Not really. However, "That's the way the cookie crumbles" originated some time in the late 1950s and was part of a family of similar sayings on the same pattern. It was probably the first, and inspired others--of which the only other one I can remember is "That's the way the ball bounces." Wentworth and Flexner's slang dictionary mentions one of many slang meanings of "break" as "a piece of luck," often good luck. The quotation they cite is from 1944. Unfortunately, I'm convinced that we simply don't know the origin of many sayings and idioms--and many explanations are not to be trusted. I'll add my personal guess, assumption, speculation about "breaks." A game of pool begins with one player "breaking" the triangular arrangement of pool balls by shooting the cue ball at the tight group of ten. They proceed to fly in all directions, and where they go is mostly a matter of luck. So in this case, how many balls get sunk by the first player would depend on the luck of "how it breaks."