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Illegal Rolling

Posted By: Elliott Winslow
Date: Friday, 14 May 2010, at 2:27 a.m.

In Response To: Illegal Rolling (Leonardo Jerkovic)

At least this (illegal and suspect) style of rolling gets his hand off touching the dice on the toss. The rollers who leave their fingers such that they touch the dice are worse, toss or not.

There are also rules regarding annoying your opponent(s). Perhaps not in some chouettes, or at least chouettes in public places, for example outdoor squares near cafes (see Mill Valley for details). Depending on this roller's "client status," you might want to do anything from barring him from the chouette to making this style of rolling mandatory.

Do any of the Chicago players remember Greg De Fotis' rolling technique? He shook vigorously, then dipped the cup down to somewhere around table level, and in one motion flipped the cup rotationally forward and *fired* the dice up and across at the far wall (the opponent's side of the board -- I'd say "craps-style," but somehow I don't see him as a craps player. (On that I could be quite wrong.) The dice would pretty much always arc across the board, hit that wall, and come back, generating a most convincing random roll. The closest parallel in any world would be overhand table tennis slam. It was a thing of beauty. I tried to emulate it with a high percentage of disastrous consequences.

Messages In This Thread

• Illegal Rolling
  Seth -- Sunday, 9 May 2010, at 9:24 p.m.
  • Illegal Rolling
    Daniel Murphy -- Sunday, 9 May 2010, at 9:33 p.m.
    • Illegal Rolling
      Seth -- Sunday, 9 May 2010, at 9:39 p.m.
      • Illegal Rolling
        Seth -- Sunday, 9 May 2010, at 9:44 p.m.
      • Illegal Rolling
        Daniel Murphy -- Sunday, 9 May 2010, at 9:47 p.m.
        • Illegal Rolling
          Leonardo Jerkovic -- Sunday, 9 May 2010, at 10:04 p.m.
          • Illegal Rolling
            Elliott Winslow -- Friday, 14 May 2010, at 2:27 a.m.
  • Illegal Rolling
    Barry Silliman -- Sunday, 9 May 2010, at 11:17 p.m.
    • Illegal Rolling
      Seth -- Sunday, 9 May 2010, at 11:59 p.m.
      • Illegal Rolling
        Leonardo Jerkovic -- Monday, 10 May 2010, at 12:05 a.m.
      • Illegal Rolling
        Timothy Chow -- Monday, 10 May 2010, at 12:18 a.m.
      • Illegal Rolling
        Barry Silliman -- Monday, 10 May 2010, at 2:19 a.m.
      • Illegal Rolling
        Rich Munitz -- Monday, 10 May 2010, at 2:57 a.m.
        • Illegal Rolling
          Stick -- Monday, 10 May 2010, at 3:33 a.m.
          • Illegal Rolling
            Bill Riles -- Monday, 10 May 2010, at 4:09 a.m.
          • Illegal Rolling
            Rich Munitz -- Monday, 10 May 2010, at 4:20 a.m.
  • Illegal Rolling
    Bill Riles -- Monday, 10 May 2010, at 3:25 a.m.
  • Illegal Rolling
    garyo -- Monday, 10 May 2010, at 3:36 a.m.
  • Illegal Rolling
    phil Simborg -- Monday, 10 May 2010, at 8:14 a.m.
  • Illegal Rolling
    Christian Munk-Christensen -- Monday, 10 May 2010, at 8:15 a.m.
  • Illegal Rolling
    neilkaz -- Monday, 10 May 2010, at 5:04 p.m.