Your Sneaky Pete might have a knack of disappearing when someone picks it up by mistake, because Sneaky Petes are crafted to look exactly like a plain house cue.  The sneaky pete pool cue goes back to the tradition of the pool hustler or pool shark. A sneaky pete pool cue is a professional-grade two-piece cue that screws together to provide all the advantages of a top-flight cue, with one difference.  When put together, it looks like a regular, old, standard house stick right off the pool cue rack.

Pool sharks try to convince their opponents that they would be playing an average player who just happened to be hanging out at the pool table. With a sneaky pete pool cue, a hustler could appear to be playing with a stick he'd just picked up off the rack, when in fact, he was using his own professional-grade cue.

If you suspect someone you're playing with is hustling, and their billiards pool cue looks like a house one but in excellent condition, search for a monogrammed brand name on their stick.  You can also look closely at the players pool cue midsection for where the joint might be on their "one-piece".  The telltale hairline where two sections would separate, or any sharp difference in color between the top and bottom halves of the cue, indicates two sections joined together to make a disguised cue.  If your opponent continually holds their cue near its midsection, closing their hand around where the joint might be, that's a dead giveaway!

These days fewer people buy Sneaky Pete cues for the purpose of hustling.  Because of the traditional style and classic beauty of the Sneaky Pete, it remains one of the most popular and best selling pool cue design styles on the market today.

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