home tourney - button and blind question

[JerseyTom]

Hey all,

Had this come up in a single-table home tourney this past weekend...

Three players are left. "John" is the button (and the short stack), "Kevin" is SB and "Dan" is BB. "John" goes all-in and gets knocked out. Two players left.

Next hand (heads-up now), the button moves to "Kevin". As I understand it, the button is the SB heads-up, right? Even if this means that "Dan" must now pay the BB for the second hand in a row?

We discussed it a little and this is ultimately how we played it, but wanted to know if this was correct.


TIA,

Tom

[LetsRock]

That was the correct method. Anytime you get down to this level, the blinds will usually get out of whack a little, but you were correct to put the dealer on the SB and BB on the BB once again - that's just the breaks.

[cferejohn]

Going from 3 to 2 always confuses us, so we've just taken to flipping a coin to determine who gets the button heads up. We figure that's as fair as anything else in the long run...

[LetsRock]

IN the big picture, it really doesn't matter. Sure it feels a little "cheated" to have to post the BB twice in a row, but at this point it really is incedental. Heads-up, one big blind more or less is not going to determine the outcome, unless the BB will be blinded out by posting twice in a row and in this case, he only has one more hand anyway.

So long as you have a rule in place to cover what will happen, it doesn't really matter what you do.