Pro Pool Players Are Surprisingly Impressed by $10 Pool Cue

[@yuvanesh425]

Efren might show up with a twig and still kick ass

[@clutcher_ch]

lol

[@stevenm6200]

Lmaoooo😂

[@blardymunggas6884]

I remembered effren was using 10-15$ cue for the entire world championship during his early days and won

[@m.dinardi7526]

Dude for real

[@Afficials.Smokey]

Word

[@daslynnter9841]

i got a $12 cue at sears(rip) with some buddies as a joke, turned it into a snooker cue and actually loved it so much i chopped it in half trying to make it portable, and that was the end of the $12 snooker cue.

[@MrJdsenior]

Next time have a cue maker do it, if you can get him to stop laughing long enough. Most assuredly will not be a $12 cue any more, though. :-) I hope this was in line with the original comment, seriousness wise.

[@madferret2045]

this is the best proof that skills is infinitely more important than the cue you use

[@Mr.JaysBigAdventure]

Was that ever a question?

[@JuannyRum23]

and a decent tip would help

[@robwagner7545]

@@JuannyRum23 I was amazed the first time I swapped out to tips and used a high quality product. Changed my game.

[@BigNatorStrength]

Trash cue great tip with skill and your gold

[@DaCake2]

💯

[@CabbageRoII]

Just glad that Rollie is still alive, first COVID then flying pool balls.

[@SpaceboyBilliards]

😂

[@MrJdsenior]

Yeah, well, if you're going to stand 'downwind' in the shot line, with a flat tipped cue being tested for the first time, you get what you get. Not the best of choices. Still, glad it didn't clock him too badly. As my wife used to say to the kids at these moments in a very sweet voice "Now what did we learn?"

[@christianroberts1121]

Venom: hits his wall Venom's outlet: 😮

[@5000rgb]

I saw a couple of dents in that wall.

[@wombra8314]

those : ... : ... comments are rad

[@wombra8314]

christian is a utube pro

[@christopherhernandez7454]

My first cue was the 20-30 dollar Walmart cue that has lasted me 2 years it’s on its way out after nearly 6 hours a day of playing. For that price I got my money’s worth and it’s taught me a lot.

[@DevilboyScooby]

Can someone please explain the connection between the wood and jump shot ability? Florian already knew it would fail..

[@JohnBowl14690]

$10 is a great deal, but I think the best price break point is around $100. There are tons of good cues for under $100. You don't need to spend $6000 for a Southwest Cue.

[@4231jerome]

Dude rollie you got to hang out with David alcaide? That's badass man 😎

[@wombra8314]

4231jerome so radass wow what a shocker 🤦🏻‍♀️😂😂😂

[@Booper2021]

Replace the tip and you might have something!

[@16timesaday39]

Or sand it a little like you’d prob do with a new tip anyway

[@wuxy4169]

Rollie, I've been seeing this PREOAIDR cue on AliExpress for years now, its advertised as a premium product, and if you look from afar the logo and letters look like it is a Predator cue 😂 please buy one and test it, I am so curious if it is a good cue lol

[@MrJdsenior]

@@16timesaday39 That's NOT a probably, unless it was installed and formed by a REAL cue technician beforehand. And it should be ongoing, whenever it starts to flatten or mushroom. I got the little chrome about 1 1/2" guy with the permanent cutting 'grit'. Works GREAT, and all you have to do is run a brass wire brush through it every year or so and I think the thing will last forever. If you don't know what radius to get, I'd choose the dime. I also got the flat one with the tines at one end, which lets you burnish the tip sides for LIGHT reshaping and has a 'gator' pointy pad thing at one end that aids with keeping the tip slightly roughed up for good chalk retention/adhesion. I probably do that about twice in between each shaping touch up. Also, if you miscue badly, look at the tip. I usually run just a couple of 4 twists on the thing if it looks "polished' where the miscue occurred.

[@MrJdsenior]

@@wuxy4169 "the logo and letters look like it is a Predator cue" Ten to one it's not. The Chinese love to either just outright fake expensive products completely (designer jeans/purses/etc.) or 'dress' products in known fonts, etc. to draw the eye. I'm not saying all Chinese stuff is junk, because the right folks over there make superb products, much of it FOR known cue manufacturers...but the mom and pop shops come up with everything from usable product, to ABSOLUTE unmitigated JUNK, so testing is in order, as you say. Font means NOTHING.

[@mirzu42]

You have something that deflects so much that side spin shots are almost impossible to control. You would also probably break the shaft if you did a proper break. Theres a reason why carbon fiber is popular. The butt of the cue is kinda whatever but the shaft and tip matter a lot.

