Button movement in Party Sit and Gos

[dfscott]

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So I've replied to this by giving them countless situations where the big blind goes out one hand, there is a single big blind the next hand who is the button the hand after that and pays no small blind. I've also quoted the rule page and explained that according to them the next active player to the left of the button in hand 2 should recieve the button in hand 3. We'll see what they say to that.

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That's true at Stars, which has a Forward Moving Button rule. At Party, they use the Dead Button Rule, which means that a player CAN receive the button twice.

[aces961]

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Hand 3:
Button moves from seat 7 to seat 8, but seat 8 is gone. If seat 7 hadn't busted last hand, he would get the button again, but since he's not there, it "backs up" to seat 5.
Seat 9 posts SB and Seat 1 posts BB as normal.


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See I wouldn't have any objection to what happened if party would have actually given seat 7 the button twice, but this isn't what they do. If seat 7 wasn't eliminated they would have moved the big blind to seat 9 and seat 9 would not pay a sb and seat 1 would not pay a big.

[aces961]

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So I've replied to this by giving them countless situations where the big blind goes out one hand, there is a single big blind the next hand who is the button the hand after that and pays no small blind. I've also quoted the rule page and explained that according to them the next active player to the left of the button in hand 2 should recieve the button in hand 3. We'll see what they say to that.

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That's true at Stars, which has a Forward Moving Button rule. At Party, they use the Dead Button Rule, which means that a player CAN receive the button twice.

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A far as I know the dead button only applies when the person who would have recieved the button is elminated, given that party would have moved the button to seat 9 if seat 7 wasn't elminated and since seat 9 is still alive he should get the button.

[dfscott]

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Hand 3:
Button moves from seat 7 to seat 8, but seat 8 is gone. If seat 7 hadn't busted last hand, he would get the button again, but since he's not there, it "backs up" to seat 5.
Seat 9 posts SB and Seat 1 posts BB as normal.


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See I wouldn't have any objection to what happened if party would have actually given seat 7 the button twice, but this isn't what they do. If seat 7 wasn't eliminated they would have moved the big blind to seat 9 and seat 9 would not pay a sb and seat 1 would not pay a big.

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That would be cool for seat 1, since he'd get to skip paying the big. However, that's not how the dead button rule reads. From Robert's Rules of Poker:

Dead button – The big blind is posted by the player due for it, and the small blind and button are positioned accordingly, even if this means the small blind or the button is placed in front of an empty seat, giving the same player the privilege of last action on consecutive hands.

[Insty]

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Anyone who has ever played a sit and go has seen the following happen:
In hand 1:seat 1 is the button, 2 sb, 3 bb and seat 3 is eliminated
In hand 2 then Seat 2 is the button, seat 4 is the bb
In hand 3 seat 4 is the button, 5 sb, 6 bb.


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I don't recall having seen this happen. Do you have a hand history?

Just follow the BB. In the hands you initially posted it moves one seat each turn as it should with the SB and the Button being placed relative to the BB.

You only pay the SB if you payed the BB last hand.
You get the button if you are to the right of the SB. (which may be an empty seat)
The button is never an empty seat. thus the button appears to move backwards.
Which is less annoying than making people move seats.

I think it's just that some places move the button, and some places move the BB.

Party seems to move the BB.

[Beavis68]

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I have not studied Party's rulebook, but this situation is a "dead button" that occurs routinely in B&M.

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What occured here is party using the dead button rule on a hand where the button went out not the small blind. I have never seen a casino institute a dead button rule when the button goes out, why would they.

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No, the way they did it was right. It's the two busts in a row that makes this strange. The wierdness is caused by the fact that even through party uses the Dead Button Rule, they don't have any way to allow an empty seat to have the button, so they just back it up until they find a player that's still in, which is effectively the same thing.

Here's what happened:

Hand 1:
Seat 5 is button
Seat 7 is SB (seat 6 apparently busted previously)
Seat 8 is BB
Hand Result: Seat 8 busts out.

