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Originally Posted by Reducto
1) Can post small on the button and it's live
2) Can post a dead small on the button
3) Button stays where it is, player can post a second SB. So it would be Button-SB-SB-BB
4) Has to either buy the button for BB+SB or wait a hand and post a dead SB behind button
5) Has to wait for button to pass, then can post a dead SB
Thanks for the thorough response. It looks like Option #3 is the one not covered by my post / reached by my imagination. I see why it is preferred.
The most interesting question to me is whether and why the blind is live or dead. Responses to that part are all over the place.
The incident that effected this question happened at an Encore Boston Harbor $1/3 game. A player had busted in the BB and then left to buy more chips downstairs because that's what we make you do in Boston.
The floor was called for funsies / curiosity. It's just a dollar, and he was nearby. The floor ruled that the player could post the small blind from the button and that the post was live. His reasoning was that any amount up to the big blind is live, and then the spillover is dead.
It sounded made up on the spot, but I couldn't find an argument against that reasoning. It's a clean rule.