Party Poker rule?

A while back I questioned why I was not able to re-raise when a short stack went all in and I was correctly informed that it was because the short stack was less than the size of the bet. I wondered how I could have missed this and found the following exerpt from an internet site that was ranking poker sites.

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Party's software is a big step down. Party allows you to reraise an all-in "under-raise". (In poker, if the all-in player's raise is less than the size of the bet, the bettor is not allowed to reraise. On Party he is, which is a terrible rule.) If good software is what you want, Party is not the place to get it.


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I was curious how I could have overlooked this so I was wondering was this a recent rule change or is the site administrator incorrect in his observation as I was?

[lacky]

lol, i donno. this is a good example of how playing 8 tables causes you to miss the small stuff. Or maybe it's my ADHD riddled mind. I never have and never would notice. I could only answer your question before from a general knowledge of the rules of poker.

[schwza]

my understanding is that the way it works is that if you limp and a short-stack under-raises all-in you can reraise. i'm pretty sure that this is not how b&m casinos work.

but if you raise and a shorty under-raises a-i, then you can only reraise if the shorty makes a legal minimum reraise. this part of the rule is consistent with the rest of the world.

and then post-flop works like normal poker (like the 2nd half of the rule).

[Apathy]

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my understanding is that the way it works is that if you limp and a short-stack under-raises all-in you can reraise. i'm pretty sure that this is not how b&m casinos work.

but if you raise and a shorty under-raises a-i, then you can only reraise if the shorty makes a legal minimum reraise. this part of the rule is consistent with the rest of the world.

and then post-flop works like normal poker (like the 2nd half of the rule).

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This is correct.

And it's messed up.

Ok Thanks. I think I now understand how I missed it before. Its not insignificant as quite often I (and many others) will utilize shorty's stack to anticipate a raise behind me then check raise to trap the dead money. I guess in those situations I have always limped so never encountered the reraise part of the rule. Thanks for the clarification. Since part one of the rule is unique to party I hard time grasping it.