Play Rules

The Stetson Poker rooms offer the most popular casino poker games in the world:

Texas Hold’em
Omaha
Omaha High-Low
Seven Card Stud
Seven Card Stud High-Low
Tournaments

Click on any game above for a detailed description of the rules. For new players, our poker basics section is highly recommended. We also recommend the Tridx Poker Academy, to test your poker skills as well as to find usefull poker resources.
Stetson Poker is proud to offer a wide variety of multi-table tournaments for all games. And, by popular request, we are happy to offer Pot Limit and No Limit play money side games in addition to standard structured limit games.
If a game is full, you can request to be put on the waiting list. This applies for every game type.
No matter which game you decide to play, you will always be playing against real people. Your fellow players may live down the street or halfway around the world, but they are playing on their own behalf. At Stetson Poker, you are never playing against the house.
To help keep our games honest, and to be fair to all players, Stetson Poker only allows one account per player. Management reserves the right to close multiple accounts that we believe belong to the same player.

GAME LIMITS
Stetson Poker is proud to offer real money poker at limits from $0.05/$0.10 to $100/$200. In addition, Stetson Poker has play money games that are absolutely free to play.

MINIMUM BUY-IN
The minimum buy-in at any Stetson Poker table is ten times the amount of the bet on the initial betting rounds in fixed games, and twenty times the big blind in Pot Limit and No Limit games. For example, the minimum buy-in for a $10/$20 fixed game is $100.00, and the minimum buy-in for a$0.10/$.25 Pot Limit game is $5.00.

ALL-IN
When a player puts the last of his or her chips into a pot, that player is said to be all-in. An all-in player is not eligible to win any money bet above his or her final bet. The excess part of the bet is either returned to the bettor, or used to form a side pot with another player or players who matched the amount bet. There is no limitation on the number of side pots. However, the all-in player will be eligible for the main pot, and therefore cannot be forced from the hand.
Sometimes a player has enough chips to continue betting or calling but has been disconnected and unable to respond. In this case the player is also deemed to be "all-in" for all the amount of chips he or she has bet on this particular hand. If this happens repeatedly, it probably means the player's Internet connection is poor. We therefore recommend that the player stop playing for a while, and wait until their Internet connection improves.
A player is allotted 25 seconds to act during each round. A warning message is displayed in the chat box when there are 10 seconds left to act. If a player is disconnected and returns before he or she is timed out, the player receives at least 10 seconds to act.
If a player is connected fails to act within the allotted time while being connected, the player's hand is folded by the system.

SERVER CRASH
In the rare event of a server crash, all transactions will be posted to the players' accounts at the completion of each hand. When a hand cannot be completed, for any reason, all of the players' accounts will be restored to the way they were at the beginning of the hand. All bets are considered off, and a new hand will be dealt. If a tournament is interrupted by a server crash, management will review the results within 1 business day. The pot will then be evenly distributed to the accounts of players that had not yet been eliminated from play as compensation.


RAKE
Stetson Poker receives compensation for hosting poker games by taking a rake, or a small portion (3% of all pots over $1, to a maximum of $3.00 for any one single pot) of the pot. For detailed information about the rake see our rake page.