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Originally Posted by Poker Clif
Several years ago I thought that ACR had a problem with the timing of the blinds, and i detailed a tourney including the time, date tournament number and the details of what I saw. I was told that what I saw was impossible.
Yesterday I was playing and I decided that I needed to know exactly when the blinds were going to go up. That's pretty important when you're more than an hour deep into a SNG and most players are short stacked.
I know that the blinds are 10 minutes, but I wasn't sure when the clock started. When the blinds are posted?. When the first sound comes from the computer? When the first player acts? I couldn't pin that down.
I decided that the best approach was to watch the lobby for that SNG and hit the stopwatch when it showed the start of the next level. Then I could watch the stopwatch and when it showed 10:00:00 I would see if the blinds always went up with the start of the next hand.
When my stopwatch got to 00:09:45 I watched carefully to make sure that everything was in synch. It wasn't. A new hand started at 00:11:17 and the blinds did not go up.
Are the blinds not being timed accurately? is the information on the tournament page inaccurate? Do I need to read a Stephen Hawking book so that I understand the concept of time?
I'm really frustrated and confused by this.
I took another shot at figuring this out. I used two assumptions:
1. I used the suggestion in this thread that maybe there is no running clock that starts at the beginning of the tournament and goes to the end.
2. Every time that a hand starts in a new level, a new 10-minute clock is initiated.
I was in a SNG in level 3. When level 4 started I hit my stopwatch, then hit it again when a new hand started in level 5. This time the level was too short, changing at 9 minutes and 17 seconds.
What is going on?
EDIT: I can't imagine how the code could be written to give such strange results. The only other option is that their clocks run either too slow or too fast, which given available technology doesn't make any sense either.