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Originally Posted by RichGangi
Agree with jumper advice, disagree with breaker thoughts tho. Every time you break you put stress on the shaft. To each their own.
I'd agree with this if he was using an old school Meucci or something like that as his shooter, but if he takes the advice in this thread he'll either be using a predator, or a cheapo cuetec or equivalent.
If he's using a cheapo cue, it's just that, essentially disosable and not worth taking costly measures to protect. If he's using a Predator, he's using a seriously engineered piece of equipment that's well able to withstand the stresses of breaking. I'd be amazed if anyone anywhere has damaged a predator shaft just from breaking and playing with it. Any damage I've ever seen has been from obvious misuse, temper tantrums etc..
The real benefit of a breaker is that it saves the shape of your shooter's tip. I'd rather spend $25/year on tips and a bit of extra time shaping than have to pack extra equipment around, but I could definitely understand why someone would want a dedicated breaker.
OP seems fairly new, and I just didn't want to see him saddled with equipment he might not need or want. For the time being, I think a one cue setup is what he should go with until he better knows what's going to suit him long term.
I might just be bitter because when I first got into pool, I got steered into some bad purchases by a room manager that was just trying to unload a bunch of crap on me and my team, all new gullible players. We dropped 3 or 4 thousand collectively on stuff that we didn't need, and was overpriced junk like upper end Falcons, etc.