i'm not a pocket chalk guy, i put it on the table. so i'm a donor rather than a keeper. some pocket chalkers leave with chalk in their pocket without malintent
How many of you steal chalk from the pool hall?
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Many of us would not bend down to pick up a dime on the sidewalk,
Yet when you buy Masters chalk in bulk (box of 144) it costs about $0.12 per cube.
What does it say about our morals; when we won't pick up a free dime on the sidewalk but will go out of our way to steel a $0.12 cube of chalk ???
Yet when you buy Masters chalk in bulk (box of 144) it costs about $0.12 per cube.
What does it say about our morals; when we won't pick up a free dime on the sidewalk but will go out of our way to steel a $0.12 cube of chalk ???
I once was using Russian magic chalk but it kept invading the tables next to me.
I have a couple of real good cubes of Masters that I snagged from the pool room only to use if a decent cube was not available.
Yesterday at the room there was a cube of Predator chalk in the chalk box and I grabbed it to use.
After a while my hand was blue from using this crap so I threw it in a trash can to save the next person from this messy crap.
I have a couple of real good cubes of Masters that I snagged from the pool room only to use if a decent cube was not available.
Yesterday at the room there was a cube of Predator chalk in the chalk box and I grabbed it to use.
After a while my hand was blue from using this crap so I threw it in a trash can to save the next person from this messy crap.
You're getting a gross for $17?
Where?
Don't think of it that way OP.
When I go somewhere else I likely will forget to pick it up before I leave.
Ying/Yang
What's really funny is players that show up before league to practice and snag the best piece of chalk they find laying out on the tables. Only to then leave it on the table after their first game is done, and when they get up for their next game realize that someone has not only snagged the piece of chalk they snagged, but also taken it back to where they are sitting. It's just comical to watch them discuss who's chalk it should be. All this over a piece of chalk that costs less than 50 cents.
I had a teammate that did this. She would go through chalk like it was free candy at the 4th of July parade. I was always giving her chalk. Kept saying she was going to by a gross of it but never did. One night before league she called to ask me if I could bring some more chalk as she hadn't bought any yet. I had just given her two new chalks the week before. I brought her three new chalks. By the end of league that night she had gone through all three chalks I gave her. The chalk thieves had STOLLEN all of them from her as fast as she left them on the table. I told her she needed to get her own from now on.
She then bought one of those magnetic holders, you guessed it, she left the chalk on the table again the 1st night she used it, never to be found again. She's now on her 3rd holder I think, but has learned to not leave it on the table.
billiards_watch
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Chalk is pretty innocent but I think its very serious, as a pool player, if someone stole the balls.
I call it a chalk fob. Amazon calls it a chalk holder. This one is $10.My fob is a 30-06 cartridge. It stays securely in my pocket and draws easily for every shot.
Rusty in Montana
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You are correct Gold Crown , people have fanny packs ha ha after a certain age of course , I've even got one I use it when i go big game hunting ha ha
xX-Wizard-Xx
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I thought chalk was given away whenever renting the table .... My bad
sonny burnett
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That's the reason I've never in all these years put chalk in my pocket. My senile arse would forget it for sure!
I put my chalk on the rail…..I’ve had gambling sessions where we’ve had 5 or 6 pieces all in one place.
I had a buddy who would in put a piece in his pocket….he usually walked out with it…he brought back over 50 pieces once..he always put them on his dresser.
I had a buddy who would in put a piece in his pocket….he usually walked out with it…he brought back over 50 pieces once..he always put them on his dresser.
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Back in bygone days I did take a nice piece of Master chalk now and then. I also spent over a hundred a week in pool halls so it didn't keep me up nights! The issue wasn't an unwillingness to buy chalk but not a clue where to buy it. When I found chalk for sale in stores it would be crap, not Master blue which was the only chalk I wanted to use. Master green was dryer and dustier.
With the internet I bought a gross of Master blue. I deliberately leave almost new chalk everywhere I play. Best I recall I paid sixteen or seventeen cents a piece for that chalk. Funny thing, I did an accidental social experiment. I dried a few dozen pieces of chalk in the oven to see if it would play better. I wrapped these pieces of chalk in green electrical tape to tell which were mine and to keep them dry. When they got a little wear I left them on the table as usual. It was amazing how many people would walk the length of the pool room to bring me my chalk they thought I forgot. This was in Buffalo's pool room on Airline, a place in a rough part of town with plenty of questionable clientele.
