The Heads Up Blind Debate!

[The Showgirl]

I think the articles desciption of what should happen when the button goes out contradicts what happens on full tilt - check it out.

They talk of having the button be big blind for one hand were as Full Tilt just move the button two places and get the ball rolling.

[The Showgirl]

It also says: "The best way to do this"

I don't want the best way - I want a definative answer!!!!!

OOOOOOh Bugger

[The Showgirl]

OK got it - this time I'm not involved - after getting heads up again tonight the small blind went out so the footage was usless - I decided to watch a couple of games in running till someone went out in the big blind and here it is:

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As you can see the button moves as normal - but the person in the small blind is small blind twice in a row.

As the articles are vague and at time contradict themselves I think we should go with these three transitions as standard. Full Tilt is a name we all know and trust - and it seems to make sense to me.

[The Showgirl]

OK here it is my easy to use guide to Poker Transitions - even at 3am and bladdered this should sort us out:

OK can't attach a word file to the post so I'll pop in a screen capture of the document:

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Yes Ro I am a noob!

[The Showgirl]

Using Full Tilt's Transitions preserves our long understood rule of - BIG BUTTON = small blind - for every heads up hand

[The Showgirl]

Have posted this question on a few forums including TexasHoldem-Poker.com - here.

This is a nicely worded explaination that explains the Full Tilt transitions I have captured on video:

Re: Heads Up Blind Transitions.

by HalfSugar » Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:51 pm GMT

This isn't going to help much because I'm going to caveat it with "this may not be the perfectly correct way to do things............" but all we do in my home league games is work out who was just the BB and if it was one of the remaining two players, make them the SB. If the BB just busted, we just move the BB where it would have gone even if that means the SB is SB twice in a row.

There it is in bold - one sentence - easy!! Big thanks to Halfsugar!

[The Turn]

I know this is off topic but just had to point it out. Out of the first 16 posts in this topic The Showgirl has posted 14

is this some sort of record!

Good effort though, we just need to make sure we have con concensus among everyone on what the ruling is (they probably won't give a shit and leave it up to us). Personally I'm fine with Halfsugar's suggestion and think we should adopt that going forward.

I don't believe it's a definitive answer as I don't think there is one! I'm convinced that there is no hard and fast rule for this and it's down to the tournament organiser to lay down the law.

[The Showgirl]

I dunno - taking the piss cos I'm using the forum!

Anyhow, I'm used to talking to myself on here after everyone was at weddings and shit last week.

I do agree though - I think this is a subjective ruling - but this outcome we've reached at the mo seems the way forward.

Unless anything major comes to light through the forum posts I've made elsewhere I think we may have nailed it.

[The Showgirl]

Oh and Ro - 25 topics in the gaming forum - 19 of them created by you.

[The Turn]

Oh and Ro - 25 topics in the gaming forum - 19 of them created by you.

The difference being I've been posting new topics to spread the word about anything I think may be of interest, you've basically been having a chat with yourself!