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About Robert's Rules of Poker
“Robert’s Rules Of Poker” is authored by Robert Ciaffone, better known in
the poker world as Bob Ciaffone, a leading authority on cardroom rules. He is the person who
has selected which rules to use, and formatted, organized, and worded the text. Nearly all
these rules are substantively in common use for poker, but many improved ideas for wording
and organization are employed throughout this work. A lot of the rules are similar to those
used in the rulebook of cardrooms where he has acted as a rules consultant and rules drafter.
Ciaffone authored the rulebook for the Poker Players Association (founded in 1984, now defunct),
the first comprehensive set of poker rules for the general public. He has done extensive work
on rules for the Las Vegas Hilton, The Mirage, and Hollywood Park Casino, and assisted many
other cardrooms. Ciaffone is a regular columnist for Card Player magazine, and can be reached
through that publication. This rulebook will be periodically revised, so suggestions are welcome.
Poker rules are widely used and freely copied, so it is impossible to construct
a rulebook without using many rules that exist as part of a rule set of some cardroom. If
such a rule is used, no credit is given to the source (which is unlikely to be the original
one for the rule).
The goal of this rulebook is to produce the best set of rules in existence,
and make it generally available, so any person or cardroom can use it who so desires. The
purpose is the betterment of poker.
This rulebook may be copied or downloaded by anyone, provided it is not sold
for profit without written permission from the author, and the name “Robert’s Rules of Poker”
is used or credited. Excerpts of less than a full chapter may be used without restriction or
credit. People are welcome to use these rules, and even put their own business name on them,
but this does not give a person or business any rights other than to use the rules in their
own establishment, or to make copies available to someone else with the same restrictions
applied to the recipient as stated here. Anyone may make copies of these rules and distribute
them at no charge to recipients as a business promotion without obtaining permission.
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