big tourny (old) blinds bug

[SternSwiss]

This is an old bug, been here for ages and pops up rarely. Always thought I'd make a post about it for lava to look at, but never did it so far.

Also it might be useful for others that don't know its existence.


Late in the multitables tournys, when blinds are high the following scenario might happen (the best I can subsume it)

Small blind pays normal

Big blind has to go all in for an amount inferior to the small blind

What happens next is if people call until the big blind, and the big bling check, the hand cannot proceed.

Someone has to raise which can make a huge amount a levels 10+

Not very important. More an object of folklore for me. but it happened again yesterday on my tables and everybody was wtf'ing...


Corollary, If you call in such (rare) situations) because you expect a to see cheap flop, you will be in trouble because someone will have to raise and you will have to call or fold.

[bigred]

Yes i've seen it before but its been a while back.
Everybody keeps checking until someone raises and yes it gets very expensive. usually the one that raises wins because everyone else folds.
But like I said its been several months since i have seen it.

[SternSwiss]

Originally Posted by bigred

But like I said its been several months since i have seen it.

It has been definitely here all the way throughout when the contrext is here.

Again, last one was yesterday and seen it the previous week as well..

Haven't seen it happening in a while mate...but it is a pain!...Sox

[ydd]

This just happened in the 5K tourny - was hoping to see the flop from sb but the eventual raise was too much! Would have gone all in when the flop went down (pair of 10s and short stack) fortunately the guy who raised ended with 3 twos.