Finally printing out a set of house rules for display to avoid any confusion or arguments while hosting.
Majority of the people I play with didn't know what a straddle was myself included until I started looking up other peoples rules to get ideas.
I still don't totally understand it and thought it may make more sense to just add it to not allowed to make things easier.
What do you think?
Majority of the people I play with didn't know what a straddle was myself included until I started looking up other peoples rules to get ideas.
I still don't totally understand it and thought it may make more sense to just add it to not allowed to make things easier.
What do you think?
House Rules
- No Smoking inside House or Garage
- Horseplay is reserved for horses
- Chips must be visible on table
- Bet or raise must be minimum of Big Blind
- No Splashing Pot- Declare bet and keep chips in countable fashion.
- One Chip Rule- If you bet a single chip without declaring raise amount before betting it is considered a call and will receive change back from pot.
- Declare when making change from pot or ask for help doing so.
- No String Bets- (I'll Call your xxx, Pause, and raise you xxx more)
- Players out of seat but within talking distance allowed to check or call only with or without assistance at time of turn.
- Players out of seat without verbal response at time of turn becomes automatic check or fold.
- No Table Talk- Until hands are over.
- Exception- Between two players Heads-Up may talk as they wish to each other.
- No Straddling
- Cash in/out must be done at end of hand.
Dealing-
- When you are finished dealing, Cut the new deck before gathering cards from finished hand and shuffle them.
- Preferred- (Riffle x3, Box, Riffle) Followed by placing cut card on top
- Current dealer cuts the shuffled deck and passes it to the current small blind (next dealer) with cut card on the bottom
- Rinse and repeat
- Help dealer when asked or ask for help when needed.
- Please ask for help passing cards to avoid flipped cards when possible.
(NO shady business when doing so)
Misdeal- - Either of the First two cards dealt are flipped.
- 2 or more cards are flipped.
- Cards dealt to wrong seat.
- Player receives too many cards.Exception-
- A flipped card not included in rules above will become burn card and deal continues normally except with last card going to player that would have received the flipped card.