Re: Poker Game Rules
DRAW POKER (JACKS OR BETTER)
All five card jacks or better draw games require a pair of jacks or better to open the pot. The game is played with a 53-card deck, which includes the joker. The joker can be used either as an ace or as any card that completes a straight, flush or straight flush.
All limit five card draw games have fixed limit betting. There are two betting rounds, one before the draw and one after the draw. The betting limit after the draw is twice the amount of the betting limit before the draw. In all draw poker games, check and raise is permitted and a bet and six raises is allowed in all multi-handed pots. Note: A player who opens the pot in jacks or better must show the openers, whether the hand is called or not, in order to win the pot. Five aces is the best possible hand (four aces and joker).
Rules of Draw Poker (Jacks or Better)
A pair of jacks or better is required to open the pot. If no player opens the pot, the button moves forward and each player must ante again, unless the limit of antes has been reached for the particular game. If the opener shows false openers before the draw, any other active player has the opportunity to declare the pot opened. However, any player who originally passed openers is not eligible to declare the pot open. The false opener has a dead hand and the opening bet stays in the pot. Any other bet placed in the pot by the opener may be withdrawn, provided the action before the draw is not completed. If no other player declares the pot open, all bets are returned except the opener's first bet. The first bet and antes will remain in the pot, and all players who were involved in that hand are entitled to play the next hand after anteing again. Any player who has legally declared the pot opened must prove openers in order to win the pot.
In all cases, the pot will play (even if the opener shows or declares a fouled hand) if there has been a raise, two or more players call the opening bet, or all action is completed before the draw. Once action has been completed before the draw, the opener may not withdraw any bets, whether or not the hand contains qualifying openers. If the opener is the only remaining player (before or after the draw) and they cannot prove openers or the opening hand is otherwise fouled, then all bets are returned except the opening bet and antes. Only those players who participated in the falsely opened hand are eligible to compete, and there is another ante. This deal passes to the left. An opener may be allowed to retrieve their hand to prove openers at the management's discretion. Any player may request that the opener retain the opening hand and show it after the winner of the pot has been determined.
You may split openers, but you must declare that you are splitting and place all discards under a chip to be exposed by the dealer after the completion of the hand. If you declare that you are splitting openers, but it is determined that you could not possibly have had openers when your final hand is compared with your discards, you will lose the pot.
You are not splitting opener if you retain openers. If you begin with the ace, joker, king, queen of spades and the ten of clubs, you are not splitting if you throw the ten of clubs away. You are breaking a straight to draw to a royal flush, and you have retained openers (ace, joker).
After the draw, if you call the opener's bet and cannot beat openers, you will not get your bet back.
The joker may only be used as an ace, or in straights, flushes or straight flushes.
If the joker is used to make a flush, it will be the highest card of the flush not present in the hand.
Any player may draw up to five consecutive cards.
Five cards is a playing hand. More or fewer than five cards after the draw is a fouled hand. A player with fewer than five cards may get additional cards necessary to complete their hand before the draw, provided no action has been taken by the first player to act (unless the action occurs before the deal is
completed). The dealer position may still receive the fifth card even if action has taken place. If action has been taken, a player may draw the necessary card(s) to complete a-five-card hand.
If you are asked how may cards you drew by another active player, you are obligated to respond until there has been action after the draw, and the dealer is also obligated to respond. Once there is any action after the draw, you are no longer obliged to respond and the dealer cannot respond.
You may change the number of cards you wish to draw, provided:
a) No cards have been dealt off the deck in response to your request (including the burn card). No player has acted on their hand based on the number of cards you have requested. Cards that are exposed face up by the dealer before the draw must be kept. Cards that are exposed by the dealer on the draw cannot be kept. These cards will be replaced at the end of the draw.
Checking and raising is permitted.
A maximum of a bet and six raises is permitted in multi-handed pots.
You may not change your seat between hands when there are multiple antes or forfeited money in the pot.
Rapping the table in turn constitutes a pass, but rapping the table in turn
also may mean the declaration of a pat hand. A player who indicates a pat hand by rapping the table, not knowing the pot has been raised, may still play their hand.
If you are all in for the ante you may play for just the antes. If no one opens and there is another ante, you may still play for the antes that you matched. |
Artist/Author: DRAW POKER (JACKS OR BETTER)
Date: Thursday March 22, 2007 5:44:22 pm |
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