1) In Stud-type games, if someone is to bring-in, but is all-in for less than the bring-in, can someone confirm that the next person to act must wager at the least the minimum bring-in amount on third street? I can't seem to find a source for a rule that specifically covers this, although it seems to be analogous to the hold'em case where a player who calls pre-flop must wager at least the BB amount, even if the BB is all-in for less.
2) If a player is all-in for less than the completion amount but more than the bring-in, do you treat this as a case where if it is more than halfway to completion it is consider a completed bet and subsequent players may raise, and if under halfway, then subsequent players cannot make a full raise but can only complete? Or do you treat anything above a bring-in amount as a completed bet, which subsequent players may raise? I know Thomas had a discussion of this in R.O.P.E. (I think he proposed the latter approach is better), but I'm wondering what is currently the "standard"?
K, great questions:
Re issue 1: RRoP Vers 11, Sec 8 (7-stud), para 4:
"If the player with the lowcard
[the bring-in] is all-in for the ante (or any player designated to start the action on a round of betting is all-in), betting action proceeds to the first active player to the left of the all-in player.
If the player with the lowcard has only enough chips for a portion of the forced bet, the wager is made. All other players must enter for at least the normal amount in that structure."
Re issue 2: Sec. 3, Betting & Raising, para 7.
"In limit play
[which 7-stud virtually always is... if you're playing NL 5-stud then use NL rules], an all-in wager of less than half a bet does not reopen the betting for any player who has already acted and is in the pot for all previous bets.
A player who has not yet acted (or had the betting reopened to him by another player’s action),
facing an all-in wager of less than half a bet, may fold, call, or complete the wager. An all-in wager of a half a bet or more is treated as a full bet, and a player may fold, call, or make a full raise. (An example of a full raise on a $20 betting round is raising a $15 all-in bet to $35.) Multiple all-in wagers, each of an amount too small to individually qualify as a raise, still act as a raise and reopen the betting if the resulting wager size to a player qualifies as a raise."