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Gdub1717

Gdub1717

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I don’t own a table but am lucky enough theres a good pool hall less than 10 minutes from my house. I plan on practicing/playing at least three days a week for 2-3 hours at a time. Right now my billiards 1x1 hard case contains my playing cue (2022 Viking B2001) with the standard v-pro shaft and Lepro medium tip, my last 4 ever nickel shaper/scuffer, my Kamui glove since chalk is not acceptable there and a small towel. I haven’t seen the need for anything else but I wanted your opinions if there’s anything essential missing from my bag. Thanks
 
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I don’t own a table but am lucky enough theres a good pool hall less than 10 minutes from my house. I plan on practicing/playing at least three days a week for 2-3 hours at a time. Right now my billiards 1x1 hard case contains my playing cue (2022 Viking B2001) with the standard v-pro shaft and Lepro medium tip, my last 4 ever nickel shaper/scuffer, my Kamui glove since chalk is not acceptable there and a small towel. I haven’t seen the need for anything else but I wanted your opinions if there’s anything essential missing from my bag. Thanks
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Just go play. You don't really need our permission/acceptance for every pool decision you're gonna make. Just sayin.
 
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Gdub1717 said:
Nothing wrong with playing with the cheap house cue tip chalk then? im not asking for permission just honest opinions ok. Thanks
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Nothing wrong with cheap chalk other than it can be dirty and you may need to chalk more often. Most pool halls I've been to usually have masters chalk which there is nothing wrong with it and alot of people still swear by it.
 
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awesome. The hall has 10 8’ foot Brunswick and 2 9’ foot Brunswick with all having new simonis felt. I’m focusing on 9 ball because I enjoy that game the most. Hope to start entering tournaments by spring. Thanks
 
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Gdub1717 said:
I don’t own a table but am lucky enough theres a good pool hall less than 10 minutes from my house. I plan on practicing/playing at least three days a week for 2-3 hours at a time. Right now my billiards 1x1 hard case contains my playing cue (2022 Viking B2001) with the standard v-pro shaft and Lepro medium tip, my last 4 ever nickel shaper/scuffer, my Kamui glove since chalk is not acceptable there and a small towel. I haven’t seen the need for anything else but I wanted your opinions if there’s anything essential missing from my bag. Thanks
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I carry:

Break cue, Playing cue. Taom V10. Kamui Gator grip for quick tip scuffing. Qwiz (mainly for others, I do my shaft maintenance at home). Last4Ever (in case I need to burnish). Porper PrikStik (mainly for others). About $5 of quarters in a baggie. Small microfiber towel. Q claw. Roll of tums just in case. Small pack of gum.

I could get by with less but I like to carry "emergency" stuff to help others who are having problems. Q-wiz sells itself if you clean someone's shaft with it. Next time you see them they will have bought one for themselves. Porper prick stick works good for "tapping" and "setting" the chalk if somebody is miscuing like hell. I also only ever burnish with my last4ever, but I have helped others with tip problems. I used to carry extra gloves still in package. They were like $15 for 10 of them, I sold 3 of them for $5 to get initial money back then gave away about 5 more. I don't use a glove but these work and last as well as others, especially considering the price. Mainly I realized gloves weren't for me so I took them along to get rid of them.
 
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Additional supplies (carry in a separate bag):

1. Measles cue ball
2. 14 foot piece of string
3. Sticky hole reinforcers
4. Roll of blue painters tape

To practice your cueing, use the string to create a shot line for the longest straight in shot diagonally between two corner pockets. Place two sticky hole reinforcers under the string equa-distant from each other and the corner pocket you will be shooting at. One sticky will be for the object ball, and one sticky will be for your Measles cue ball. Put the sticky for the Measles cue ball far enough from the opposite corner pocket so that you can bridge comfortably on the table. Put a 3.5 foot section of painters tape stuck to the floor and align it with the shot line/string.

Use the painters tape to align your feet or body with the shot line when you get into your stance. Then practice hitting stop shots (cue ball has no spin when it stops at the object ball), follow shots so that the cueball follows the object ball into the corner pocket, and draw shots (good players can occasionally draw the cue ball back into the corner pocket).

You could add a piece of leather to your cue case for "burnishing" the shaft to make it slick:

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I use a 21 oz house cue to break and really only use the last4ever for scuffing. I doubt they’ll let me monkey around with their tables with tape and what not but that is a good idea. My glove was not cheap, is super well
made and I see it lasting a good long time. Microfiber towel is an easy fit though. appreciate the ideas fellas. Thanks
 
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Size matters: bigger the compartment, the more crap one can and will carry. Personal preference should be the determining factor, but one should never think that he has learned his final lesson about pool. Each and every person in the pool hall knows something that others do not and can teach everyone something. Here are several items I have come to carry. These developed over 50 years of play and old habits die hard:
1. Two (2) cubes of Master chalk -- You never know. I have been to places that had no chalk or what they had sucked. (Think League Bars way out in the country.)
2. Q-Whiz
3, Q Silk
4. Tiger Original Shaft Smoother and Burnisher
5. Cuetec Tip Tool
6. Tiger Sniper tip
Even though I leave the house with my equipment in perfect shape, shit happens, and if it does, it gets inside my head and affects my game if I cannot fix it. Better that I can undertake repairs on the go. Plus, one may not know where he is going or when he will get home.

Enjoy yourself and always keep your eyes and ears open.
 
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Gdub1717 said:
I don’t own a table but am lucky enough theres a good pool hall less than 10 minutes from my house. I plan on practicing/playing at least three days a week for 2-3 hours at a time. Right now my billiards 1x1 hard case contains my playing cue (2022 Viking B2001) with the standard v-pro shaft and Lepro medium tip, my last 4 ever nickel shaper/scuffer, my Kamui glove since chalk is not acceptable there and a small towel. I haven’t seen the need for anything else but I wanted your opinions if there’s anything essential missing from my bag. Thanks
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It's not the arrow...it's the Indian.

Known several very good players who don't own a cue and play off the wall with house cues. Now that's not practical if you travel to events etc, but it clearly shows equipment isn't everything.

Find a few good mentors to keep your efforts to learn the game on track. Be a sponge, absorbing knowledge. Don't let yourself become bored with the game by challenging yourself, achieving goals, while making new ones.
 
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Thanks. Coincidentally I am part American Indian. I also play golf with my son and you’re exactly right. In my 20’s I could consistently drive a golf tee shot 350 yards with a 20 dollar used driver. Keeping it in the short grass is another story though. lol
 
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Gdub1717 said:
Nothing wrong with playing with the cheap house cue tip chalk then? im not asking for permission just honest opinions ok. Thanks
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Most poolhalls use Blue Master. That is my chalk of choice I buy for myself.

I tend to use my own piece though, when going to the poolhall... rather then what they have out.
 
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Gdub1717 said:
Nothing wrong with playing with the cheap house cue tip chalk then? im not asking for permission just honest opinions ok. Thanks
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I have a $.75 Triangle tip on a Revo shaft. There are no rules. My best advice is…. Watch your equipment when in a pool room. The can get legs.
 
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