[Al_Capone_Junior]

My experience has always been that if you have chips on the table when the time charge is due, you pay, regardless of your situation. If you come in after time is collected, you "might" just get yourself up to almost a half hour free, but that's not always going to be true. Some houses have charged me a portion of the time charge when seating me, 1/3 or 2/3 of it, depending on how much time was left before the next time charge was due. This was typical in san diego (at the lucky lady) before they went to a drop system. (the board made no difference)

al