WELCOME TO
COMMODORE POKER ONLINE CASINO GAMES HOUSE
RULES
Sitting Out |
Reducing |
Dropping |
Collusion |
Contact |
Etiquette |
Betting
We start by asking you to
agree to our
Service Agreement when you first register. Here you
will confirm that you are at least 21 years old and playing
from a location in which on-line gaming is legal.
To ensure a
fair and honest playing environment, Commodore Poker has
established rules governing player behaviour, handling lost
connectivity, how specific situations are addressed, and
policies against suspected
collusion.
Your
Screen Name is the identity by which other players can
get to know you. Part of poker is understanding how other
players bet under different conditions. Therefore, we do
not permit players to change their screen name, except under
extraordinary circumstances.
If you
experience a broken connection, our software is designed to
quickly attempt to reconnect you. The game will wait a
reasonable amount of time for your connection to be
re-established. It will also alert you, and wait a
reasonable amount of time for you, should you experience a
slow connection, or a distraction at home. If you cannot or
do not respond, the poker room software will treat you as
all-in, check you, or fold your hand depending on the
state of a hand. You will be marked as sitting-out as well.
Of course, it is poor etiquette to deliberately slow a game
down.
The virtual
poker room offers players the ability to play from the
comforts of their own home, or at their local Internet
Cafe. It's not necessary to travel to a physical poker
room. Along with the convenience of the virtual poker room
come some opportunities for the unscrupulous. Rest assured
that our Poker Room actively guards against unfair
behaviour.
We will
not tolerate cheating.
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.
Reducing
When a player wins and has more chips than at the start of
play, it can be tempting to leave the table, and then
immediately return with fewer chips. This is called "reducing"
and is not permitted in our poker room. If a player leaves a
table they must wait 30 minutes before returning with fewer
chips. If they wish to return within the 30 minutes they
must sit down with the same amount of chips they left with.
There are
also situations when a player has lost money and wishes to
return to a table he recently left. In this case the same
reducing rule applies. Specifically, if a player sits down
with 1,000. Loses 200, leaves with 800. He must sit down
with 800 if he re-joins the same table within 30 minutes.
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:
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Dropped
modem connection.
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Routing
problems at the local Internet Service Provider (ISP).
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Network
congestion somewhere on the Internet.
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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 his allocated number of
all-ins for the day and loses connectivity or times out, the
hand is folded.
Due to the
potential to abuse our all-in policy, we do not grant any
all-in protection for pot-limit and no-limit games.
Regardless of the reason, if you fail to act in the required
time, your hand will be folded.
To prevent
players from pretending to have lost their connection with
the server when it might be advantageous financially, we
limit the number of all-in events any player has in a
24-hour period. This will prevent abuse by pretending to
have lost connectivity. Misuse this privilege and you may
find it unavailable when you really need it.
Our
software can detect lost connections as opposed to
non-responding but still connected players.
Collusion
Collusion can be a problem in both physical and virtual
poker rooms. Collusion is when two or more players attempt
to bet in a fashion that allows added gains. Collusion,
simply stated, is cheating. We will not tolerate
cheating.
In a
physical poker room, trained staff watching the behaviour of
the players at a table can detect collusion. This method is
largely dependent on having adequate numbers of properly
trained staff. In our poker room, we do not only rely on
the human factor.
Our
software is designed to detect collusive behaviour. We
monitor various patterns including who plays together, types
of hands and how they are bet, and unusual betting
patterns. We cannot divulge all the techniques employed but
we are confident that our collusion detection system is
always watching.
You can
also help. If you feel you have been the victim of
collusion, please notify one of our hosts by either
eMail or by clicking on the Manager button.
It will help if you can note the hand number at the top of
the screen. Our hosts will be able to use the information
you supply to correlate to system generated incident
alerts.
Cheaters
will be barred from playing at our poker room!
Contact
A Host
Our Hosts are always there to help you in any way they can.
If you ever have a question or if you feel you have been the
victim of
collusion, please notify one of our hosts by either
eMail or by clicking on the Manager button.
It will help if you can note the hand number at the top of
the screen.
Cheaters
will be barred from playing at our poker room!
Etiquette
This is a community and as in any community there are rules
about behaviour. These rules are intended to maximize the
enjoyment and comfort of all players and visitors. Please
follow these rules. Violators will be contacted and risk
suspension or banishment.
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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.
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Timely play: Please make every effort to not slow
the progress of the game. Where possible, use the
advance action options.
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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.
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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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Kibitzing: Only players who are remaining in a hand
should make comments on the current hand. Observers,
including those who have folded, must not comment about
the play, or style of any player, or how the game is
being played.
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Coffeehousing: Players are asked to refrain from
"table talk" or "coffee-housing" or talking during a
hand in a way that compromises and opponent's hand. This
applies to players playing in the hand or watching the
hand.
Betting
There are a few house betting rules you should know.
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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.
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Pot
Limit and No Limit Buy-in Rules: You must bring at
least 10 times the Big Blind to the table, and no more
than 50 times the Big Blind in these games.
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Minimum Re-buy: You must re-buy at least 5 times
the Big Blind. If you don't have sufficient funds in
your cage account, you must deposit additional funds to
your account. If you don't have sufficient play chips,
you may request additional chips in the Cashier view of
the Lobby.
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Pot
Limit and No Limit Re-buy Rules: When you re-buy in
a pot limit or no limit game, you may not exceed the
maximum buy-in/re-buy limit. Because you order more
chips during a hand, and those chips are delivered at
the end of the hand, you may win chips in that hand. If
you win, we will adjust your order so that you do not
buy more chips than allowed. If that happens, we return
the excess to your cage account for you.
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