House Rules
Fairplay, kindness and adherence to some common rules.
- Sale or transfer of accounts between players is prohibited.
- Accounts may not change ownership. Purchasing or receiving an account from another player will result in its confiscation.
- Usernames may not contain vulgar terms or racial epithets.
- Player-to-player chip transfers are at your own risk. SwC Poker management does not intervene in player disputes related to chip transfers. Chip transfers cannot be cancelled or reversed. Please exercise caution and good judgement before performing any player-to-player transfers in an anonymous poker room.
- Multiple players in the same home are welcome to play at SwC Poker, but not at the same cash tables, tournaments, or sit & gos.
- Chat is a privilege that can be revoked by management at will. Verbally abusing players will not be tolerated.
- Chat is uncensored, and is not necessarily in English.
- Players are provided with an Ignore option to hide the chat of any player they do not wish to see.
- Coarse language is permitted, but racial/sexual slurs and hate speech are prohibited.
- Discussing a hand in progress, revealing your hole cards prematurely, or otherwise affecting gameplay is prohibited.
- Spamming or flooding the chat is prohibited.
- Illegal, malicious, and sexually explicit hyperlinks or chat is prohibited.
- Referral codes, referral hyperlinks, and advertisements for external promotions or sites are prohibited.
- Begging for chips at the table or in the lobby chat box is prohibited.
- In addition to the rules listed above, a common sense policy should be used to determine what is considered inappropriate chat. Cases will be dealt with by management on an individual basis.
- Players found to be using inappropriate chat will be given a warning, and will have their chat removed for one week.
- A second violation will result in the removal of chat for one month.
- Gross and/or repeated violations of prohibited behavior will result in a permanent loss of chat.
- Do not use multiple accounts to evade a loss of chat, or to chat to a user who has ignored you. This may result in escalated consequences at the discretion of SwC management.
- In general, 1st infraction = 1 week chat loss, 2nd infraction = 1 month chat loss, 3rd infraction = permanent chat loss.
- Doxxing another player will result in permanent loss of chat.
- One player to a hand.
- Multiple players in the same home are welcome to play at SwC Poker, but not at the same cash tables.
- Fixed Limit games have a cap of 4 bets per street when the action is multi-way, and no cap when the action is heads up.
- All games have a 1 hour “rathole timer”. Players returning to a table less than 1 hour after leaving it must sit with at least the amount they left with. Using a second account to evade this restriction is prohibited.
- In mixed games, players are expected to play by the spirit of the game, sitting in during all game types. It is acceptable to occasionally miss a hand or a round, but it is not okay to always skip a particular game type or several game types (for example, sitting out all the stud games, or sitting out the big bet games).
- If a player chooses to decline action when starting a table they must sit in for a minimum of 2 hands to allow both players the option to act as the button.
- Management reserves the right to make decisions and potentially take punitive action as it deems necessary as a response to these prohibited actions which include, but are not limited to: bum hunting, buttoning, HU seat locking, excessive stalling, angle shooting, and any other behavior used to gain an unfair advantage or which goes against the spirit of the game.
- Actions taken may include, but are not limited to: initial warning, temporary account ban, loss of rewards, permanent account closure. Attempts to evade temporary or permanent account bans with continued prohibited behavior on multiple accounts may result in confiscation of funds.
- One player to a hand.
- Multiple players in the same home are welcome to play at SwC Poker, but not in the same tournaments or sit & gos.
- You may unregister at any time before the start of a tournament and receive your buy-in back.
- If a tournament is interrupted and cannot be completed, management will return buy-ins or distribute the prize pool at its discretion.
- One account per person per tournament. Re-entering a tournament on a different account is prohibited.
Bots are prohibited on SwC Poker. Please contact support@swcpoker.club if you feel a bot is playing. Management will vigilantly defend the integrity of the games.
