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In Monte Carlo, the dealer puts a player's live cards in the muck - in Las Vegas, the dealer mistakenly does the same. Both players protest, and the card room staff are called to the table.

In Las Vegas, the hand is declared dead, and the pot is pushed to the player with the live pocket cards.

In Monte Carlo, the mistakenly removed cards are fished out of the deadwood and handed back to the player who lost their cards - and play resumes as if nothing happened.

Which decision is correct? That's where WorldPokerRules.com comes in. Our aim is to standardize poker rules globally and to establish the 'World Poker Rules'.

But there's a twist; we want the players themselves to make the rules. After all, poker can't be played without them, and we want the poker players to decide how disputes should be handled by a majority vote. No rules on the WPR website are set in stone - any and every rule or rules may be brought to task.

WPR wants the players and card room staff to ensure an optimal game that enforces sensible rules that provide a good, clean game. Through analysis by expert judges, an active forum community and extensive polling, we aim to post firm rule guides for operators that shall be cemented in the annals of the rulebook of poker for time immemorial.

WorldPokerRules.com seeks to minimize disputes and set firm guidelines to be followed throughout the poker industry Ð both for the benefit of the poker players and the card room operators alike.

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Austrian Thomas Kremser, 38, is recognised as one of Europe's most respected poker professionals. In just ten years, he has risen from being a humble dealer in Vienna to the owner of his own cardroom - the Concord Card Club, Chief Executive of the International Poker Federation and a leading international tournament director. And now, he has become part of the WPR family.