EXPOSING THE FIRST CARD OP A ROUND

If the dealer exposes the top card of the pack before the betting has been completed on the previous round, he leaves the card face up on the pack until the betting on that round is completed. After the betting has been completed on that round, the dealer must burn or bury from the top of the pack as many cards (including the exposed card) as there are active players left in the game. Under no conditions are the players permitted to look at the burned online poker cards. Thereafter, the play continues according to the rules, in a way similiar to Deuces Wild.


IMPROPER DEALING

A dealer is not permitted to deal the first card face up and the second online poker card face down. The first card must be dealt face down, becoming the player´s hole card.


PROTECTING A HOLE CARD

A player must protect his hole card at all times. Protecting a hole card is to permit no other player to know its identity, regardless of whether the player is active or dead.

A player is not permitted at any time to turn up his hole card and call for his next card face down.

A player, when folding up, is not permitted to expose his poker hole card to any of the online players or to mention its identity.



CHECKING ON THE LAST ROUND

If a player checks on the last round, all other players in order to check too must be able to beat the checking player´s four open cards. Otherwise a check is not permitted. For example, a player who has checked has a pair of open aces. The next and following players cannot check unless they cn beat the open pair, although they may bet if the situation permits. This rule is incorporated to protect a player´s hand against another player who calls an impossible hand, although there is no penalty that could be imposed on an online poker player for failure to comply.


BETTING OUT Of TURN

The following rules apply to free staying, calling, or raising out of turn. An online player making a bet out of turn must leave the bet in the pot. Re cannot take it back, and the play reverts to the proper player. When it is the proper turn of the player who bet out of turn, he must do one of the following:

1. if no bet has been made by any preceding player, the bet stands as is.

2. If a bet has been made by a previous player smaller than the bet made out of turn, it stands as a raise.

3. If a bet has been made by a previous player equal to the bet out of turn, it stands as a stay, play or call. The player who bet out of turn cannot raise.

4. If a previous bet was raised by another player and the bet is in excess of the amount bet by the out-of-turn player. the out-of-turn player may drop out of the pot, stay or call by equaling the online poker bet made by the previous betters, or re-raise the pot after equaling the bet.


VERBAL BETTING

If a player in his turn of play announces orally that he is making a bet, he must abide by the announcement. He cannot increase or decrease the bet Should a player make an announcement not in his proper Casino turn of play and has not placed any money in the pot, it should be disregarded and considered a joke or an attempted bluff, like in draw poker.


TAPPING OUT

If a player has put all his money into the pot and no longer can bet, it is called a tap-out when that player is permitted to play for the size of the pot up to the time he no longer has money. If the other players keep betting they put theft bets to one side, as the tapping-out player has no interest in that side pot. The tapping-out player receives cards until the haad is completed, and should he have the highest-ranking hand on the online poker showdown, he wins only the pot, not the side pot; that is won by the player having the highest-ranking cards among the remaining betters. A player is permitted only one tap-out during a Poker session.

A player when tapping out can raise only if he still has an amount equal to the maximum limit, so in case of a re-raise he can call the bet. A player cannot tap out with money on the table.


IMPROPER FOLD-UP

If a player decides to drop out of the pot or fold up, he cannot give an indication, verbal or otherwise, until it is his proper turn of play. Strict observance of this rule will make for a better game. Should he fold up out of turn his hand is dead.


DEALER ERRS IN CALLING HIGHEST OPEN HAND

When the dealer errs in calling the highest open hand and as a result the wrong player bets (if it is discovered before the betting is completed on that round), the dealer must online poker correct the play by giving back out of the pot the money that was improperly bet. This is the only time a player is permitted to take money out of the pot.