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why/under what conditions do you have to post blinds?
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Originally Posted by Cry Me A River
You always have to post the big blind the first hand you sit in.
online, that's always true as far as I know. Live, sometimes you can sit down and start playing from middle position without posting a blind. That's the way our home game works. If you tried to play a couple hands and leave before paying the blinds, we'd object, of course, but nobody is going to do that.
you see the reason, then? online, or in most casinos, they don't want people freerolling a couple hands and then leaving. You have to "pay" for your orbit before they give it to you.
note that if you sit out the blinds for any reason, you'll have to pay them when you get back. If you miss a complete orbit, you don't have to pay for orbits you missed. [ok, usually you don't. in a tournament you do, obviously, and some live games make you pay them, as well]