TERMS & CONDITIONS
SPRING BACCARAT TOURNAMENT
17.05.2024 – 18.05.2024
Eligibility
- The following terms and conditions (the “Terms and Conditions”) shall apply to the Baccarat Tournament (the “Tournament”).
- The Tournament is open to selected Hoiana Premier Rewards members holding foreign passports (the “Participants”).
- To participate in the Tournament, participants must earn 4,000 Points from Table Games between 17.04.2024 and 17.05.2024.
- Employees of Hoiana, their immediate family members, advertising agencies of Hoiana, and any other parties directly involved in the organization of the Tournament are not eligible to participate in the Tournament.
- The number of qualifying Participants shall be determined by Hoiana at its sole and absolute discretion. Hoiana’s approval for entry shall be on a first-come, first-served basis, and no appeals or correspondence on any decision of Hoiana relating to the invitation of Participants will be entertained.
- Hoiana reserves the right to amend the terms and conditions without prior notice or liability to any party and may reserve the right to allow selected Hoiana Premier Rewards members to advance directly to any stage of the Tournaments.
Registration
On the day of the Tournament, registration shall open 2 hours before the commencement of the first tournament session. Any decision to allow late registration shall be at the sole and absolute discretion of Hoiana:
| Tournament Stages | Dates | Registration Period |
| Preliminaries | 17.05.2024 | 1:00 PM – 7:00 PM |
| Wild Card Draw | 18.05.2024 | 2:00 PM – 3:45 PM |
| Semi-Finals | 18.05.2024 | 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM |
| Finals | 18.05.2024 | – |
- The following rules shall apply to registration:
- All enrolled Participants shall register for the Tournament by producing their membership card and valid identification document if required.
- A failure to register on time may result in disqualification.
- Each Participant will be provided with a registration card indicating their Tournament session. Allocation of tournament sessions is based on a first-come-first-serve basis, subject to availability.
- Hoiana shall have the sole and absolute discretion to allocate or reallocate, the number of Participants at each tables prior to the start of each round of play, if it is of the view that the participants per table is disproportionate
- The following rules shall apply to registration:
Tournament Schedule
| Tournament Stages | Tournament Dates | Session Timings |
| Preliminaries | 17.05.2024 | 3PM; 4PM; 5PM; 6PM; 7PM; 8PM |
| Wild Card Draw | 18.05.2024 | Draw time 4:00 PM |
| Semi-Finals | 18.05.2024 | 4:45 PM – 5:30 PM |
| Finals | 18.05.2024 | 5:45 PM – 6:30 PM |
| Prize Presentation | 18.05.2024 | 6:45 PM |
Tournament Structure
| Stage | Tournament Chips (HKD) | Total sessions | Game per session | Advancement |
| Preliminaries | 300,000 HKD Tournament Chips | 6 sessions | 13 games (3 Free Games included) | Top 36 highest tournament scores from each table at end of Preliminary Session will advance to Semi-Finals. |
| Wild Card Draw | – | 1 session | 6 Preliminary participants who did not qualify for the Semi-Finals will be randomly selected and will advance to Semi-Finals. | |
| Semi-Finals | 300,000 HKD Tournament Chips | 1 session | 13 games (3 Free Games included) | The top 6 highest tournament scores from each table at end of Semi-Finals stages will advance to Finals. |
| Finals | 500,000 HKD Tournament Chips | 1 session | 13 games (3 Free Games included) | Finals will consist of 6 prize-winners ranked based on their final’s tournament score. |
Advancement to the Semi-Finals and Finals of the Tournament will be based on the Tournament structure and advancement rules described above. Each Participant may only participate in up to a maximum of ONE (1) session in all Stages of the Tournament. For the avoidance of doubt, if the participant is awarded more than ONE (1) session for any Stage of the Tournament, his/her subsequent session(s) will be forfeited.
