NLHE Rule Question

Leo 50 · Feb 26, 2012

Last night I was playing at a SnG on Merge (Lock I think) and I was in the
SB.
Pre flop and the 1st position player, who had been very aggressive and had the chip lead, limped in.
2 others limped and I did as well (I know the horror of it all)
Now the BB FOLDED his hand (don't know why but you can do it) and the next thing I know the player in 1st position RAISES.

Is this a legal move or did the software mess up?

I couldn't find an official poker rule on this. Anyone know??

WVHillbilly · Feb 26, 2012

Leo 50 said:
Last night I was playing at a SnG on Merge (Lock I think) and I was in the
SB.
Pre flop and the 1st position player, who had been very aggressive and had the chip lead, limped in.
2 others limped and I did as well (I know the horror of it all)
Now the BB FOLDED his hand (don't know why but you can do it) and the next thing I know the player in 1st position RAISES.

Is this a legal move or did the software mess up?

I couldn't find an official poker rule on this. Anyone know??

Post the HH. If it happened the way you say, it's a software glitch. More likely though that you misread the action and the loose guy was actually in the BB.

OzExorcist · Feb 26, 2012

Leo 50 said:
Last night I was playing at a SnG on Merge (Lock I think) and I was in the
SB.
Pre flop and the 1st position player, who had been very aggressive and had the chip lead, limped in.
2 others limped and I did as well (I know the horror of it all)
Now the BB FOLDED his hand (don't know why but you can do it) and the next thing I know the player in 1st position RAISES.

Is this a legal move or did the software mess up?

I couldn't find an official poker rule on this. Anyone know??

If it happened exactly that way then it's a glitch - not all sites would give the BB the option to fold their hand in a limped pot (never played Merge network, so wouldn't know) but AFAIK it's not against the rules to do it.

Betting can't be reopened unless the BB raises though. If they just check (or fold) then the betting round is complete and you go to the flop. So either this was a glitch, or (more likely, I'm afraid) you're not remembering the action correctly.

Chemist · Feb 26, 2012

I've seen what appears to be this happening before and been equally confused and annoyed.

Usually it is because the person sat on your left wasn't actually in the hand but a new arrival at the table waiting to play.
So the player after him was in fact the big blind and true to your noted aggressive form raises all the limpers on his blind.

Can you remember or check the hand histories for the player names between you before and after this hand?

OzExorcist · Feb 26, 2012

Chemist said:
Usually it is because the person sat on your left wasn't actually in the hand but a new arrival at the table waiting to play.
So the player after him was in fact the big blind and true to your noted aggressive form raises all the limpers on his blind.

My brain is hard-wired to assume all SnGs are single-table, because that's most of what I've played. But yeah, this - if it's a multi-table SnG then a new player joining between the SB and BB (who was never actually dealt into the hand) is the most likely explanation.

Leo 50 · Feb 27, 2012

I'll try to find the HH

Leo 50 · Feb 29, 2012

The person on my left was always there, 1 table SnG.

I went through ALL the hand histories from that session and the closest replay
I could find seems to be that the flop cards didn't appear
on my screen as quickly as they did on the player in 1st position.

Couldn't find a replay that looked like what I described.............so........

NEVERMIND!!!!

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