<html> <head> <title>Rule 20:18:16:40 Maximum number of players.</title> <META NAME="Keywords" Content="Administrative Rules 20:18:16:40"> <META NAME="Description" Content="Administrative Rules 20:18:16:40 Maximum number of players."> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Office HTML Filter 2.0"> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 10"> <style> <!-- --> </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US> <div> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>20:18:16:40.</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Maximum</b><b> number of players.</b> The house shall set the maximum number of players for each type of poker game. When the dealer realizes that there are not enough cards to complete the game and a player or players have received down cards, all remaining live cards and burn cards, excluding the muck, must be reshuffled to form a new deck which must be used to deal to the remaining player or players. If the dealer runs out of cards in the games of seven-card low stud poker, seven-card high stud poker, and seven-card high-low split stud poker, the dealer must burn a card and then deal a seventh card face up as a community card.</p> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The muck is the discard pile.</p> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>Source:</b> 16 SDR 57, effective October 1, 1989; 18 SDR 9, effective July 23, 1991; 19 SDR 21, effective August 20, 1992; 20 SDR 113, effective January 23, 1994; 25 SDR 172, effective July 11, 1999.</p> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>General Authority:</b> SDCL <A HREF="/statutes/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&Statute=42-7B-7">42-7B-7.</A></p> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>Law Implemented:</b> SDCL <A HREF="/statutes/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&Statute=42-7B-4">42-7B-4(18)</A>, <A HREF="/statutes/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&Statute=42-7B-7">42-7B-7</A>, <A HREF="/statutes/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&Statute=42-7B-15">42-7B-15.</A></p> </div> </body> </html>