Rules

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 in turn, a player wants to make a bet, the bet must be a minimum of the large blind. 
12. 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.
13. 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. If a player folds out of turn the hand is considered dead.
14. If at tournament time expiration, a winner has not been determined; finishing places will be based on chip counts.
15. Announcing of cards is strictly prohibited.
16. There is a “cards read” policy.
17. No string bets. No splashing the pot.
18. No one under the age of 18 is permitted to participate in the tournament or be in the hall premises.
19. No cell phone use at the table at any time
20. English and only English is to be spoken at the tables.
21. No foul language, throwing of cards, chips or otherwise rude behavior will be tolerated.
22. All decisions by management are final with a zero tolerance policy.

$1/$2 Limit Cash Game House Rules

1. Minimum buy in to sit in at a cash table is $20.
2. All bets and raises must be in increments of $2
3. The raises on a round of betting are “capped” at $8. This allows three raises on a betting round. Limit poker places a restriction in multi-handed pots on the number of raises that can take place on a betting round. In heads-up play, the restriction is removed.
4. Strattle bets are allowed in limit hold’em.
5. A rake is taken. The rake is the money that the house takes out of each pot.
6. If a player leaves the table the hold cards will not be dealt to him/her in their absence. If they miss a blind the dealer will place a “big blind” or “small blind” button in your position. When you return to the table you must pay the dealer the small blind you missed and this will go directly into the pot. If you return to the table and are not in a blind position and wish to play the next hand you must post the large blind to be put back in action at the table.
7. If the 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 the dealer exposes one 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 no time, in the middle of a hand, is a player allowed to reach into their pocket to buy more chips. The player must play the hand out with the chips he/she has on the table.
10. A verbal statement denotes your action and is binding. If in your turn you verbally declare a fold, check, bet, call or raise, you are forced to take that action. If a player folds out of turn, those cards are considered dead.
11. Between hands a player may get up at any time to cash in their chips.
12. No splashing the pot.
13. Announcing the cards are strictly prohibited. There is a “cards read” policy.
14. No cell phone use at the table at any time.
15. English and only English is to be spoken at the tables.
16. No foul language, throwing of cards, chips or otherwise rude behavior will be tolerated.
17. All decisions by management are final with a zero tolerance policy.