Atlassino Academy · Poker in the room · Lesson 4
Binding actions and one player to a hand
At a poker table, what you say and how your chips move can commit you. Here is how several rooms rule on words, chips, string raises and shown hands, and when to speak up.
Facing another player’s bet of 10 units, you push 25 units of chips toward the middle, reach back to your stack and push 25 units more, without saying a word. Have you raised to 50 units?
The short answer
No. In the PBA rulebook a raise is made in one of three ways: the whole amount in one motion, the amount said aloud before the chips go in, or the word “raise” said before matching the bet, with the rest in one more move. Two pushes without a word are none of them. The habit that keeps a hand clear at any table is the same: say what you are doing out loud, then move the chips. The amounts are only an example, not a suggested bet.
The table and the chips are the same in all three pictures; only the order of the word and the moves changes. The first two are the habits this lesson asks for, and the third is the move the rulebook leaves out. Amounts are in betting units, not pesos: a unit can stand for any amount, and the arithmetic is the same at any scale.
Mayaformer floor supervisor · manners, money and breaks
A ruling at a poker table is rarely about cheating. Most of the time a move meant one thing to the player and another to the table. Saying the action out loud first is a small habit, and it settles most of those moments before they start.
What makes a bet binding
Five words run a poker table: a check passes without betting, a bet puts chips in first, a call matches the bet in front of you, a raise makes that bet bigger, and a fold gives the hand up. Lesson 7.2 goes through them. The question here is the next one: at what point does a word, or a push of chips, commit you?
In the PBA rulebook every bet is announced aloud and rules over any other action of the player, what a player says in turn is absolutely valid and cannot be changed (“la boca manda”, the mouth rules), and a bet that has been made cannot be changed or taken back. The CABA rulebook says the same of an announced decision or bet.
| Where | A word | Chips with no word |
|---|---|---|
| The CABA rulebook | Cannot be changed once announced | A bet announced without its value is worth the chips put out, and the bet is made in one motion |
| The PBA rulebook | Absolutely valid, over any other action of the player, and cannot be changed | If no amount is said, the bet is the total value of the chips played |
The two rulebooks agree that a word said in turn commits you; they print the rule for chips with no word in their own terms.
- Said “call”, chips shortIn the PBA rulebook the word rules over the chips: the chips are brought up to the call.
- Hand moved toward the pot with chips in itIn the PBA rulebook that player has to play at least a minimum bet.
- Fewer chips than the call, nothing saidIn the PBA rulebook the chips can be taken back if the next player has not acted yet.
A bet made out of turn is not lost: in both rulebooks it waits for the player’s turn, and when that turn comes the player may only match the higher bet, or, in the PBA rulebook, leave the hand and lose the amount; a raise is no longer possible. Lesson 7.2 has the order in which players act.
Chips put in short to call are a case of their own: the PBA rulebook lets a player who misunderstood the amount, and said nothing, take the chips back as long as the next player has not acted; after that the player folds and loses the chips, or pays the right amount. The CABA rulebook does not allow taking them back: only the missing chips are added.
Say what you raise, then move the chips
A string raise is a raise put in with more than one move: some chips forward, the hand back to the stack, more chips forward. The PBA rulebook lists the ways a raise is made, and a raise made another way is not one of them.
- The whole value, in one motionThe full value of the raise goes into the pot in a single movement.
- The value said firstThe player declares the value aloud before putting the chips in.
- The word “raise”, then the restThe player announces the raise before matching the earlier bet, and completes the action in one more movement.
One habit fits all three: say what you are doing, then put the whole amount in. The rulebook does not say what stands from chips pushed in two goes without a word, and the management decides what it leaves out.
Chips can also speak without a word. A player who does not announce the bet and plays two or more chips worth at least the smallest raise is taken to have raised, for the total value of the chips on the table. A raise that falls short is dealt with in the rulebook too:
- A raise of exactly half the smallest raiseThe player is asked to make a full raise.
- A raise of less than halfThe player is only asked to pay the bet.
Both lines are the PBA rulebook, and the smallest raise is in lesson 7.2.
One chip bigger than the bet, dropped in without a word, is the commonest argument at a table.
- PBA: before the flopOne chip worth more than the current bet covers the bet, unless a raise is announced.
- PBA: from the flop onA first bet made with a single chip and no word is worth the value of the chip.
- CABA: any roundA chip worth more than the bet, with no amount announced, covers only the bet, and the extra comes back.
The same bet and the same chip in both pictures; the only difference is the word said before the chip touched the table. To raise with a single larger chip the word has to come first; if the player says “raise” without an amount, the raise is worth at most the chip.
