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Sitting Out
| Reducing
| Dropping
| Collusion
| Contact
| Etiquette
| Betting
We start by asking you to agree to our Service
Agreement when you first register. Here you
will confirm that you are at least 21 years old and
playing from a location in which on-line gaming is legal.
To ensure a fair and honest playing environment, The
Odds Checker Poker Room has established rules governing
player behaviour, handling lost connectivity, how specific
situations are addressed, and policies against suspected
collusion.
Your Screen
Name is the identity by which other players can
get to know you. Part of poker is understanding
how other players bet under different conditions.
Therefore, we do not permit players to change their
screen name, except under extraordinary circumstances.
If you experience a broken connection, our software
is designed to quickly attempt to reconnect you.
The game will wait a reasonable amount of time for your
connection to be re-established. It will also
alert you, and wait a reasonable amount of time for
you, should you experience a slow connection, or a distraction
at home. If you cannot or do not respond, the
poker room software will treat you as all-in,
check you, or fold your hand depending on the state
of a hand. You will be marked as sitting-out as
well. Of course, it is poor etiquette to deliberately
slow a game down.
The virtual poker room offers players the ability to
play from the comforts of their own home, or at their
local Internet Cafe. It's not necessary to travel
to a physical poker room. Along with the convenience
of the virtual poker room come some opportunities for
the unscrupulous. Rest assured that our Poker
Room actively guards against unfair behaviour.
We will not tolerate cheating.
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Sitting Out and Blinds
In games where the position relative to the dealer can
bring advantage, we prevent players from entering and
leaving (sitting
out) games without having to post the equivalent
of the blind.
This ensures that there is no financial advantage gained
by missing the rotation of the blind.
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Reducing
When a player wins and has more chips than at the start of play, it can be
tempting to leave the table, and then immediately return with fewer chips. This is
called "reducing" and is not permitted in our poker room.
If a player leaves a table they must wait 30 minutes before returning
with fewer chips. If they wish to return within the 30 minutes they must
sit down with the same amount of chips they left with.
There are also situations when a player has lost money and wishes to
return to a table he recently left. In this case the same reducing rule
applies. Specifically, if a player sits down with 1,000. Loses
200, leaves with 800. He must sit down with 800 if he re-joins the same table within 30 minutes.
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Dropping
Using the Internet, there are times when players may
lose their connection to the server. This may
occur for any number of reasons including:
- Dropped modem connection.
- Routing problems at the local Internet Service Provider
(ISP).
- Network congestion somewhere on the Internet.
- Home computer hangs, freezes, or crashes.
When this occurs, we do not want to penalize a player
holding a strong hand. We therefore grant each player
two all-ins event
in every 24-hour period. An all-in in such cases
is the same as when a player has too few chips at the
table to cover a bet. A side
pot is created in which the all-in player participates.
If a player has used his allocated number of all-ins for
the day and loses connectivity or times out, the hand
is folded.
Due to the potential to abuse our all-in policy, we
do not grant any all-in protection for pot-limit and
no-limit games. Regardless of the reason, if you
fail to act in the required time, your hand will be
folded.
To prevent players from pretending to have lost their
connection with the server when it might be advantageous
financially, we limit the number of all-in events any
player has in a 24-hour period. This will prevent
abuse by pretending to have lost connectivity.
Misuse this privilege and you may find it unavailable
when you really need it.
Our software can detect lost connections as opposed
to non-responding but still connected players.
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Collusion
Collusion
can be a problem in both physical and virtual poker
rooms. Collusion is when two or more players attempt
to bet in a fashion that allows added gains. Collusion,
simply stated, is cheating. We will not tolerate
cheating.
In a physical poker room, trained staff watching the
behaviour of the players at a table can detect collusion.
This method is largely dependent on having adequate
numbers of properly trained staff. In our poker
room, we do not only rely on the human factor.
Our software is designed to detect collusive behaviour.
We monitor various patterns including who plays together,
types of hands and how they are bet, and unusual betting
patterns. We cannot divulge all the techniques
employed but we are confident that our collusion detection
system is always watching.
You can also help. If you feel you have been
the victim of collusion,
please notify one of our hosts by either eMail
or by clicking on the Manager button. It
will help if you can note the hand number at the top
of the screen. Our hosts will be able to use the
information you supply to correlate to system generated
incident alerts.
Cheaters will be barred from playing at our
poker room!
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Contact A Host
Our Hosts are always there to help you in any way they
can. If you ever have a question or if you feel
you have been the victim of collusion,
please notify one of our hosts by either eMail
or by clicking on the Manager button. It
will help if you can note the hand number at the top
of the screen.
Cheaters will be barred from playing at our
poker room!
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Etiquette
This is a community and as in any community there are
rules about behaviour. These rules are intended
to maximize the enjoyment and comfort of all players
and visitors. Please follow these rules. Violators
will be contacted and risk suspension or banishment.
- Polite chat: under no circumstances
may you use vulgar or profane language while using
our chat facility. You may also not abuse or
harass another player. Violators risk loss of
chat privilege, suspension, or banishment from the
poker room.
- Timely play: we permit you to play
at two tables. Please make every effort to not
slow the progress of either game. Where possible,
use the advance action options.
- All-in and purchasing additional chips:
you may not buy additional chips for use in a game
once the deal has begun. If the game has started,
newly purchased chips will be delivered at the conclusion
of that game. If you run out of chips, you will
be treated as all-in. Click here for more information
on all-in.
- Sitting out: We allow players to sit
out some number of hands without giving up their seat.
If you do not return to your seat in a timely fashion,
you will be picked up; removed from the table.
If you are picked up, your chips will be returned
to the cashier for you.
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Betting
There are a few house betting rules you should be know.
- Maximum Bet: Except in tournaments,
the maximum bet or raise is $999. This is true
for pot limit and no limit games.
- Minimum buy-in:
we require you to bring at least ten times (10X) the
upper value of the stakes to sit down at a table.
Pot Limit and No Limit games have slightly different
buy-in requirements, and have a maximum buy-in.
See the section on Pot
Limit and No Limit for those details.
- Pot Limit and No Limit Buy-in Rules:
You must bring at least 10 times the Big Blind to
the table, and no more than 50 times the Big Blind
in these games.
- Minimum Re-buy: You must re-buy at
least 5 times the Big Blind. If you don't have
sufficient funds in your cage account, you must deposit
additional funds to your account. If you don't
have sufficient play chips, you may request additional
chips in the Cashier view of the Lobby.
- Pot Limit and No Limit Re-buy Rules:
When you re-buy in a pot limit or no limit game, you
may not exceed the maximum buy-in/re-buy limit.
Because you order more chips during a hand, and those
chips are delivered at the end of the hand, you may
win chips in that hand. If you win, we will
adjust your order so that you do not buy more chips
than allowed. If that happens, we return the
excess to your cage account for you.
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