[@rushilsuresh7224]

Rollie Williams is actually the GOAT🐐

[@ThePrimeMinisterOfTheBlock]

Y'all put the fear of death into that wall socket yo

[@SomeGuy-tz8dz]

You said the tip was flat! Did you shape the tip before major testing???

[@XFS540]

Was the tip even shaped before shooting with it?

[@kenj1621]

Is there some reason nobody bothered to shape the tip? Florian said the tip was to flat. Well Shape it then!!!! I and probably everyone including you has had to shape the tip on their shaft especially when it was new.

[@wombra8314]

Kenj16 it was tormenting 😖

[@wombra8314]

Kenj16 kamui is soulless chinese profiteering on one of the last remaining punk rock american niches, pool. rollie is the scumbag shill faceman above the rest. utube superstar sellout pos actor lmao

[@animalyze7120]

@@wombra8314 Meaning you've used it & now bash others for doing the same, modern 2020 Hypocrisy at it's finest.

[@wombra8314]

@@animalyze7120 no lol just trolling the shills

[@Agiyi]

1:47 that tip is flat. I'm not surprised that it doesn't draw the ball, my kamui tip cant draw the ball if it's as flat as this tip...

[@jehadnassar3545]

6:50 “you got that kinda action, is that the action u were talkin about “ 😂😂😂😂 bro the way u said it was hilarious too omg

[@egroegartfart]

I hope Florian wasn't just wearing his socks to go into Walmart. Lmao.

[@kyleshaw5845]

Every time he chalks the cue the sound makes me die inside

[@oceangrove4983]

Idk why this is in my suggested but after seeing him hit his friend in the head with the cue ball and saying "....you alive?" I was hooked

[@Carnerd101]

That's the cue you let your buddies use when they're over. Just like the broken controller when we were young.

[@mtclemmons]

Great video, man. Just fun and entertaining. Appreciate it.

[@NealFosterHD]

Have you thought about shaping the tip ?

[@Sharivari]

I am using that $7.86 cue.

[@ohsoleohmio]

i mean 7 foot players always use 3 foot kids cue

[@TheCicakfly]

That might be too short... Buy d same 10 dollar cue, reshape d tip, n play some games then post a video for us... 😁😁👍👍

[@wombra8314]

🥢👋🏻🎱👄🎱🤚🏻

[@Galavis.]

6:53 The American outlets look so scared lol

[@mikethebeginner]

Okay, so the next question is, what should a newbie expect to spend to get a decent cue? I have two cues and I spent about $2,000 on the two of them. Then I bought a new shaft for one of them and I've spent a lot on tips. Obviously you don't have to spend that much to get a decent cue. But I have a friend who spent $400 for a carbon fiber shaft and another who spent less than $100 for his playing cue (new). Another friend thinks it's snobby to use anything but a house cue at the club where they haven't retipped their house cues since the Vietnam War. (I'm exaggerating, but from the looks of those tips I bet not by much.) So what is the entry price for a good solid playing cue that someone who plays more than once a week can learn and grow with?

[@patschneider5032]

100 to 200

[@ianwarshaw790]

I've been playing for a year and am pretty consistent against the ghost in 9 ball with the cue that you actually saw in the video! the 2-piece $20 cue in walmart, not the $10 one. Of course i also changed tips, but that was easy because they are screw on tips

[@mikethebeginner]

ian warshaw I’m curious as to whether you have tried better cues during that time. I was quite surprised the first time I tried a Schon, it felt quite different and made it easier to draw. But you’re clearly doing the most important thing, practicing.

[@Hingedmosquito]

I use to play with about a 40 dollar cue. I recently upgraded to about 150 with a new tip as well and I think it is much better. I have not had the chance to go higher than that yet though. I would be interested in finding out.

[@shardanette1]

Mezz ec7's on sale for under $400 now. Get them while they last.

[@VIDEOAC3D]

The money you saved on the cue should easily cover the wall repairs!

[@kensuyagami3492]

Or...he spent $10 to put holes in his wall lol

[@philipchang4453]

@ Rolie Williams what type of cue do you really use? And what cue does Florian use..

[@brettbarker8444]

Glad you’re back. I’ve missed you. In an appropriate way.

[@trainleader21]

You should review the $40 one. I want to see if it is a good buy or not.

[@javierjavier5468]

Lol

[@JCBeAtS1000]

This is such a good video great job man

[@RobertLeBlancPhoto]

For $10, I would totally buy a bunch of those cues to have on hand if I had my own pool table at home.

