MinoInADixeCup said:I read this a long time ago............I've often wondered why I'm sometimes consumed with a need to demonstrate to everyone around me just how angry I am with the outcome of a shot. It doesn't change the outcome. It's not likely that my opponent is going to feel sorry for me and let me win. It doesn't impress those watching with my maturity and composure. Yet, the urge to act out doesn't go away just because I realize those points. I assume it's a combo of pride and embarresment.
The one I didn't see here is about the guys that are repeat offenders destroying cues to both vent their frustration and shark their opponent in a money game at the same time. I know of at least one room owner that has been known to miss a shot on a big money game, walk over to the entrance doors with cue in hand, step out side, and swing it like a bat releasing it to sail into the huge dark abyss of a parking lot over and above two or three rows of cars out into the night. The lot was a multi-buisness shopping center with most all the other retailers closed, so the cue could fly a long way with no cars at risk. He would then walk sternly back inside and grab another cheap import cue and go back to playing. That little shark action has been know to turn the set around causing his opponent a choke or two and the owner ends up flush with the booty. Use cheap cues like he does, and it becomes revered event.
I also know of a scumbag 400 lb hustler that carries a trunk full of cheap cues he uses to replace the cues he breaks when he is in action and losing. When you see your 350-400 lb opponent break the butt of a cue over his knee like it is a twig, you begin wondering what might be in store for you if you beat him.
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