[BCR_9er]

When a player joins a cash game. He has to post a big blind. Is this the same when a whole table starts up a cash game? Does everyone have to post a big blind?

Thanks.

[xtwalker]

No, typically the dealer will deal out one round of cards face up, and the high card gets the first deal and all blinds are payed apropriately based on dealer possition and the games begin.

[jldecarlo]

At the start of a cash game, only the BB and SB post, with button chosen randomly.

When a player joins an existing game, he may or may not have to post depending on the local rules. At my home games we usually don't require posting (because we play an aggressive 1-2 NL game and the blinds are pretty small relative to the pots), but will often just seat the newcomer so he will be the next BB.

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[dad604]

Some public poker rooms let new players into the game without posting unless they are in bb position. In case they are bb, they can skip until they are co and then join in for free. As everyone has posted, when new games start, deal hi card for button, then just sb and bb.

[Sniper2075]

Originally Posted by dad604

Some public poker rooms let new players into the game without posting unless they are in bb position. In case they are bb, they can skip until they are co and then join in for free. As everyone has posted, when new games start, deal hi card for button, then just sb and bb.

This is how they do it at the local casino's I've played at. When the dealer starts dealing the next hand after you sit down they will ask if you want to be delt in now or wait for the button(you don't get the button you will be the CO). I'll usually get dealt in right away unless I'm within 2 or 3 spots of the BB.

Only on-line has I seen the must post a BB before getting dealt in.

[BCR_9er]

Thanks for the answers guys! I didn't think so either.

[ipgyst]

In every online cardroom I've been to you can either wait for the BB, or post a BB (but not as the button or SB). If somebody shows up to my cash game after it starts, I do the same thing. When starting, high card is first dealer and we go from there. Everybody could post a BB first hand. That would be a heck of a way to start a game! Eight people could say check and all see the flop.

[jdunford]

I agree with most here. We rarely have people joining later (cash game usually follows tournament, so people might be leaving, but rarely joining). However, if a player sits out to use the washroom or have a smoke such that they miss the blinds (at least once), they have to post a BB when they get back. If they didn't miss paying any blinds, then they don't have to post. No one ever posts more than 1 BB, regardless of how many orbits they might have missed - and no one is forced to pay a blind if they're not at the table (it's not a tournament).

[Captn_All_In]

We have played a game of Indian Poker to start out a cash game and it has been kind of fun, I deal out the cards and the winner of the hand starts as dealer(everyone antes and the game is played just like holdem with 2 cards but you hold them to your head so everyone else can see them, the player to my left starts the action just like a SB)

[BigBlue]

deal, 1st ace gets the button.


New players sit and post when it comes around. (Not casino rules)