[@AccordionJoe1]

I started practicing with an inexpensive Lucasi one-piece house cue because it is the same weight and has the same tip as my expensive McDermott cue. It plays every bit as well and has a better feel when striking the cue ball. I may buy a one-piece cue case and start using my Lucasi at tournaments. Imagine the looks I'll get.

[@MrJdsenior]

They'll probably be different if you walk out with top money, or at least close, than if you get knocked out early every time. Just guessin'. Just walk in with the cue out of the case and they won't even know it's a one piece, unless they look closely. I can GUARANTY most of them won't even be looking when you walk in, and everybody walks table to table with the cue assembled, at least if they're playing reasonably back to back...my experience. Now when somebody DOES figure it out...Katie bar the door. :-) As an engineer I can tell you that a one piece cue is going to be more solid than a jointed one, or at least certainly not LESS, so there's that, too. Two piece really is a compromise for portability.

[@dannymorgan1052]

Some of the greatest pool I ever played was with a house cue old school Wood....not that fiber glass composite shit.....I'll take a dufferin over a Muicci lucasi McDermott players action predator any day....but not over my Mottey!!!

[@mirzu42]

Expensive cue does not mean anything. It can have a shit shaft and still cost thousands. Its the artwork that costs a lot. A carbon fiber shaft costs like $300 and is infinately better thab any cheap wooden shaft or a one piece cue

[@erickort1987]

i like to see a pro pool player goto a bar/tavern that has a pool table and shoot pool with the worst pool cue there and see how there game is

[@chafiqbantla1816]

Without a glove,impossible to play

[@mikeserrano734]

Florian and Rollie, after this Corona pandemic, we are waiting for you here in The Philippines to collab with Efren Reyes.

[@insignias]

This is my favourite duo in pool youtube

[@zachhockey3446]

Where should I buy a cue ?

[@garygwin1741]

They used to sell Dufferin cues at Wal-Mart, that were very good, durable cues.

[@wilkamania]

A cheap straight cue stick with a good tip will play as well as any high end custom (except maybe LD, but that's more of an adjustment). You're essentially paying for the quality of the wood, craftsmanship, and someone's reputation. A cheap cue will probably warp quicker or more frequently than something that's well made, and it may feel hollow/dead on hit, but it'll still play just fine. My best cue was an old school dufferin. I got scammed out on a trade deal, had my cue mechanic fix up the ferrule, and it was the best playing cue i had. It was maybe worth $40 at best (despite me putting in $200 of labor in it lol) but i got my very first break and run out of it. Ended up selling it due to financial issues over a decade ago. From time ot time i'll message the buyer to buy it back and he'll never let go of it haha

[@gurditrehal3348]

Reminds me of a video by Break From Life where he bought a £10 American Pool cue to play snooker and it turned out to be pretty decent The one question I have about the cue in this video is how straight is it?

[@johnstorton]

How straight is it *when*? The day he bought it, or now? lol

[@wuxy4169]

put a good tip on that and call it a $30 cue, then give it to Florian and impress him lol

[@mrmidnight32]

Accept these warp like mad after about 3 months of play lol

[@pierogiguy]

Btw...best money I've ever spent on pool-related stuff is a $140 Riley Snooker cue w/ 9.5mm tip, ash cue with 3/4 split brass joint WITH a screw-in extension. I can play my best pool with this, or any cue I own....just need a few games of warm up.

[@goodleftovers1268]

You should do a video where you do tricks on a horse again or you do it where you can't use a pool cue to hit the ball you have to use other objects

[@justinfern6326]

What's that cue?

[@MrKinghuman]

bought a pool cue case at Walmart, stuck a two piece cue in there and got away with it. It was one of the best cues I ever used, it was a legit shaft, not a screw on tip, stayed straight and it great. This was 15 years ago, I left it at my brother in law house, lost it when my sister divorced him. Sometimes you find gems.

[@Ramp10er]

I'm impressed Venom knows how to look at quality cues...

[@DANTHETUBEMAN]

compare it to a 30 dollar cue,,, is it 3x as gooder?

[@ge-9848]

2:59 *PTSD INTENSIFIES* 😂 😂 😂

[@ushook]

Anytime i've got a new cue it was was a must to shape the tip roughly the radius of a dime with a small shaping tool. I don't see this test starting off fair/ a tip direct for the factory must be worked. then this dude is blaming the cue for "Miscuing alot" Bruh

[@MrJdsenior]

"This dude" LOL. That dude is the world champion trick shooter "Venom", go look up his vids, you will be amazed. The other dude is a European champion. Bruh. The WHOLE POINT was to test the $10 cue, as is. If it were me, the way I would 'shape' that tip is with a knife, directly between the tip and the cue ferrule and put on a REAL tip. The cues those guys normally use are most times GIVEN to them by their sponsors, and often probably worth as much or more than your table, if you have one. Especially if it is a custom design one off. If you look around, you will see the Venom name ON good cues that are manufactured for general sale, IIRC. Understand it now?

