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Speed Gammon Clock Ruling

Posted By: Albert Steg
Date: Sunday, 13 May 2018, at 2:10 p.m.

In Response To: Speed Gammon Clock Ruling (Jason Lee)

I simplified the story a little bit for the sake of posting the question -- My clock was higher, maybe around 25 seconds when I closed him out and he objected shortly thereafter. So while we disputed the issue, my clock ran down to around 8-10 seconds and I had to be careful to roll and play cleanly for the last several shakes, which was harder to do than usual because I was feeling angry.

Having had more experience at this point, I think I would have the calm and knowledge to pause the clock immediately when he spoke up and sort the situation out. If I lapsed and allowed the time to run down as in this case, I should get the TD over to restore my time before proceeding. I'd suppose that if I lost on time several rolls after the incident, I'd be in a tougher position to argue for the extra time. And of course I could still have left a shot in the bear off and found myself under time pressure in the post-hit game.

The players at the next table expressed disgust at the person's behavior afterwards.

Messages In This Thread

• Speed Gammon Clock Ruling
  Albert Steg -- Saturday, 12 May 2018, at 2:51 a.m.
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    BenF -- Saturday, 12 May 2018, at 2:54 a.m.
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      Art Grater -- Saturday, 12 May 2018, at 9:26 p.m.
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    Casper Van der Tak -- Saturday, 12 May 2018, at 8:01 a.m.
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    Stick -- Saturday, 12 May 2018, at 2:09 p.m.
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    Jason Lee -- Saturday, 12 May 2018, at 8:30 p.m.
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      Albert Steg -- Sunday, 13 May 2018, at 2:10 p.m.
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    niuniuch -- Sunday, 13 May 2018, at 8:17 a.m.
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      Colin Owen -- Sunday, 13 May 2018, at 1:44 p.m.
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      Albert Steg -- Sunday, 13 May 2018, at 1:57 p.m.
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    Bob Koca -- Monday, 14 May 2018, at 2:40 a.m.
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      Florin Popa -- Monday, 14 May 2018, at 12:38 p.m.
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        Colin Owen -- Monday, 14 May 2018, at 1:07 p.m.
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          Florin Popa -- Monday, 14 May 2018, at 2:05 p.m.
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            PINO -- Thursday, 17 May 2018, at 9:41 a.m.
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              Bob Koca -- Friday, 18 May 2018, at 12:38 a.m.
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                Colin Owen -- Friday, 18 May 2018, at 4:43 a.m.
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                Florin Popa -- Friday, 18 May 2018, at 10:17 a.m.
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                  Tom Keith -- Friday, 18 May 2018, at 11:43 a.m.
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                    Colin Owen -- Friday, 18 May 2018, at 12:35 p.m.