Dealing Errors

The organisers and dealers will make every effort to ensure that cards are dealt without error. However, misdeals can and do occur, and so the following rules explain how players should act in these situations.

6.1 A dealing error should be reported as soon as it is noticed. If the error is reported before two players have acted in a hand, a misdeal will be declared and the cards dealt again.

The following conditions are classed as dealing errors:

6.2 Dealing when the button has not been correctly placed.

6.3 Dealing a card to a player face-up.

6.4 Dealing cards in such a manner that two or more of them have been seen.

6.5 Dealing from a deck with two or more boxed cards.

6.6 Dealing the wrong number of cards to one or more players.

6.7 Dealing the initial card to the wrong player

6.8 Dealing cards to a vacant seat.

6.9 Not dealing to a player who should have been dealt.

6.10 If a dealing error is not reported until two or more players have acted, the cards will be played as they stand.