Hand 2:
Button moves from seat 5 to seat 7
There is no SB since the BB busted last hand
Seat 9 is now the BB
Now, the Button busts out.

Hand 3:
Button moves from seat 7 to seat 8, but seat 8 is gone. If seat 7 hadn't busted last hand, he would get the button again, but since he's not there, it "backs up" to seat 5.
Seat 9 posts SB and Seat 1 posts BB as normal.

They way party handles it makes it a little confusing, but I'm pretty sure that this was kosher.

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This is exactly right, the BB progressed as it should. Seat nine had to pay both blinds, no one got screwed.

[aces961]

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Anyone who has ever played a sit and go has seen the following happen:
In hand 1:seat 1 is the button, 2 sb, 3 bb and seat 3 is eliminated
In hand 2 then Seat 2 is the button, seat 4 is the bb
In hand 3 seat 4 is the button, 5 sb, 6 bb.


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I don't recall having seen this happen. Do you have a hand history?

Just follow the BB. In the hands you initially posted it moves one seat each turn as it should with the SB and the Button being placed relative to the BB.

You only pay the SB if you payed the BB last hand.
You get the button if you are to the right of the SB. (which may be an empty seat)
The button is never an empty seat. thus the button appears to move backwards.
Which is less annoying than making people move seats.

I think it's just that some places move the button, and some places move the BB.

Party seems to move the BB.

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***** Hand History for Game 1841785616 *****
100/200 TourneyTexasHTGameTable (NL) (Tournament 10992923) - Mon Apr 04 00:22:20 EDT 2005
Table Table 16570 (Real Money) -- Seat 9 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 1: ZJustin (825)
Seat 2: kvazar (900)
Seat 3: rob42359 (2165)
Seat 5: norge1 (1410)
Seat 6: BelochKa (635)
Seat 7: BoiledOver (740)
Seat 8: aks47 (1015)
Seat 9: tahoerog (1425)
Seat 10: TEVOLVER (885)
TEVOLVER posts small blind (50)
ZJustin posts big blind (100)
** Dealing down cards **


***** Hand History for Game 1841789106 *****
ZJustin finished in ninth place.
100/200 TourneyTexasHTGameTable (NL) (Tournament 10992923) - Mon Apr 04 00:22:58 EDT 2005
Table Table 16570 (Real Money) -- Seat 10 is the button
Total number of players : 8
Seat 2: kvazar (1775)
Seat 3: rob42359 (2165)
Seat 5: norge1 (1410)
Seat 6: BelochKa (635)
Seat 7: BoiledOver (740)
Seat 8: aks47 (1015)
Seat 9: tahoerog (1425)
Seat 10: TEVOLVER (835)
kvazar posts big blind (100)
** Dealing down cards **

***** Hand History for Game 1841792088 *****
BelochKa finished in eighth place.
100/200 TourneyTexasHTGameTable (NL) (Tournament 10992923) - Mon Apr 04 00:23:30 EDT 2005
Table Table 16570 (Real Money) -- Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 7
Seat 2: kvazar (1675)
Seat 3: rob42359 (2065)
Seat 5: norge1 (1410)
Seat 7: BoiledOver (740)
Seat 8: aks47 (1015)
Seat 9: tahoerog (2260)
Seat 10: TEVOLVER (835)
rob42359 posts small blind (50)
norge1 posts big blind (100)
** Dealing down cards **

The seat numbers aren't the same as the ones I used but the skipping of one players big blind and ones small still occurs.

[barry111]

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That's true at Stars, which has a Forward Moving Button rule. At Party, they use the Dead Button Rule, which means that a player CAN receive the button twice.

