Billiards

Pool cues

There are many fine cuemakers. If you wish a mass produced cue then a Viking, Meucci, Mcdermott, Lucasi are all good choices. I personally play with a cue made by Mike Bender from Delta Junction, Alaska. Solid hit, quality materials and manufacturing. Too expensive ($2500) for a beginner. If you can go somewhere and test hit a few different cues by all means find one that you like the feel of.

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Soft tips are less prone to miscueing but lack precision on long shots.
Hard tips give you a precise hit but it is easier to miscue.
Best compromise : medium tip !

LePro and Triumph are good, the following layered tips are very good : Tiger Sniper (wild boar leather), Wizard medium (pigskin leather)

If by clean you mean buff the tip there is a very good reason. As you use a cue you form smooth spots on the tip. A new tip is rough and is not likely to miscue. Some pro players carry a little piece of sandpaper to accomplish this roughing up. As you enter a tournament you have to check the rules to see if this is considered cheating and banned.

One friend I used to play with carried two cue chalks, one for roughing and one for bluing. As you’re playing you want to keep an eye on your tip. If, when you try for that extra bit of "english", you foul your cue you’ll see how much that sandpaper can be worth to you.

Since a cue stick is used to play billiards, pool, and snooker, I would guess they are different in name only.

I have already use many brand of Billiard cue stick like Pottak, Cuetec, Scorpion, Stella, Fury, Lucasi and Predator. I found out that all of the billiard stick has bend in the shaft. I just wondering how does this bend shaft affect your game? from what part of the cue stick? what degree of curvature?

I want some answer from experience players. Please explain your answers too..thanks

Although most of the brands you listed (with the exception of Predator) would be considered low end, or mid-range cues at best (never heard of Pottack of Stella, so I’m not commenting on them), all wood shafted cues have the potential to warp. Every single cue manufacturer and custom cuemaker in the world has had some of the cues they made warp at one time or another, so just because a cue warps a little does not mean it is not a good cue.

A very slight warp in the shaft will have little to no physical effect on the playability of the cue. Since most of your stroking is done in the last 10 inches or so of the shaft, a gradual bend in the shaft will not change the contact point between the cue ball and tip of your cue. If the cue is really out of whack (like you’ll find in a lot of bar cues) the cue will no longer contact the ball where you intend it to, and obviously that will have a negative effect on play.

Don’t forget that most of this game is mental though. If you think your cue is crooked to the point it’s screwing up your game, it will.