Guidelines
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- Terms & Conditions
Rules
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- Tournament Staff
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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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- Mucked Hands
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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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- Odd Chip
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- Side Pot
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- Dead Hand
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Rule 7 - Poker Etiquette
- 7.1
To maintain the integrity and fairness of the tournament and to provide a player friendly environment, the following actions are considered improper and unsportsmanlike behavior. Tournament Directors and Floor People will issue penalties for the following etiquette violations. Repeated infractions are subject to escalating penalties.
- Acting out of turn, intentionally and/or repeatedly.
- Intentionally folding/mucking out of turn, including abandoning a hand.
- Miscalling his or her hand, intentionally and/or repeatedly.
- Exposing cards with action pending, intentionally and/or repeatedly.
- Needlessly stalling the action of a hand.
- Violating the “one player to a hand” rule, including coaching a player or talking about the hand to another person either at the table or on the rail, during a live hand.
- Revealing the contents of any live or folded cards during a live hand.
- Making unfair statements and/or promoting action that could influence any player’s decision.
- Any form of soft play, including verbally or mutually agreeing to check a hand down, when a third player is all-in.
- Incorrectly instructing or controlling the action or a player.
- Any form of “rabbit hunting.”
- Splashing chips directly into the pot, intentionally and/or repeatedly.
- Mucking their hand at the dealer, a player or in an abusive manner.
- Throwing or destroying card(s), intentionally.o)Abusive or disruptive behavior.
- Unnecessarily touching another player’s cards or chips.