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Just another reason why I like Stars better the Party [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[dfscott]

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Anyone who has ever played a sit and go has seen the following happen:
In hand 1:seat 1 is the button, 2 sb, 3 bb and seat 3 is eliminated
In hand 2 then Seat 2 is the button, seat 4 is the bb
In hand 3 seat 4 is the button, 5 sb, 6 bb.


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I don't recall having seen this happen. Do you have a hand history?

Just follow the BB. In the hands you initially posted it moves one seat each turn as it should with the SB and the Button being placed relative to the BB.

You only pay the SB if you payed the BB last hand.
You get the button if you are to the right of the SB. (which may be an empty seat)
The button is never an empty seat. thus the button appears to move backwards.
Which is less annoying than making people move seats.

I think it's just that some places move the button, and some places move the BB.

Party seems to move the BB.

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***** Hand History for Game 1841785616 *****
100/200 TourneyTexasHTGameTable (NL) (Tournament 10992923) - Mon Apr 04 00:22:20 EDT 2005
Table Table 16570 (Real Money) -- Seat 9 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 1: ZJustin (825)
Seat 2: kvazar (900)
Seat 3: rob42359 (2165)
Seat 5: norge1 (1410)
Seat 6: BelochKa (635)
Seat 7: BoiledOver (740)
Seat 8: aks47 (1015)
Seat 9: tahoerog (1425)
Seat 10: TEVOLVER (885)
TEVOLVER posts small blind (50)
ZJustin posts big blind (100)
** Dealing down cards **


***** Hand History for Game 1841789106 *****
ZJustin finished in ninth place.
100/200 TourneyTexasHTGameTable (NL) (Tournament 10992923) - Mon Apr 04 00:22:58 EDT 2005
Table Table 16570 (Real Money) -- Seat 10 is the button
Total number of players : 8
Seat 2: kvazar (1775)
Seat 3: rob42359 (2165)
Seat 5: norge1 (1410)
Seat 6: BelochKa (635)
Seat 7: BoiledOver (740)
Seat 8: aks47 (1015)
Seat 9: tahoerog (1425)
Seat 10: TEVOLVER (835)
kvazar posts big blind (100)
** Dealing down cards **

***** Hand History for Game 1841792088 *****
BelochKa finished in eighth place.
100/200 TourneyTexasHTGameTable (NL) (Tournament 10992923) - Mon Apr 04 00:23:30 EDT 2005
Table Table 16570 (Real Money) -- Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 7
Seat 2: kvazar (1675)
Seat 3: rob42359 (2065)
Seat 5: norge1 (1410)
Seat 7: BoiledOver (740)
Seat 8: aks47 (1015)
Seat 9: tahoerog (2260)
Seat 10: TEVOLVER (835)
rob42359 posts small blind (50)
norge1 posts big blind (100)
** Dealing down cards **

The seat numbers aren't the same as the ones I used but the skipping of one players big blind and ones small still occurs.

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If that's how it happened, that's messed up. There should've been a hand between #2 and #3 that looked like:

100/200 TourneyTexasHTGameTable (NL) (Tournament 10992923) - Mon Apr 04 00:22:58 EDT 2005
Table Table 16570 (Real Money) -- Seat 10 is the button
Total number of players : 8
Seat 2: kvazar (1775)
Seat 3: rob42359 (2165)
Seat 5: norge1 (1410)
Seat 6: BelochKa (635)
Seat 7: BoiledOver (740)
Seat 8: aks47 (1015)
Seat 9: tahoerog (1425)
Seat 10: TEVOLVER (835)
kvazar posts small blind (50)
rob42359 posts big blind (100)
** Dealing down cards **

The button would technically be on seat 1, but since that seat busted, it would revert back to seat 10.

[dfscott]

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That's true at Stars, which has a Forward Moving Button rule. At Party, they use the Dead Button Rule, which means that a player CAN receive the button twice.

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Just another reason why I like Stars better the Party [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Ugh! Not me. It would suck if I was waiting for the BB to come around and bust the short stack and then suddenly it skipped him.