Atlassino Academy · Poker in the room · Lesson 3
The poker room: list, buy-in, stakes, rake
Getting a seat in a poker room is a short path: three questions at the desk, the waiting list, a buy-in inside the posted range, and a first hour that keeps to the rules of that room.
You walk into a poker room for the first time. What happens between the door and your first hand?
The short answer
A short path, and every rulebook words it its own way. At the desk, before you sit down, you ask the stakes, the buy-in range and what the room charges: a share of each pot, up to 5 % in the CABA rulebook, or the value of the seat in the PBA one. A game needs at least four players, and the seats are drawn by lot. You buy in for an amount inside the range the table posts and inside the amount you decided on at home. A player who joins a game in progress takes the seat the rules give, and may have to wait for the button. Then comes a first hour that keeps to the rulebook on phones, other players’ chips and your own stack.
- The deskThree questions before you sit down.
- The gameAt least four players, and the seats drawn by lot.
- The buy-inChips inside the posted range and inside your plan.
- The seatSit where the rules send you; a new player may have to wait for the button.
- The first hourThe rulebook on phones, other players’ chips and your own stack.
Most rooms walk these steps in this order; each rulebook words them its own way, and no step here is the rule of every room.
Mayaformer floor supervisor · manners, money and breaks
A poker room is the one room in a casino where you play the other people at the table, and the house only takes its fee. The first visit is mostly asking, and every room words its rules a little differently. I would rather you asked at the desk three times than guessed once.
A game of four or more
A hold’em game needs at least four players to start and to go on, and a table seats 10 at most. The seats are drawn by lot before the game. A game runs for two hours: when the time is up the hand in progress is finished, one more hand is played, and the game ends; it ends sooner if only 3 players are left.
Everyone at the table plays against the other players, not against the house. Hold’em, the game in which each player gets two cards of their own and shares five with the table, is dealt by the house dealer, and what the rulebooks say about the deal and the betting is lesson 7.2.
Three questions, and the buy-in
Before you sit down, three questions settle what a seat will cost you before a single card is dealt.
- The stakesThe size of the two blinds at the table you want.
- The buy-in rangeThe smallest and the largest amount of chips the table seats you with.
- The room’s feeWhat the room charges: a share of each pot, or the value of the seat.
The blinds are the two bets put in before any card is dealt. In the CABA rulebook the management sets them for each game, and they stay fixed for the whole game. A buy-in is the amount in chips you sit down with, and each rulebook sets its own floor and, sometimes, its own ceiling.
An example table
- GameNo limit hold’em
- Blinds1 unit / 2 units
- Buy-in80 units to 200 units
An example table, not any room’s stakes
An example table, not any room’s stakes and not a suggested stake. On a sign like this, the two numbers after the game are the blinds, the small one and then the big one; the buy-in is the range of chips the table seats you with. Amounts are in betting units, not pesos: a unit can stand for any amount, and the arithmetic is the same at any scale.
| Where | The buy-in |
|---|---|
| The CABA rulebook | The management sets, for each game, a smallest first buy-in, a smallest rebuy and a largest total buy-in, which can be unlimited, and announces any change before the game starts. |
| The PBA rulebook | At least the smallest amount set for the table, and not above the largest, if the table has one; more chips can be bought during the game, as often as you like, between hands. |
In both rulebooks the casino sets the limits of the game, and the sign at the table is where you read them.
Which buy-in inside the posted range is yours was decided at home, before the room was in sight.
Two plans against the same posted range: one inside it, one under its smallest amount.
Your plan: 150 units
Inside the posted range of 80 units to 200 units: this table fits tonight’s plan.
Your plan: 60 units
Under the posted smallest buy-in of 80 units: this table is not for tonight’s plan.
The posted range is what the table will take; the plan is what tonight gets. A table whose smallest buy-in is past the plan is a table to pass by, and asking the desk for a smaller one costs nothing.
More chips can be bought during a game, but only between hands: chips announced in the middle of a hand come into play when the hand is over. A player who loses the whole stack is not out of the game for that reason alone: the CABA rulebook keeps the right to buy back in up to the largest total allowed.
