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Spence

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Posting in SB position(This is NOT a buy the button thread)
« on: April 29, 2011, 05:27:23 PM »
On dead button games can a new player post a BB in a dead small blind position? If there was no post then you would play with just 1 big blind. Does it make sense that you could post a big blind to enter the game in SB position if it were dead? Essentially you ,would play the hand with 2 BB's. Is this how it is done at your locations? Or do you force a hand where there is only 1 big and have the new player post behind the button? And just one other thing, can you post on a dead button to join the game? Some of our rules are unclear and I would like them cleaned up.

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Re: Posting in SB position(This is NOT a buy the button thread)
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2011, 06:32:05 PM »
I have never seen any house that uses the "dead" button rule, allow a player to come into a cash game in the SB position OTHER than houses that allow a player to Buy the Button.  In every house I know about, w/o the Buy the Button, the player would have to wait for the button to pass and post behind the button.

Stuart Murray

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Re: Posting in SB position(This is NOT a buy the button thread)
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2011, 03:49:54 AM »
ditto Chet's response, I've never saw that either, observing the Dead button rule in cash poker would require players to wait at either seat for the seat to be out of the blinds & button.

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Re: Posting in SB position(This is NOT a buy the button thread)
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2011, 01:57:57 AM »
I see what you're saying Spence and it kinda makes sense when someone is just entering a game and I would prefer the extra money in the pot. Two big blinds in poker will probably never fly though. I know you said NOT a "buy the button" question lol, but that does seem to be the norm.

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Re: Posting in SB position(This is NOT a buy the button thread)
« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2011, 07:47:18 PM »
Our casino has a strange cash game dead button rule that took me by surprise when I first started working there. They do not allow you to come in on the small blind (assuming it was dead) or to buy the button, coming in between the small blind and the button, but they DO allow you to come in on the button (if it's dead) without posting. It's a "no post when you start play" room so I guess they figure it doesn't matter. No where else that I know of allows this, but we do.

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Re: Posting in SB position(This is NOT a buy the button thread)
« Reply #5 on: December 06, 2011, 09:17:23 AM »
I have only seen one casino in our area that is using the dead button rule at their cash games.  I think it is really an attempt to not confuse the dealers more than the players.  (everything is the same in tourney's and cash..? 90% of the dealers were brand new dealers when it opened)..  They don't let you buy the button to enter the game and they make the player wait until the button is past.  So it holds a player up from entering the game which seems counter intuitive for a cash game.

Many of of the card rooms continue to use the moving button but rather than the magic moving button they have started to not have the players post the make up blinds.   They just move it, make the next two blinds post and if there is a new player he comes in behind the button.  It causes a little less confusion for the players and very likely gets an extra hand in or two for those rounds that have players coming in and out.