[@4231jerome]

😂 I love how florian gives zero fucks about putting poolball sized dents in his wall Better the wall than rollie's dome I guess 💁‍♂️

[@dylanharrington744]

I'd love to have that cue! Maybe some of venoms magic would be left in it to be drawn upon when the time arose. The postage to me would be more than the cue cost I bet, lol.

[@porkstamina]

Awesome video, guys. I was laughing the whole time. What kind of felt does Florian have that stands up to so much daily abuse?

[@sirpeanutbutter3739]

1:21 I thought I suddenly switched to KarQ for a second

[@dandanhesmyman1647]

Great review

[@slerk9]

Those colorful text bits (with the music) remind me so much of Bill Wurtz 😏

[@kevindreyer3196]

Great fun video!

[@jeolmo]

I'm thinking of getting one just to use for breaks...and keep my expensive schtick for playing...

[@MrJdsenior]

Watching Venom pull that crap off with a $10 apparently undressed Wallmart cue is BEYOND depressing. This is actually SUPER interesting. I wouldn't have guessed that with a junk cue the jumping would be the thing to suffer most, but with hindsight it kind of makes sense. I never would have answered that question right beforehand, though, I can tell you that. Obviously a good quality tip would improve the spinning immensely, but not the deflection. It also just became a $40 cue, if you do it yourself, more if someone else does it. There are VERY cheap tips out there that aren't bad, though, like Elk Master, so that would only add a couple of bucks, done DIY, and would MASSIVELY improve the performance of the cue. Still junk, but maybe for a cheap rack of player cues that are hardly ever used (for others) for a home setup. I have one other reasonably usable cue (an old one) for one guest (when I get set up). If nothing else, just re-tip them dress out the cue rack with them. And have a decent jump cue available, apparently, for anyone who needs it (most people jumping, or that play regularly will obviously bring their own sticks). What this shows is that, for most types of shooting, owning a $800 cue, over a good $400 cue to improve your game is probably utter nonsense. I think a good tip and shaft, in that order, is of primary importance, MHO. I also didn't notice all that much difference with most any good tip, some, but not much, and I expect preferences are individually different. The biggest difference was a little bit of 'grip', chalk retention, and wear and non mushrooming (allowing maybe one grade of softening without loosing other characteristics). I use Kamui layered (yes, much older layered tips were junk, these are definitely NOT) and a Z2, after testing several, I find these my favorites. I did try the 'zero deflection' carbon cue one time, and it is almost beyond belief, deflection wise. I told the guy that said "here, go try this" (the carbon) that it was basically cheating, and he agreed. Probably still not zero deflection, but it IS low.

[@MrJdsenior]

@Julien Ghaddar Actually mine is a butt off of a $60 Mcdermott, and a reconditioned Z2 with brand new Kamui clear I bought off ebay from a guy that obviously is a cue tech. I think $70-$80 for the used shaft/new tip IIRC, so not really an expensive stick, about $140 all up, and I still have the McDermott shaft, which I had a guy put a pro taper on. It's not terrible. It is one of those stupid butts with the plastic overlay, which I actually got a compliment on once. I was being nice and just said thanks. Those 'points' do look really good, though, picture perfect, I wonder how they do that? ;-) And at my level the shaft probably doesn't make that much difference, lower deflection is probably the biggest difference, which drove me NUTS for the first week or so. I have zero doubt that Efren could beat the ever living heck out of me using a broom stick, maybe even the business end of it.

[@thomasdoyle9788]

do best cheap two piece

[@george9822]

Great content man

[@salazarernesto]

great vid rollie Ty

[@EvanJaredSamuels]

Easily one of my favorites, Rollie.

[@RollieWilliams]

YOU are easily one of MY favorites. Do you think when horses reopens they'll want to upgrade from $10 cues?

[@EvanJaredSamuels]

@@RollieWilliams I'd play with a long twig at this point.

[@TheBilliardCorner]

Hehe nice video Rollie!

[@luiscmyk0824]

My first cue, it has a joint, and was almost the same price. Go to the Philippines, you can buy a lot a better for 10USD.