Leoformer dealer · rules and maths
I dealt for a long time, and the chip that started the most arguments was one big chip pushed in without a word. The player meant a raise and got a call. One word before the chip would have settled it.
One player to a hand
Poker is an individual game: a hand is played by one person, with that person’s own cards and chips, from the deal to the showdown, the moment at the end when the cards still in are turned face up. Actions, comments and behaviour that compromise the clarity and transparency of the game are called unethical and penalized, and the CABA rulebook bars leaving another player in charge of your bets.
- Your cardsShown to nobody while the hand is going; in the PBA rulebook, cards turned up before answering a bet put the player out of the hand.
- Your talkNo comment on a play, no looking at other players’ cards and no swapping of information about hands, in CABA; in PBA, no revealing, advice or signals either.
- Your chipsNot lent or passed between players in CABA; kept in view and in order in both rulebooks.
- Your seatNobody bets for you while you are away, in CABA; in PBA, a player stays seated until the action is complete.
- Your handProtected by you in both rulebooks; a dealer who takes cards that were not protected does not have to give them back.
Cards stay in view in front of you, on the felt, and nobody may show them during a hand: showing a hand may be penalized, and cards turned up before answering a bet take the player out of the game. Your cards are yours to protect: a dealer who takes cards that were not protected owes nothing back, though a raise that nobody has called yet returns to its player.
The same goes for talk and signals: a player may not reveal the contents of a hand, suggest, criticize or comment on a play, before or after the action is complete, ask for or receive outside advice, or make agreements and exchange signs with another player. Phones are silenced at the table, and a player who needs one steps away after reserving the seat; lesson 7.3 goes through the rest of the first hour.
The language of the game in the PBA rulebook is Spanish.
A mistake, and who has the last word
A mistake at the table is the player’s to point out: the PBA rulebook makes the player responsible for telling the dealer of any anomaly. A player who finds a defective card has to declare it, and one who says nothing loses the right to the pot and is penalized.
- The mistakeA card out of place, a call put in short, a hand misread.
- Say so at onceTelling the dealer is the player’s duty.
- The hand finishesA penalty comes after the hand, not during it.
- Leaving firstWhoever leaves before the pot is awarded loses the right to it.
Each step makes a ruling harder to get; a penalty never lands in the middle of a hand, except in very serious cases, where the player is asked to leave the table.
Before the pot is awarded, the player is responsible for confirming which hand takes it and for keeping the cards until that is declared; whoever leaves first loses the right to the pot. A hand is also dead, and the player has no more right to the pot, if the cards are pushed toward the dealer or forward so that the next player acts. Time is a rule as well: after a reasonable time any player can ask for the clock on another, who then has one minute, then ten seconds counted down, and if the player has not acted the hand is dead; the CABA rulebook gives sixty seconds and ten more.
The last word is the management’s. Where the rulebook does not cover a case, the casino’s operations management in the CABA rulebook, and “la superioridad” in the PBA one, decides, and the CABA decision is final.
- Your questionBefore the hand is the easy time to ask.
- The managementDecides what the rulebook does not cover; in CABA its decision is final.
- The rulebookSitting down at the table means accepting all of it.
Sitting down at the table means knowing and accepting every rule in the rulebook.
Mayaformer floor supervisor · manners, money and breaks
When a hand goes wrong, a hurry comes with it: the next push of chips comes faster, and so does the next word. Rushed moves come from rushed feelings. That is the moment to slow down, or to stand up and step away for a few minutes.
The money and the hours for the evening are easiest to fix before the first hand, while nothing has gone wrong yet. A ruling you did not like is not money the table owes you, and the next hand is not the place to get it back.
If it stops being fun
If gambling stops being entertainment, help is available. Minimum entry age: each province sets its own. Where we found the rule or regulator that sets it, we cite it on the page; those we found set it at 18. More on responsible gaming.
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Practice: what’s the ruling?
Level 1 is about bets: a word said in turn, a word against the chips, chips with no word, the ways to raise, one big chip and the two halves of the rule for a short raise. Level 2 is about the table: a bet out of turn, a call put in short, cards left unprotected, a hand shown too soon, talk during a hand, leaving before the pot is awarded, the clock, a defective card, a dead hand and who settles what the rulebook leaves out. Each moment names the rulebook that decides it.
Nothing is bet here. The amounts are examples, and the answers are each rulebook’s own rules, not a rule for every room. Another rulebook, or another room, can rule any of these moments differently, so where you play, ask the dealer or the floor.
