Kan. Admin. Regs. § 112-108-1

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 32, August 8, 2024

Section 112-108-1 - Definitions

The following words and terms, when used in this article, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

(a) "Bad beat" means a jackpot prize that is paid in poker when a sufficiently strong hand is shown face down and loses to an even stronger hand held by another player.

(b) "Boxperson" means an individual who supervises dice games, including craps, guards the money and chips at a long table, issues chips, and settles conflicts about the plays.

(c) "Burning cards" means a process, performed by the dealer, in which one or more cards are removed from the top of the deck of cards and placed in the discard pile, after the cards have been cut.

(d) "Coloring up" means exchanging lower denomination chips for higher denomination chips.

(e) "Counterfeit chip" means any chip or chiplike objects that have not been approved pursuant to this article, including objects referred to as "slugs," but not coins of the United States or other nations.

(f) "Day" means calendar day regardless of whether the day falls on a weekend or holiday.

(g) "Non-value chips" means chips without a value impressed, engraved, or imprinted on them.

(h) "Pai gow" means a double-hand poker variation based on the Chinese dominos game of Pai Gow.

(i) "Patron" means any person present at a gaming facility who is not employed by the facility manager, the Kansas lottery, or the commission and is not on the premises as a vendor of the facility manager.

(j) "Pit area" means the immediate areas within a gaming facility where one or more table games are open for play.

(k) "Promotional coupon" means any instrument offering any person something of value issued by a facility manager to promote the lottery gaming facility or ancillary facility or for use in or related to certified gambling games at a facility manager's gaming establishment.

(l) "Promotional game" means a drawing, event, contest, or game in which patrons can, without giving consideration, participate or compete for the chance to win a prize or prizes of different values.

(m) "Promotional giveaway" means a promotional gift or item given by a facility manager to any person meeting the facility manager's promotional criteria, for which the person provides no consideration. No chance or skill is involved in the awarding of the promotional gift or item, and all persons meeting the facility manager's promotional criteria receive the same promotional gift or item.

(n) "Rake" means a commission charged by the house for maintaining or dealing a game, including poker.

(o) "Special hand" means a secondary jackpot paid on a poker hand that does not qualify for the bad beat.

(p) "Table game" means any lottery facility game other than a game played on an electronic gaming machine.

(q) "Table game mechanism" means a component that is critical to the operation of a table game, including a roulette wheel and an electronic add-on for the placement of wagers.

(r) "Value chips" means chips with a value impressed, engraved, or imprinted on the chips.

Kan. Admin. Regs. § 112-108-1

Authorized by and implementing K.S.A. 2008 Supp. 74-8772; effective Jan. 8, 2010.