[@georem]

Yes but with venom we talk about a man who can do trickshots with a broom handle 😂

[@zanethind]

My Eastpoint 57in 2 piece cue is 45 bucks and it surprising holds up and it's from Walmart

[@cuesportpoolvlogs9870]

Yay back with new videos 😁😁😁

[@IntolerableEvil]

Shape the tip???

[@zanethind]

This cue is good for a bar or a community centre

[@benmorris118]

I'd have cut the tip off and put a new one on pretty quick probably

[@Abomination25]

How do we win the stick? I’ll play in APA with that!

[@dannymorgan1052]

You could use a broom handle in Apa!!!!!

[@smiley454jmw]

Put the best tip you can on it and try shooting with it i seen a guy in Nashville who broke and ran 6 racks with a Kmart stick all he done was changed the tip and ferrule

[@GMRGE]

Joe ya es casualidad ir a US open y probarlo con David Y Fran jajaja

[@metalraff]

As a pool player but a snooker fanatic, I do laugh sometimes at what slop pool allows you to get away with.

[@MrJdsenior]

Like you've never seen a fluked shot, even in a professional snooker match, from the likes of, say Ronnie O'Sullivan? C'mon. Mostly that stuff happens at a much lower level of play, but occasionally ANYWHERE. Hell, I just saw Corey Duel fluke a two rail full table shot in PYRAMID, where the pockets make snooker pockets look like basketball nets. No kidding, if you haven't look it up, 2 to 2 1/2 millimeters clearance on each side. When you look at the balls sitting on the table, you'd swear they WON'T go in. And yes, the tables are 6' X 12'. It is NUTS! Think a 9 mm bullet and divide by FOUR!

[@redaalkhamees2348]

I wish if there was even a pool table for sale in my country

[@leonsteinbachisalostsoul1887]

Do u live in lebanon

[@Danster547]

If they didn’t bother to shape the tip that’s ridiculous

[@ayomadcow1668]

Why not try and shape the tip a bit?

[@IljaKozusnijs]

Finally new video

[@pierogiguy]

Not surprising. I have 30+ cues and even way more shafts/tips/etc. ranging from $100 - $1400+ each (most are Mezz, Meucci, Schon and McDermott)....one of my favorites is a custom 60" even split full-splice Schmelke I had made for under $350 with a $1 Elkmaster tip. Equipment don't matter.

[@MrWeezo21]

Hey just wondering, when you're in public, does anyone come up to you and ask for an autograph, or like mention that they watch your channel?

[@RollieWilliams]

Every once in a while and it surprises me every time.

[@michaelbennett1350]

Yeah one piece cues aren’t that bad. Just need a good tip and they can be efficient. I’ve hustled a many of games with just a house cue.

[@yoyocooldude1]

I wanna see him use a top of the line cue

[@andersonneto5328]

Quanto custa um taco desse em real

[@tudoronofrei7344]

Bruh this vid is awesome

[@XFS540]

From what I saw, the cue was actually pretty good at jumping... illegally.

[@felixencinas7309]

Very funny and entertainment video

[@LucasMachado-uh4gq]

brasil?

[@juanitogunawan3348]

dude out there destroying walls

[@adbitex]

6:54 that wall socket looks terrified

[@wombra8314]

Ovidiu Acatinca 😮

[@kongkhamleu5571]

It doesn’t matter what stick you used , is the player.

[@offerskirksey2255]

This is awesome

[@LukeFennell]

if all of the guys signed the cue. i would DEFO pay good money for it

[@Lonerx14]

Validation for all the pool players who blamed the pool cue for ruining their run for not being able to do a shot.... (Ignore almost all shots done by the regular pool player were shown to have been done with this pool cue)

[@rushilsuresh7224]

also that says 2019 us open?? you recorded this an entire year early???

[@jaspergan]

dude we're in 2020 now

[@rushilsuresh7224]

Jasper yeah i know thats why im saying if that was the 2019 us open, which was like april of last year, and the video is coming out now... he recorded it a year in advance

[@rggraan4002]

David Alcaide, he's the one who ask Efren to take the shot. Efren might show up, Efren used 10 dollar cue before and wins the game

[@djchino7724]

Sick video haha 🍺

[@MikeBilliardsFun78]

this gonna make me like Rage Cue because i like certain one that look nice then Mcdermott, but i do like the pin stripe Star Cue by Mcdermott those are nice S74 just need put on LePro Tip . i done a Masses shot on someone in this community center in my local area the look on their faces and i did it with that wal mart cue . i don't like them or recommend them. but if people did buy them could just get some LePro tip replacement .

[@JourardsThoughts]

This was great

[@RollieWilliams]

Thanks!

[@ANEWBEGINING]

I"M IMPRESS THE TIP STILL THERE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>