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Level 1 · Bets
The PBA rulebook
- BET IN FRONT OF YOU10 units, an example bet
WHAT HAPPENSYou push 25 units out, pull your hand back, then push 25 units more, without a word.
What does the PBA rulebook make of that?
- Allowed, because everyone saw the total The rule does not ask whether the total was clear: it lists the ways a raise is made.
- A raise to 50 units Two pushes without a word are not one of the ways the rulebook gives for a raise.
- Not one of the three ways the rulebook lists for making a raise It is neither the whole value in one motion, nor the value said first, nor “raise” said before matching the bet.
What stands from the chips already pushed is not written in the rulebook, and the superior decides what it does not cover; the habit that avoids the question is to say what you are doing, then put the whole amount in.
Every moment in the practice run is a ruling taken from one rulebook, named in the moment. Another rulebook, or another room, can rule any of these moments differently, so where you play, ask the dealer or the floor.
How the practice run works
Where the answers come from. Every moment is one rulebook’s rule, and the answer is what that rule says. Each wrong answer is a named mistake: a raise counted from two pushes, a chip counted as a raise without the word, a word thought to bind only when chips move, a duty thought to belong to the dealer, or another rulebook’s rule brought to this table.
One strip, and no rounds. Every square on the strip is one moment of this lesson, and all of the squares are there from the start. Your first answer fills the square it belongs to; when the squares of one level are full, the next level begins by itself. Practising a moment you got wrong turns its cross into “fixed in practice” and does not change the count, because only first answers count.
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Check yourself
Mayaformer floor supervisor · manners, money and breaks
Three quick ones. Pick an answer, then check it. No timer, no points: just whether it stuck.
Back to the question we opened with. Two pushes without a word is not a raise to 50 units: it is none of the ways the rulebook lists. Say “raise” first, say the amount, or put the whole amount out in one motion.
Poker rooms and further reading
18+ under each province’s rules · Play responsibly · the helplines are further up this page
Further reading
- Resolución 40/2009: Reglamento del póker descubierto, variante Texas Hold’em · Lotería Nacional Sociedad del EstadoThe national lottery’s Texas Hold’em rules for Casino Buenos Aires: the house may keep up to 5 % of every pot.
- Resolución 1452/12, Anexo I: Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game (Reglamento del Juego) · Instituto Provincial de Lotería y Casinos de la Provincia de Buenos AiresThe Buenos Aires province cash-game rules: the seat fee, blinds, rounds and chips.
How it’s worked out
Sources, readings and hosts
Where this happens. Every table on this page is a live poker table in a room you can walk into. A screen at home runs by different rules, and it belongs to a track of its own.
Sources. Every rule on this page is given with the rulebook that prints it: the Lotería Nacional resolution 40/2009 for Texas hold’em (CABA) and chapter 21 of IPLyC resolution 1452/12 (PBA). Every claim carries a button with the sentence it rests on, the publisher who wrote that sentence and the date we read it; the sentences are in Spanish, as the rulebooks print them, and “apostador” is the player, “tallador” the dealer, “pozo” the pot.
Numbers. The amounts in the examples, the questions and the practice run are examples, not the stakes of any room and not a suggested bet. Nothing else on this page is counted.
What we read into the rules. No rulebook we could read says which chips stay on the table after two pushes without a word; we leave that to the management. We read the rule for a raise of half the smallest raise as written: exactly half has to be made full, less than half is only a call. We read the rule on cards pushed forward as covering a fold made that way, and the rule on talk as covering a player who has already folded. Where a moment says the rulebooks differ, each row is that rulebook’s own line.
What is deliberately absent. A knock on the table as a check, show one show all, how long a ruling can wait and the rule that lets a player who has said “raise” move chips in several goes are rules of other rooms; the rulebooks we could read are silent on them, so this page is too. The five words of the table, the order of play and the size of a raise are lesson 7.2. The buy-in, the seat fee and the first hour at a table are lesson 7.3. How hands are read at the showdown is lesson 7.5. Tournaments are lesson 7.11, and tilt and when to leave the room are lesson 7.13.
Hosts. Maya and Leo are illustrated characters. Their backstories, a former floor supervisor and a former dealer, are written for the course: neither is a real person, and neither speaks for any casino. The rules and numbers on this page come from the sources it cites, not from their experience.
No promise. Poker in a room is played against the other players at the table, and the room charges for the seat. Knowing what binds you keeps a hand from going wrong by accident; nothing on this page makes a hand pay, and nothing here says how an evening at a table would end.