Prize Structure
At the end of the Finals, the Top 6 finalists ranked in accordance with their chip count, will be entitled to the following prizes:
| Placing | Prize Amount |
| Champion | HKD 300,000 |
| 1st Runner Up | HKD 108,000 |
| 2nd Runner Up | HKD 50,000 |
| 3rd Runner Up – 6th Place | HKD 15,000 (Each) |
Advancement to the Semi-Finals and Finals of the Tournament will be based on the Tournament structure and advancement rules described above. Each Participant may only participate in up to a maximum of ONE (1) session in all Stages of the Tournament. For the avoidance of doubt, if the participant is awarded more than ONE (1) session for any Stage of the Tournament, his/her subsequent session(s) will be forfeited.
Tournament Rules and Regulations
A.Rules of Play
- The Baccarat Game Rules (“Game Rules”) and terms and conditions shall apply to the Tournament. For avoidance of doubt, the payout odds will follow the Baccarat Game Rules. Participants are deemed to have understood and agreed to abide by the Terms and Conditions and the Game Rules by their participation in the Tournament. In the event of any inconsistency between the Terms and Conditions and the Game Rules, the latter sets of rules shall prevail.
- All Participants must report to their assigned table not less than 15 minutes before the start of each session. Each Participant shall present his session card when he arrives at his assigned table for verification by the persons appointed by the Hoiana (“Gaming Officials”). Any Participant who fails to turn up at the start of the specified play time shall be disqualified.
- Preliminaries, Semi-Finals and Finals Stage will consist of Thirteen (13) games during each session which include three (3) rounds of pre-session games (“Free Games”) dealt by Gaming Officials where participants are excluded from betting. Each tournament session is estimated to take between 30 minutes to 45 minutes.
- The betting order of the Participants at each table shall be determined in the following manner:
- The Gaming Officials shall furnish several cards corresponding with the number of Participants at each table;
- The Gaming Officials shall draw a card from the stack of cards that represents the seat numbers and the game will commence from the Participant who drew the lowest number. A rotation marker will be used to indicate the betting order, and the opening bet shall start from seat number 1.
- Each Participant will place their bet in turn, in a timely manner, as determined by the dealer or table games supervisor. Once a bet has been confirmed and placed in the betting area, it is deemed final and must not be altered or removed.
- Tournament participants must play every hand (except the 3 Free Games). If a participant has to leave the table temporarily during the tournament, the table’s minimum amount of tournament chips will be deducted for each hand that the participant has missed.
- At all times during an ongoing session, Participants are not permitted to communicate with each other or any third party in any manner and spectators are to maintain silence.
- Use of digital devices is prohibited during the tournament and any perceived advantage granted via the use of digital devices, determined solely by the Gaming Officials, may result in the disqualification of the offending participant(s).
B.Chips
The betting limits of each game are as follows:
| Betting Limits (HKD) | |||||
| “Player” / “Banker” | “Tie” / “Player Pair” / “Banker Pair” / “Lucky Six” | ||||
| Minimum | Maximum | Minimum | Maximum | ||
| Preliminaries | 3 Pre-Session Games* | 10,000 | 100,000 | 10,000 | 20,000 |
| Semi-Finals | 10,000 | 100,000 | 10,000 | 20,000 | |
| Finals | 20,000 | 500,000 | 10,000 | 60,000 | |
Note: All betting limits must be in multiples of 10,000 ** Pre-session games occur before the commencement of each Tournament session | |||||
- At all times during an ongoing session, Participants shall place their chips in front of them in full view, and separated by denominations during the assigned session of play. Chips shall not be passed, exchanged, or loaned between Participants or any third party at any time during the Tournament.
- Chip Count will be conducted after the last game of each session.
C.Secret Bets
- Every Participant shall be required to place a hidden bet (“Secret Bet”) via a Secret Bet card during the last game of Preliminaries, Semi-Finals, and Finals Stages.
- For each Secret Bet:
- A Participant may not wager more than the aggregate balance of his/her chips.
