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The following actions are considered inappropriate, and grounds for warning, suspension, or barring as a violator.
- Deliberately acting out of turn.
- Deliberately splashing chips into the pot.
- Agreeing to check a hand out when a third player is all-in.
- Reading a hand for another player at…
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- Players should respect the decisions made by the management of a poker establishment or tournament and in general management usually reserve the right to make decisions in the spirit of fairness, even if a strict interpretation of the rules may indicate…
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- Management will decide when to start or close any game.
- Cash is not permitted on the table. All cash should be changed into chips in order to play. If a player appears unaware of this rule and attempts to play unnoticed…
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- The house can reserve the right to require that any two players not play in the same game (husband and wife, relatives, business partners, and so forth).
- When a button game starts, active players will draw a card for the button position. The…
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In button games, a non-playing dealer normally does the actual dealing. A round disk called the button is used to indicate which player has the dealer position. The player with the button is last to receive cards on the initial deal and has the…
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In Texas Hold’em, players receive two down cards as their personal hand (hole cards), after which there is a round of betting. Three community cards are turned simultaneously (called the “flop”) and another round of betting occurs. The next two community cards are turned…
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Omaha is similar to Texas Hold-em poker in using a three-card flop on the board, a fourth community card, and then a fifth community card. Each player is dealt four hole cards (instead of two) at the start. In order to make a hand, a…
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Seven-card stud is played with a starting hand of two down cards and one up card dealt before the first betting round. There are then three more up cards and a final down card, with a betting round after each, for a total of…
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The lowest hand wins the pot. Aces are low only, and two aces are the lowest pair. The format is similar to seven-card stud high, except the high card (aces are low) is required to make the forced bet on the first round, and…
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Seven-card stud high-low split is a stud game which is played both high and low. A qualifier of 8-or-better for low applies to all high-low split games (unless a specific posting to the contrary is displayed). This means to win the low half of…
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Lowball is draw poker with the lowest hand winning the pot. Each player is dealt five cards facedown, after which there is a betting round. Players are required to open with a bet or fold. The players who remain in the pot after the…
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In ace-to-five lowball, the best hand is any 5-4-3-2-A. An ace is the lowest-ranking card. For hands with a pair, A-A beats 2-2. Straights and flushes do not count against your hand.
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In deuce-to-seven lowball (sometimes known as Kansas City lowball), in most respects, the worst conventional poker hand wins. Straights and flushes count against you, crippling the value of a hand. The ace is used only as a high card. Therefore, the best hand is…
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- All the rules for no-limit and pot-limit poker (see No-limit and Pot-limit) apply to no-limit and pot-limit lowball. All other lowball rules apply, except as noted.
- A player is not entitled to know that an opponent does not hold the best…
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There are two betting rounds, one before the draw and one after the draw. The game is played with a button and an ante. Players in turn may check, open for the minimum, or open with a raise. After the first betting round the players have the…
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- A pair of jacks or better is required to open the pot. If no player opens the pot, the button moves forward and each player must ante again, unless the limit of antes has been reached for that particular game. (Most games allow…
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The players will be alerted as to whether the joker is in use.
The joker may be used only as an ace, or to complete a straight, flush, or straight flush. (Thus it is not a completely wild card.)
If the joker is used to make…
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