(a) Wagers at
Saigon 5 Card shall be made by placing value chips, plaques or other
Board-approved table game wagering instruments on the appropriate areas of the
table layout. Verbal wagers accompanied by cash may not be accepted.
(b) Only players who are seated at a Saigon 5
Card table may wager at the game. Once a player has placed a wager and received
cards, that player shall remain seated until the completion of the round of
play. If a player leaves the table during a round of play, any wagers made by
the player may be considered abandoned and may be treated as losing
wagers.
(c) All wagers shall be
placed prior to the dealer announcing "no more bets" in accordance with the
dealing procedure in §
680a.8, §
680a.9 or §
680a.10 (relating to procedures
for dealing the cards from a manual dealing shoe; procedures for dealing the
cards from the hand; and procedures for dealing the cards from an automated
dealing shoe) and may not be increased or withdrawn after the dealer has
announced "no more bets."
(d) The
following wagers may be placed in the game of Saigon 5 Card:
(1) A player shall compete solely against the
dealer by placing an Ante Wager.
(2) If more than one player is playing at a
Saigon 5 Card table and the certificate holder elects to require players to
place a Pot Wager, a player shall make a Pot Wager equal to the table minimum
to compete against the other players' two-card hands.
(3) If specified in its Rules Submission
under §
601a.2 (relating to table games
Rules Submissions), a certificate holder may offer to each player at a Saigon 5
Card table the option to make an additional Bonus Wager which shall win if the
player's five cards contain two pair or better as described in §
680a.6(c)
(relating to Saigon 5 Card rankings).
(e) A certificate holder shall specify in its
Rules Submission under §
601a.2 the number of adjacent
boxes on which a player may place a wager in one round of play.