The room’s fee
The room plays no hand: the players play one another, and the room charges for the table, the dealer and the cards. Either way the fee comes out of the players’ own money.
| Where | What the room charges |
|---|---|
| The CABA rulebook | Up to 5 % of every pot, taken before the pot is paid, and rounded down when the exact amount cannot be collected. |
| The PBA rulebook | The value of your seat, set by the casino for each table and valid only for that table; half of it for a player who joins after the first hour. |
In the CABA rulebook the casino may keep up to 5 % of every pot, taken before the pot is paid, rounded down when the exact amount cannot be collected. In the PBA rulebook the casino sets the value of the seat for each table; the payment is valid only for that table, and half of it is due from a player who joins after the first hour.
Taking the seat
A player who joins a game in progress is seated as close as possible to the big blind, in the first free seat clockwise. In the big blind the new player plays the hand and posts the blind; in the seat between the button and the small blind the new player does not play that hand, and waits for the button to go past.
A table in the CABA rulebook
- Button
- New player’s seat
- Small blind
- Big blind
The new player’s seat sits between the button and the small blind; the new player is dealt in once the button has gone past it. How the blinds and the button move round, and who acts first, is lesson 7.2.
The chips a latecomer sits down with depend on the moment: the smallest buy-in of the game, or, once the button has been round every player, the average stack of the other players at the table. In the PBA rulebook, when several seats are free, the seat is drawn by lot.
A seat can be reserved, but only to buy chips, and a reservation is not a way to hold a place for an evening: chips left at the spot wait twenty minutes, and after that they are taken off the table and the player has no claim.
Your first hour at the table
Each rulebook writes its own rule for phones at the table, and the rules differ.
| Where | What the rulebook says |
|---|---|
| The CABA rulebook | No cell phone or other electronic means of communication during the game; a player who answers or stays on the phone during a hand is warned and may be removed from the game. |
| The PBA rulebook | Communication devices of any kind are banned at the table and silenced during the game; a player who needs one leaves the table briefly, after reserving the seat. |
The two agree on one thing: the phone does not belong to a hand in progress.
The chips in front of you are the only chips you play. Players may not lend money or chips to each other, and passing chips between them is penalized. Your chips stay in plain view, organised by value, with the highest values in front, so that the other players can see how many you hold.
- Lending chipsNot allowed.
- Hiding the big chipsNot allowed.
- Leaving a hand in progressOnly after the hand, and announced aloud.
- A questionAsk the dealer.
A player may leave a game in progress only when a hand has finished, and has to announce it aloud. A player who steps away from the table still pays the blinds when they come round, and the cards dealt to the empty seat are discarded; the CABA rulebook lets a player rest for up to two hands, except from the blinds. Why one player plays one hand is lesson 7.4, and a break that does not cost you the seat is lesson 7.13.
Leoformer dealer · rules and maths
From the dealer’s side of the table, the new player who asked was never the trouble. The trouble was the one who guessed when it was their turn. A question costs the table a few seconds, and a guess can cost a hand.
Mayaformer floor supervisor · manners, money and breaks
Decide the buy-in, and how many times you would buy in again, before you sit down. Once the cards come, a second buy-in is a decision made in the middle of an evening, and the plan you made at home is the calmer of the two.
When tonight’s buy-ins are spent, give the seat back: the next hand was never part of the plan.
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: from the desk to your first hand
One path, step by step. Level 1 covers the game, the buy-in at an example table and the fee; level 2 is joining a game in progress and the first hour at the table, with the phone, other players’ chips and your own.
Nothing is bet here. The amounts belong to an example table, and every rulebook in a moment is named with its own rule.
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Level 1 · The game and the buy-in
A hold’em game about to start
- Players seated3
- A fourth playeron the way
Three players are seated and a fourth is on the way. Can the game start?
- Not yet: a game needs at least four players to start and to go on Both the CABA and the PBA rulebook set four players as the smallest number for a game.
- Yes, three can play Three is under the smallest number of players the rulebooks allow.
- Yes, if all three agree In the cash-game rules an agreement does not lower the smallest number.
With 3 players left, the CABA rulebook ends the game. The seats are drawn by lot before each game, not picked.
Every moment in the practice run is one step of the same path, from the desk to the first hand, and every answer comes from the rulebook the moment names, or from the sign of the example table.
