This thread:
http://www.bgonline.org/forums/webbb....pl?read=55861
...reminded me to inquire re two rules disagreements that I was party to in Las Vegas -- one at the Jackson's Bar Tuesday game, and the other at the Open in November.
1) 7-game match at Jackson's Bar: At a critical point in the match I reflexively reverted to an old habit and rolled bare-handed without using the dice cup (When I last played live BG in the 70's, nobody bothered with dice cups - at least not in my circle of mostly tournament bridge players.). My opponent grabbed the dice just as they came to rest. "Don't do that again, please." Fair enough, mea culpa. Then he put the dice back on the board, quickly saw that the numbers were to his advantage, and then insisted that I play the roll -- his perogative under the "new rules", or so he claimed. My thought at the time: This guy shouldn't be handling my dice no matter how I rolled them -- but I was a stranger at Jackson's, I hadn't played live BG in decades, and I the only multi-point matches I ever played at all were in a beer-addled, zero-stakes tournament in college, so I took his word for it and played the lousy roll.
Was my opponent's interpretation of the "new rules" correct in this situation?
2) 7-game match, Las Vegas Open, $100-buy-in jackpot: Again a critical point in a game and in the match, and I reverted to another old habit and carelessly threw the dice on my opponent's (my left) side of the board instead of on my side. (When I played in the 70's, ANY rolled dice that landed flat were good -- on my side, on your side, on the bar, on top of a checker, on the table, and, yes, on the floor. Not cocked: the roll counted, period.) "Not a legal roll", he said -- but, as he quickly saw, a good roll for him. "It's my choice under the 'new rules', and I want you to play it." The guy seemed like a seasoned tournament player, and I was not, so I took his word for it and played the lousy roll.
Was my opponent's interpretation of the "new rules" correct in this situation?