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No Limit Hold ’em
The Gardens Casino offers: No Limit Hold’em, all players receive two down cards as their personal hand, after which there is a round of betting. Three board cards are turned simultaneously (called the “flop”) and another round of betting occurs. The next two board cards are turned one at a time, with a round of betting after each card. The board cards are community cards, and after the final round of betting, a player may use any five-card combination from among the board and personal cards. A player may even use all of the board cards and no personal cards to form a hand. This is called “playing the board.”
The Gardens Casino Baccarat
The object of the game is to make a choice on which hand, Player or Banker, will end up with a point value closest to nine (9). The Gardens Casino Baccarat plays the same way as regular baccarat except that it eliminates the commission on the Banker Line wagers and replaces it by “barring” one specific winning Bank hand as follows. The winning bank hand consisting of three (3) cards and totaling seven (7) points. The appearance of this hand is known as the “Dragon 7”.
The value of each hand is determined by totaling the sum of the cards. An Ace has a value of 1, the 2 through 9 are face value and the 10, Jack, Queen, and King have a value of 0. The total value of the hand is the last digit when the values of the cards are added. Ex. 9 + 7 = 16 and 6 is the value of the hand.
Customers may place a wager(s) on Player or Banker (Base Game Wager). Players that have placed a Base Game Wager may also place a “Dragon 7″ bet (three (3) card winning Bank hand totaling seven (7) points); Tiger 8 bet (three card winning Player hand totaling eight (8) points or Tie Bet. All wagers must be between the table minimum and table maximum. The Dragon 7 wager can be from table minimum to a maximum of the player’s base wager bet.
Texas Hold’ em
The Gardens Casino offers: In Hold’em, all players receive two down cards as their personal hand, after which there is a round of betting. Three board cards are turned simultaneously (called the “flop”) and another round of betting occurs. The next two board cards are turned one at a time, with a round of betting after each card. The board cards are community cards, and after the final round of betting, a player may use any five-card combination from among the board and personal cards. A player may even use all of the board cards and no personal cards to form a hand. This is called “playing the board.”
Hold’em uses a flat disk called a dealer button to indicate the player who is in the dealer position for that hand (even though a non-playing casino employee actually deals). The dealer button rotates clockwise. The player with the dealer button is last to receive cards on the initial deal and has the right of last action after the first betting round.
One or more blind bets are used to stimulate action and initiate play. Blinds are posted before the players look at their cards. Blinds are part of a player’s bet, unless the structure of a specific game or the situation requires part or all of a particular blind to be “dead.” Dead chips are not part of a player’s bet. The small blind is posted by the player immediately clockwise from the button, and the big blind is posted by the player two positions clockwise from the button.
The player to the left of the blinds initiates action on the first betting round. On all subsequent betting rounds, the action begins with the first active player to the left of the button.
In non-tournament play, the button rotates one position clockwise after each deal. The button must move forward, and the blinds adjust accordingly.
Seven Card Stud
The Gardens Casino offers: Seven-card stud is played with two down cards and one up card dealt before the first betting round, followed by three more up cards (with a betting round after each card). After the last down card is dealt, there is a final round of betting. The best five-card poker hand wins the pot. In all fixed-limit games, the smaller bet is wagered on the first two betting rounds, and the larger bet is wagered betting rounds on the last three. If there is an open pair on the fourth card, any player has the option of making the smaller or larger bet.
Rules of the Game
- The first round of betting is initiated with a forced bet by the lowest value up card. A tie is broken by suit, with the lowest suit being forced to bet. On subsequent betting rounds, the high hand on board initiates the action. Ties are broken by position, with the player who received cards first acting first.
- The player with the forced bet has the option of opening for a full bet.
- Completing an opening forced bet does not count as a raise, but merely as a completion of the bet. For example: In $15-$30 stud, the low card opens for $5. If the next player to act brings the bet to $15 (completion of the bet), three additional raises are then allowed.
- In all fixed-limit games, when an open pair is showing on fourth street (second up card), any player has the option of betting either the lower or the upper limit. For example: In a $5-$10 game, if you have a pair showing and you are the high hand, you may bet either $5 or $10. If you bet $5, any succeeding player has the option to call $5, raise $5, or raise $10. If a $10 raise is made, then all other raises must be in increments of $10. If the player who makes the open pair on fourth street checks, then all other players still have the same options.
- In all games, the dealer announces the low card, the high hand, all raises, and all pairs. In limits of $10-$20 and higher, dealers do not announce possible straight or flush.
- If your first- or second-hole card is accidentally turned up by the dealer, then your third card will be dealt down. If both hole cards are dealt up, you have a dead hand and receive your ante back. If your hand would have been the low card, as a result of the first card dealt faceup, action will start with the first hand to your left. That player may fold, open for the amount of the forced bet, or open for a full bet.
- If you are not present at the table when it is your turn to act on your hand, you forfeit your ante and your forced bet, if any. If you have not returned to the table in time to act on your hand, the hand will be killed in turn.
- If you fold a hand after making a forced bet, or fold when there is no wager, your seat will continue to receive cards until a bet is made.
- If you are all in for the ante and you have the lowest card, the player to your left may come in for the forced bet, make the maximum bet, or fold the hand.
- If the wrong person is designated as low and that person bets, the action will be corrected to the proper low card, if at all possible. The true low card must bet, and the improperly designated low card may take back the incorrectly forced wager.
- If the dealer burns two cards for one round or fails to burn a card, the cards will be corrected, if at all possible, to their proper positions. If this should happen on a final down card and the cards intermingle with a player’s hole cards or a player looks at the card, the player must accept the card.
- If a dealer burns and deals one or more cards before a round of betting has been completed, the card(s) must be eliminated from play, along with an additional card for each remaining player still active in the hand. After that round of betting has concluded, the dealer re-burns, and play resumes. (The removed cards are held off to the side in the event the dealer runs out of cards.) If the prematurely dealt card is the final down card and has been looked at or intermingled with the player’s other hole cards, the player must keep the card. If there is further betting on sixth street, a player who has seven cards may not raise.
- If there are not enough cards left in the deck for all players, the dealer will deal all the cards except the last card, which is mixed with the burn cards and any cards removed from the deck, as in the previous rule. The dealer then scrambles and cuts these cards, burns again, and delivers the remaining down cards, using the last card if necessary. If there are not as many cards as players remaining without a card, the dealer does not burn, so that each player can receive a fresh card. If the dealer determines that there will not be enough fresh cards for all of the remaining players, then the dealer announces to the table that a common card will be used. The dealer will burn a card and turn one card face up in the center of the table. This card plays in everyone’s hand. The player who is now high using the community card initiates the action for the last round.
- If you pick up your up cards without calling a bet when facing a wager, and by doing so cause someone to act behind you (even in a heads-up situation), your hand is dead.
- You must have seven cards to win at the showdown.
- A card dealt off the table must play, and it is treated as an exposed card.
- If the dealer turns the last card face up to any player, the following rules apply:
- If there are more than two players, all remaining players receive their last card facedown. Prior to action for the round of betting, a player whose last card is exposed will have the option of participating in the wagering or being declared all in.
- If there are only two players remaining and the first player’s final down card is dealt face up, the second player’s final down card will also be dealt face up, and the betting proceeds as normal. In the event the first player’s final card is dealt facedown, and the opponent’s final card is dealt face up, the player with the exposed card will have the option of declaring all in. This decision must be made prior to any action on that round.
- In any of the above situations, the player who is now high on the board using all the up cards will start the action.
- If you call a bet even though you are beaten by an opponent’s up cards, you are not entitled to a refund.
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