Part 1:

Add a new dynastic rule, entitled “Dealing and Play”, as follows:

A Hand of Poker commences when the Dealer posts a story post (which will be stickied) that declares that the Hand has commenced.  The Story Post will state the Hand Number (hands will be numbered consecutively starting with Hand #1), the Ante for that Hand, and any other pertinent information.

Each Seated Player shall obtain a new Deck of Cards from the BlogNomic Poker Deck Trading Post for use in that Hand, and shall make a comment of “HAND#X DICE52 DICE52” (where X is the hand number) (such comment is called the player’s “Hole Card Draw”.  If the results of both dice rolls in the Hole Card Draw are the same number, then the Seated Player shall make another Hole Card Draw comment to the GNDT, repeating as necessary until the results of both dice rolls are not identical to each other.  The Seated Player shall then post a comment to the Story Post for the Hand that states the numeric results of the Hole Card Draw dice rolls and the “Cards printed by:” checksum for that Seated Player’s Deck of Cards (example: Spikebrennan cards 14, 26, Cards printed by: J. J. Grimes Printing, Elko”.  The Seated Player’s “Hole Cards” for that Hand, then, shall be the cards corresponding to the number of the Deck of Cards (for example, if Spikebrennan’s Hole Card Draw were to be 1,2 and the first and second numbered cards in Spikebrennan’s Deck of Cards are 7 of hearts, 2 of spades, then Spikebrennan’s Hole Cards are 7 of hearts, 2 of spades).

All Seated Players then Ante, which occurs only once per Hand.  This is accomplished by deducting, in the GNDT an amount from each Seated Player’s Money equal to the Ante and adding that amount to the Pot.  (The Dealer may do this at the commencement of the Hand, or any Player may do so).

The first Round of the Hand occurs before any Community Cards are dealt.  The First Round proceeds as follows.
Play begins with the Seated Player listed in the GNDT after the Button Player.  That Player may Raise or Fold.  To Raise, the Player deducts an amount from his Money (but not more than all of his Money) (provided that if the Player in question is not the first to act in that Round, then the amount of the Raise must be more than the amount needed to Call) and adds that amount to the Pot, and posts a comment to the GNDT in substantially the form “HANDx ROUNDy raise Z” where x is the Hand Number, y is the Round number, and Z is the amount of the Raise.  To Fold, the Player posts a comment to the GNDT in substantially the form “HANDx ROUNDy folds”, and thereafter that Player ceases to participate in that Hand.  Upon completing the action, the Player changes his own “Turn” entry in the GNDT to “-” and changes the “Turn” entry to the next succeeding Seated Player who has not yet folded to “X” to indicate that it is now that Seated Player’s turn to act.  The next Seated Player then acts.  That Player may Call, Raise or Fold.  To Call, the Player deducts from his Money (but not more than all of his Money) an amount equal to the last Raise by any Seated Player in that Round, less any amount already added to the Pot by that Player in that Round.  The Round then proceeds until the last act by each Seated Player in that Round was either a Call or a Fold.  No Player may Check before the Flop.

The Dealer then posts a comment to the story post for that Hand that identifies the first three Community Cards, which cards are collectively known as the Flop.

The second round of play for the Hand then commences.

Play begins with the Seated Player listed in the GNDT after the Button Player.  That Player may Check, Raise or Fold.  To Check, the Player makes a GNDT comment of “HANDx ROUNDy check” and does not deduct any amount from his Money or add any money to the Pot.  However, no player may Check if any player has Raised during that Round.  The Round then proceeds until the last act by each Seated Player in that Round was either a Check, a Call or a Fold.

The Dealer then posts a comment to the story post for that Hand that identifies the fourth Community Card, which card known as the Turn.

The third round of play for the Hand then commences.  Play proceeds as per the second round of play.

The Dealer then posts a comment to the story post for that Hand that identifies the fifth Community Card, which card known as the River.

The fourth and final round of play for the Hand then commences.  Play procees as per the second round of play until either (i) there is only one Seated Player who has not Folded (in which case that Seated Player wins the Hand), or (ii) all Seated Players who have not Folded have Checked or Called, in which case each such Seated Player must post a comment to the GNDT that reveals his Hole Cards for that Hand.  The winner of the Hand is then determined per the Poker Hands Page by comparing the best five-card Poker Hand held by any such Seated Player (including one or both of such Seated Player’s Hole Cards and the balance of the cards in the five-card hand from the Community Cards.  No Community Card may be used by a particular Seated Player during a particular Hand more than once.

Once the winner of the Hand is determined, the winner adds to his Money an amount equal to the amount of Money in the Pot, and sets the Pot at zero.  If two or more players who have not Folded have equally ranked hands per the Poker Hands Page, then they split the Pot equally with all fractions rounded down.

Part 2:
Add a new Dynastic rule entitled “Turn Indicator” as follows:

There is a GNDT statistic column entitled “Turn”.  Each Player’s entry in the “Turn” column shall be either “-”, “o” or “x”.  Any Player who is not a Seated Player, or who has Folded during a Hand in progress has an entry of “o”.  The one Seated Player whose turn it is to play shall have an entry of “x” and all other Seated Players shall have an entry of “-”.