way they will play for $$$ then you know you got em beat.

Oh no not the house cue, I can't shoot without a double compound pro modified conical european low deflection shaft with 50 layer baboon leather tip.

Grey Ghost
 
Jude Rosenstock said:
I won't share cues with an opponent but anything else is fine. I don't see how using my batman bridge is going to significantly alter the course of the match.
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That is my take on it. I can't stand the thought of an opponent using my 200 dollar jump cue to make a shot to beat me out of 200 more dollars. I figure if they need that stck to make that shot they need to own one.

Friendly games (which I never play) would be a different story.
 
If I'm beating you and it will keep you playing, Then help yourself. Nowaday's, I do just about everything with the same cue, so It rarely comes up with me.
 
danquixote said:
I don't think I would allow the use of my playing cue under any circumstance......break and jump cues would be subject to review. A team mate that had shown some level of maturity and consideration for others......yes......a team mate that spends his time drinking and leaves his cue sitting against the table while he/she goes to piss.......never.
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Same here, with one small twist: my jump/break cue has seen better days, so I don't care too much about things happening to it. So every now and then, when I played a money game against a clueless jackass who didn't have a cue of his own, I used to offer my jump cue, complete with its rock-hard white diamond tip that doesn't hold chalk too well, just so the idiot would lose faster while thanking me for lending my equipment... until I got hustled by a guy who ran 5 games in a row with it. So now, if it's a money game or a tournament game, I keep my stuff to myself, period. Otherwise, I do like you.
 
If it's someone that I'm friends with, then yes, I will let them use anything except my playing cue.

If it's someone that I do not know or am not friends with, then no.

*oh yeah, no one (even friends) uses my chalk
 
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If it's just for fun sure. Although I only have a playing and a break cue.

For cash, I will lend my tip shaper/shaft cleaning cloth thingy, if neccessary. Only because I don't want to win on a technicality and/or I don't want to be beaten by someone who played with poorly groomed equipment (ego and all).
 
friends? sure, no problem, whether league, tourney, a little somethin' somethin' on it, have at it. Someone I don't know? NO WAY. So, I voted depends.

I did once have a guy ask if he could use my "other" cue (since two were sticking out of my case)....without hesitation I said sure. After a few shots with the fatter shaft (13.5mm) and the phenolic tip, he deciced to grab a house cue instead. Got a chuckle outta it :grin:
 
I would never let someone use my playing cue, but I would let a friend or even a known acquaintance use my jump or break cue...

In one of the King of Texas matches I played my opponent let me use his break cue after the tip flew off of mine...

He also let someone else lend me a jump cue and I speared a long jump to win a game with it...

A stranger? - Nope, no way, no how...
 
I said "it depends" on the poll.

For tourneys and gambling, I've lent the bridge... I've never been asked or needed to lend anything else... I want to beat the person because I played better, not because of any equipment issue.

For poolplaying friends, I've regularly let my best friend shoot with my old player when she's come to visit but forgot her cue.

BUT, I won't lend anything- even my break cue- to a non poolplaying friend. Years ago I lent a coworker's wife my break cue, and, angry that she missed a shot, she slammed the shaft against the rail and made a huge ding in it. I felt it in my soul. She never even looked at the cue to see if she'd damaged it or anything- she just plain thought nothing of it.

Actually, I won't even play with nonpoolplayers anymore- it isn't fun for anyone. When family came to visit for the holidays, we went miniature golfing rather than have them play on my table with my cues! : )
 
HELL TO THE NO. I once witnessed a money game where Player 1 played a real good safety on Player 2 (No Names Please...I will not pick at an old wound) it was hill hill and Player 2 ask to use Player 1's jump cue. Now it just happened that Player 2 is a cue maker him self and actually made the jump cue that Player 1 owned. Not only did he jump the ball but he made the ball in the corner pocket and continued to run out from there. Damdest thing I ever saw and lesson learned never give someone an instrument to murder you with.
 
any regular equipment, like bridges, tip pik, whatever, absolutely. I want ALL of my matches to be friendly and enjoyable. The *only* thing I would not allow him to use is my cue. Not because he is my opponent, but because I wouldn't let anyone use my cue.

I want to help my opponent and myself by making sure that I am playing against my opponents *pool game*, not the equipment.

KMRUNOUT
 
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