How the practice run works
Where the answers come from. Every right answer is the rule of the rulebook the moment names, or the sign of the example table, and every wrong answer is one named mistake: a game started with three, a seat chosen instead of drawn, a buy-in outside the posted range or outside the plan, a phone used in a hand, another rulebook’s rule carried into this one.
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, with no button in between. 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. Between the door and the first hand come three questions at the desk, a game of at least four, a buy-in inside the posted range and inside your plan, and the seat the rules give you. The rest of the first hour is the rulebook’s own.
Rooms, help 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
Rules, numbers, sources and hosts
Where this happens. Every rule on this page is the rule of the rulebook named beside it: CABA is the Lotería Nacional resolution 40/2009 for Texas hold’em, PBA chapter 21 of IPLyC resolution 1452/12. A room may add house rules of its own; nothing here says more than the two rulebooks print.
Numbers. The blinds, the buy-in range and the plans of the example table are not any room’s stakes and not a suggested amount. The share of the pot in the CABA rulebook is the one it prints; the PBA chapter we read prints no share of the pot, only the value of the seat, which each casino sets for each table and which we do not give.
What the page leaves to the desk. No Argentine document we could read prints a waiting list, a largest buy-in for every table, a rule on side bets or a rule on bets on another player’s hand. Where a question is not in the rulebooks, the desk or the dealer answers it.
What is deliberately absent. How the blinds, the button and the betting rounds work is lesson 7.2; what binds you once you act is lesson 7.4; the showdown, table stakes and side pots are lesson 7.5; tournament buy-ins are lesson 7.11; a break and when to leave are lesson 7.13. Setting the limit for an evening is lesson 0.2.
Sources. Every claim on this page 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.
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 table. Knowing the path to a seat makes the first visit calmer; nothing on this page is a way to come out ahead, and nothing here says how an evening at a table would end.
The seat fee
Los Apostadores deberán abonar el valor de su ubicación, siendo este el estipulado por el Casino para cada mesa.Free translation: Bettors must pay the value of their position, which is that set by the Casino for each table.
El cobro del asiento es válido únicamente para la mesa en que se ha efectuado el mismo.Free translation: The seat charge is valid only for the table at which it was paid.
De incorporarse Apostadores después de la primera hora de juego, cualquiera sea la fracción de tiempo transcurrida, el valor de la ubicación será la mitad del que tenía al inicio de la partida.Free translation: If Bettors join after the first hour of play, whatever fraction of time has elapsed, the value of the position will be half of what it was at the start of the game.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
The buy-in
La Gerencia de Operaciones determinará para cada partida: * El valor de ciega chica y grande que serán fijas durante toda la partida. * Mínimo de compra inicial. * Mínimo de recompra. * Máximo de compra de fichas por jugador por partida, pudiendo ser este ilimitado.Free translation: The Operations Management will determine for each game: * The value of the small and big blinds, which will be fixed throughout the game. * Minimum initial buy-in. * Minimum rebuy. * Maximum purchase of chips per player per game, which may be unlimited.
Cada modificación de estos límites, será anunciado a los jugadores antes del inicio de la partida.Free translation: Any modification of these limits will be announced to the players before the game begins.
Cada jugador deberá presentar el importe en fichas americanas que iguale o supere el mínimo de compra inicial dispuesto por la Gerencia para la partida.Free translation: Each player must present an amount in American chips that equals or exceeds the minimum initial purchase set by Management for the game.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
Para el ingreso a una mesa en el inicio o con la partida en desarrollo, es requisito contar con el monto mínimo establecido y no superar el máximo, si lo hubiere preestablecido para la mesa.Free translation: To join a table at the start or while the game is in progress, it is a requirement to have the established minimum amount and not exceed the maximum, if one has been preset for the table.
En caso de ser necesario el Apostador podrá comprar fichas en el transcurso de la partida, dentro del mínimo y máximo establecido, todas las veces que lo desee, debiéndolo realizar entre mano y mano.Free translation: If necessary, the Bettor may buy chips during the course of the game, within the established minimum and maximum, as many times as he or she wishes, and must do so between hands.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
The fee
El Casino podrá retener hasta un 5% de beneficio sobre todos los Pots.Free translation: The Casino may retain up to 5% as profit on all Pots.
