You pick up the wrong cue-
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Sweet Marissa
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Sometimes I've broken, and if I didn't make anything I'll go have a seat while my opponent shoots. Then wen they miss I'll get back up to shoot... with my BK2. I notice after one or two shots because the tip is much harder than on my playing cue, but boy do I feel like a dingleberry 
Every once in a while I might get up to shoot while holding my break cue, but I have never actually shot with it on accident. I've also never picked up someone else's cue on accident. I might've gotten close once or twice but I've always noticed before I even touch it.
This is the same for me, and also the balance point. just a few days ago this happened to me and with in a step or 2 i laughed and said, oopppsss wrong cue, the guy i was playing said wow that sure did nt take you long to relize that was nt your player.
I used to shoot with my break cue, and it's weght is very similar to my playing cue, an old Meucci original, so I do it a lot. Sometimes I regognize it and still use my break cue for the shot, if it's fairly simple. Then I change cues.
I have certainly picked up the wrong cue before but I usually notice right away.
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When I'm playing in competition I'm pretty careful about other peoples cues but every once in a while I get up with my break cue in hand.
When we're just screwing around with all kinds of cues everywhere you never know what's going to happen.
Like the other night when I had my "Psychic Cue" out.
I call it that because I knew it was going to play bad before I got it.
When I'm playing in competition I'm pretty careful about other peoples cues but every once in a while I get up with my break cue in hand.
When we're just screwing around with all kinds of cues everywhere you never know what's going to happen.
Like the other night when I had my "Psychic Cue" out.
I call it that because I knew it was going to play bad before I got it.
I do this every now and then with my break cue, but I notice as soon as I go to chalk it, since it has a black phenolic one-piece tip/ferrule.
I've actually never picked up a cue that isn't mine by mistake. I think partly this is because I generally prefer to hold my cue between innings, or lean it against myself, rather than set it down. When I do set it down, often it's in my case, making it easy to spot the right one.
-Andrew
I've actually never picked up a cue that isn't mine by mistake. I think partly this is because I generally prefer to hold my cue between innings, or lean it against myself, rather than set it down. When I do set it down, often it's in my case, making it easy to spot the right one.
-Andrew
That's a bad feeling
My stomach has dropped the few times I didn't have or see my cue where it last was. I know guys who take theirs with them everywhere-outside to smoke- to the bathroom-to go get a drink. Both these guys have lost cues before.
For me also-as several have mentioned-IT'S THE FEEL. Often I chalk up while looking over the layout and don't notice the tip at all. Usually once down on the shot and regripping for bridge length and taking practice strokes-you feel it-This isn't my stick-is it? Then you look at it and it's not.
I think we are feel players. With a new stick-we hope to get comfortable with a new feel.
Thanks guys
might be fun to try this with eyes closed
3railkick
My stomach has dropped the few times I didn't have or see my cue where it last was. I know guys who take theirs with them everywhere-outside to smoke- to the bathroom-to go get a drink. Both these guys have lost cues before.
For me also-as several have mentioned-IT'S THE FEEL. Often I chalk up while looking over the layout and don't notice the tip at all. Usually once down on the shot and regripping for bridge length and taking practice strokes-you feel it-This isn't my stick-is it? Then you look at it and it's not.
I think we are feel players. With a new stick-we hope to get comfortable with a new feel.
Thanks guys
might be fun to try this with eyes closed
3railkick
I'm sure this has happened to all of us at some time or other. I can tell as soon as I get down on the shot because nothing feels as good as my old Betsy.
Here's a little story of something that can happen when someone picks up the wrong cue. This happened at Hard Times a couple of weeks ago. I was playing a match with Darlene Stensen. It was hill hill. Her break cue looks very much like my playing cue, black ebony with some ivory. It's her shot and she can't reach it so she goes for a portable bridge that she carries with her in her case and attachés it to what she thought was her break cue.
Well she picks up my cue mistaking it for her break cue and attachés the bridge to it and gets ready to lay it down on the table. The bridge falls off my cue shaft and lands on top of the cue ball because my shaft is 12mm as opposed to her shaft on her break cue being a bit larger. She picks up the cue ball and says here bih. Of course I felt sorry for her for a moment and I contemplated into giving it back to her to shoot again. But thought better of it because this lady was playing perfect pool against me. Besides I felt that she would have been insulted if I tried to give it back to her.
I shot and didn't get out and left her with a difficult shot on the seven which she nailed and and went around the table for the eight but got hooked with the nine by 1/8 of an inch, she kicked and hit it and left me no shot so I played a safe, she kicked and missed hitting the ball then I won. I was extremely fortunate to have won that match.
I can honestly say that I have never picked up the wrong cue...I am always very aware of my cue, and more often than not, it is usually in my hand.
Lisa
Lisa
Nice move Frank!!
:shocked:
OK Frank-I'm guessing that Darlene(what a sweetheart off the table and what a great competitor on the table) had used that 'just-a-bridge' several times already in the match, knowing that you would have left her tough when necessary. So you leave your 12mm player where she will mistake it for her bridging stick-the bridge collet loosens up-and ba-da-bing--you get BIH!! Nice move!
Just kidding-of course. But I 100% agree that Darlene wouldn't have wanted nor accepted a 'nevermind'/do-over. This is a classy woman who can play. And Frank-there ain't anybody in this game classier than you. That sounds like a great match.
It's always fun to play her. I don't win-but it's fun.
"old Betsy" came thru for you again-that's a good feeling!
3railkick
:shocked:
OK Frank-I'm guessing that Darlene(what a sweetheart off the table and what a great competitor on the table) had used that 'just-a-bridge' several times already in the match, knowing that you would have left her tough when necessary. So you leave your 12mm player where she will mistake it for her bridging stick-the bridge collet loosens up-and ba-da-bing--you get BIH!! Nice move!
Just kidding-of course. But I 100% agree that Darlene wouldn't have wanted nor accepted a 'nevermind'/do-over. This is a classy woman who can play. And Frank-there ain't anybody in this game classier than you. That sounds like a great match.
It's always fun to play her. I don't win-but it's fun.
"old Betsy" came thru for you again-that's a good feeling!
3railkick
For me, it's easy to differenciate between my break cue and my main player: the former is black with a white tip, the latter is white with a black tip 
As for picking up other people's cues, I notice rightaway because I use a rubber grip sleeve on all my cues and almost nobody else does.
As for picking up other people's cues, I notice rightaway because I use a rubber grip sleeve on all my cues and almost nobody else does.
Last time I did this the first clue I got was when I got slapped upside the head by a very pissed off cue owner. I deserved it
