the new sneaky pete's?

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i dont think sneakies ever actually worked, but I was sneaky peted last night. Had a match against an opponent, and he pulls put a bright shiny red cue with florescent stickers as floating points, the walmart special as it were, I arrogantly thought this should be quick:thumbup: the guy broke and ran three racks on me and before I can pick my ego from the floor I lost the match handily. I never underestimate anyone but experience says that a bright red cue with floating shiny points is usually used by the guy who thought owning a pool cue while playing would be cool. OOPS!!!! I need a cue made with lime green paint and an alien pin-up girls sticked on it, maybe I'll win a game or two against a better player because hell pull the same stunt as me. :thumbup:
 
I know a very smart player who has the same type of cue. It's a bright green cue with flame stickers on it and he plays a lot better than most. It turns out that he's also a very good chess player. I'm a hack at chess, so anyone who's knows the names of different plays is good to me... Still, very sly.

I don't even bring a cue to the bar, so it's funny when league players look down their noses at me and think I can't play because I'm using the shitty house cues (fyi, you have to have some semblance of a stroke to draw the ball with those slip-on tips that are worn down to the bone).
 
The dead give-away is the Chicago Bears Team cue :D

Although I don't think even the most unscrupulous hustler would stoop so low as to use one.
 
Stealth Sneaky

I recently bought a Budweiser cue on Ebay. I'm going to turn down the shaft to my preference, put a good ferrule and tip on it, and have some fun with other players.

I'm far from good enough to hustle most players, but occasionally I have nights when I play much better than normal. This cue will be nice for whatever way I happen to be playing.

If I'm not shooting all that great, so what? Nobody expects a Budweiser wielding player to be any good.

But on nights when I have flashes of brilliance, I think I'll enjoy the look on the faces of "good" players that get beat by an old fart with a cheap cue..
 
The first year I was at the Bar Table Championships in Reno I ended up playing Danny Medina on the A side. I did not know who he was until that day. He walked up just carrying a very cheap Players like cue wrapped in a rubber band and I though, dang, I should get this match easily. NO......SUCH.....LUCK.
 
I've got a Coca Cola cue.an't get much more cheesey than that. It will make you rich; I'll sell it for $100. :)
 
This is what I consider the new sneaky pete. Most low handicap league players, that I've met, don't even know what a full splice or 4/6/8 point cue is.

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galipeau said:
I know a very smart player who has the same type of cue. It's a bright green cue with flame stickers on it and he plays a lot better than most. It turns out that he's also a very good chess player. I'm a hack at chess, so anyone who's knows the names of different plays is good to me... Still, very sly.

I don't even bring a cue to the bar, so it's funny when league players look down their noses at me and think I can't play because I'm using the shitty house cues (fyi, you have to have some semblance of a stroke to draw the ball with those slip-on tips that are worn down to the bone).
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During our second week of league last year the team we were shooting didn't have enough shooters and asked the bartender to find someone to shoot with them. My team normally gets there a couple hours early just because we like to shoot around before league so watched it all happen. A guy that had been there longer than us sitting at the bar by himself drinking since the time we walked in said "why not, it's been awhile but I'll shoot." My teammates loved the thought because the guy had been sitting there drinking the whole time but I did notice he was keeping his eyes on the table. We play 4 people a night 1 game, 3 of my teammates got to sit and watch him run a rack with a bar cue and weren't loving that idea so much anymore lol. The looks on their faces ranks right up there with when I was a teen and thought I was hot shit and the owner of the bowling alley I worked at kicked my ass with a broom handle.
 
Billiardsfan said:
The first year I was at the Bar Table Championships in Reno I ended up playing Danny Medina on the A side. I did not know who he was until that day. He walked up just carrying a very cheap Players like cue wrapped in a rubber band and I though, dang, I should get this match easily. NO......SUCH.....LUCK.
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That's exactly how I carried my Scruggs SP - with a rubber on it and that cue NEVER has seen the inside of a case!
 
Problem is y'all looking at his cue, when just watching his mechanics will tell you a lot more than his cue. :thumbup:
 
That gaff has been around a long time. I've had a 5 piece cue for certain bars where the space was tight ( with a custom JOSS shaft. I carried a TS sneaky in a soft red/white/blue case. People jumped on me to play just seeing the case!
I had a 60's Balabushka with a 13 1/2 mm shaft , made by Danny Janes, to compensate for the over size bar ball we used in the 70's. I used to bring it in the bar put together, no case. No one ever said a word about the bushka ( it was a plain 4 point old cue ).
First impressions are lasting ones, make it count!
 
I thought about doing this, just go to a bar box mid week tourney, WWF Stone cold Steve Austin pool cue in hand :D
 
Redneck Jim said:
I recently bought a Budweiser cue on Ebay. I'm going to turn down the shaft to my preference, put a good ferrule and tip on it, and have some fun with other players.

I'm far from good enough to hustle most players, but occasionally I have nights when I play much better than normal. This cue will be nice for whatever way I happen to be playing.

If I'm not shooting all that great, so what? Nobody expects a Budweiser wielding player to be any good.

But on nights when I have flashes of brilliance, I think I'll enjoy the look on the faces of "good" players that get beat by an old fart with a cheap cue..
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The old Budweiser cues were always a good way to get a game. Even better, and never failed, where those old 5 piece cues. Decent tip, and stay close to center ball. Would make guys sick to lose to a guy using one of those cues.:D I also did good for a while using a hollow green fiberglass cue with a screw-on tip. Crazy thing would "ping" very loudly every hit. Loved it!:D
 
ChicagoRJ said:
Problem is y'all looking at his cue, when just watching his mechanics will tell you a lot more than his cue. :thumbup:
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A lot of times that reasoning will get you busted.... I know of quite a few people who have/had ugly cues and ugly mechanics
 
peppersauce said:
Years ago, a very good player showed up to a big tournament in Texas with a Budweiser cue. He didn't play in the tournament. He was just there for action. He started at the bottom and, after a couple of days, had worked his way up to some of the better players there.

He eventually revealed that his "Budweiser" cue was really a Richard Black. He bought a cheap Budweiser cue and had Richard replace the joint, core the butt, and put one of his shafts on it.

I would like to add that I was not there to witness this. I heard it second hand from a good local player in Waco years ago when I lived in Texas. It may or may not be true but the guy who told me would have nothing to gain by lying.
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Sounds like Pete Horne. A very good player and hustler who used a Budweiser cue. Not really. He had a large influence on the early development of Earl Strickland
 
poQet trainer said:
i dont think sneakies ever actually worked, but I was sneaky peted last night. Had a match against an opponent, and he pulls put a bright shiny red cue with florescent stickers as floating points, the walmart special as it were, I arrogantly thought this should be quick:thumbup: the guy broke and ran three racks on me and before I can pick my ego from the floor I lost the match handily. I never underestimate anyone but experience says that a bright red cue with floating shiny points is usually used by the guy who thought owning a pool cue while playing would be cool. OOPS!!!! I need a cue made with lime green paint and an alien pin-up girls sticked on it, maybe I'll win a game or two against a better player because hell pull the same stunt as me. :thumbup:
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You need to check his shaft and tip, that is the dead giveaway of a player vs someone who thinks a sparkly cue with skulls is cool.

I played with someone that used one of those all black cuetecs and I told him that he was the best player using one of those I've seen. I guess Earl broke with one of those so that would only be half true LOL.
 
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