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Thanks for your help. -Michael

Answer:

Hi Michel,
Thanks for your questions. I have tried to answer them below.

Regards Clark
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1. Say the blinds are 500 and 1,000 (just random numbers) but the person who is the big blind only has 800 to post and there are several players still left. Do these other players still have to post the 1,000 to stay in or do they have to only match the 800?

The remaining players always have to at least match the original big blind - 1,000 in this example.

2. Also, I'm sure this has been covered on your site but it still confuses me. In what situations are there no small or big blinds? I've come across that several times but I'm still having trouble grasping it.

There are some instances where there's only a big blind. This usually happens when a player is knocked out from a tournament or leaves the table in a cash game. Most house rules never allow for a player to skip a blind, so if the player who was supposed to post the small blind for some reason leaves the table, the player who was supposed to post the big blind still does. This means that there will be no small blind. The next round the player posting the big blind posts the small blind and the bottom stays in the same plays as last round.

3. Say there is a King high straight on the board and that is the best hand but one of the players also holds a King in their pocket hand. Does the King on the board overrule the player's pocket King or can the player claim the hand?

No, the players hold the same five card poker hand, which means that the pot is split.

4. Say the blinds are 100 and 200 and after the flop a player raises to 400. If the player to his left wants to raise, does he have to raise to 800 or just double the big blind? I had that happen in a game where after the raise to 400 the player next to him only raised to 500 and when I brought it up a couple of the players thought that only the original big blind has to be doubled. What is the rule with that?

The first raise at least has to have the same size as the big blind. You always have to raise at least the same amount as the previous raise. In the example you describe the first player raises to 400 (a 200 raise).

This means that the next player at least have to raise to 600 (also a 200 raise). If the first player would have raised to 600 instead, the raise would have been 400 and the next player would have had to raise to at least 1,000.

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