PDFWAC 230-15-490

Limiting pay outs for odds-based wagers.

(1) House-banked card game licensees may create pay out limits for odds-based wagers made in card games.
(2) Licensees may limit the pay out for odds-based wagers if we approve all pay out limits and their procedures for computing limits.
(3) Individual players' winnings must not be less than the higher of:
(a) The maximum wager allowed for the game times the highest odds offered up to fifty-to-one (50 to 1). For example: If the maximum wager is one hundred dollars ($100) and the odds are fifty-to-one (50 to 1); then the per player limit is five thousand dollars ($100 x 50 = $5,000); or
(b) The house minimum required wager for the game times the highest odds offered for any wager in the game. The "minimum required wager" means the least amount a player must wager in order to win. For example: If the minimum required wager is ten dollars ($10) and the maximum odds are one-thousand-to-one (1,000 to 1); then the per player limit is ten thousand dollars ($10 x 1,000 = $10,000).
(4) Table limits (aggregate pay out) must not be less than two times the individual player limit, as computed in subsection (3) of this section; and
(5) Licensees must clearly disclose all procedures for computing any per player or table limit (aggregate pay outs). This explanation must be available to players in a brochure or other printed material.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 9.46.070. WSR 07-09-033 (Order 608), § 230-15-490, filed 4/10/07, effective 1/1/08.]