In a NL game, I was seated in the cutoff. As I was looking to my right to follow the action, the Button folded out of turn. The Button's action caused the Small Blind to act out of turn as well, and he raised to $16. The dealer neither announced the raise nor stopped the action.
Not realizing that the Small Blind had raised, I decided to make it $10 to go when the action got to me. The Small Blind then tried to pull his bet back and raise to $50.
Did my bet change the action, thereby giving the Small Blind all of his options? Stated differently, was I obligated to call $16 or $50?
Had nobody acted out of turn behind you, would you have been allowed to bet $10? If $10 was a valid betsize, your bet changed the action and SB should have all his options including making it $16 in case that constitutes a legal raise.
If $10 isn’t a legal bet in that game, chances are that $16 isn’t one either. Unless you somehow found a room that decided 8/16 would be a good limit for a NL game.
Sorry if my description was confusing. This was a 1/2 NL game. A raise to $10 would have been a legal bet. When I said "underbet," I meant it to mean that my bet ($10) was less than the action the Small Blind wanted to make it (i.e., $16).
