Flakeandrun
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Sounds like Mika hahah
Chalk on The Rail
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I grew up on 9' tables, I find it a waste to have to walk 15' and back 15' to grab one piece of chalk. Pros always put the chalk up right.
what does svb ALWAYS do with his chalk?
I never did either since my beginning yrs in the 60's.Thanks guys... Never even thought of this before but now I have something else to distract me at the table
If you don't like it on the table, then pick it up.
What I don't like is a pool room that has NO chalk, or a golf course without tees.
No matter how many pieces of chalk are on the rails, I always end up consolidating them into one group and moving the group around. It defeats the purpose of having multiple pieces of chalk. It might be an OCD thing that I can’t explain. It might drive purposeful chalk people nuts.
Or in carom, I take the one piece of chalk with me when I leave the table.
Or in carom, I take the one piece of chalk with me when I leave the table.
I put my chalk in my back pocket. Back pocket because the cube would always cut through the front pocket liners. Back pockets are sewed onto the pants.
I carry/use my own chalk, but if my opponent is using house chalk, I'll allowed at most 2 pieces on the table and if I'm first to a table with 2+ chalks on it, I'll move all but one away to a ledge or wherever.
As for the upside down chalk.... Local to me, it seems to be a Filipino thing. Not sure why, but almost all of the Filipino locals do it.
As for the upside down chalk.... Local to me, it seems to be a Filipino thing. Not sure why, but almost all of the Filipino locals do it.
I asked and the answer was, " ...because that's how you use."
I've seen Efren pour powder on the top rail, put it on his bridge hand. Extreme humidity and dirt, allows a great player to change the play/dirt conditions, giving Effie a big advantage.
I've seen Bustamante put a cigarette package sized load of talc on the table where he sits.
The etiquette in pro play is totally different than bar table events, as to be expected.
The etiquette of a pool room is to have cues and chalk available for all patrons.
Often the bar tenders don't know where the chalk is.
And when found, it's horrible, drilled to the bottom, ruins ferrules.
If those are the only two pieces and you’re sharing them with your opponent, that’s acceptable. However, if he has two community pieces and you also have two private pieces, and he must confirm every time he picks up a chalk, that might be considered inadvertent sharking.
The fancy(expensive) chalk has changed things. I play with Master chalk and if there are only crappy pieces of chalk on the table I will put them on a side table and put two pieces of my Master chalk on the table. Naturally, the other player is free to and expected to use this chalk also. I will probably leave it behind when I leave, another thirty-four cents thrown away! What can I say? I am a high roller! If anyone leaves personal chalk on a table, regardless of cost I figure it is free to use.
I try to start off with two decent pieces of Master chalk on either side of the table. In theory that is how I want them to stay and I will often move chalk around while moving around the table. Unfortunately the gravitational pull between chalk pieces is huge and if you have two pieces of chalk on a table or forty they all end up in one pile! If there are more than three pieces of chalk on a pool table or three and one is crap, I take off the chalk down to two pieces. If there are three pieces of chalk on a table and all in good shape I leave all three on the table.
None of this is bible that I attempt to enforce on other people but if the chalk is provided by the house and the other player keeps hauling the only decent piece of chalk off the table I consider it sharking and bitch about it. When I get a tray of balls at a pool hall I expect a decent piece or two of chalk with the balls. If I go to the table and don't see chalk in good shape I'll go back to the counter and get some. I don't expect to have to drill to get chalk on my tip.
Hu
I try to start off with two decent pieces of Master chalk on either side of the table. In theory that is how I want them to stay and I will often move chalk around while moving around the table. Unfortunately the gravitational pull between chalk pieces is huge and if you have two pieces of chalk on a table or forty they all end up in one pile! If there are more than three pieces of chalk on a pool table or three and one is crap, I take off the chalk down to two pieces. If there are three pieces of chalk on a table and all in good shape I leave all three on the table.
None of this is bible that I attempt to enforce on other people but if the chalk is provided by the house and the other player keeps hauling the only decent piece of chalk off the table I consider it sharking and bitch about it. When I get a tray of balls at a pool hall I expect a decent piece or two of chalk with the balls. If I go to the table and don't see chalk in good shape I'll go back to the counter and get some. I don't expect to have to drill to get chalk on my tip.
Hu
billiards_watch
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I don't disagree with you.
I think with the advent of high end chalk, it created this unwritten rule and in my opinion for the better. It started off as not leaving your chalk on the table because its expensive then evolving to something thoughtful. When I leave my chalk on the table and see an opponent have to move it then its a reminder to bring it with me. My bad, my chalk is in the way. Plus, chalk is part of everyone's arsenal and just as important as the cue. So you take it with you.
Two things come to mind....I have my own chalk and when I go to a table and see a chalk there it means some dick head was too lazy to return it. At the same time, said player, could be just leaving it there for the next person. There is this fine line as what is acceptable.
Like I said, the advent of expensive chalk has created this confusion. We can't distinguish what is community chalk or what is not. Some players even go out of their way to use your chalk if you don't pick it. They will grind on it so there's that.
I just take it with me to avoid having a player move it because its in his way and to avoid others from using it.
Thanks for the info. I'm an old school pool slob I guess. Don't invite me home to dinner.
We Players do have our quirks, don't we??
Chalk on the rail never bothered me. This thread is the first time I ever gave it much thot. I like a piece within arms reach, but that's about it. I watched a guy last night put his chalk back in his pocket after every shot!! Big blue stain above the pocket. He's gotta be spending a lot on pants, or a seamstress. Hmmm... Maybe he's on to something...
You can tell where he learned to play!!