WAC 230-15-410   Owners, prize fund custodians, and card room employees participating in player-supported jackpots.  (1) Class F or house-banked owners, prize fund custodians, and on-duty card room employees may play in card games that offer a player-supported jackpot (PSJ), but must not share in the winnings of any prize awarded.

     (2) Any prizes an owner, prize fund custodian, or on-duty employee may be entitled to under game rules must be divided equally among the other players at the table.

     (3) Owners, prize fund custodians, and on-duty card room employees must turn their cards face up at the end of a game so that other players at the table and surveillance may observe their cards if:

     (a) They are playing in a game with a PSJ; and

     (b) The prize is not based on a predetermined hand, such as four of a kind; and

     (c) There is a qualifying hand at the end of a game, such as a "bad beat" hand.

     (4) Card room employees that are off duty may win PSJ prizes.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 9.46.070. 07-09-033 (Order 608), § 230-15-410, filed 4/10/07, effective 1/1/08.]