Seats can be either empty, new, or in-game. Before dealing to each seat, the program will check for new or disconnected players. For phase 2, the steps are simply dealing 1 card to each player.

Between each step, the program will check for new players and for disconnecting players. identify the dealer, 2 identify the small blind, and 3 identify the large blind. Ok, so I'm going to need to go into a lot more detail about my program to get this straight in my head, I think.īasically, there are three phases (that I care about, obviously there's more betting phases): 1 identifying the button and blinds, 2 dealing the first hole card, and 3 dealing the rest of the cards and betting. Hope this will help you! (NOTE: There is a little more complex ruling to the blinds structure depending on the casino you play in, but what I posted is the complete basics of blind rules and is used in every game in every casino and internet poker.) Small blinds are different since the game can run without a small blind, so if a current player happens to leave the table right before its their turn to pay post the small blind then its considered a dead small blind since their is no player in the seat that can post the small blind and the big blind cannot skip a player. Now, If a player sits down and he/she isn't anywhere near the blinds then he/she have the option to post a big blind from where they're seated, unless he/she don't want to post the big blind then he/she will have to wait for the big blind to rotate around the table to his/her position to start playing.Īlso there cannot be a big blind on an empty seat, if there is an empty seat where the big blind is supposed to be, then the big blind will be on the first player to the left of the empty seat. Third remember that new players cannot play if they sit down on the small blind and the button and have to wait until the button passes and post the big blind after to play, but if a new player sits down on a seat where the big blind is next then he/she can start playing by posting the big blind. Second remember that every new player who sits down on a table has an option to post the big blind. Ok, first remember that everyone on the table has to pay the blinds and the blinds cannot skip any current player on the table.

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