One larger chip without a word
Una única ficha de valor mayor que la de la apuesta actual, antes del flop, será considerada que cubre (CALL) si el Apostador no anuncia un aumento (RAISE).Free translation: A single chip of higher value than the current bet, before the flop, shall be considered a call (CALL) if the Bettor does not announce a raise (RAISE).
A partir del Flop, una apuesta inicial con una sola ficha, sin hacer ninguna declaración, se considera el valor de la ficha como apuesta.Free translation: From the Flop onward, an opening bet made with a single chip, without any declaration, is considered to be a bet of the value of the chip.
Para hacer un aumento con una única ficha de mayor valor que la apuesta actual, debe haber una declaración verbal antes que la ficha toque la mesa.Free translation: To make a raise with a single chip of higher value than the current bet, there must be a verbal declaration before the chip touches the table.
Si un Apostador coloca una ficha mayor y dice que aumenta (RAISE) sin anunciar el valor, éste será como máximo el valor de la ficha que colocó.Free translation: If a Bettor places a higher chip and says he raises (RAISE) without announcing the amount, the raise shall be at most the value of the chip he placed.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
Si un jugador apuesta una ficha por importe superior al necesario para cubrir, sin anunciar el importe de la apuesta, se considera que cubre solamente la apuesta y se le devuelve la cantidad que ha puesto de más.Free translation: If a player bets a chip of an amount greater than that needed to call, without announcing the amount of the bet, he is considered to call only the bet and the excess amount he put in is returned to him.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
The spoken word
Las declaraciones verbales de los Apostadores cuando le corresponde jugar son absolutamente válidas e inmodificables. (La boca manda)Free translation: The verbal declarations of the Bettors when it is their turn to act are absolutely valid and cannot be changed. (The mouth rules)
Todas las apuestas deberán ser anunciadas en voz alta y tendrán validez absoluta sobre cualquier otra acción que realice el Apostador.Free translation: All bets must be announced aloud and shall have absolute validity over any other action the Bettor performs.
Las apuestas realizadas no podrán ser modificadas o retiradas.Free translation: Bets that have been made may not be modified or withdrawn.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
Una vez anunciada una decisión o apuesta no se puede cambiar.Free translation: Once a decision or bet has been announced, it cannot be changed.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
No talk, no advice
El Apostador no podrá revelar el contenido de su mano; sugerir, criticar o comentar sobre una jugada antes o después de completada la acción; discutir manos o estrategia con algún espectador u otro Apostador; solicitar o recibir asesoramiento externo.Free translation: The Bettor may not reveal the contents of his hand; suggest, criticize or comment on a play before or after the action is completed; discuss hands or strategy with any spectator or other Bettor; or request or receive outside advice.
El Apostador no podrá realizar acuerdos o intercambiar señas con otro Apostador durante la partida.Free translation: The Bettor may not make agreements or exchange signals with another Bettor during the game.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
Hacer comentarios entre jugadores acerca de las jugadas durante el transcurso de las mismas, así como mirar las cartas de otros jugadores, aunque no se esté jugando esa mano.Free translation: Making comments between players about the plays while they are in progress, as well as looking at other players' cards, even if one is not playing that hand.
Intercambiar información relacionada con sus manos entre jugadores o público ajeno a la partida.Free translation: Exchanging information related to their hands between players or with members of the public who are not part of the game.
Mostrar sus cartas para pedir asesoramiento.Free translation: Showing their cards to ask for advice.
En caso que alguna de estas incidencias ocurriera, será el encargado de sector, quien aplicará la sanción que corresponda por reiteración o gravedad, pudiendo ser advertencia, anulación de la mano y hasta la eliminación del jugador por la partida.Free translation: Should any of these incidents occur, the section supervisor shall apply the sanction that corresponds for repetition or seriousness, which may be a warning, annulment of the hand, or even the player's removal from the game.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
The spoken word
Las declaraciones verbales de los Apostadores cuando le corresponde jugar son absolutamente válidas e inmodificables. (La boca manda)Free translation: The verbal declarations of the Bettors when it is their turn to act are absolutely valid and cannot be changed. (The mouth rules)
Todas las apuestas deberán ser anunciadas en voz alta y tendrán validez absoluta sobre cualquier otra acción que realice el Apostador.Free translation: All bets must be announced aloud and shall have absolute validity over any other action the Bettor performs.
