Hold Em’ House Rules

 1.) Rounds will be 20 minutes each. Management reserves the right to modify time periods and/or introduce antes in order to insure the tournament completion within the allotted time.
 2.) All chips must stay on the table at all times. Any player hiding or pocketing chips will be immediately eliminated from tournament play.
 3.) Chips have a numeric value, not a monetary value.
 4.) You may not loan, give, sell or in any way exchange your chips with another player. If caught doing so, you will be automatically eliminated from the tournament.
 5.) If it is your turn to bet and you are absent from the table, the dealer will automatically fold your hand.
 6.) If it is your turn to place a blind bet and you are absent from the table, the dealer will place your bet from your chips.
 7.) If dealer takes, or if you expose, flip over, muck or throw away your cards out of turn then those cards will be considered dead, even if you have the winning hand. It is the player’s responsibility to protect his or her cards.
 8.) If dealer exposes one card while dealing, the dealer will continue dealing all other cards, muck the exposed card (becomes the first burn card); and give the last card to the player whose card was exposed. If dealer exposes the very first card to the small blind or exposes two cards, it is considered a misdeal and the hand is to be re-dealt.
 9.) A verbal statement denotes your action and is binding. If in turn you verbally declare a fold, check, bet, call or raise, you are forced to take that action.
 10.) If a player in call position places a single chip with a denomination higher than the previous bet it is considered to be a call. However, after the flop, turn or river if you are in a betting position and you place out a bet larger than the blind and do not make a verbal statement that is your bet. (ex: if the blinds are 200/400 and it is your turn to bet and you place out a 1000 chip without a verbal statement you just made a 1000 bet.
 11.) If a player is in betting position and wants to raise, the raise must be a minimum of the large blind. All raises must be equal to or greater than the size of the previous bet or raise on that betting round, except for an all-in wager.
 12.) Deliberately acting out of turn will not be tolerated. A player who checks out of turn may not bet or raise on the next turn to act.
 13.) If at tournament time expiration, a winner has not been determined; finishing places will be based on chip counts.
 14.) Announcing of cards is strictly prohibited.
 15.) There is a “cards read” policy.
 16.) No string bets. No splashing the pot.
 17.) No one under the age of 18 is permitted to participate in the tournament or be in the hall premises.
 18.) No cell phone use at the table at any time.
 19.) English and only English is to be spoken at the tables.
 20.) No foul language, throwing of cards, chips or otherwise rude behavior will be tolerated.
 21.) All decisions by management are final with a zero tolerance policy.