the real answer
Ego and showing off: "I'm a great player. Playing like this is so unlike me I just can't control myself!"
I have long ago lost count of how many pistol competitions I have been at. In all that time not one person has lost control and smashed a pistol. Nobody has ever even waved one around with several dozen other heavily armed people around them!
Some places tolerate showing out or a "pet" or two gets away with acting stupid. Pretty soon every kid in the place is acting the same way, some that are just kids mentally, not in years, too!
I bought my own cues, cars, rifles, pistols, everything I have competed with. Never have been tempted enough to destroy any of it for my stupid behavior. I have broken a cue shaft, it was experimental and turned out to be garbage. I didn't want it running around with my name on it. I broke a few dozen house cues too, but that was just to get out the door in the bad ol' days before I learned how to gamble. A house cue was twelve bucks. I'd throw a twenty on the bar on the way out and was always welcome back in a few weeks or months at most!
I heard a story once of a fellow who broke house cues and the cheap jointed cues he owned when he lost. Saved his nickels and dimes and bought a several thousand dollar cue, big big dollars at the time. Played poorly one night and had a few beers in him. Whack! Shattered the butt of the cue across a table rail. Realized what he had done a second too late. He spent several minutes picking up all the tiny bits and pieces and scattered inlays. The cue builder wasn't sympathetic to his problem.
Another fellow was playing pretty high dollar sets, lost a couple and smashed his cue. Wanted to play some more and got somebody to loan him a cue. Lost, and you guessed it! Then he wanted to borrow another cue to play some more. Didn't happen.
Anybody wants to show out is welcome to do it on their own dime. They just announced they are about 99% certain to be a poser. Sure a player has been known to smash a cue but for every player that does, a bunch of copycats that want people to think they are a player do.
Hu
Ego and showing off: "I'm a great player. Playing like this is so unlike me I just can't control myself!"
I have long ago lost count of how many pistol competitions I have been at. In all that time not one person has lost control and smashed a pistol. Nobody has ever even waved one around with several dozen other heavily armed people around them!
Some places tolerate showing out or a "pet" or two gets away with acting stupid. Pretty soon every kid in the place is acting the same way, some that are just kids mentally, not in years, too!
I bought my own cues, cars, rifles, pistols, everything I have competed with. Never have been tempted enough to destroy any of it for my stupid behavior. I have broken a cue shaft, it was experimental and turned out to be garbage. I didn't want it running around with my name on it. I broke a few dozen house cues too, but that was just to get out the door in the bad ol' days before I learned how to gamble. A house cue was twelve bucks. I'd throw a twenty on the bar on the way out and was always welcome back in a few weeks or months at most!
I heard a story once of a fellow who broke house cues and the cheap jointed cues he owned when he lost. Saved his nickels and dimes and bought a several thousand dollar cue, big big dollars at the time. Played poorly one night and had a few beers in him. Whack! Shattered the butt of the cue across a table rail. Realized what he had done a second too late. He spent several minutes picking up all the tiny bits and pieces and scattered inlays. The cue builder wasn't sympathetic to his problem.
Another fellow was playing pretty high dollar sets, lost a couple and smashed his cue. Wanted to play some more and got somebody to loan him a cue. Lost, and you guessed it! Then he wanted to borrow another cue to play some more. Didn't happen.
Anybody wants to show out is welcome to do it on their own dime. They just announced they are about 99% certain to be a poser. Sure a player has been known to smash a cue but for every player that does, a bunch of copycats that want people to think they are a player do.
Hu
