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Chism
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RSLs are good and the only place i can get on a 12ft Snooker table. I have my own 9x4 Snooker spec Harry Evans table but you cant beat being on a full size table. The size of them is just enormous and TV does not do them justice.I mainly played eightball and snooker, when I lived in Tassie. When I did purchase my first cue it was a two piece no-name cue worth about $130, with the case. It was a lot better than the pub cues I'd been using when I played eightball. Of course back in the 80s and the 90s I played in a lot of 8 ball calcutta's which were usually a field of 32 players, where players were auctioned off and some players would go for big money.
Each week was different but the calcutta's would range anywhere from $350 to $1600 depending on which hotel hosted it and how many patrons were there. If you bought yourself and you won, you would collect the whole purse. On the other hand if someone else bought you and you won, you would usually get half or whatever was agreed to, before the tournament started.
Then when I first went to the RSL {the only snooker tables available were in RSL'S.} I played with my "normal" lightweight cue for about 3 years on the big tables before I saved up, and with my dad got on the "ABEL TASMAN" which later would be known as "The spirit of Tasmania" and went straight to Alcock Thomson & Taylor in South Melbourne.
After several hours of testing many cues I settled on "the one", just so happens that it was named after my favourite snooker player and who I modelled my game on, Jimmy {the whirlwind} White. Cost $700 but you've got to remember that was a lot of money at that time, in actual fact it was the second dearest cue in the store, although money wasn't an issue, it was finding a cue that was like an extension of my arm, if that makes any sense.
I then proceeded to use my cue for snooker/eightball and billiards until I retired in around the early 2000s when I moved over here to South Australia, where my fiancee comes from, who happens to be a former Australian champion eightball player.
Taking straight Blue balls off the spot in practice from the D is like ( or seems ) 20m away to the bottom left pocket!!
My local RSL which is Werribee RSL has 2 full size tables upstairs but the cloth is worn to the shit and they wont spend a cent on em. I always take my own 3G balls and Cue etc when i go and brush cause they dont even have one and i always brush em down before and after playing.