jaxxar 0 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 I've visited numerous websites on this topic and a few of them say that the dealer or button is dealt first card in heads up play for NLHE ...and other sites say the non-dealer is dealt first card...what is correct? thanks jay Link to post Share on other sites
Mercury69 3 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 The guy without the button. Link to post Share on other sites
MrEye 0 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 The non-dealer is the first card. The button is the small blind. Link to post Share on other sites
jaxxar 0 Posted August 10, 2006 Author Share Posted August 10, 2006 this site instructs to deal button first card in heads up play.. http://poker.oddschecker.com/poker-game-review/game/heads-up Link to post Share on other sites
showstopper24 0 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 Which sites? Link to post Share on other sites
JadeTiger 0 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 the only thing different about heads-up play is that the button is the SB. You deal away from the button as normal. Link to post Share on other sites
jaxxar 0 Posted August 10, 2006 Author Share Posted August 10, 2006 Which sites?Click on the link i provided in the previous comment Link to post Share on other sites
MrEye 0 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 This says the opposite. Link to post Share on other sites
sixhands 0 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 The button always gets dealt last, it doesn't change when you are heads up. Link to post Share on other sites
JadeTiger 0 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 This says the opposite.This says "The small blind is the button and acts first before the flop and last after the flop. The player who does not have the button is dealt the first card." isnt that what i said? Link to post Share on other sites
CrazyJoe 0 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 this site instructs to deal button first card in heads up play.. http://poker.oddschecker.com/poker-game-review/game/heads-up that site is stupid, look at this crap:In no LIMIT games there are a maximum number of chips you can buy in with. This varies depending on the sizes of the blinds. E.g. For a £1/£2 game the maximum number of chips you can start with is £200 this is to prevent people buying a strong chip lead in the game. Link to post Share on other sites
MrEye 0 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 This says "The small blind is the button and acts first before the flop and last after the flop. The player who does not have the button is dealt the first card." isnt that what i said?I meant the opposite of the link he provided. Sorry. Link to post Share on other sites
jaxxar 0 Posted August 10, 2006 Author Share Posted August 10, 2006 So ...would it be safe to assume that the info given on poker.oddschecker.com regarding heads up rules is false/a mistake/ written in error...when they say the dealer gets first card????? Link to post Share on other sites
MrEye 0 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 So ...would it be safe to assume that the info given on poker.oddschecker.com regarding heads up rules is false/a mistake/ written in error...when they say the dealer gets first card?????Absolutely. Link to post Share on other sites
EvilGN 0 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 every online, home game, and live tourny i have ever been too is Button is SB, gets the last card, and is first to act preflop. Last to act post flop. Just like the above link. Link to post Share on other sites
CrazyJoe 0 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 every online, home game, and live tourny i have ever been too is Button is SB, gets the last card, and is first to act preflop. Last to act post flop. Just like the above link.really? there are, or were, maybe, quite a few sites that had it wrong, I've played a bunch of online tournaments where the button is the big blind when it gets to heads up Link to post Share on other sites
Teffy 0 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 The button always acts first pre-flop HU. Acts second post-flop. Cards dealt away from button. End of story. If you played any other way, you played wrong. Link to post Share on other sites
Icenine92 0 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 that site is stupid, look at this crap:In no LIMIT games there are a maximum number of chips you can buy in with. This varies depending on the sizes of the blinds. E.g. For a £1/£2 game the maximum number of chips you can start with is £200 this is to prevent people buying a strong chip lead in the game.I dont know, but every casino that I have ever played in had a max buy in. Usually a 1/2 game was about 200. Some of the casinos you could buy for 200 tip the dealer one (so that you are under 200) then buy in for 200 again. That way you have 399. But never have I saw one where they would let you set in a 1/2 game with 2000 or something like that. Link to post Share on other sites
GoStags92 2 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 Go play a $5 HU SnG, and you will learn pretty quickly.Button gets dealt last, as always. Acts first before the flop (SB), then last in ever subsequent betting round...but that's already been said now, hasn't it? Link to post Share on other sites
lenoph 0 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 okay, it's 3 handed and the big blind busts out... who gets the small, big and button? i believe the previous button holder becomes the big blind and the small blind keeps it AND the button. am i wrong? Link to post Share on other sites
JeremyG 0 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 I gotta say this is SOOO sad... almost 2 pages discussing (arguing?) one of the most basic rules of poker.Once you guys actually start playing real poker, for real money, using real cards and actual chips then you'll soon learn these little "nuances". Link to post Share on other sites
Socrates 0 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 I dont know, but every casino that I have ever played in had a max buy in. Usually a 1/2 game was about 200. Some of the casinos you could buy for 200 tip the dealer one (so that you are under 200) then buy in for 200 again. That way you have 399. But never have I saw one where they would let you set in a 1/2 game with 2000 or something like that.They do at the Wynn and a couple of other casinos in Vegas. You can sit at the 1/3 NL game with $50K if you want to. Link to post Share on other sites
CrazyJoe 0 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 I dont know, but every casino that I have ever played in had a max buy in. Usually a 1/2 game was about 200. Some of the casinos you could buy for 200 tip the dealer one (so that you are under 200) then buy in for 200 again. That way you have 399. But never have I saw one where they would let you set in a 1/2 game with 2000 or something like that.yes, this is true, but it SURE AS HELL isn't to prevent people from "buying a big stack", it's to decrease the cash flow moving across the table per hand, that way they get more rake. Link to post Share on other sites
jowest 0 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 I know the correct answer has been posted a ton already but a real easy way to remember is simply this:Where you deal the cards first has NOTHING to do with where the blinds are. So it will NEVER change.Now the blinds get a little screwy heads up (dealer gets small blind and acts first pre flop and last post flop).But the way the cards are dealt NEVER changes. Link to post Share on other sites
psujohn 0 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 okay, it's 3 handed and the big blind busts out... who gets the small, big and button? i believe the previous button holder becomes the big blind and the small blind keeps it AND the button. am i wrong?There are actually two different ways to handle what happens when a blind busts out. Probably the easiest is to simply require that the button moves to the previous SB.In your example1 - SB2 - BB3 - Bseat 2 bustsseat 1 is B, seat 3 is BB. Typically seat 1 will not have to post a SB in this case.A lot of the subtleties here vary from cardroom to cardroom/site to site/home game to home game. And yes, some sites do/did get the button/sb/bb wrong in heads up. I think party does/did get it wrong at least on the cash tables. Link to post Share on other sites
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