La deducción del beneficio se realizara antes de hacer el pago de los pot en juego a los jugadores ganadores de cada pase.Free translation: The deduction of the profit will be made before the pots in play are paid to the winning players of each hand.
En caso de no poder cobrar el valor exacto del beneficio, se aplicará redondeo hacia abajo.Free translation: If the exact value of the winnings cannot be paid, rounding down shall apply.
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)
How many players one table needs
Al Texas Hold’em podrán jugar un mínimo de cuatro personas y un máximo de diez.Free translation: Texas Hold’em may be played by a minimum of four people and a maximum of ten.
Para que pueda dar comienzo y mantenerse una partida en juego, será necesario un mínimo de cuatro personas y un máximo de diez.Free translation: For a game to begin and to continue in play, a minimum of four people and a maximum of ten will be necessary.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
Para el comienzo de la partida el mínimo de Apostadores es de cuatro participantes y la duración de la partida es de dos (2) horas.Free translation: For the game to begin, the minimum number of Bettors is four participants and the duration of the game is two (2) hours.
La ubicación de los Apostadores en la mesa será sorteada antes de iniciarse cada partida.Free translation: The Bettors' positions at the table will be drawn by lot before each game begins.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
When the game ends
La duración de la partida se estipula en 2 hs aunque podrá ser modificada por la Gerencia de Operaciones no siendo menor a 1 hs. Se hará pública a los jugadores antes de su inicio.Free translation: The duration of the game is set at 2 hours, although it may be modified by the Operations Management, and shall not be less than 1 hour. It will be made public to the players before it begins.
Finalizado el tiempo de duración de la partida, se jugará una mano adicional y se dará por terminada la misma.Free translation: When the duration of the game has ended, one additional hand will be played and the game will then be considered finished.
La partida será finalizada cuando se dé alguna de las siguientes condiciones:Free translation: The game will end when any of the following conditions occurs:
Queden sólo tres jugadores en la mesa.Free translation: Only three players remain at the table.
Se supere el tiempo de juego estipulado como duración de la partida: En este caso, se finalizará la mano en curso y se realizará una mano adicional, luego se dará por terminada la partida.Free translation: The playing time set as the duration of the game is exceeded: In this case, the hand in progress will be finished and one additional hand will be played, after which the game will be considered finished.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
Against the other players
El Texas Hold’em es un juego de círculo, que enfrenta a varios jugadores entre sí.Free translation: Texas Hold’em is a circle game, in which several players compete against one another.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
Se trata de un juego de partida donde los Apostadores compiten entre sí. El objetivo de cada Apostador es alcanzar la mejor combinación de cinco naipes del mayor valor posible, mediante la utilización de siete naipes, de los cuales dos se distribuyen inicialmente a cada Apostador, y cinco naipes comunitarios ubicados en el centro de la mesa.Free translation: This is a game played in hands in which the Bettors compete against each other. The objective of each Bettor is to reach the best five-card combination of the highest possible value, using seven cards, of which two are initially dealt to each Bettor, and five community cards placed in the centre of the table.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
The blinds
La apuesta ciega chica será generalmente la mitad de la ciega grande.Free translation: The small blind bet will generally be half of the big blind bet.
El botón de dealer es un disco blanco con el nombre de "dealer" que es el indicativo de que el jugador que esta a la izquierda de él recibirá cartas en primer lugar y colocará la ciega chica obligatoria.Free translation: The dealer button is a white disc bearing the name "dealer", which indicates that the player to its left will receive cards first and will place the mandatory small blind.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
El jugador situado inmediatamente a la izquierda del marcador coloca la “ciega chica”, y el que está a la izquierda de este la “ciega grande”, apuestas que son obligatoriasFree translation: The player seated immediately to the left of the marker places the "small blind", and the one to the left of that player the "big blind"; these bets are mandatory
Lotería de Córdoba S.E. (portal) · Reglamento del Poker Texas Hold'em · read
Apuestas Ciegas: son las apuestas obligatorias que deben realizar los dos primeros Apostadores ubicados a la izquierda del botón; deben efectuarse antes de la distribución de las naipes y todos losFree translation: Blind Bets: these are the mandatory bets that must be made by the first two Bettors located to the left of the button; they must be made before the cards are dealt and all the
La apuesta Ciega Grande (Big Blind): la realiza el Apostador sentado dos lugares a la izquierda del botón y su valor es equivalente a la apuesta mínima.Free translation: The Big Blind bet: it is made by the Bettor seated two places to the left of the button and its value is equivalent to the minimum bet.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
The limits of a game
La Gerencia de Operaciones determinará para cada partida: * El valor de ciega chica y grande que serán fijas durante toda la partida. * Mínimo de compra inicial. * Mínimo de recompra. * Máximo de compra de fichas por jugador por partida, pudiendo ser este ilimitado.Free translation: The Operations Management will determine for each game: * The value of the small and big blinds, which will be fixed throughout the game. * Minimum initial buy-in. * Minimum rebuy. * Maximum purchase of chips per player per game, which may be unlimited.
