1)              Registration: Registration is open until the end of the second level of blinds at approximately 40 minutes.  Late registrants will incur a chip penalty of 100 in tournament chips for every 5 minutes after a tournament has begun.  Chips are not placed into play without a player present. 2)              Determining Dealer Position: All players will draw a card to determine the dealer position.  The deal is determined by high card, in rank not suit.  This process is done: 1) At the start of every tournament; 2) When an equal or greater amount of players are seated due to breaking down a table; 3) When creating the final table. 3)              Cuts: A cut is required. The cut should be offered to player immediately right of dealer that was in previous hand.   If player opts to not cut the cards, the dealer must cut the cards. 4)              Blinds: Players are obligated to pay their "Blinds" (a "blind" is a fixed amount of money, which is automatically put into the pot in Hold-em tournaments, prior to the hand being dealt, to force action). Blinds are raised consistently throughout the tournament according to the blind structure and at facilitator discretion.  The Small Blind (SB) is the position immediately to the left of the dealer button and the Big Blind (BB) is the player to the immediate left of the SB. (It is possible for a player to take two BB in a row. For example, if they had just had the BB at their table, which just broke down and then was seated in the BB at the new table.) 5)              Live Hands: A player must be at his or her seat by the time it is his or her turn in order to have a live hand. An absent player is always dealt a hand, and will be put up for all blinds.  A player must remain at the table if they possess a live hand. 6)              Misdeals: Exposure of one of the first two cards dealt is a misdeal.  Players may be dealt two consecutive cards on the button. (TDA: 27) 7)              Dealing Errors: If a dealer exposes the flop, turn, or river before all action is completed for the current betting round, the exposed card(s) must be re-shuffled with remaining deck.  This allows the card(s) the same possibility to be exposed in the current hand. 8)              Chips and Cards on the Table: Player's chips must remain on the table at all times, unless you are reassigned to another table.  Players must keep their higher denomination chips visible and identifiable at all times.  Chips must immediately be taken to the new table while in view at all times. All cards must remain above the table-top during play. 9)              Betting: The minimum bet on any hand is equal to the big blind, pre-flop, on the flop, on the turn, and the river.  All raises must be at least the sum of the previous bet and the big blind.  Postflop example: (Blinds 300/600) If a player bets 800, a raise must be at least 1400. (Blind: 600 + Bet: 800) 10)          Verbal Declarations/Acting In Turn: Verbal declarations in turn are binding.  Players are required to act in turn.  Action out of turn will be binding if the action to that player has not changed.  A check, call, or fold is not considered action changing. 11)          Oversized Chip: Anytime when facing a bet (or blind), placing a single oversized chip in the pot is a call if a raise is not first verbally declared before the chip hits the table surface.  (TDA: 32) 12)          Multiple Chips: When facing a bet, unless a raise is first declared, multiple same-denomination chips is a call if removing one chip leaves less than the call amount.  Example of a call: preflop, blinds 100-200: A makes it 600 (a 400 raise), B puts out two 500 chips without declaring a raise.  (TDA: 33) 13)          String Bets: String betting is not allowed.  A player must make one betting action towards the betting circle unless the player announces raise prior to making that action.  An announced raise does not allow the player more than one trip past placing the call portion of the bet in the betting circle. (TDA: 30/36) 14)          Pot Splashing: Splashing the pot is not allowed.  A player must place bets directly in front of them.  Bets are moved into the pot by the dealer once all actions are complete.  A bet or raise thrown into the pot prior to all actions being made will be considered null and void.  Dealers should be the only players touching chips in play on the table. 15)          Calling for clock: Once a reasonable amount of time has passed and a clock is called for, a player will be given a maximum of 30-seconds to make a decision.  If action has not been taken before time expires, there will be a 10-second countdown.  If a player has not acted by the time the countdown is over, the player’s hand will be dead. (TDA: 20) 16)          Showdown: At the end of the last round of betting, the player who made the last aggressive action in that betting round must show first.  If there was no bet, the player to the left of the button shows first and so on clockwise. (TDA: 11)  Both hole cards are required to be exposed to win the hand.  At the end of a hand, if a player exposes one hole card, he or she must also show the other hole card if asked to do so by another player in the current hand.  In the event a player shows his or her cards first and out of turn, the player forfeits the right to require the other player to show his or her cards.  Cards speak.  Verbal declarations as to the content of a player’s hand are not binding; however, any player deliberately miscalling his or her hand may be penalized. (TDA: 8) 17)          No Disclosure: Players are obligated to protect other players in the tournament at all times.  