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posting blinds confusion

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Spence:
As per your house rule,if you opt to miss the small blind, can you come back one hand later to play the button by posting a small blind on it? Or would you instead have to wait another hand for the button to pass you, then pay your small blind and continue? It seems to me that if you were allowed to post your small blind on the button then that would create an advantage of sorts. You would never have to pay your small blind while out of position.
Am I missing something or is this a common problem? And yes I have played in a room that did it this way. We all took a walk on our small blind then came back to play it on our button. ALL of us.

Nick C:
Jasper your example is too hard for me to follow, sorry.

Specer Wood, a player that posted the BB and then walks away and is not at the table for the next hand should not be allowed to come back on the button for the reason you mentioned. The player should be forced to sit out two more hands, post the "dead small" that he missed and play when the button passes him. There are card rooms that allow players to "buy the button" but not if they already played the BB at that table.

JasperToo:
hey spence, what Nick said is very correct. 

Basically, if a player post the BB and plays the hand but gets up on the next hand without posting the SB then the button MOVES past his seat on that hand.  The guy that was would be posting the BB still does but then so does the guy to his left.  Now there are two BB's out there.  The next hand the button would move PAST the once absent players seat to the guy who just paid the 1st BB who post's a SB.  The player to the left that just posted the 2nd BB also posts a SB like he normally would and the third player posts a BB just like he normally would.  The hand after that, all is normal.

The dude that got up can come back in on that hand after his absence but he must post the dead SB and he does NOT get the button. He would be in the cut off.

Spence:
We used moving button rules for years at the last casino I worked in. Looks like that is not the norm nowadays. The other casino's in the area used the dead button rule. I'm not partial to either but I guess I did find the odd casino that played by dead button rules and yes you could miss your SB and instead post it on the next hand when the button would be dead on your seat.
If any other card rooms are doing it this way, you should take a strong look at the advantage this is causing and correct it for the benefit of all.

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