Sources: Where Every Rule and Figure Comes From

These are the rules that a casino in that jurisdiction must follow, so they are the most reliable statement of how a game is dealt and paid.

The regulators whose documents appear in our library are:

Where a regulator's notice was published in an official gazette, we cite the gazette. Regulator text is quoted or paraphrased only after we have checked it against the stored document.

The same game name can mean different things in different jurisdictions, and two casinos in the same city can run it differently. Whether the dealer hits soft 17, how many decks are in the shoe, whether a double is allowed after a split: each can change from table to table.

Some regulator texts leave options to the casino. A New Jersey rule, for example, may permit a choice that the casino makes. Others allow more than one version of a game in the same document. When you sit at a table, the layout printed on it and the rules posted by the casino decide how you are paid. Our pages describe documents, not tables. A printed table layout always wins over anything on this site.

Regulators do disagree. One state may have the dealer stand on soft 17 where another lets the table hit, or set a different number of split hands. We handle this in three ways.

A document's date matters too. Regulators amend rules, and some rule sheets carry no date at all. Every entry below shows the date we last read the document. If you find a document that has changed, the list is the place to check which version we used.