About the experiment, my dried chalk played better. Then I accidentally left a piece on my back patio for months. Coulda almost wrung this chalk out in South Louisiana near New Orleans. It played better too! Amazingly, Tweetem had selected the worst possible moisture content for their chalk! Well, possibly it was all in my head. Experiments with chalk are over. I collected a cube or three of different premium chalk and toted them in my case for a few years. Gave them to a friend that would use them. I carefully chalk with Master chalk at the beginning of a game and before I am going to use extreme spin. Miscues are almost as rare as hen's teeth. I would have paid for the high dollar chalk in my gambling days if I thought it would help my game, we paid four hundred and twenty dollars a night for a set of goodyear gumballs for the race car. When mine was slow, I could often make it go much faster for a few hundreds of dollars. When it was a top car it might take a half dozen or more changes and a thousand dollars or more to gain a tenth of a second. Twenty or forty dollars for a cube of chalk that would make me hundreds would have seemed reasonable. Seventeen cents for a cube of chalk that is going to make me the same money seems even more reasonable. Master blue rocks and I still have enough left from that gross to last out my life.
PT109, what is the physics behind the gravitational pull of chalk for other pieces of chalk? I used to strategically place two or three pieces of newish Master chalk around the table where it would always be close to hand. Within three to six games it would all be in a pile. Spread the chalk, it would soon congregate again. I consider chalk's attraction to chalk one of the mysteries of the universe!
Hu
With the internet I bought a gross of Master blue. I deliberately leave almost new chalk everywhere I play. Best I recall I paid sixteen or seventeen cents a piece for that chalk. Funny thing, I did an accidental social experiment. I dried a few dozen pieces of chalk in the oven to see if it would play better. I wrapped these pieces of chalk in green electrical tape to tell which were mine and to keep them dry. When they got a little wear I left them on the table as usual. It was amazing how many people would walk the length of the pool room to bring me my chalk they thought I forgot. This was in Buffalo's pool room on Airline, a place in a rough part of town with plenty of questionable clientele.
About the experiment, my dried chalk played better. Then I accidentally left a piece on my back patio for months. Coulda almost wrung this chalk out in South Louisiana near New Orleans. It played better too! Amazingly, Tweetem had selected the worst possible moisture content for their chalk! Well, possibly it was all in my head. Experiments with chalk are over. I collected a cube or three of different premium chalk and toted them in my case for a few years. Gave them to a friend that would use them. I carefully chalk with Master chalk at the beginning of a game and before I am going to use extreme spin. Miscues are almost as rare as hen's teeth. I would have paid for the high dollar chalk in my gambling days if I thought it would help my game, we paid four hundred and twenty dollars a night for a set of goodyear gumballs for the race car. When mine was slow, I could often make it go much faster for a few hundreds of dollars. When it was a top car it might take a half dozen or more changes and a thousand dollars or more to gain a tenth of a second. Twenty or forty dollars for a cube of chalk that would make me hundreds would have seemed reasonable. Seventeen cents for a cube of chalk that is going to make me the same money seems even more reasonable. Master blue rocks and I still have enough left from that gross to last out my life.
PT109, what is the physics behind the gravitational pull of chalk for other pieces of chalk? I used to strategically place two or three pieces of newish Master chalk around the table where it would always be close to hand. Within three to six games it would all be in a pile. Spread the chalk, it would soon congregate again. I consider chalk's attraction to chalk one of the mysteries of the universe!
Hu
I agree on the blue Masters……but in the UK, I preferred green Triangle….same company, different mixture, I suppose.
JABSolstice
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I bought Taom for my home table since it is so much cleaner than Masters. Ever since then, I just bring my own and put it in my pocket while playing. A long time ago, I would grab a piece off the table if I was short on chalk. I'm certain I left more than I took, though.
boogieman
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that ping.
Never. I do however leave old shitty ones I find in my stuff from time to time. Enjoy the Sportscraft and Silvercup boys.
