Guidelines
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- Venue
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- Management
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- Directors
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- Floor People
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- Dealers
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- Terms & Conditions
Rules
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- Tournament Staff
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- Dealer Error
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- Players
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- Discrepancies And Rulings
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- Ethical Play
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- One Player To A Hand, No Disclosure, No Advice
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- Poker Etiquette
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- Deal Making
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- Penalties And Disqualifications
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- Official Language
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- Communication Devices
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- Electronic Devices
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- Valid Identification
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- Registration
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- Alternate Players
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- Late Entries
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- Absent Player
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- Re-Buys
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- Seating
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- At Your Seat
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- Seat Cards
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- Moving Tables
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- Re-Drawing Of Seats
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- Breaking Tables
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- Balancing Tables
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- Cards
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- Suit Ranking
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- Dealing
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- Deck Changes
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- Fouled Deck
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- Cards Visible
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- Unprotected Cards
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- Rabbit Hunting
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- Chips
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- Starting Chips
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- Chips Visible
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- Color Up
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- Chip Race
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- Dealer Button
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- Placement Of Dealer Button
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- Dead Button
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- Button In Heads Up
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- Misplaced Button
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- Blinds
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- Dodging Blinds
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- New Limits
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- Hand For Hand
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- Payout Level
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- Final Table
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- Betting Line
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- Safe Zone
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- Verbal Or Physical Declaration Of Action
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- Checking
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- Calling
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- Action Pending
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- Calling “Time”
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- Calling For A “Clock”
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- Betting
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- Pot Size
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- All In
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- All In Button
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- Raise Requirements
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- Methods Of Raising
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- String Raise
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- Oversized Chip
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- Folding/ Mucking
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- Mucked Hands
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- Exposing Cards
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- Show One Player, Show All Players
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- Face Up
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- Showdown
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- Killing Winning Hands
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- Verbal Declaration Of Hand
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- Miscalling A Hand
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- Playing The Board
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- Pot Awarding
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- Odd Chip
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- Side Pot
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- Dead Hand
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- Misdeals
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- Board Errors
Rule 79 - Dead Hand
- 79.1
In certain situations, a player may have their hand declared a 'dead hand.'
- 79.2
Floor People and Tournament Directors reserve the right, at their sole discretion, to declare a player’s hand dead.
- 79.3
A hand will be declared dead if:
- You fold or announce that you are folding when facing a bet or a raise.
- You throw your hand away in over and inside the betting line or in a forward motion, facedown, causing another player to act behind you.
- In stud, when facing a bet, you pick your up cards off the table, turn your up cards facedown, or mix your up cards and down cards together.
- The hand does not contain the proper number of cards for that particular game. In Stud games, a hand missing the final card will not be a dead hand. In drawing games, a hand missing a card, before the draw, will not be a dead hand if the draw is still live.
- You act on a hand with knowledge that the deck is 'fouled.'
- You have the 'clock' on you when facing a bet or raise and exceed the specified time limit.
- Cards thrown into the muck will be ruled a 'dead hand,' unless a player is involved in an 'all in, showdown' situation. However, House Rules will take precedence. Venues/ House Rules that are governed by juridical gaming laws pertaining to a retrievable rule shall apply.
- You are not in your seat by the time the last card is dealt, which completes the initial deal
- You use a 'communication device' at the table with your action still pending.
