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The Belle Grande Poker rooms offer the most popular
poker games in the world:
Texas Hold'em, Omaha,
Omaha High-Low, Seven
Card Stud, Seven Card Stud High-Low,
and Tournaments
Click on any game above for a detailed description of the rules. For
new players, our poker basics section is
highly recommended.
Belle Grande is proud to offer a wide variety of
multi-table tournaments for all games. By popular request, we are
happy to offer Pot Limit and No Limit play money side games in
addition to standard structured limit games.
If a game is full, you can request to be put on the waiting list.
This applies for every game type.
No matter which game you decide to play, you will always be playing
against real people. Your fellow players may live down the street,or
halfway around the world, but they are playing on their own behalf.
To help keep our games honest, and to be fair to all players, Belle
Grande only allows one account per player. Management reserves the
right to permanently close multiple accounts that we believe belong
to the same player.
Room Limits
Belle Grande is proud to offer real money poker at limits from
$0.25/$0.50 to $100/$200. In addition, Belle Grande has play money
games that are absolutely free to play.
Minimum Table Buy-In
The minimum buy-in at any Belle Grande table is ten times the amount
of the bet on the initial betting rounds in fixed games, and twenty
times the big blind in Pot Limit and No Limit games. For example,
the minimum buy-in for a $10/$20 fixed game is $100.00, and the
minimum buy-in for a $0.25/$.50 Pot Limit game is $10.00.
All-In
When a player puts the last of his or her chips into a pot, that
player is said to be all-in. An all-in player is not eligible to win
any money bet above his or her final bet. The excess part of the bet
is either returned to the bettor, or used to form a side pot with
another player or players who matched the amount bet. There is no
limitation on the number of side pots. However, the all-in player
will be eligible for the main pot, and therefore cannot be forced
from the hand.
Sometimes a player has enough chips to continue betting or calling
but has been disconnected and unable to respond. In this case the
player is also deemed to be "all-in" for all the amount of chips he
or she has bet on this particular hand. If this happens repeatedly,
it probably means the player's Internet connection is poor. We
therefore recommend that the player stop playing for a while, and
wait until their Internet connection improves.
A player is allotted 25 seconds to act during each round. A warning
message is displayed in the chat box when there are 10 seconds left
to act. If a player is disconnected and returns before he or she is
timed out, the player receives at least 10 seconds to act.
If a player that is connected fails to act within the allotted time
while being connected, the player's hand is folded by the system.
Server Crash
In the rare event of a server crash, all transactions will be posted
to the players' accounts at the completion of each hand. When a hand
cannot be completed, for any reason, all of the players' accounts
will be restored to their balance at the beginning of the hand. All
bets are considered off, and a new hand will be dealt. If a
tournament is interrupted by a server crash, management will
review the results within 1 business day. The pot will then be
evenly distributed to the accounts of players that had not yet been
eliminated from play as compensation.
Poker Room Rake
Belle Grande receives compensation for hosting poker games by taking
a rake, or a small portion (3% of all pots over $1, to a maximum of
$3.00 for any one single pot) of the pot. For detailed information
about the rake see our rake page. |
