New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle T - New York State Gaming Commission › Chapter IV - Division of Gaming › Subchapter B - Casino Gaming › Part 5324 - Table Game Rules › Section 5324.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) The following
					 words and terms, when used in this section, have the following meaning unless
					 the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1)
					 3rd street wager means an additional wager in Mississippi stud poker made by a
					 player, in an amount equal to one, two or three times the amount of the
					 player's ante wager, after the player has been dealt such player's initial two
					 cards.
(2) 4th street wager means
					 an additional wager in Mississippi stud poker made by a player, in an amount
					 equal to one, two or three times the amount of the player's ante wager, after
					 the first community card has been revealed by the dealer.
(3) 5th street wager means an additional
					 wager in Mississippi stud poker made by a player, in an amount equal to one,
					 two or three times the amount of the player's ante wager, after the second
					 community card is revealed by the dealer.
(4) All-in means a player who has no funds
					 remaining on the poker table to continue betting in a round of play but who
					 still retains the right to contend for that portion of the pot in which the
					 player has already placed a bet.
(5) Ante means a predetermined initial wager
					 required to be made in a poker game prior to any cards being dealt in order to
					 participate in the round of play.
(6) Bad beat means one or more pre-designated
					 high-value poker hands that, when held by a player as a losing hand in a round
					 of play, shall result in a bad beat payout if the gaming facility has elected
					 to offer a bad beat payout at that poker table.
(7) Bank means the player in pai gow poker
					 who elects to have the other players and dealer play against him or her and
					 accepts the responsibility to pay all winning wagers.
(8) Banker hand bonus means a payout made to
					 a player who placed an imperial pai gow bonus wager if the banker's seven cards
					 form one of the qualifying hands, except that the banker hand bonus for a
					 player banking a round of play shall be determined by the dealer's seven
					 cards.
(9) Bet or bet wager means
					 an action by which a player places chips, plaques or another form of wagering
					 approved by the commission in a designated area to move toward the completion
					 of a round or game.
(10) Betting
					 round means a complete wagering cycle in a hand of poker after all players have
					 called, folded or gone all-in.
(11)
					 Blackjack or natural blackjack means an ace and any card having a point value
					 of 10 dealt as the initial two cards to a player or a dealer, except an ace and
					 a 10-point-value card dealt to a player who has split pairs.
(12) Blind or blind bet means a mandatory
					 wager that is required to be made by players at specific betting positions in
					 poker, and all players in other table games, that are required to be made prior
					 to any cards being dealt to participate in the round of play or game.
(13) Bonus wager means an optional wager that
					 players may make to qualify for additional payouts given a specified hand or
					 outcome.
(14) Burn means to remove
					 the top or next card from the deck or shoe and discard such card face
					 down.
(15) Burn card means a card
					 taken from the top of a deck or the next card of a dealing shoe that is
					 discarded face down and is not in play.
(16) Button means an object that is moved
					 clockwise around the table to denote an imaginary dealer to determine the
					 betting and dealing sequence.
(17)
					 Call means a wager made in an amount equal to the immediately preceding
					 wager.
(18) Check means that a
					 player waives the right to make or place a wager but retains the right to
					 remain in that game or round of play.
(19) Co-banking means the bank and the dealer
					 each cover 50 percent of all winning pai gow wagers.
(20) Come out point means a total of 4, 5, 6,
					 8, 9 or 10 rolled in craps by the shooter on the come out roll.
(21) Come out roll means the first roll of
					 the dice in craps at the opening of the game and the first roll of the dice
					 after a decision with respect to pass bet and don't pass bet has been
					 affected.
(22) Come point means a
					 total of 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10 rolled in craps by the shooter on the next roll
					 following placement of a come bet or don't come bet.
(23) Common card means, in any game of stud
					 poker, a card that is dealt face up if there are insufficient cards left in the
					 deck to deal each player a card individually and that can be used by all
					 players at the showdown.
(24)
					 Community card means any card that is dealt face up and can be used by each
					 player to form such player's best hand.
