If your Turkey Day could be made any better by having another Green Felt Journal to read (or if you’re more of my many international readers for whom this is just another Thursday), you are in luck: this week’s treat from Vegas Seven deals with the question of poker rules, and an organization with a Las Vegas connection that’s helping to standardize them:
In 2007, Las Vegas-based poker pro Michelle Lau collaborated with Netherlands pro Marcel “The Flying Dutchman” Lüske to assemble a list of rules that could be used by tournament directors and players around the world. They came up with the International Poker Rules, a set of 81 guidelines and procedures that set the terms for everything from registration to the final hand.
As I discuss in the article, there are a number of very good reasons for this kind of standardization, and I think that as poker becomes more global it’s just going to be even more crucial to the continuing success of terrestrial poker centers like Las Vegas.