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Bill & Karen’s Poker Rules

1) One player to a hand.

2) Do not show your cards to players still in the hand.

3) Protect your cards! Put a chip or other marker on top of your live cards. In a casino, if your cards are unprotected, and some shmuck shoots his cards down the table and they touch your cards, your hand is dead. We’re a little more lenient, and usually won’t kill your hand if this happens, but if there’s any confusion about which cards are yours, they are dead. So put something on your cards if you’re playing them!

4) Use the cut card on the bottom of the deck to prevent the card on the bottom from accidentally being exposed to other players.

5) Don’t splash the pot. Set your bet out in front of your cards. When the betting round is complete, we all push our chips to the middle. If you need change, we’ll take care of that after all the betting is complete.

6) No string betting. When you bet or raise, you have to either announce the total amount you’re betting or raising by, or have all the chips you intend to bet in your hands as you put them out. You cannot say simply raise, put out some chips, then go back to your stack for more chips, and put those out. The only time you’re allowed to go back to your stack for additional chips after you’ve put chips out, is if you’ve announced your total amount prior to putting the first part of the chips out.

7) Any card which leaves the table, flips over, or is exposed to another player, is dead. The card is placed face up by the player whom it was intended for. The deal continues around, and the player receives the card which would have been the 1^st burn card. The exposed card becomes the burn card. If two cards become exposed, it is a misdeal.

8) Designated dealer. We will develop a pool of players who are willing and able to deal. Prior to seat assignments, we’ll randomly select one dealer for each table. That player will sit in the middle position, deal all hands at the table, and be responsible for ensuring the proper play of each hand. Anyone interested in being in this pool of dealers needs to be able to do proper board riffles (shuffling with the cards flat on the table) and box cuts, and understand various other aspects of dealing. I will be happy to teach anyone interested.

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