(25) Copy hand means a hand of a player in
					 Asia poker, pai gow poker or pai gow tiles that is identical in rank or point
					 value to the corresponding hand of the dealer.
(26) Cover card means an opaque plastic card
					 used during the cut process and to conceal the bottom card of the
					 deck.
(27) Curator means the player
					 in baccarat who accepts the dealing shoe and who is responsible for dealing the
					 cards in accordance with this Part and the instructions of the dealer calling
					 the game.
(28) Dead hand means four
					 tiles in pai gow poker that are placed in a separate area located to the left
					 of the dealer or any hand dealt that is deemed no longer in play, such as a
					 fouled hand in poker.
(29) Dragon 7
					 means a banker's hand in a baccarat game that has a point count of seven with a
					 total of three cards dealt and the player's hand that has a point count of less
					 than seven.
(30) Draw means, in any
					 game of draw poker, an exchange by a player of cards held in such player's
					 hand, after the initial round of betting, for an equal number of new cards from
					 the deck or in other card games, the additional cards taken by a player or
					 dealer to complete a hand.
(31)
					 Envy bonus means an additional fixed sum payout made to a player in a poker
					 game who placed an authorized wager in a predetermined amount that shall win if
					 an envy bonus qualifying hand is reached.
(32) Envy bonus qualifying hand means a
					 player's hand in a poker game with a rank included in the pay table selected by
					 the gaming facility.
(33) EZ
					 baccarat means a variation of baccarat in which vigorish is not
					 collected.
(34) Flop means the
					 first three community cards dealt face up in a poker game in the area
					 designated for the placement of the community cards.
(35) Flop wager means the second wager in
					 Texas hold 'em bonus poker, equal to twice the amount of the player's ante,
					 that is required to be made prior to the flop being dealt in order to continue
					 participation in the round of play.
(36) Flush means two, three, four, five or
					 seven cards of the same suit prescribed by each type of poker game.
(37) Fold means the withdrawal of a player
					 from a poker game or round of play by discarding such player's cards and not
					 placing any further wagers.
(38)
					 Forced bet or bring in means a wager that is required to start the wagering on
					 the first betting round in a poker game.
(39) Fouled hand means a hand in a poker game
					 that either has an improper number of cards or has come into contact with other
					 cards in such a way as to render it impossible to determine accurately which
					 cards are contained in the hand.
(40) Four of a kind means four cards of the
					 same rank.
(41) Half-kill means
					 when one player wins an entire qualifying pot in a poker game, the betting
					 limits are increased by one-half the posted table wagering limits for the next
					 hand and remain in effect until a pot is split between one player winning the
					 high hand and another player winning the low hand or until a pot does not
					 qualify in amount.
(42) Hand means
					 the two, three, four, five, six or seven cards formed by the combination of
					 cards owned by the player or dealer and the community cards offered, if
					 applicable, that make the highest-ranking combination for that poker
					 game.
(43) High hand jackpot payout
					 means the total of the contribution collected during a qualifying period in a
					 poker game that is payable to one or more players upon the occurrence of a
					 qualifying high hand.
(44) High
					 hand, for the following games, means:
(i) in
					 the game of pai gow poker, the five-card hand that is formed from the seven
					 cards dealt so as to rank equal to or higher than the two-card low
					 hand;
(ii) in the game of Asia
					 poker, the four-card hand formed by the player or dealer from the seven cards
					 that was dealt, so that the four-card hand is higher in rank than the medium
					 hand and low hand;
(iii) in the
					 game of pai gow tiles, the two-tile hand formed with two of the four tiles
					 dealt so as to rank higher than the hand formed from the remaining two
					 tiles.
(45) High-low
					 split means a form of poker in which there is a winner for both the highest and
					 lowest-ranking hands.
(46) Hole
					 card means a card dealt face down to the dealer or player.
(47) Initial wager means the wager that must
					 be made by a player prior to any cards being dealt in order to participate in
					 the round of play.
(48) Kill means
					 when one player wins an entire qualifying pot in a poker game, the betting
					 limits are twice the posted table wagering limits for the next hand and remain
					 in effect until a pot is split between one player winning the high hand and
					 another player winning the low hand or until a pot does not qualify in
					 amount.
