| Late players and blinds.
Every week we have a low limit ring game.
Players straggle in, and we usually start playing when there are 5 players including the wife and I, and end up with 9-10 by the peak of the night.
From the time we start dealing, the new players show up one or 2 at a time, buy-in and start playing.
I've never known exactly how to handle their blinds, so I just make every (joining) player post an extra big blind on their first hand in, regardless of their postition at the table.
My question is based on where the blinds currently would be and where they sit down, and the empty chairs. It can get pretty wierd.
What if the button is sitting to the right of two empty seats, and those seats are now filled, I will usually skip them with the button and penalize them a BB for the first hand. But then the button moves to the player that WAS just the SB, and he/she gets to skip the BB because of the new players.
But it gets real confusing when say, two seats are filled, and one of the new players "should" be posting the SB based on his/her position, and the next seat would be the BB. If I'm going to penalize the SB up to a BB, should I penalize the BB to the same amount, BB+SB?
Are there simple rules for this?
It just came up as a very minor issue last week, and I just kept it simple, and life went on. However I would be interested if anyone knows the exact proceedure for posting blinds and joining players in a ring game.  | 