Cada modificación de estos límites, será anunciado a los jugadores antes del inicio de la partida.Free translation: Any modification of these limits will be announced to the players before the game begins.
Cada jugador deberá presentar el importe en fichas americanas que iguale o supere el mínimo de compra inicial dispuesto por la Gerencia para la partida.Free translation: Each player must present an amount in American chips that equals or exceeds the minimum initial purchase set by Management for the game.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
Para el ingreso a una mesa en el inicio o con la partida en desarrollo, es requisito contar con el monto mínimo establecido y no superar el máximo, si lo hubiere preestablecido para la mesa.Free translation: To join a table at the start or while the game is in progress, it is a requirement to have the established minimum amount and not exceed the maximum, if one has been preset for the table.
En caso de ser necesario el Apostador podrá comprar fichas en el transcurso de la partida, dentro del mínimo y máximo establecido, todas las veces que lo desee, debiéndolo realizar entre mano y mano.Free translation: If necessary, the Bettor may buy chips during the course of the game, within the established minimum and maximum, as many times as he or she wishes, and must do so between hands.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
The buy-in
La Gerencia de Operaciones determinará para cada partida: * El valor de ciega chica y grande que serán fijas durante toda la partida. * Mínimo de compra inicial. * Mínimo de recompra. * Máximo de compra de fichas por jugador por partida, pudiendo ser este ilimitado.Free translation: The Operations Management will determine for each game: * The value of the small and big blinds, which will be fixed throughout the game. * Minimum initial buy-in. * Minimum rebuy. * Maximum purchase of chips per player per game, which may be unlimited.
Cada modificación de estos límites, será anunciado a los jugadores antes del inicio de la partida.Free translation: Any modification of these limits will be announced to the players before the game begins.
Cada jugador deberá presentar el importe en fichas americanas que iguale o supere el mínimo de compra inicial dispuesto por la Gerencia para la partida.Free translation: Each player must present an amount in American chips that equals or exceeds the minimum initial purchase set by Management for the game.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
Para el ingreso a una mesa en el inicio o con la partida en desarrollo, es requisito contar con el monto mínimo establecido y no superar el máximo, si lo hubiere preestablecido para la mesa.Free translation: To join a table at the start or while the game is in progress, it is a requirement to have the established minimum amount and not exceed the maximum, if one has been preset for the table.
En caso de ser necesario el Apostador podrá comprar fichas en el transcurso de la partida, dentro del mínimo y máximo establecido, todas las veces que lo desee, debiéndolo realizar entre mano y mano.Free translation: If necessary, the Bettor may buy chips during the course of the game, within the established minimum and maximum, as many times as he or she wishes, and must do so between hands.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
Buying more chips
La recompra sólo podrá ser realizada antes del inicio del pase.Free translation: The rebuy may only be made before the start of the pase.
Si un jugador anuncia la recompra en el medio de una mano, las nuevas fichas no entrarán en juego hasta que la mano actual termine, y el jugador esté apto para la recompra.Free translation: If a player announces a rebuy in the middle of a hand, the new chips will not enter play until the current hand ends and the player is eligible for the rebuy.
