U.S. OPEN 2026, Frisco, Texas, August 25-30

GideonF said:
Taom, Pagulayan etc are not “makeup chalk”. The old Kamui was like lipstick. These new chalks are just clean.
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Whatever, keep telling yourself that. Everyone talks about how clean they are yet because the bangers who buy everything new thinking it will make them better, have made a mess of the tables of the hall I play at using the green version on blue cloth to where the guy that did the table maintenance, cleaning quit because the owner wouldn’t take a stand against those using green chalk on blue cloth. If it’s so clean then how does such a mess of things?

Master and Triangle chalk have been around near forever, yet somehow world class players still managed to play at an elite level with it without all the whining like Mr. Appleton displayed by using it as an excuse for his sub par play. Funny he managed to win 2 US Opens and a World 10 ball title before this “miracle chalk” arrived. Clean my ass, it’s turns blue cloth a shade of yellow because the idiots can’t use the blue version and when you ask them why, they say it plays different.

EDIT:to add a final thought. Years back Magic Chalk came on the scene, everyone here raved about it, that it was cleaner than standard chalks, Dr. Dave tested chalks for amount of hits without a miscue, it ranked the highest amongst all others tested. Yet no one talks about it anymore, did it become less clean, stop preventing miscues? No, it just became forgotten because something new and more expensive came along. It’s the way most “pool players” and I use that term loosely are. Those that can play, can play with anything, they don’t need LD Shafts, CF shafts, $1000 break cues, $800 jump cues and $25 chalk. They can play with a wooden house cue with an elkmaster tip and a cube of masters all day. The mediocre, they buy every new thing convinced that this new add to their kit will be the thing that finally helps them play good and then will defend these purchases to the death while still being 3 ball runners. The manufacturers are laughing all the way to the bank.
 
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This is some funny shit right here lol




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Some say skids while using Masters caused them loose money.. Heard some guy speaking about that recently, so he switched to MrV. Havent seen the guy before..
 
Lowell said:
No Kos is disappointing. I have to imagine there will be an increasing Exodus towards Chinese pool if Western pool doesn't up its prizes for events like these.
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There are two tournaments in Asia, Duya and American 9all.
Closer and more money why travel across the world?
 
Frosty said:
Whatever, keep telling yourself that. Everyone talks about how clean they are yet because the bangers who buy everything new thinking it will make them better, have made a mess of the tables of the hall I play at using the green version on blue cloth to where the guy that did the table maintenance, cleaning quit because the owner wouldn’t take a stand against those using green chalk on blue cloth. If it’s so clean then how does such a mess of things?

Master and Triangle chalk have been around near forever, yet somehow world class players still managed to play at an elite level with it without all the whining like Mr. Appleton displayed by using it as an excuse for his sub par play. Funny he managed to win 2 US Opens and a World 10 ball title before this “miracle chalk” arrived. Clean my ass, it’s turns blue cloth a shade of yellow because the idiots can’t use the blue version and when you ask them why, they say it plays different.

EDIT:to add a final thought. Years back Magic Chalk came on the scene, everyone here raved about it, that it was cleaner than standard chalks, Dr. Dave tested chalks for amount of hits without a miscue, it ranked the highest amongst all others tested. Yet no one talks about it anymore, did it become less clean, stop preventing miscues? No, it just became forgotten because something new and more expensive came along. It’s the way most “pool players” and I use that term loosely are. Those that can play, can play with anything, they don’t need LD Shafts, CF shafts, $1000 break cues, $800 jump cues and $25 chalk. They can play with a wooden house cue with an elkmaster tip and a cube of masters all day. The mediocre, they buy every new thing convinced that this new add to their kit will be the thing that finally helps them play good and then will defend these purchases to the death while still being 3 ball runners. The manufacturers are laughing all the way to the bank.
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I had Russian magic chalk and when I got my table with shark grey cloth, id see blue spots all over the table. I tried pagulayan bc I like the guy and no more chalk marks on the cloth. And I know it's some variant of taom. No it won't make you shoot better, but it's cleaner
 
Positively Ralf said:
Is a 700 fargo player beating a higher player really an upset? 700 fargo players can easily run out as any higher ranked player.
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an 800 player losing to a 700 on these tables is an upset. but i guess the way sky's been playing all year, and manny being a decent high level player coming back from a hiatus, it's not as much of a shock
 
SA96 said:
The greatest of all time (Ronnie O'Sullivan) uses Triangle chalk, which is the Euro version of Masters.

He used Taom once and he had loads of miscues.
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And? Im not the greatest of all time and either are you. So I’ll use what works best for me. Ronnie is also a head case.. which is part of what makes him great so I’m taking that with a grain of chalk 😉
 
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SA96 said:
The greatest of all time (Ronnie O'Sullivan) uses Triangle chalk, which is the Euro version of Masters.

He used Taom once and he had loads of miscues.
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and that happened before V10.
Taom Pyro and 2.0 had issues with some tips and miscues. That why they kept pushing it and developed V10. I know guy who invented Taom.
He said 6 months before V10 was released that it will have 15% better grip than Pyro and stays better on harder tips.
You know if more than 90% of players think something is better and new standard people always take one example who does not(like it for some reason) and keep preaching it.
 
g0ds gReeN said:
I'm watching the Elliot Sanderson/Deuel match now because I missed it live. Do all the non-table1 tables have a physical shot clock and a referee calling 10/5 secs to the shooting players?
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I think only table 2 has the ref with a shot clock (plus the arena table). Maybe 3 and 4 have clocks, but I'll have to check. The rest of the tables only have one ref per 4 tables.
 
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