All-in Question (rule clarification)

[bostondave]

We had this situation come up in my home tournament last night. The tournament is a $10 buy-in NL Hold 'em Tournament.

Let's say there are three players left. Big Stack 1 (BS1) is on the button w/T5000 and first to act preflop. Big Stack 2 (BS2) is in the small blind w/T5000, and Short Stack (SS) is in the big blind with T1000. Blinds are T100/T200

BS1 makes the total bet T800 (a raise of T600). BS2 calls, and SS moves all-in for a total of T1000. Can BS1 re-raise here, or does SS's all-in need to constitute a full raise? I tried using the search function, as well as reading a couple of other sites, but I got a variety of answers. Is there a definitive answer, or does it vary tourney-to-tourney?

Thanks in advance,
-Dave

[Photoc]

Rober Ciaffone's Rules of Poker should have everything you need for standard rules of poker. There is a tournament directors website around somewheres too.

[Spooky]

Home rules can overide this, but the rule used almost everywhere is that an all-in must be equal to or greater than the amount of the last raise or bet to qualify as fully raising someone.

In your example SS would have had to have T1400 to make it posible for BS1 or BS2 to re-raise after SS's all-in.

T200 raised to T800 (600 raise) to T1400 (600 re-raise).

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Under Section 14

NO-LIMIT RULES

1. The number of raises in any betting round is unlimited.

2. All bets must be at least equal to the minimum bring-in, unless the player is going all-in. (A straddle bet sets a new minimum bring-in, and is not treated as a raise.)

3. All raises must be equal to or greater than the size of the previous bet or raise on that betting round, except for an all-in wager. A player who has already acted and is not facing a fullsize wager may not subsequently raise an all-in bet that is less than the minimum bet (which is the amount of the minimum bring-in), or less than the full size of the last bet or raise. (The half-the-size rule for reopening the betting is for limit poker only.)

Example: Player A bets $100 and Player B raises $100 more, making the total bet $200. If Player C goes all in for less than $300 total (not a full $100 raise), and Player A calls, then Player B has no option to raise again, because he wasn't fully raised. (Player A could have raised, because Player B raised.)

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[spicychili]

There was a thread a week or so ago that addresses this as well.
Here it is