The cue plays very nice ... it really surprised me like said in the above post I played 8 games with it to try it out and won everyone of them ... It had a nice nice balance in my hands and the cue did not hit to stiff at all...it had a medium type of hit to it felt smooth got good draw and moved the cue ball well ... And I'm not use to a Black Diamond that is Jeff's preferred brand of tip I use Everest ...