(49) Lammer means a small
					 plastic disc with numbers or words that are normally used for
					 markers.
(50) Let it ride means
					 that a player chooses not to take back a wager in a poker game that may be
					 withdrawn.
(51) Low hand means the
					 one-card or two-card hand formed by the player or dealer in a poker game from
					 the seven cards that are dealt, so that the one-card or two-card hand is lower
					 in rank than the high hand and the medium hand, if applicable.
(52) Low means a game of poker in which the
					 highest-ranking low hand wins the pot.
(53) Medium hand means the two-card hand
					 formed by the player or dealer in Asia poker from the seven cards that are
					 dealt so that the two-card hand is lower in rank than the high hand and higher
					 in rank than the low hand.
(54)
					 Natural means a hand in baccarat or mini baccarat that has a point count of
					 eight or nine on the first two cards dealt.
(55) Opening bet means the first bet in a
					 round of play.
(56) Original deal
					 means the first card that is dealt to each player and the dealer in a poker
					 game to determine the initial wager in a round of play.
(57) Pai gow insurance wager means an
					 optional wager in a pai gow game where the player's seven cards form a
					 seven-card hand with a rank of ace or lower (a pai gow), for which a payout
					 will be awarded, regardless of the manner in which the player sets the high
					 hand and the low hand and regardless of the outcome of the player's pai gow
					 poker wager.
(58) Pair means two
					 cards of the same rank.
(59) Pair
					 plus wager means the wager that a player may make in three-card poker prior to
					 any cards being dealt in order to compete against a posted pay table,
					 regardless of the outcome of the player's hand against the dealer.
(60) Panda 8 means a player's hand in
					 baccarat that has a point count of eight with a total of three cards dealt and
					 the banker's hand that has a point count of less than eight.
(61) Play wager means an additional wager in
					 a game of poker that a player shall make if the player opts to remain in
					 competition against the dealer.
(62) Player hand bonus means a payout made to
					 a player who placed an imperial pai gow bonus wager if a five-card hand, formed
					 from the player's seven cards, is one of the qualifying hands.
(63) Pot means the amount that is awarded to
					 the winning player or players in a poker game at the conclusion of a round of
					 play and is equal to the total amount anted or bet by the players during the
					 round of play, less any rake extracted and, if applicable, any amount
					 contributed to a bad beat payout fund.
(64) Premium qualifying poker hand means a
					 five-card or seven-card poker hand with a rank of four-of-a-kind or higher
					 formed from the seven cards dealt to a player.
(65) Progressive payout hand means a hand in
					 a game of poker predetermined by the gaming facility that results in a payout
					 from the progressive total.
(66)
					 Protected hand means a hand of cards in a game of poker that the player is
					 physically holding or has placed under one or more chips.
(67) Push means a tie between the hand of the
					 player and that of the dealer.
(68)
					 Qualifying hand means a dealer's hand in a game of poker containing a minimum
					 predetermined value of cards.
(69)
					 Qualifying high hand means a high hand in a game of poker held by any player or
					 players during a qualifying period that may result in a high hand jackpot
					 payout.
(70) Qualifying period
					 means a duration of time in a game of poker, as specified in the gaming
					 facility's approved system of internal controls, when the gaming facility
					 offers a high hand jackpot payout.
(71) Qualifying poker hand means a five-card
					 or seven-card poker hand in pai gow poker with a rank of straight or higher
					 formed from the seven cards dealt to a player.
(72) Queens up wager means the wager that a
					 player is required to make in crazy 4 poker prior to any cards being dealt to
					 compete against a posted pay table, regardless of the outcome of the player's
					 hand against the dealer's hand.
(73) Raise means a bet in a game of poker in
					 an amount greater than the immediately preceding bet in that betting
					 round.
(74) Rake means the amount
					 of chips, plaques or coin collected by the dealer as poker revenue.
(75) Rank or ranking means the relative
					 position of a card, group of cards or hand.
(76) River or river card means the fifth and
					 final community card dealt face up to the designated area of the layout in a
					 game of poker.
