This guide will familiarize guests with Lake Elsinore Casino’s house rules, policies and procedures. We respectfully request that all guests abide by the rules of common courtesy and adhere to proper card room etiquette.

Please –
? Act in a timely manner. Ask for time, if required.
? Act in turn. Clearly state your intentions, either physically or verbally.
? Act responsible. Use of foul, disrespectful, inappropriate or threatening language or gestures will not be tolerated.
? All-in players are expected to clearly announce their intentions.
? Any player has the right to see ‘all calling hands’ after the hand is completed.
? Assist the dealer in calling attention to an error. Otherwise allow the Dealers & Floor personnel to do their job.
? Cards must be kept in plain site of the dealer and other players, at all times. Cards are not allowed to be held below the table level or beyond the edge of the table.
? Check & raise is permitted.
? Dead hands, cards that are no longer playable, are considered so when a player, either physically or verbally, surrenders or discards them.
? Dealers may not accidentally ‘kill’ an exposed winning hand.
? Dealers may not influence, encourage or impede play in any form, either physically or verbally.
? Discard your cards without disturbing the board, pot or other players’ hands.
? English only, while at the table.
? Exposed cards speak for themselves.
? Exposing cards while a hand is in progress is strongly discouraged.
? Follow the game action whenever you are participating in a hand.
? Intentional actions, either physically or verbally, that disrupt or disturb the game will not be tolerated.
? One player to a hand and one hand to a player.
? Protect your hand at all times.
? Refrain from ‘splashing the pot’. Place chips neatly in front of you, without mingling chips already in the pot.
? Refrain from commenting about other players’ style of play.
? Refrain from commenting about the hand in progress.
? Refrain from showing cards until requested to do so.
? Removing chips or money from the table is not allowed.
? Request a Floor persons decision whenever in doubt or unsure about a procedure or rule.
? Slow rolling of cards is strongly discouraged. Winning hands should be shown immediately.

Continued, intentional or flagrant misuse of rule infractions, etiquette or ethics violations whether unintentional or without the knowledge that such actions are improper will, at the Floor persons’ discretion, be grounds for disciplinary action which may include counseling or suspension. Upon review by the card room manager further action may be deemed necessary.

ETIQUETTE, COMMON COURTESY AND ETHICS GUIDELINES

ETHICS – Situations that arise that might be considered improper
? Advising or instructing another player on how to play a hand.
? Agreeing to check a hand down after a third player is all-in.
? Arranging or hiding your chips so that other players cannot see higher denominations.
? Inquiries about raises or reraises, out of turn, as if the intention is to reraise, when the player has no intention to do so.
? Intentionally acting out of turn either to intimidate or concede.
? Intentionally holding or hiding cards in such a manner that the Dealer or other players may not see them.
? Intentionally overstating the strength of a hand at the showdown.
? Intentionally under or over betting the correct amount.
? Opinions about what another player has or the strength of his hand when he bets.
? Reading a hand before it is shown down.
? Revealing ones cards when all-in before the betting is completed.
? Throwing chips into the pot so that the dealer cannot verify that the correct amount has been bet or called.

MANY OF THESE SITUATIONS ARE UNINTENTIONAL AND THE PLAYER COMMITTING THEM DOES NOT REALIZE THAT IT IS AN IMPROPRIETY.

If you have any other questions, please ask any of our floor personnel or casino manager.