Las apuestas realizadas no podrán ser modificadas o retiradas.Free translation: Bets that have been made may not be modified or withdrawn.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
Una vez anunciada una decisión o apuesta no se puede cambiar.Free translation: Once a decision or bet has been announced, it cannot be changed.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
Chips with no word
Si el Apostador no anuncia su apuesta el valor de la misma será el valor total de las fichas jugadas.Free translation: If the Bettor does not announce his bet, its value shall be the total value of the chips played.
Cuando un Apostador mueva su mano hacia el pozo con fichas, deberá obligatoriamente jugar una apuesta mínima.Free translation: When a Bettor moves his hand toward the pot with chips, he must play a minimum bet.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
La apuesta se debe realizar en un único movimiento. Si el jugador anunciara una apuesta pero no anuncia el valor de la apuesta, ese aumento será por valor de las fichas colocadas.Free translation: The bet must be made in a single movement. If the player announces a bet but does not announce its value, that raise shall be for the value of the chips placed.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
A bet out of turn
Si un Apostador efectúa una apuesta fuera de su turno, la misma quedará inactiva hasta que llegue su turno de actuar, pudiendo:Free translation: If a Bettor makes a bet out of turn, it shall remain inactive until his turn to act arrives, and he may:
Igualar la postura mayor, no teniendo derecho a aumentar.Free translation: Match the higher bet, not having the right to raise.
Retirarse de la mano perdiendo el valor apostado.Free translation: Fold the hand, losing the amount bet.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
Si un jugador efectúa una apuesta fuera de su turno, se considera válida pero cuando llegue su turno de apuestas no puede aumentar la apuesta.Free translation: If a player makes a bet out of turn, it is considered valid, but when his turn to bet arrives he may not raise the bet.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
A call put in short
Si un Apostador pone un número menor de fichas en su turno cuando va a pagar, sin haber hecho una declaración verbal, porque no haya entendido correctamente el monto de la apuesta, le será permitido retirar sus fichas, siempre que el Apostador siguiente no haya actuado.Free translation: If a Bettor puts a smaller number of chips on his turn when he is going to call, without having made a verbal declaration, because he did not correctly understand the amount of the bet, he shall be allowed to withdraw his chips, provided that the next Bettor has not acted.
Si el Apostador siguiente actuó, el apostador puede: tirar la mano y perder las fichas apostadas, o pagar el monto adecuado.Free translation: If the next Bettor has acted, the bettor may: throw away the hand and lose the chips bet, or pay the proper amount.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
Si un jugador, para cubrir una apuesta, introduce un importe insuficiente, no tiene derecho a retirarlas; sólo podrá añadir las necesarias para igualar la apuesta.Free translation: If a player, in order to call a bet, puts in an insufficient amount, he has no right to withdraw them; he may only add the chips needed to match the bet.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
Three ways to make a raise
Un aumento (RAISE) debe ser realizado:Free translation: A raise (RAISE) must be made:
Colocando el valor total del aumento en un único movimiento en el pozo.Free translation: By placing the total value of the raise in the pot in a single movement.
Declarando verbalmente el valor antes de colocar las fichas en juego.Free translation: By verbally declaring the value before placing the chips in play.
previo a igualar la apuesta anterior, y después completar la acción en un movimiento adicional.Free translation: prior to matching the previous bet, and then completing the action in an additional movement.
Las apuestas deberán ser realizadas en un solo movimiento.Free translation: Bets must be made in a single movement.
Si el Apostador no anuncia su apuesta y juega dos o más fichas con valor igual al mínimo del aumento de la apuesta en curso, o mayor que ésta, será considerado aumento (RAISE) con valor total de las fichas jugadas a la mesa.Free translation: If the Bettor does not announce his bet and plays two or more chips with a value equal to the minimum raise of the current bet, or greater than it, it shall be considered a raise (RAISE) with the total value of the chips played on the table.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
Three ways to make a raise
Un aumento (RAISE) debe ser realizado:Free translation: A raise (RAISE) must be made:
Colocando el valor total del aumento en un único movimiento en el pozo.Free translation: By placing the total value of the raise in the pot in a single movement.
Declarando verbalmente el valor antes de colocar las fichas en juego.Free translation: By verbally declaring the value before placing the chips in play.
previo a igualar la apuesta anterior, y después completar la acción en un movimiento adicional.Free translation: prior to matching the previous bet, and then completing the action in an additional movement.
Las apuestas deberán ser realizadas en un solo movimiento.Free translation: Bets must be made in a single movement.