Comprar o añadir fichas a su resto para aumentarlo en el transcurso de una mano, o hacerlo sin dar aviso al responsable de la mesa.Free translation: Buying or adding chips to his stack to increase it during a hand, or doing so without notifying the person in charge of the table.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
En caso de ser necesario el Apostador podrá comprar fichas en el transcurso de la partida, dentro del mínimo y máximo establecido, todas las veces que lo desee, debiéndolo realizar entre mano y mano.Free translation: If necessary, the Bettor may buy chips during the course of the game, within the established minimum and maximum, as many times as he or she wishes, and must do so between hands.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
A lost stack
Un jugador que apueste su resto y pierda no quedará eliminado de la mesa, excepto que ya haya realizado recompras por el máximo permitido o desista de su derecho a recompra.Free translation: A player who bets his stack and loses will not be eliminated from the table, unless he has already made rebuys up to the maximum allowed or waives his right to rebuy.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
The fee as a share of each pot
El Casino podrá retener hasta un 5% de beneficio sobre todos los Pots.Free translation: The Casino may retain up to 5% as profit on all Pots.
La deducción del beneficio se realizara antes de hacer el pago de los pot en juego a los jugadores ganadores de cada pase.Free translation: The deduction of the profit will be made before the pots in play are paid to the winning players of each hand.
En caso de no poder cobrar el valor exacto del beneficio, se aplicará redondeo hacia abajo.Free translation: If the exact value of the winnings cannot be paid, rounding down shall apply.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
The seat fee
Los Apostadores deberán abonar el valor de su ubicación, siendo este el estipulado por el Casino para cada mesa.Free translation: Bettors must pay the value of their position, which is that set by the Casino for each table.
El cobro del asiento es válido únicamente para la mesa en que se ha efectuado el mismo.Free translation: The seat charge is valid only for the table at which it was paid.
De incorporarse Apostadores después de la primera hora de juego, cualquiera sea la fracción de tiempo transcurrida, el valor de la ubicación será la mitad del que tenía al inicio de la partida.Free translation: If Bettors join after the first hour of play, whatever fraction of time has elapsed, the value of the position will be half of what it was at the start of the game.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
A new player
El jugador que ingrese a una partida iniciada será ubicado lo más cerca posible de la ciega grande, en la primera posición libre siguiendo el sentido a las agujas del reloj.Free translation: A player who joins a game already in progress will be seated as close as possible to the big blind, in the first free position going clockwise.
En caso que el jugador ingrese a la posición entre la ciega chica y el dealer este no jugara el pase debiendo esperar a la próxima ronda en la que no recibirá el botón de dealer el cual pasara al próximo jugador.Free translation: If the player joins in the position between the small blind and the dealer, he will not play that hand and must wait for the next round, in which he will not receive the dealer button, which will pass to the next player.
Si ingresara en la posición de ciega grande, este deberá jugar el pase y la apuesta obligada.Free translation: If he joins in the big blind position, he must play the hand and post the forced bet.
El jugador deberá ingresar con el mínimo de compra equivalente a la compra mínima establecida para la partida.Free translation: The player must join with the minimum buy-in equivalent to the minimum purchase established for the game.
De ingresar con posterioridad a que el Botón de Dealer pasara una vez por cada jugador, deberá hacerlo con el equivalente al promedio resto de los jugadores de la mesa.Free translation: If he joins after the Dealer Button has passed once around every player, he must do so with the equivalent of the average stack of the other players at the table.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
El Apostador que se incorpore a la partida con posterioridad a su comienzo, cualquiera sea ese momento, de haber más de una ubicación disponible, la misma será sorteada.Free translation: If there is more than one seat available for a Bettor who joins the game after it has started, whatever the moment, the seat will be drawn by lot.
Al Apostador que se sitúa en el puesto de la ciega grande se lo tratará como tal; de situarse entre el botón y la ciega chica, deberá esperar a que pase el botón.Free translation: A Bettor who sits in the big blind position will be treated as such; if he sits between the button and the small blind, he must wait for the button to pass.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
A new player
El jugador que ingrese a una partida iniciada será ubicado lo más cerca posible de la ciega grande, en la primera posición libre siguiendo el sentido a las agujas del reloj.Free translation: A player who joins a game already in progress will be seated as close as possible to the big blind, in the first free position going clockwise.
