We played on Friday and Saturday nights at the local watering hole here on the island.
In the 70's it was called "The Glass Bar". Later it became "Moe's" and now is just called "Traders".
Sometimes my buddies & their band would be playing there - and on those nights attendance was mandatory.
What else is there to do except shoot pool?
So we did a lot of it.
We used to go downtown to the billiard hall and shoot snooker & 9 ball on those big azz snooker tables.....so when we played on the "regular" tables we were damn good!
Yet there was always someone better so you learned to get in and get out while the gettin' was good!
I always used the house cues. Like Paul said....roll e'm on the table and if they're relatively straight you get busy livin'.......