Blinds/posting question

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

Alright, so I'm too lazy to go find me some Roberts Rules and look this up:

I stopped in Council Bluffs, IA on my way back across the country this past weekend and played in the 10/20 at the Harrah's there. When I have the button in seat 7 of a 9-man table, seats 8 and 9 (both blinds from that hand) go broke or nearly broke and leave after the hand. The dealer then moved the button to seat 1. After a bit of confusion about what exactly happens with the blinds, the floor is called over and he makes Seat 1 (new button) post $10 plus a dead $5, then two big blinds in seats 2 and 3.

Is this right? How can you make seat 1 post dead money when he never left the game and had nothing to do with any of this other than being the guy sitting to the left of the two who got up? It seems to me that he should've posted a BB on the button and a SB in the CO, as weird as that seems. To that, the dealer said something about them not allowing posts behind the button or something.

[hoopsie44]

You should keep the button in the 7 seat and the 1 seat posts a $10 big blind. There is no small blind. That's the way they handle it at the Taj in AC.

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

Meh. I'm a huge non-fan of the dead button.

[belloc]

Thought I've never seen this, I'm pretty sure at my club they would have three players post big blinds (seat 1 on the button and the two to his left). Then the next hand would have seat 2 post a SB on his button, seat 3 post a SB, and seat 4 a BB. The next hand would have seat 3 on the button and normal blinds. That way everybody will have posted a SB and BB except for seat 1, which just gets away with no SB this orbit. I think that's the best way to handle it, with the button always progressing, and having the least irregularity in blinds posted.

I can't believe they made the button post a dead SB without having left the table.

[Randy_Refeld]

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It seems to me that he should've posted a BB on the button and a SB in the CO, as weird as that seems.

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This how it would be done in a forward moving button game.

In general a forward moving button is a bad idea in limit poker. Which is a greater injustice: allowing someoen the the button a second time in a row when he woudl have been cut off anyway or allowing someone to post a blind in good position with an extra blind in instead of posting in bad position? Origianlly forward moving button (as desribed here, not the NL/PL rule) had nothing to do with position, it had to do with the button paying money to the casino so there could be no dead button and someoen couldn't have it two hands in a row.