Del. Code Ann. tit. 28, § 1537
Definitions for Texas Hold’em Poker
75 Del. Laws, c. 117, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 77 Del. Laws, c. 21, §§ 1-4; 79 Del. Laws, c. 199, § 4;
The following definitions apply to all the rules of Texas Hold’em Poker:
- (1) “All-in” means a player wages all of that player’s remaining chips to the pot.
- (2) “Ante” means a predetermined contribution to the pot before the first card of the game is dealt.
- (3) “Bet” means a player’s wager to the pot on any betting round.
- (4) “Bet or fold” means the requirement that a player place a wager (i.e., bet) or fold that player’s hand.
- (5) “Big blind” means the forced bet that is made by the person sitting 2 seats to the left of the button. This is the largest forced bet.
- (6) “Blind” means a required bet made before any cards are dealt.
- (7) “Blind position” means the player to the left of the button.
- (8) “Bookkeeper” or “treasurer” means anyone who receives, collects or counts currency, checks, credit and debit card transactions, prepares banking deposit slips, makes deposits of receipts to a financial institution, posts receipts to a ledger, or reconciles an entity’s financial statements.
- (9) “Burn” means to place a card down prior to dealing the flop, turn and river.
- (10) “Button” means an object which is moved clockwise around the table to denote an imaginary dealer.
- (11) “Buy-in” means a purchase of chips by a player prior to play.
- (12) “Call” means a bet made equal in amount to the immediately preceding bet.
- (13) “Check” means to waive the right to initiate the betting in a round, but to retain the right to call or raise.
- (14) “Check and raise” means a raise after a player first checked in a round.
- (15) “Chips” means small tokens or disks used to place bets.
- (16) “Community cards” means cards dealt or turned face upward which can be used by all players with a live hand to make their best hand.
- (17) “Deal” means the distribution of playing cards among the players.
- (18) “Dealer” means the person at each table who deals, burns, shuffles and cuts the cards or operates the shuffling device.
- (19) “Defective deck” means a deck that is found to have other than the proper cards or number of cards for the game being played or is otherwise found to have a card that is taped, cut, shaved, marked, defaced, bent, crimped or deformed.
- (20) “Flop” means the first 3 community cards dealt or turned face up at 1 time.
- (21) “Fold” means to discard a hand, forfeiting claim to the pot.
- (22) “Hand” means, 1 deal, the cards held by a player, or the best cards a player is holding.
- (23) “House rules” means the sponsoring organization set of rules, consistent with this title, governing the operation of the Texas Hold’em Poker tournament.
- (24) “Misdeal” means to deal a hand of poker incorrectly.
- (25) “Muck” means discards, burn cards and cards from the unused remainder of the deck of cards.
- (26) “Opener” means the player who makes the first bet in any round.
- (27) “Pot” means the total amount anted and bet by players during a game which is awarded to the winning player or players.
- (28) “Rebuy” (also known as an “add-on”) means when a player is allowed to purchase additional chips at a predetermined fee.
- (29) “Round” means a cycle of bets made by the players following the deal of the cards.
- (30) “Showdown” means the revealing of each player’s hand after the last bet to determine the winner or winners of the pot.
- (31) “Shuffling device” means a device which shuffles the cards.
- (32) “Sit and go” means a single table game comprised of individuals who lost in the multitable tournament.
- (33) “Small blind” means the forced bet that is made by the person sitting 1 seat to the left of the button. This bet is 1/2 the size of the big blind.
- (34) “Sponsoring organization” means any veterans’, religious or charitable organization, volunteer fire company or fraternal society as defined in § 17B, article II of the Constitution of this State.
- (35) “Stake” means the funds with which a player enters the game.
- (36) “Third-party vendor” or “charitable gaming vendor” means a company or business that contracts with the sponsoring organization to provide the necessary services and/or equipment to conduct a Texas Hold’em Poker tournament.
- (37) “Tournament” means a contest involving a number of contestants who compete in a series of elimination Texas Hold’em Poker games.
75 Del. Laws, c. 117, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 77 Del. Laws, c. 21, §§ 1-4; 79 Del. Laws, c. 199, § 4