- When a button game starts, active players will draw a card for the button position. The button will be awarded to the highest card.
- The Dealer offers the pack to the person on their right, to cut the pack before dealing
- Misdeals
- Once action begins, a misdeal cannot be called. The deal will be played, and no chips will be returned to any player whose hand is fouled.
- If the 1st or 2nd card dealt is exposed, misdeal result. The dealer retrieves the cards and reshuffles the pack.
- If any other hole card is exposed the deal continues. The exposed card cannot be kept. The player involved receives what would have been the 1st burn card. If more than one hole card is exposed, a misdeal is called.
- Before the first round of betting, if a dealer deals one additional card, it is returned to the deck and used as the burn card.
- The button was out of position
- Cards has been dealt to an empty seat or a player not entitled to a hand.
- Flop, turn, and river errors
- Flop error: if the flop is turned over before betting is complete then the burn card remains, but the flop is retrieved placed with the remaining cards in the pack and re-shuffled, after all betting is complete, a new flop is dealt without burning a card. If the flop contains too many cards, it must be re-dealt with the remainder of the deck. The burn cards remain on the table. After shuffling, the dealer cuts the deck, and deals a new flop without burning a card.
- Turn error: If the dealer turns the fourth (turn) card on the board before the betting round is complete, the card which was improperly dealt shall be set aside, and the dealer shall burn and turn so the card that would have been the river becomes the turn card. After the turn betting is completed, the dealer shall then shuffle the improperly dealt card back into the deck, and shall deal a river card without burning. The card that was burned before the improper dealing shall not be included in the shuffle.
- River error: If the fifth card (river) is turned up prematurely, the turn betting is correctly completed, the dealer shall shuffle the improperly dealt card back into the deck, then turn a new river card without burning.
- Once action begins a misdeal cannot be called. A Player with the incorrect amount of cards must fold, and lose any chips they have put in the pot.
- When heads up, the blinds are reversed. The player on the button has the small blind.
- Deck changes will be when there is a change of dealer or the limit changes. The house may additionally call for deck changes in other circumstances. Players may not ask for deck changes unless proof can be made that certain cards can be construed as “marked”.
