Ratio of Pool Skill to Money Spent (or Given) on Cues

[michael4]

If there ever is a way to objectively measure such a ratio, then think I just might be a world beater.

I am easily under $600 for total amount of money I've spent on cues in my entire pool playing lifetime (18+ years). I've only owned 6 cues my entire life (including a cheap $50 break/jump cue that I still use today).

Not enough people are calculating their "ratio"
I have about $400 lifetime into cues, and I'm a C player.....dont know how to convert that into a metric, but you have me beat.

 

[couldnthinkof01]

If I added up gambling, table time, entry and calcutta fees, and travel, it would put my equipment costs to shame.
I still play terrible.
Ratio of 1: sad

 

[Logandgriff]

I've bought and sold a 30-40 cues in my lifetime (age 71) and currently have less than 10 keepers. Plus a bunch of LD shafts. I still have the 1965 Brunswick Willie Hoppe I bought for about $15.00 new at the local Brunswick dealer that concentrated on bowling balls (this was in St. Louis which was a big bowling town back then -- maybe still is).

My current player is a monogramed $200.00 Viking plain jane unstained merry widow my son gave me for Christmas a few years ago. I went back to a conventional maple shaft with this one and have come to appreciate and enjoy the higher deflection. All my LD shafts and other cues are wondering why I have abandoned them. But I'm having more fun with this cue -- back to basics is often nice and the gift-from-a-loved-one aspect is nice too. And I can go to the bathroom at pool halls without taking my cue with me.

For the first time in decades I haven't been in a perpetual state of thinking about my next cue purchase.

 

[judochoke]

Speaking of total expenses, looks like buying my 7 foot diamond table for 5 thousand has been the best purchase of my life. It has gotten me thru this pandemic, and has giving me DAILY hours of fun and movement. Just moving around the table for hours is better for me than just sitting.