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Etiquette
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
Playboy Poker Room has established rules governing player behavior,
handling lost connectivity, how specific situations are addressed, and against
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 the Victor Chandler Poker Room actively guards against unfair behavior.
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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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
one all-in
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
the all-in event for the day and
loses connectivity or times out, the hand is 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.
The Victor Chandler Poker Room will
not tolerate cheating.
In a physical poker room, trained staff watching the behavior 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 behavior.
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 unmatched in its sophistication, better than human monitoring alone, and
undefeatable.
You can also help. If you
feel you have been the victim of
collusion, please notify one of
our hosts by clicking on the Manager
button. It will help if
you can note the game
number. Our hosts will be
able to use the information you
supply to correlate to system
generated incident
alerts.
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Contact A Host
At any time you feel you have been the victim of
collusion, please contact a host by clicking on the
Manager button.
Provide the manager with the game number(s) and a description of the suspect behavior.
Our hosts can immediately replay
one or more hands to analyze the situation.
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 behavior.
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.
- 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.
- 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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