How the rules are made in a poker room.

[Randy_Refeld]

A fundamental problem that faces many new card rooms is howo to make rules and procedures. In 1999 (maybe early 2000) I was faced with updating the rulebook for a casino on the strip. I didn't really know how to write this stuff so I emailed Tommy Angelo becasue I knew he had recently written the rules at Lucky CHances adn I was very interested in the NL rules, as we were spreading a NL game and wanted ot be in line with what they were doing other places. He explained a very important concept to me.

You must watch a poker game and wirte down how they play. He told me if I had any questions about the NL game he could answer them but they hadn't been spreading it long enough to get all the rules down in black and white.

What is happening many places today is poker is being spread by people who lack expereince and are attempting to write rules and then telling the players to do this rather tahn observing the game and writing rules that reflect what the players actually do.