Oct 19, 2016 | Rule Reminders and Clarifications
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can still ruin a great poker game. We, as a league, cannot tolerate behavior at our games that would discourage other players from coming back, or cause our wonderful volunteer tournament directors any unnecessary stress...
Sep 11, 2016 | Rule Reminders and Clarifications
Following is a scenario that occurred recently. Blinds were 300/600. A player raised to 1800. Another player didn’t hear or see the raise, and said “raise to 2,000” while putting 2,000 chips in the pot. I didn’t want to get bogged down in a...
Sep 2, 2016 | Rule Reminders and Clarifications
There is a widespread misconception that any card exposed to a player in the blinds is a misdeal. The actual rule, though, is that if either of the first two cards off the deck is exposed, a misdeal is declared. The exact misdeal scenario from the Poker Tournament...
Aug 25, 2016 | Rule Reminders and Clarifications
There are two situations in which there is some confusion about the minimum raise amount. To really understand how this works, we need to first wrap our heads around one critical distinction, and that is the difference between a “raise” amount and a...