Si el Apostador no anuncia su apuesta y juega dos o más fichas con valor igual al mínimo del aumento de la apuesta en curso, o mayor que ésta, será considerado aumento (RAISE) con valor total de las fichas jugadas a la mesa.Free translation: If the Bettor does not announce his bet and plays two or more chips with a value equal to the minimum raise of the current bet, or greater than it, it shall be considered a raise (RAISE) with the total value of the chips played on the table.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
A short raise
Si el Apostador realiza una subida equivalente al 50% del aumento mínimo de la anterior, se le exigirá que realice una subida completa.Free translation: If the Bettor makes a raise equivalent to 50% of the minimum raise of the previous one, he shall be required to make a full raise.
Si el apostador realiza una apuesta menor al 50% del aumento mínimo, se le exigirá solo pagar la apuesta.Free translation: If the bettor makes a bet of less than 50% of the minimum raise, he shall be required only to call the bet.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
One larger chip without a word
Una única ficha de valor mayor que la de la apuesta actual, antes del flop, será considerada que cubre (CALL) si el Apostador no anuncia un aumento (RAISE).Free translation: A single chip of higher value than the current bet, before the flop, shall be considered a call (CALL) if the Bettor does not announce a raise (RAISE).
A partir del Flop, una apuesta inicial con una sola ficha, sin hacer ninguna declaración, se considera el valor de la ficha como apuesta.Free translation: From the Flop onward, an opening bet made with a single chip, without any declaration, is considered to be a bet of the value of the chip.
Para hacer un aumento con una única ficha de mayor valor que la apuesta actual, debe haber una declaración verbal antes que la ficha toque la mesa.Free translation: To make a raise with a single chip of higher value than the current bet, there must be a verbal declaration before the chip touches the table.
Si un Apostador coloca una ficha mayor y dice que aumenta (RAISE) sin anunciar el valor, éste será como máximo el valor de la ficha que colocó.Free translation: If a Bettor places a higher chip and says he raises (RAISE) without announcing the amount, the raise shall be at most the value of the chip he placed.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
Si un jugador apuesta una ficha por importe superior al necesario para cubrir, sin anunciar el importe de la apuesta, se considera que cubre solamente la apuesta y se le devuelve la cantidad que ha puesto de más.Free translation: If a player bets a chip of an amount greater than that needed to call, without announcing the amount of the bet, he is considered to call only the bet and the excess amount he put in is returned to him.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
One player to a hand
El Poker es un juego individual. Las acciones, comentarios y comportamiento que comprometan la claridad y la transparencia del juego serán considerados no éticos, correspondiéndole una penalización.Free translation: Poker is an individual game. Actions, comments and behavior that compromise the clarity and transparency of the game shall be considered unethical, and a penalty shall apply.
Las fichas deberán estar visibles en todo momento, debiéndose mantener organizadas por valor.Free translation: Chips must be visible at all times and must be kept organized by value.
El Apostador no deberá ocultar las fichas de mayor valor, de modo tal que todos los demás Apostadores puedan saber cuántas fichas posee.Free translation: The Bettor must not hide the higher-value chips, so that all the other Bettors can know how many chips he has.
Las fichas de mayor valor siempre al frente de las de menor valor.Free translation: Higher-value chips always in front of lower-value ones.
Un Apostador debe permanecer en su asiento hasta que haya completado su acción, de lo contrario será considerado que se retira fuera de turno y será penalizado.Free translation: A Bettor must remain in his seat until he has completed his action; otherwise he shall be considered to be withdrawing out of turn and shall be penalized.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
Está prohibido que un jugador abandone la mesa dejando encargado a otro jugador para que le realice las apuestas.Free translation: It is prohibited for a player to leave the table leaving another player in charge of placing his or her bets.
Se prohíbe permanecer en el área de juego como espectador, la connivencia entre jugadores y el juego en conjunto.Free translation: Remaining in the playing area as a spectator, collusion between players and playing together are prohibited.
Prestarse dinero o fichas entre jugadores.Free translation: Lending money or chips between players.
Los jugadores deben mantener sus fichas organizadas de modo que los demás jugadores en la mesa puedan ver cuantas fichas tiene. Las fichas de mayor valor deben siempre estar a la vista, nunca escondidas detrás de fichas de menor valor.Free translation: Players must keep their chips organized so that the other players at the table can see how many chips they have. Higher-value chips must always be in view, never hidden behind lower-value chips.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
Not showing a hand in play
Ningún Apostador podrá mostrar sus naipes durante el transcurso de una mano.Free translation: No Bettor may show his cards during the course of a hand.
El Apostador que lo haga podrá ser penalizado pero su mano no será anulada, salvo en el caso que los muestre antes de responder a una apuesta, quedando de tal manera fuera de juego.Free translation: A Bettor who does so may be penalized but his hand shall not be annulled, except where he shows them before responding to a bet, in which case he is out of the game.