- All bets must follow the table minimum betting limit. The maximum bet limit shall not apply only to Player and Banker bets.
- A participant must write the amount on the official Secret Bet form or choose to tick the “All-In” option;
- The Secret Bet amount(s) wagered must be clearly written in numeric figures;
- If any of the bets that are written illegibly or outside the allocated box or placed on both “Player” and “Banker”, the Gaming Officials will, at their sole-discretion, decide the actual box wagered by the Participant. The wager amount in cases where the amounts were written illegibly or omitted, shall always be taken to the minimum bet limit amount;
- If the Participant’s chips in hand are insufficient to meet the total value of the Secret Bet, priority shall be given to the “Player” or “Banker” wager. Thereafter, any balance chips will be applied fully, in sequence, from the “Tie” wager followed by the “Player Pair” wager and then the “Banker Pair” wager and then followed by the “Lucky Six” wager respectively.
- After all Participants have submitted their Secret Bet (as the case may be), the Gaming Officials shall disclose each Secret Bet individually and announce the wagered amounts to all participants at the table.
- The amount of the Participant’s balance chips at the end of the last game shall be used to determine the participants’ scores (“Tournament Score”) for the Tournament session.
- All Participants will be required to acknowledge and confirm their Tournament Score on a Tournament results form at the end of each Tournament session.
Wild Card Draw
- Participants who did not qualify for the Semi-Finals, from the Preliminaries Stage, will be eligible to join the Wild Card Draw on the second day for a chance to advance to the Semi-Finals Stage.
- Eligible participants are required to register for the Wild Card Draw at the registration counter between 2:00 PM – 3:45 PM on 18.05.2024.
- Wild Card Draw will commence at 4:00 PM (45 minutes before the Semi-Finals stage) at Mot Hai Bar stage.
- Participants must be present to acknowledge that they were drawn in the Wild Card Draw.
- The Participants’ particulars (i.e. Member ID and Name) will be announced 03 times after each Wild Card is drawn.
- Any Wild Card Draw results will be individually redrawn immediately if the drawn participant was unable to acknowledge the Wild Card Draw results at Mot Hai Bar stage.
- Hoiana reserves all rights to cancel, modify or vary any element of the Wild Card Draw without prior notice or liability to any party.
Tie Breakers
- For Preliminaries, if Participants who advance to the next stage cannot be determined due to two (2) or more Participants having the same amount of chips (“Tied Participants”), each of the Tied Participants shall draw a single card from a set of cards, numbered 1 to 10, furnished by the Hoiana. The Participant who draws a card with the highest face value (with 10 being the highest and 1 being the lowest) shall win.
- For Semi-Finals, if Finalists cannot be determined due to two (2) or more Participants having the same amount of chips (“Tied Participants”), each of the Tied Participants shall draw a single card from a set of cards, numbered 1 to 10, furnished by Hoiana. The Participant who draws a card with the highest face value (with 10 being the highest and 1 being the lowest) shall win.
- For Finals, if the prizes cannot be determined due to two (2) or more Participants having the same amount of chips (“Tied Participants”), each of the Tied Participants shall draw a single card from a set of cards, numbered 1 to 10, furnished by Hoiana. The Participant who draws a card with the highest face value (with 10 being the highest and 1 being the lowest) shall win.
General Terms and Conditions
- It is a Participant’s responsibility to bring any dispute to the attention of the Gaming Officials immediately, before leaving the tournament table. Any dispute arising from or about the terms and conditions, or the conduct of the Tournament shall be referred to the Gaming Official, whose decision shall be final, conclusive, and binding. No appeals of any kind shall be entertained.
- Hoiana reserves all rights to cancel, modify or vary any element of the Tournament including these terms and conditions without prior notice or liability to any party. All participants shall be deemed to have been notified once any amendments to these terms and conditions are posted at the designated Tournament promotion venue.
