If you have watched professional poker tournaments on televisionand have wondered what it would be like to push all of your chips in and "flop the nut-flush" or "hit the gutshot straight on the river" then this is your chance! Once again St. Gabriel's International Festival will be offering no limit poker tournaments each night of the festival.

Registration for all tournaments begins 5 p.m. Thursday June 16

Note earlier start time Saturday

Registration is limited to 80 players for each tournament, first come first serve. Keep your entry ticket with you throughout the tournament and turn it in when you are eliminated. Players should arrive 10 minutes prior to the scheduled start time to draw for seating. Players arriving late must forfeit blinds as if they had been present but sitting out. We will make every attempt to complete the tournament with only one player remaining however the tournament will end no later than 12 midnight. Late registration is at the discretion of the tournament director and if permitted must be before the end of the first blind level. Proceeds benefit St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish.

100% Legal and licensed event!
Indiana Charitable Gaming License #123668.

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About Our Rules

While many charity poker tournaments distribute only a brief set of 10 or 20 rule statements and offer little information about blind levels, payout structure, and specific procedures, we at St. Gabriel want you to know what to expect and you put your money down and join our charity event. For example our house cut donation to our charity is among the smallest percentage is you will find anywhere in this area. We also recognize there is a wide variety of experience and our players. Some are novices and some are nearly professional. We want to have specific rules and procedures available that will help mitigate any disputes or misunderstandings. Therefore in 2007 we completely revised our rules based upon the Poker Tournament Directors Association rules and Roberts Rules of Poker which are considered to be the standard documents in the field. We have continued to revise and improve these rules.

We are distributing these rules in two documents:

• Basic tournament rules including St. Gabriel specific rules. A printed version of this document will be given to all participants at registration.
• A five page set of appendices which includes detailed rules for those unfamiliar with the game as well as advanced special circumstances rules.

Rather than distribute such a lengthy document to everyone it is available here on the web site and printed copies will be available upon request. This lengthier document includes a detailed description of game play for novices, explanation of the procedures for conducting a chip race, explanation of the "dead button rule" and dealing with other unusual circumstances such as missdeals, exposed cards, and other rarely encountered mistakes and circumstances. We felt it important to put these more obscure rules and procedures in writing to avoid possible disputes.

These rules have been updated June 14, 2011. (Note small typos and improper dates were listed in the May 20, 2011 version of the rules)

• Click here for tournament structure, payouts, and basic rules
• Click here for additional appendices.
• Click here for printable PDF versions of both documents.

We welcome your feedback on these revised rules and procedures. Please send your comments by e-mail to tournament director Chris Young at cy_borg5@cyborg5.com.