How many of you steal chalk from the pool hall?

pt109 said:
I agree on the blue Masters……but in the UK, I preferred green Triangle….same company, different mixture, I suppose.
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It was all supposed to be identical except the dye, but different colors played slightly differently. My dried blue played more like the green than regular blue.

After my chalk experiments I decided that Master was fine. One thing, I like the brands that are half again or twice as long as they are wide, just work better than square the way I apply chalk on a tip. Although when playing the rube a favorite was dropping the chalk on the floor, wedging it between my feet, and drilling with a house cue like I was trying to start a fire!(grin)

Hu
 
It's actually interesting, just about every single serious player I know now has Taom chalk, even the ones who 10 years ago said "I'd never pay $20 for chalk" (I was one of them). It took over about as fast as CF shafts.
 
Somehow I don't think this is a big (or even a little) problem for bars and pool halls. I like to have a few new or near new pieces in my case and over the years I've offered multiple times to buy some from a pool hall or bar I was frequenting regularly. The answer always was, "How many to you want, I'll just give you some."

I think the bartender or waitress that takes 5-10 cigarette breaks during a shift is costing the owner a lot more than he loses in chalk. Excessive breaks cost wages paid for nothing as well as lost sales from patrons sitting with empty glasses. Just sayin.
 
When I was practicing or playing pool on a very regular basis I'd use a piece of chalk that for whatever reason I liked how it covered the tip , generally it was literally flat from me chalking up with the corners .
One night one of the local players challenged me to play a race to 6 games but I had to use a drilled out cube of chalk he figured I would not play as well as I normally did back then .

Long story short I beat him 6-1 which he asked what the deal was , my simple response was I had to slow down and pay attention to how I was chalking my cue and in turn took a bit longer to study each shot , after that he didn't want to play even for table time .

I'd sometimes take a quarter and round off the tops of those cratered out cubes of chalk when no others were available just like many of you have as well .
 
bud green said:
I have no problem with a regular customer of a pool hall, who actually spends money there, putting a good piece of chalk in his case so he doesn't have to sort through a box full of crappy worn out chalks every time he plays there.

People who steal the eight ball out of sets of Aramith or other expensive balls are d-bags. Literally half of the pool sets at my local hall are missing the original eight ball.
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That's mighty nice of you to feel good about donating OTHER PEOPLES property
 
fascinating what we care about and spend our time on, what’s next how do you tie your shoes?

i stuck a cube of masters chalk under a pipe on the ceiling of my subway stop about three years ago it’s still there
 
If you take chalk from the pool halls I go to then you are pretty hard up and down on your luck. Really terrible master chalk that has gotten wet one way or another. Awful chalk. Hey if you have to finesse that kind of chalk pm me and I will buy you some good chalk.
 
Never. I always have my chalk on a stick in my pocket. If I don’t then I’m destined for a miscue because I can’t get in the habit of picking up and setting down chalk from and to the rail as part of my preshot routine. I always start leaving it behind, shooting without it, and eventually miscuing. So basically the chalk on a stick approach means I never lose or steal chalk even by accident.
 
Rusty in Montana said:
When I was practicing or playing pool on a very regular basis I'd use a piece of chalk that for whatever reason I liked how it covered the tip , generally it was literally flat from me chalking up with the corners .
One night one of the local players challenged me to play a race to 6 games but I had to use a drilled out cube of chalk he figured I would not play as well as I normally did back then .

Long story short I beat him 6-1 which he asked what the deal was , my simple response was I had to slow down and pay attention to how I was chalking my cue and in turn took a bit longer to study each shot , after that he didn't want to play even for table time .

I'd sometimes take a quarter and round off the tops of those cratered out cubes of chalk when no others were available just like many of you have as well .
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MattPoland said:
Never. I always have my chalk on a stick in my pocket. If I don’t then I’m destined for a miscue because I can’t get in the habit of picking up and setting down chalk from and to the rail as part of my preshot routine. I always start leaving it behind, shooting without it, and eventually miscuing. So basically the chalk on a stick approach means I never lose or steal chalk even by accident.
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In pool halls I don't hesitate to ask for a piece of chalk if there is nothing but crap on the table or given with the tray of balls. Bars I often just chalked with the corners and edges of chalk sticking up from the deep center hole. I figured a ring on the ferrule was the sign of a banger but I do see it on some pro's sticks now. Efren usually has a chalk ring around the ferrule of his cue and he often turns chalk upside down on the rail. No sign is 100% accurate!

Hu
 
I've left loads of them at bars and pool rooms. Just as a novelty, I try not to advertise.
I've occasionally swiped one unintentionally. Back when I put them in my pocket. I now have a magnetic holder and am semi-partial to Tiger chalk now so I never do that anymore.

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Sheldon said:
I've left loads of them at bars and pool rooms. Just as a novelty, I try not to advertise.
I've occasionally swiped one unintentionally. Back when I put them in my pocket. I now have a magnetic holder and am semi-partial to Tiger chalk now so I never do that anymore.

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I think advertising labels to go over a square cube of chalk are a fine idea. Always meant to get some printed but never got around to it. Using Master chalk I usually leave mine behind when it is down to the paper, a long ways from worn out. One or two sessions and I am not a frequent chalker. Feeling no need to get out to the edge of adhesion most of the time I don't feel any need to chalk either.

Hu
 
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