Re: Tourney Question
This seems confusing, but it's not once you get your head around it.
The BB moves. That's all you have to consider. Then the SB/Button adjust as necessary.
1: BTN
2: SB
3: BB
#1 eliminated: 2 = BB, 3 = SB/BTN
#2 eliminated: 1 = BB, 3 = SB/BTN
#3 eliminated: 1 = BB, 2 = SB/BTN
An alternative is to have a dead SB and then dead button if #3 is eliminated, but that would still put the button on #2, so why not just jump immediately to the proper way and also lay a SB on it? I've never seen a dead button when going to heads-up, but I don't have too much experience so I'm sure it's happened. That just seems incredibly unfair to allow #2 a free shot at the button heads-up. And as was posted, where does the button go next? Does #2 get to be the button twice when he posts his SB the next hand? If you were #1, would you be too happy about that?
The BB moves, the button/SB falls in line, simple fair and easy. Your friend was right.
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