New Zealand Gazette – 1998 – No. 20

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✨ Casino Game Definitions



29 JANUARY NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 439

"House" means the casino operator;

"House Way" means the set of rules contained in Appendix 4 which, where applicable, dictate how a hand shall be set;

"Laja" means an additional mix of the tiles that may be performed by the dealer under these rules;

"Losing Wager Area" means that part of the layout in front of the dealer which is designated as the area for placing losing wagers, as shown in Appendix 1;

to "Match" means to compare:

(a) the high hand in a player’s hand with that in the banker’s hand, and

(b) the low hand in a player’s hand that in the banker’s hand,

for the purpose of determining whether any wager on either of the hands wins, loses or constitutes a push;

"Player/Banker" means a player who holds or is to hold the bank in a round of play, either as the banker or as a co-banker;

"Round" means a period of play beginning with the cut of the tiles and ending when the dealer matches the hands and, if applicable, collects losing wagers, determines pushes and pays out winnings;

to "Set", in relation to a hand, means to divide the hand into a low hand and a high hand, each consisting of 2 tiles;

to "Shuffle", in relation to the pai gow tiles, means to randomly and thoroughly mix all of the tiles by hand in a washing or swirling motion, while they are spread face down on the table;

"Tile" means 1 of the set of 32 tiles referred to in subparagraph (a) of rule 3.3;

and

"Total" means the total of the dots on the high or uppermost faces of the 3 dice after any given spin of the dice in the dice cup.



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