Therefore, whether in a hand or not, players may not a.) Disclose contents of live or folded hands, b.) Advise or criticize play before action is completed, or c.) Read a hand that hasn’t been tabled.  The one-player-to-a-hand rule will be enforced.  Any player receiving advice/coaching is subject to having their hand mucked or being disqualified from the tournament.  If a player exposes a live hand to any other player who also possesses a live hand, this shall denote a fold, and the players cards are shown to everyone at the table and mucked. 18)          Face Up: All cards will be turned face up once a player is all-in and all betting action is complete.  (TDA: 9) A player may opt to stay blind if they previously haven’t looked at their cards. 19)          Mucked Cards: Players should never take cards back once cards are folded or placed in the muck pile.  All hands are considered dead once the player mucks or folds cards face down towards the muck pile.  20)          Odd Chips/Side Pots: If a player lacks sufficient chips for a blind or a forced bet, the player is entitled to get action on whatever amount of money remains. In this situation, a side pot could occur for players with remaining chips. If a player is unable to complete the big blind in that position, the required pre-flop call remains the big blind amount.  If a player is unable to bet the big blind after the flop, the call is only the current all-in bet.  In the event of a side-pot that is tied or “chopped”, the odd chip(s) will go to the left of the button of the players in the hand.  Each side pot will be split separately. (TDA: 12/13) 21)          Rabbit Hunting: Rabbit hunting is allowed only after the flop and no active player in the hand at that time objects. 22)          Player Elimination: When a player loses all of his chips, they are eliminated from play.  If two or more players are eliminated on the same hand, the player who started the hand with the most chips will be awarded the higher finishing position. If these players started the hand with the same amount of chips, the player with the higher losing hand will be awarded the higher finishing position. In the event of a shared hand and the same amount of chips, the players will draw for high card out of a reshuffled deck.  Once a player is eliminated from a session, they must vacate their seat when asked by the facilitator.  Tournaments will continue until one player wins all of the chips. A 3-hour time limit may be applied; In this instance, the player with the most chips wins. 23)          Dead Button: If a player in the small blind is eliminated, the button remains at the current dealer position. The two players to the immediate left of the button shall post small and big blinds. If the player in the big blind is eliminated, the button moves one position, and the player to the immediate left of the dealer posts big blind only. On the following hand, the button remains at the current position, immediately to the left of the dealer posts a small blind, and two positions away will post a big blind. After this sequence, blind positions return to normal. This process is to insure that all players post first a big blind, and second a small blind. (TDA: 24) 24)          Breaking Tables: Players going from a broken table to fill in seats assume the rights and responsibilities of the position.  They can get big blind, small blind, or the button.  The only place they cannot get a hand is between the small blind and the button.  (TDA: 5) 25)          Balancing Tables: Players will be moved from big blind to the worst position, including taking a single big blind when available.  Worst position is never the small blind.  The table from which a player is moved will be determined by facilitator discretion. (TDA: 6) 26)          Color Up: Chips are removed from the table per the blind/color-up structure. All lower denomination chips that are of sufficient quantity for a new chip will be changed up directly. The remaining odd chips will be rounded up to the next chip denomination. 27)          Button in Heads-up: In heads-up play, the small blind is on the button and acts first preflop and last postflop.  When beginning heads-up play, the button may need to be adjusted to ensure no player takes the big blind twice in a row. (TDA: 26) 28)          Etiquette: Poker etiquette is expected from all players. Inappropriate behavior like throwing cards/chips that go off the table, arguing, excessive cursing, cheating, delay of the game, repeatedly acting out of turn, etc., may result in the player being evicted from the tournament and the facility and may not be allowed to play in future tournaments. 29)          Gambling: All participants are prohibited from placing any form of currency on a session table, as state law prohibits this. There will be no exceptions to this rule and violators may be asked to leave immediately. There will be no gambling whatsoever on any hands or outcomes of the tournaments. Any violation may result in the player to be evicted from the current tournament, the facility and all future tournaments. 30)          Facilitator/Management: The facilitator’s decision is final on all disputes.  Unusual circumstances can on occasion dictate that decisions in the interest of fairness take priority over the technical rules.  Management retains the right to cancel any event or alter it in a manner fair to all players.