El Apostador deberá mantener sus naipes todo el tiempo visible, localizados adelante suyo, de modo que todos los demás Apostadores puedan ver quien está participando en esa mano.Free translation: The Bettor must keep his cards visible at all times, placed in front of him, so that all the other Bettors can see who is participating in that hand.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
Protecting your hand
Es obligación del Apostador proteger sus naipes por lo que si el Tallador, por no estar protegidos, retira los naipes de un Apostador, éste no tendrá derecho a recuperarlos, y no recibirá su apuesta de nuevo.Free translation: It is the Bettor's obligation to protect his cards, so if the Tallador removes a Bettor's cards because they were not protected, he shall have no right to recover them and shall not get his bet back.
Es responsabilidad del Apostador proteger su mano mientras espera por la acción de otro Apostador.Free translation: It is the Bettor's responsibility to protect his or her hand while waiting for another Bettor to act.
Si el Apostador aumentó la apuesta y ésta todavía no fue cubierta o aumentada, será retornada al mismo.Free translation: If the Bettor has raised the bet and it has not yet been called or raised, it shall be returned to that Bettor.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
Es responsabilidad de cada jugador que sus cartas no sean vistas por ningún otro jugador o público presente, si esto ocurriera, no tendrá derecho a reclamo.Free translation: It is each player's responsibility to ensure that his or her cards are not seen by any other player or by the public present; if this should happen, the player shall have no right to make a claim.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
No talk, no advice, no signals
El Apostador no podrá revelar el contenido de su mano; sugerir, criticar o comentar sobre una jugada antes o después de completada la acción; discutir manos o estrategia con algún espectador u otro Apostador; solicitar o recibir asesoramiento externo.Free translation: The Bettor may not reveal the contents of his hand; suggest, criticize or comment on a play before or after the action is completed; discuss hands or strategy with any spectator or other Bettor; or request or receive outside advice.
El Apostador no podrá realizar acuerdos o intercambiar señas con otro Apostador durante la partida.Free translation: The Bettor may not make agreements or exchange signals with another Bettor during the game.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
Hacer comentarios entre jugadores acerca de las jugadas durante el transcurso de las mismas, así como mirar las cartas de otros jugadores, aunque no se esté jugando esa mano.Free translation: Making comments between players about the plays while they are in progress, as well as looking at other players' cards, even if one is not playing that hand.
Intercambiar información relacionada con sus manos entre jugadores o público ajeno a la partida.Free translation: Exchanging information related to their hands between players or with members of the public who are not part of the game.
Mostrar sus cartas para pedir asesoramiento.Free translation: Showing their cards to ask for advice.
En caso que alguna de estas incidencias ocurriera, será el encargado de sector, quien aplicará la sanción que corresponda por reiteración o gravedad, pudiendo ser advertencia, anulación de la mano y hasta la eliminación del jugador por la partida.Free translation: Should any of these incidents occur, the section supervisor shall apply the sanction that corresponds for repetition or seriousness, which may be a warning, annulment of the hand, or even the player's removal from the game.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
Phones at the table
No se puede utilizar telefonía celular o cualquier otro método electrónico de comunicación durante el juego. Si un jugador atiende o permanece hablando por celular durante una mano, será advertido por el personal de mesa pudiendo ser retirado de la partida.Free translation: Mobile phones or any other electronic means of communication may not be used during the game. If a player answers or keeps talking on a mobile phone during a hand, the player will be warned by the table staff and may be removed from the game.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
El uso de dispositivos de comunicación de cualquier tipo está prohibido en la mesa y deberán ser silenciados durante la partida.Free translation: The use of communication devices of any kind is prohibited at the table, and they must be silenced during the game.
Si un Apostador necesita hacer uso de algún elemento electrónico de comunicación, deberá retirarse momentáneamente de la mesa, previa reserva de la ubicación.Free translation: If a Bettor needs to use any electronic communication device, he must leave the table momentarily, after reserving his seat.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
The language of the game
El lenguaje oficial será el español.Free translation: The official language shall be Spanish.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
Telling the dealer
Será responsabilidad del Apostador participante informar al tallador de cualquier anomalía.Free translation: It shall be the responsibility of the participating Bettor to inform the dealer of any anomaly.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
A defective card
Si un Apostador descubre algún naipe defectuoso tiene la obligación de declarárselo al Tallador.Free translation: If a Bettor discovers any defective card, he or she is obliged to declare it to the Dealer.
