[99%evil]

I played a home game last night with some guys I didn't know very well. The playing was horrible and I was happy to come out with more money than I went in with, but there was not much room for good play.

My question is this, we had 5 people left the man in the small blind went all in and busted out. The host of the party was big blind and proceeded to put the button at his spot instead of leaving a dead button in the last position. His way caused the blinds to skip one so the player to his left skipped the big blind and paid the small blind. I interjected and stated that there was a dead button and the blinds cshould not be jumped over. I've played on Partypoker and I know this is how they play, I've played in casinos and they don't skip it like this. My peeve is that we were down to 4 people and the blinds were crippling at his point because of the way they structured the crappy tournament (did not use denominations, a chip was a unit and we got 30 to start with and blinds double as each person went out, so when 3 go out in one hand the blinds are huge and if you have'nt even seen a blind yet you've got 1/3 of your chips in when they first get to you).

I understand it wasn't my house, but most of the time the guys didn't know a lot of basic rules (like a flush beats a straight kind of thing). It seemed to piss off the guys whose tourney it was because I took control away, although I did apologize and say we could do whatever they wanted, they still did what I had mentioned. It kind of put me off when I couldn't tell if the guy was upset after that.

Was I in the wrong, or should I have just gone along with the way they were going. The guy who was being skipped would have missed putting in half his stack for the big blind at that time and could have gone around again waiting for a better hand. My stack was a bit more than his, but the blids were not going to miss me as I was 2 seats away.

Another thing I didn't like, but I kept quiet about was whenever we got from 11 folks down to 3 they would stop the game and announce they would split the cash up. The guy with the most got the 1st place amount we had agreed on and the 2nd and third split the remaining money. This is ridiculous, I could double up twice and take out the chip leader and they are still paying him a full stake. He should have taken out a percentage to give to the lower players to even it out I think. I was in 2nd and 3rd chip position twice when this happened, I didn't get a chance to go after the chip leader so basiclally whomever caught cards at the beginning would win.

Suffice to say I'm not going back to this game again.

What are your opinions on my two scenarios? Was I out of line in my way of thinking. I realize it was not my game, but I'd like to know if I'm doing something out of the ordinary to keep my game closer to how the casinos play.