Red Circle CB

Sloppy Pockets · 2016-02-29T18:33:23+00:00

I know there's been several threads about various cue balls and their supposed properties, but I wanted to share my recent experiences and get some new opinions. I never thought much about cue balls until I finally got my own table four years ago. After all, at the places I've played most of my life, you didn't have much choice but to use the big ball. Since then I've gotten a measles ball, a Rempe training ball, a blue circle ball that came with my Centennials, and the Aramith ball I got with the Premier set that came with my table. I've read a lot here about the red circle ball being the choice of rotation players because it is "zingier", but I took that talk with a grain of salt. Last month I started league at the local pool room, and they use the red circle ball. The ball definitely seemed easier to draw for me, so I bought one about a month ago and have been using it exclusively ever since. Now, what has got me really intrigued about the ball is not so much how I can move it, but how clean it stays. I just realized the other day that I haven't cleaned it once since I got it a month ago. Chalk doesn't seem to stick to it at all. Masters, Black Diamond, Magic Chalk, Cuel... even Kamui barely adheres to it. I just went down to the table and smeared as much Kamui lipstick on my tip as I could get to stick to it, hit the ball square in the middle of the red circle, and took a look at it. There were a few tiny specks of chalk stuck to the surface, but they wiped away so easily it was ridiculous. BTW the chalk grabs the ball fine. I can get all the spin I want, just no chalk stays on the ball after the hit. Thoughts? Are all red circles like this, or did just I end up with a magic CB?

Thread starter Sloppy Pockets
Start date Feb 29, 2016

Bank it

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Mar 16, 2016

Best cue ball out there. The players choice for many a moon. What I don't understand is how anyone plays the measle ball, makes me sick watching it rotate.

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