En caso que el jugador ingrese a la posición entre la ciega chica y el dealer este no jugara el pase debiendo esperar a la próxima ronda en la que no recibirá el botón de dealer el cual pasara al próximo jugador.Free translation: If the player joins in the position between the small blind and the dealer, he will not play that hand and must wait for the next round, in which he will not receive the dealer button, which will pass to the next player.
Si ingresara en la posición de ciega grande, este deberá jugar el pase y la apuesta obligada.Free translation: If he joins in the big blind position, he must play the hand and post the forced bet.
El jugador deberá ingresar con el mínimo de compra equivalente a la compra mínima establecida para la partida.Free translation: The player must join with the minimum buy-in equivalent to the minimum purchase established for the game.
De ingresar con posterioridad a que el Botón de Dealer pasara una vez por cada jugador, deberá hacerlo con el equivalente al promedio resto de los jugadores de la mesa.Free translation: If he joins after the Dealer Button has passed once around every player, he must do so with the equivalent of the average stack of the other players at the table.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
El Apostador que se incorpore a la partida con posterioridad a su comienzo, cualquiera sea ese momento, de haber más de una ubicación disponible, la misma será sorteada.Free translation: If there is more than one seat available for a Bettor who joins the game after it has started, whatever the moment, the seat will be drawn by lot.
Al Apostador que se sitúa en el puesto de la ciega grande se lo tratará como tal; de situarse entre el botón y la ciega chica, deberá esperar a que pase el botón.Free translation: A Bettor who sits in the big blind position will be treated as such; if he sits between the button and the small blind, he must wait for the button to pass.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
Reserving a seat
La reserva de una ubicación se hace exclusivamente para la compra de fichas, salvo circunstancias de fuerza mayor que indiquen lo contrario.Free translation: A seat is reserved exclusively for the purchase of chips, except in circumstances of force majeure indicating otherwise.
De haber dejado fichas en el casillero, el tiempo de espera de la reserva de ubicación es de veinte minutos, pasado dicho tiempo se retiraran las fichas de la mesa, el apostador que la solicitó no tendrá derecho a reclamo alguno.Free translation: If chips have been left in the rack slot, the waiting time for the seat reservation is twenty minutes; after that time the chips will be removed from the table and the bettor who requested the reservation will have no right to any claim.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
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)
No lending chips
Prestarse dinero o fichas entre jugadores.Free translation: Lending money or chips between players.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
Ningún Apostador podrá ceder o aceptar fichas de otro Apostador, de hacerlo será penalizado.Free translation: No Bettor may give or accept chips from another Bettor; anyone who does so will be penalized.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
Chips in plain view
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)
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.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
Leaving after a hand
Un jugador puede abandonar una partida en curso sólo cuando un pase haya finalizado. Para ello, deberá anunciarlo a viva voz.Free translation: A player may leave a game in progress only when a pase has ended. To do so, the player must announce it aloud.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
Stepping away
Si un Apostador se ausentase momentáneamente de la mesa, pagará todas las apuestas ciegas cuando le corresponda, pasando éstas a formar parte del pozo.Free translation: If a Bettor is momentarily absent from the table, he will pay all the blinds when they fall due, and these will become part of the pot.
Todo Apostador que se encuentre ausente recibirá naipes en todas las manos, los que serán descartados automáticamente al finalizar la distribución de naipes.Free translation: Any Bettor who is absent will be dealt cards in every hand, which will be discarded automatically when the dealing of the cards is finished.
Todos los Apostadores deben estar en sus ubicaciones respectivas antes que el Tallador termine la distribución de naipes de cada mano.Free translation: All Bettors must be in their respective seats before the Dealer finishes dealing the cards of each hand.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
A petición propia del jugador, éste podrá descansar hasta dos manos sin perder el puesto en la mesa.Free translation: At the player's own request, the player may rest for up to two hands without losing his or her place at the table.
No podrá descansar aquel jugador que deba realizar las apuestas obligatorias de ciega chica o grande.Free translation: A player who must post the compulsory small blind or big blind bets may not take a rest.
Al regresar, el jugador deberá pagar las apuestas obligatorias que no hubiera apostado, las cuales serán ingresadas al pot, antes de comenzar la mano.Free translation: On returning, the player must pay the compulsory bets he has not posted, which will be put into the pot, before the hand begins.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)