One pernicious side-effect of gatekeeping snobbery is that it pushes beginners to adopt techniques and tools that don't make sense that early in the game. To g

One pernicious side-effect of gatekeeping snobbery is that it pushes beginners to adopt techniques and tools that don't make sense that early in the game. To give a concrete example: personally I'm an interested pool beginner (~c- player). One day, while at the local pool hall I saw a couple of guys that I could immediately tell were less experienced than me. They both had ~1k euros Predator cues, jump cues, break cues, the whole thing. They went on about deflection and Masse shots (pretty advanced stuff) and then proceeded to fail most of the pocket shots they played. They would have been way better served by the cheap pool hall cues and just focusing on the right posture when they leaned on the table...