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Chalk Debris…….Pool Players Should Use Taom Chalk or Equivalent.
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What is the old stuff?
smiling_Hans
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Pool halls are a bit different. They get a lot of usage and some don’t. Brushing a table daily may cause abnormal wear. Brushing causes friction and can equate to polishing. There will be wear spots or some spots losing its texture. Just look at the lines caused by breaking and racking.
Not every table gets played on.
Years ago I’ve went to high end places with pool tables. A pretty gal escorts you to the table with the balls and racks the first game. She will ask what you are playing. Anyways this place will make you wait as their staff brushes and cleans a table for you before taking you there. Similar to restaurants they clean and prep your table before taking you there. It was quite refreshing to see that.
Pool rooms should implement this with their staff. It also keeps the table constantly clean.
Not every table gets played on.
Years ago I’ve went to high end places with pool tables. A pretty gal escorts you to the table with the balls and racks the first game. She will ask what you are playing. Anyways this place will make you wait as their staff brushes and cleans a table for you before taking you there. Similar to restaurants they clean and prep your table before taking you there. It was quite refreshing to see that.
Pool rooms should implement this with their staff. It also keeps the table constantly clean.
A courteous and simple suggestion to all your pool playing patrons to please not chalk your pool cue tip over the table surface would go a long ways towards allowing much less chalk dust to get on the cloth.
smiling_Hans
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Yes but we can’t have good things. This would solve all problems.
People at gyms please rack your weights.
Push your shopping cart back.
Open doors for women.
Love to see how that plan plays out. Kinda like the trash you complained about, its part of running a poolroom. Start posting all these rules/regs and people are gonna walk. In a way i agree with you but hoping to get something and reality are often at odds. I'd rather have their money and have to clean a lil more than not have the money. Every time.
I played recently with opponent who used a pink taom and there were lots of powder specks on the table., like confectioners sugar.
oscargrouch
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Also doesn't help when the only good light in the room is over the table, causing one to chalk directly over the playing surface if they want to see what they're doing.
I've been to Chris's room several times and I appreciated the rules in place as reflected by being one of the nicest rooms I've ever been in. You keep doing what you do and I'll see you next time I'm in your area.
That's the Taom Pyro Pink Edition. Pyro (both the blue and the pink) is grittier and a little messier than their V10, tends to flake.
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I generally agree with you to a degree, but in the case of regulars and weekly tournament players I see nothing wrong with nicely requesting of them to not chalk their cue over the table, for those that I notice have a habit of doing it.
Most of them appreciate that we have rules other places don’t that keep out tables nicer and cleaner than any other tables they will ever play on. Of course there are exceptions.
Just yesterday I noticed caked dirt on the carpet all around a table a couple was playing on. One glance at his boots made it very clear who was the culprit. It was so bad that while they were still playing I took the broom and dust pan over to clean it up the best I could, while they were playing, so he would know it. While doing it, I nicely suggested that next time to please use the boot brush and hose at our entrance before entering, when necessary.
I see nothing with having done this. If it bothers him to the extent that he doesn’t ever come back that’s fine - we don’t need customers like that.
smiling_Hans
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Did chalk become dirtier than the past? Cutting corners?
I don't seem to notice it till someone brings it up.
Has Taom chalk made us reevaluate and notice how filthy a table is?
I don't seem to notice it till someone brings it up.
Has Taom chalk made us reevaluate and notice how filthy a table is?
Greg M
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He tends to flip-flop between Triangle and Master.
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Back in the mid-80’s, Dave & Buster’s in Dallas, TX treated you that way. You were escorted to pool tables that surrounded the inside perimeter walls and the restaurant searing was in the center and arcade games were off
to the side in a different are to reduce the arcade game noise. The pool tables were separated into small groups
(2-3 tables per group) separated by hanging draperies which made it seem more private. The tables were brushed
and your drink orders and food could be ordered through a speaker for every pool table. It was a very cool setup.
smiling_Hans
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Now if I go to a random room to get a table they tell me table 10 and it’s dirty. Chalk and powder all over the place.
I just don't understand people like that. Are they completely oblivious to the world around them or are they just that dumb?? Its no different than the guy putting the chalk upside down on the rail, nobody else is doing it and it leaves blue dust all over the rails, do they just not notice or what?? Same with the garbage at the table behind the pool table, just leave the table the way you found it, why is that so hard? They don't leave their $30 chalk behind, or their cue, cell phone, etc but garbage, its like they never even notice it.
I have to laugh aloud when I see a pool table cloth with actual hand prints in powder. It looks more like
animal tracks in the snow. I can’t imagine the idiot that used the powder other than he had to be drunk.
Powder is like chalk. Less is really better than more. Use it sparingly when and where needed but never
on the bottom of your fingers or your palm. Better yet, just go buy a pool glove. FYI, I do not use either.
animal tracks in the snow. I can’t imagine the idiot that used the powder other than he had to be drunk.
Powder is like chalk. Less is really better than more. Use it sparingly when and where needed but never
on the bottom of your fingers or your palm. Better yet, just go buy a pool glove. FYI, I do not use either.