Si un Apostador, dado el caso, no lo hiciere, perderá su derecho al pozo y será penalizado.Free translation: If a Bettor, where applicable, fails to do so, he or she shall lose the right to the pot and shall be penalized.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
A penalty comes after the hand
Una penalidad nunca será aplicada durante la mano en curso, será aplicada una vez terminada la mano, excepto en casos de suma gravedad en que se juzgue necesario solicitarle a un Apostador que abandone la mesa.Free translation: A penalty shall never be applied during the hand in progress; it shall be applied once the hand has ended, except in cases of extreme seriousness in which it is deemed necessary to ask a Bettor to leave the table.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
En caso que alguna de estas incidencias ocurriera, será el encargado de sector, quien aplicará la sanción que corresponda por reiteración o gravedad, pudiendo ser advertencia, anulación de la mano y hasta la eliminación del jugador por la partida.Free translation: Should any of these incidents occur, the section supervisor shall apply the sanction that corresponds for repetition or seriousness, which may be a warning, annulment of the hand, or even the player's removal from the game.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
Before you leave
Es responsabilidad del Apostador confirmar la mano ganadora antes de retirarse, una vez que se retira perderá derecho a recuperar su mano y ganar el pozo.Free translation: It is the Bettor's responsibility to confirm the winning hand before leaving; once he or she leaves, he or she will lose the right to recover the hand and win the pot.
Los Apostadores son responsables de conservar sus naipes hasta que se declare al ganador.Free translation: Bettors are responsible for keeping their cards until the winner is declared.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
A dead hand
Se retira desplazando sus naipes hacia el Tallador o anuncia que se retirará en su turno de apuestas.Free translation: The Bettor withdraws by pushing his or her cards toward the Dealer or announces that he or she will withdraw on his or her turn to bet.
Desplaza sus naipes hacia adelante causando que algún Apostador siguiente actúe.Free translation: The Bettor pushes his or her cards forward, causing a following Bettor to act.
En todos estos casos la mano será descartada y el Apostador perderá todo derecho al pozo.Free translation: In all these cases the hand shall be discarded and the Bettor shall lose all right to the pot.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
The clock
Una vez que haya transcurrido un período razonable, cualquier Apostador puede solicitar que otro Apostador sea puesto contra reloj. En tal caso éste contará con un minuto para tomar una decisión. Si no realiza un movimiento una vez transcurrido el minuto, se iniciará una cuenta regresiva de 10 segundos. Si al finalizar el Apostador no ha actuado, la mano se considerará muerta.Free translation: Once a reasonable period has elapsed, any Bettor may request that another Bettor be put on the clock. In that case the latter shall have one minute to make a decision. If no move is made once the minute has elapsed, a 10-second countdown shall begin. If the Bettor has not acted by the end of it, the hand shall be considered dead.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
Cada jugador, a su turno, tendrá como máximo 60 segundos para decidir su apuesta (igualar, pasar, subir o retirarse), en caso de demora, el croupier le otorgará 10 segundos adicionales para que el jugador tome la decisión, los cuales serán contados a viva voz.Free translation: Each player, on his or her turn, shall have a maximum of 60 seconds to decide on the bet (call, check, raise or fold); in case of delay, the croupier shall grant an additional 10 seconds for the player to make the decision, which shall be counted aloud.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
Who decides
La Gerencia de Operaciones del Casino tiene autonomía de arbitraje sobre cualquiera de los puntos que no estén previstos en este reglamento y su decisión ante cualquier situación especial que se produzca en el desarrollo de la partida es la final.Free translation: The Casino's Operations Management has arbitration autonomy over any of the points not provided for in these rules, and its decision on any special situation that arises during the course of the game is final.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
Toda duda de interpretación de las disposiciones precedentemente expuestas o sobre situaciones o anomalías que no estén comprendidas en el presente Reglamento serán definidas por la superioridad.Free translation: Any doubt as to the interpretation of the provisions set out above, or about situations or anomalies not covered by these Rules, shall be settled by the higher authority.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
Accepting the rulebook
El participar en la mesa de Texas Hold’em implica el conocimiento y la aceptación de la totalidad de reglas del presente reglamento y del protocolo del juego.Free translation: Taking part at the Texas Hold’em table implies knowledge and acceptance of all the rules of these regulations and of the game protocol.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
La participación en el juego implica el conocimiento, aceptación y conformidad con todas y cada una de las normas explicitadas en el presente reglamento.Free translation: Taking part in the game implies knowledge, acceptance and agreement with each and every one of the rules set out in these regulations.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)