Here are the rules I post:
1. No splashing the pot. When betting, place chips in front of you.
2. Raises must be 2x the previous bet/raise
3. Verbal is binding. If you say “call”, you’ve called.
4. 1 Chip Rule. Betting 1 chip, is always a call-unless you’re 1st to act.
5. You must keep your cards on the table during play.
6. Mucked cards (in the middle) are dead.
7. You may not look at mucked cards (especially someone else’s).
8. If you win because everyone folds, you may muck your hole cards without showing. You don’t have to show a bluff.
9. If you fold, you should muck your cards without showing. However, if you show one person, you should show everyone.
10. No talking about the hand until a winner is decided. This includes commenting on the board, or hinting about what hand you would have had, or offering “advice” to others such as “I’d call him”…
11. No Food or Beverages are allowed ON the poker tables. Period!
12. If you are playing a hand,
please pay attention. Players should wait until they have folded a hand (or a break) to chat, check their phone, go to the restroom, or to get food or drink.
13. It is bad form to “Slow Roll” at showdown. This means you have the winning hand (Four Aces?) and you purposely wait to show your hand in order to sweat out your opponent. This is poor form.
14. However, it’s ok to “Slow Play” a hand, meaning you have a strong hand, but bet and play as if you don’t, trying to elicit your opponent to bet into you… but once it’s time to show, just show.
15.Touching other players’ stacks/chips is not normally allowed.
16.When dealing, you should leave the cards in the order they were dealt, never arranging them to show potential hands (ie. Straights).
17. Most importantly, everyone here is a guest in my home. Please treat each other with courtesy and respect… and have fun!
In my experience, we tend to post rules based on issues we've each had at one point in time. For instance, I had a douche player once think it was cool to needle someone by repeatedly knocking over their chip stacks. Thus a rule was born
The last rule, is the ONLY rule that I announce verbally at the start of every game (where there are new players). It sets the tone. Win or lose, don't be a douchebag if you want to continue to play in my home.
