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
- 1
- Tournament Staff
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- Dealer Error
- 3
- 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
- 8
- Deal Making
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- Penalties And Disqualifications
- 10
- Official Language
- 11
- Communication Devices
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- Electronic Devices
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- Valid Identification
- 14
- Registration
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- Alternate Players
- 16
- Late Entries
- 17
- Absent Player
- 18
- Re-Buys
- 19
- 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
- 28
- Dealing
- 29
- Deck Changes
- 30
- Fouled Deck
- 31
- 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
- 45
- Dodging Blinds
- 46
- New Limits
- 47
- Hand For Hand
- 48
- Payout Level
- 49
- Final Table
- 50
- Betting Line
- 51
- Safe Zone
- 52
- Verbal Or Physical Declaration Of Action
- 53
- Checking
- 54
- Calling
- 55
- Action Pending
- 56
- Calling “Time”
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- Calling For A “Clock”
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- Betting
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- Pot Size
- 60
- All In
- 61
- All In Button
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- Raise Requirements
- 63
- Methods Of Raising
- 64
- String Raise
- 65
- Oversized Chip
- 66
- Folding/ Mucking
- 67
- Mucked Hands
- 68
- Exposing Cards
- 69
- Show One Player, Show All Players
- 70
- Face Up
- 71
- Showdown
- 72
- Killing Winning Hands
- 73
- Verbal Declaration Of Hand
- 74
- Miscalling A Hand
- 75
- Playing The Board
- 76
- Pot Awarding
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- Odd Chip
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- Side Pot
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- Dead Hand
- 80
- Misdeals
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- Board Errors
Rule 80 - Misdeals
- 80.1
In certain situations, a dealer error will cause a 'misdeal.'
- 80.2
If a 'misdeal' is declared, all bets will be returned to players, and all action voided.
- 80.3
- The following circumstance will be cause for a 'misdeal,' if during the initial deal:
- The first or second card of the hand has been dealt face up or exposed through dealer error.
- Two or more cards have been exposed by the dealer.
- Two or more improperly faced cards are found.
- Two or more extra cards have been dealt on the initial deal.
- An incorrect number of cards have been dealt to a player, with the exception of the top card. The top card may be dealt if a player receives it in proper sequence and it can be returned to the deck.
- Any card is dealt out of the proper sequence (except an exposed card may be used as the burn card).
- Anytime a player’s initial card has been mixed with another player’s card.
- The dealer button was out of position and noticed before action has begun.
- The first card was dealt to the wrong position.
- Cards have been dealt to an empty seat or a player not entitled to a hand.
- A player has been dealt out who is entitled to a hand.
- Stud games, during a deal, if any player’s down cards are exposed.
- 80.4
After the initial deal, a 'misdeal' will only be declared in the event a 'fouled deck' is found. Once action has occurred, a 'misdeal' cannot be declared.
- In Flop games, action is considered to occur when two players after the big blind have acted. Exposure of one of the first two cards dealt is a 'misdeal.' Players may be dealt two consecutive cards on the button. If the dealer mistakenly deals the first player an extra card (after all players have received their initial hands,) the extra card will be returned to the deck and used for the burn card. If the dealer mistakenly deals more than one extra card, it is a 'misdeal.'
- In Stud-type games, action is considered to occur when two players after the forced bet have acted in turn. If any of the players’ two down cards are exposed due to dealer error it is a misdeal.