(77) River wager
					 means the fourth wager in Texas hold 'em bonus poker equal to the amount of the
					 player's ante that the player may place prior to the river card being
					 dealt.
(78) Round of play means one
					 complete cycle of play in a game of poker during which all wagers have been
					 placed, all cards have been dealt and all remaining wagers have been paid or
					 collected in accordance with this Part.
(79) Second highest or low hand means the two
					 tile hand formed with two of the four tiles dealt at the game of pai gow so as
					 to rank lower than the hand formed from the remaining two tiles.
(80) Set or setting the hands means the
					 process of forming the cards or tiles into a high, low and, if applicable,
					 medium hand in the appropriate betting area.
(81) Seven-card bonus wager means an optional
					 wager where the player's seven-card hand forms a five-card poker hand (best
					 five cards out of seven cards) for which a payout is awarded without regard to
					 the manner in which the player sets the high hand and the low hand and without
					 regard to the outcome of the player's pai gow poker wager.
(82) Showdown means the action of revealing
					 the hands of each player in a game of poker in order to determine who shall win
					 the pot.
(83) Side pot means a
					 separate pot in a game of poker formed when one or more players are
					 all-in.
(84) Six-card bonus wager
					 means an optional wager that a player will form a five-card poker hand listed
					 on a posted payout table from the three cards dealt to the dealer and the three
					 cards dealt to the player during that round of play.
(85) Soft total means the total point count
					 of a hand in blackjack containing an ace when the ace is counted as 11 in
					 value.
(86) Straight flush means
					 two, three, four, five or seven cards of the same suit in consecutive rank
					 prescribed by each game of poker.
(87) Straight means two, three, four, five or
					 seven cards in consecutive rank prescribed by the rules of the game of
					 poker.
(88) Stub means the
					 remaining portion of the deck after all cards in a round of play in a game of
					 poker have been dealt.
(89) Suit
					 means one of the four categories of cards: club, diamond, heart or
					 spade.
(90) Suited match means two
					 cards of the same rank and suit.
(91) Supreme pair means the pair of tiles
					 that form the highest-ranking hand in the game of pai gow and shall be formed
					 with the six (2-4) tile and the three (1 -2) tile.
(92) Switch means a player's one-time option
					 to have the second cards dealt to that player's two blackjack hands exchanged
					 with each other, thus creating two new blackjack hands.
(93) Table stakes means the currency, chips
					 and plaques on the table that are in play. A player may not subtract from such
					 player's currency, chips or plaques at any time during a round of
					 play.
(94) Three-of-a-kind means
					 three cards of the same rank in a game of poker.
(95) Tie means the rank of a player's card or
					 cards and the rank of the dealer's card or cards or other player's cards in
					 poker are equal.
(96) Tie wager
					 means an optional wager in a game of baccarat, mini-baccarat, midi-baccarat and
					 casino war, made at the same time as an initial wager or war wager, that the
					 deal on which the tie wager is made will result in a tie hand.
(97) Trips wager means an optional wager in
					 ultimate Texas hold 'em that a player may make prior to any cards being dealt
					 that the player's best five-card hand will be a three-of-a-kind or better, with
					 a winning trips wager being paid in accordance with a posted pay table
					 regardless of the outcome of the player's hand against the dealer's
					 hand.
(98) Turn or turn card means
					 the fourth community card dealt face up to the designated area of the layout in
					 a game of poker.
(99) Turn wager
					 means the third wager in Texas hold 'em bonus poker, equal to the amount of the
					 player's ante, that a player may place prior to the turn card being
					 dealt.
(100) Up card means any card
					 dealt to a player face up.
(101)
					 Value means the numerical point value assigned to a pair of tiles in a game of
					 pai gow tiles.
(102) War deal means
					 the deal of the cards that follows the placement of a war wager in a game of
					 casino war.
(103) War or go to war
					 means the decision of a player to place a war wager in a game of casino war
					 when there is a tie hand on the original deal.
(104) War wager means a wager in a game of
					 casino war, equal in amount to the player's initial wager, that is required to
					 be made if the player elects to go to war.