Guidelines
- 1
- Venue
- 2
- 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
- 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
- 40
- 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
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- Action Pending
- 56
- 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
- 62
- 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
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- Pot Awarding
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- Odd Chip
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- Side Pot
- 79
- Dead Hand
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- Misdeals
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- Board Errors
Rule 52 - Verbal Or Physical Declaration Of Action
- 52.1
A 'declaration of action' may be an obvious physical motion or verbal statement: a fold, check, bet, call, raise, re-raise or 'all-in.'
- 52.2
Players are strongly encouraged to verbally declare their action.
- 52.3
A player is responsible for clearly stating their action in turn.
- 52.4
A player intentionally acting out of turn will receive a penalty.
- A “declaration of action” IN TURN will be binding; the player will be forced to take the declared action.
- A “declaration of action” OUT OF TURN will only be binding if the action to that player has not changed. A check, call, or fold is not considered action changing. A player intentionally acting out of turn will receive a penalty. The penalty may be waived if the player was misled by the dealer, if the interim player had his/her chips concealed appearing to be 'all-in' or if the interim player had their cards concealed appearing not to have a live hand.
