Welcome to the Hardwood Games tourney admin page.
Only authorized users are allowed to use these tools, if you aren't one of them turn back now

Tournament posting Rules:

• All imagery on your site needs to be suitable for a general audience.  No adult only pictures.  No genitals or lewd depictions. No pubic hair shall be visible in any way which includes areas what would normally have pubic hair.
• If you are posting in a lobby for an upcoming tournament, you can post a notice a maximum of once every 10 minutes and not more than 1 hr before the tourney.
• You can increase the rate to once every 2.5 minutes in the last 10 minutes before the tourney starts.
• Do your best to alternate posts with other tourney announcements. That is don't post right after someone's post about an other tourney wait at least one minute before you post yours. 
• Post are not to be longer than 2 binds.
• Don't post the same tournament as an other player...in fact, it's best if the TD or someone appointed by the TD handles all the posting.
• If a guide asks you to stop posting or asks you to adjust your posting, do so.
• If you are posting in another tourney room, you MUST ask permission from the TD running the tourney.
• Don't use excessive caps in your posts, this reduces readability, use color it's more eye catching.
• You may have more than one tourney per 1/2 hour, but you may not post more than one per hr to the board.  IF you abuse this privilege, you may be banned from the site for a time and the league will also be sanctioned.   Abuse would be for example posting tourneys you have no intention on keeping, or that a reasonable person would think is ridiculous.

League Sites Rules:

General Server Rules

You as a player have two tools to help you with issues that might arise on the server:

1.You can opt to block your viewing of a player's chat by using the "mute" option.  To access the MUTE right click on a player and choose mute

2.You can vote to remove a player from a game if a player is not abiding by the rules below.  Again, right click on a player and choose "vote to kick" .   However please use kick as a last resort as that player will be penalized for abandoning a game.

Lobby guides will also try to help... if you get muted by a guide... don't take is personally, they are trying to give you a chance to cool off.  Mutes are only temporary, so just wait it out and be polite.

Rules:  To keep the Hardwood servers a fun place for everyone, we ask that you follow these basic rules:

• Be considerate at all times of other members on the server. 
• Do not abandon a game.  Quitters will be automatically penalized 25 points if it continues.  (no need to report quitters)
• Table talking, that is discussing your cards with a partner, at the table or Privately communicating with a  partner your hand or how to play or defend a hand via ICQ, other IM's, or telephone is cheating.
• Intentionally stalling  a game is not allowed.  (kick a player that is doing this, please make sure they aren't just having some problems)
• Cheating in games is prohibited. Users should vote players out of a game if they are truly cheating.
• Do not fight or engage in personal attacks. (use the mute feature  to ignore these players)
• Do not use racial, ethnic, sexual, or religious slurs.
• Do not create an account with any profanity, sexually explicit language, sexual innuendo, or racial, ethnic, or religious slurs.
• Do not use profanity or sexually explicit language on the server.
• Please avoid flooding or  excessively posting which interferes with the chat.
• Threatening, harassing or making demands to Silver Creek staff or guides is prohibited and can result in immediate termination of your account or temporary muting.   Also, the lobby is not the place to discuss policy issues.  
• Use of the server  for the promotion of illegal activities is prohibited.

Please note:

• You will come in contact with players you won't like.  That's why you have the mute tool, use it. We are not responsible for the conduct of players.
• Your participation in chats (in game or in the lobby), are subject to review, modification, and deletion, without notice.
• There is no private chat on the server... All chat may be logged by the server for review.  
• Staff or guides are not always able to monitor members conversations or game play at individual game tables and therefore users are empowered to remove watchers, boot players and otherwise enforce the server Rules.
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• Understand that the server is currently provided for FREE to players of our full and demo games and we have the right to remove or mute anyone as we deem necessary.   No refund for the games will be given due issues occurring on the server.

Silver Creek Entertainment reserves the right to change its policies at any time.