Dead Button VS Moving Button

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The TDA rules use the dead button rule when dealing with someone being eliminated while in the blinds but many of the home run or bar room tournaments use the moving button rule. The moving button rule will usually cause confusion among many recreational players but adds extra chips to the pot preflop. The dead button rule takes from the pot but seems to give an advantage to the player who assumes the button position.

What are the advantages, if any, of using the moving button rule in tournaments? Dead Button?
 
beger80

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No all the online rooms that I have played on use the dead button rule. The moving button results in there being either 2 small blinds and a big or 2 big blinds and a small.
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On the previous hand the big blind was eliminated so there would be no small blind and there would be 2 big blinds that hand then the following hand there would be 2 small blinds and one big with the button falling on the first small blind.
 
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I've never seen the dead Button yet. But I can be inccorect with understanding this rule!
 
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what about full tilt if the big blind goes out there is no small blind the next hand
 
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I have never ever even heard of "dead button" lol... why is there such a rule...
And what actually it is ?
 
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nothing better than getting to skip the BB when someone gets eliminated
 
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I have never ever even heard of "dead button" lol... why is there such a rule...
And what actually it is ?

dead button is when previous hand small blinds eliminated so next hand button is an empty seat
 
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Here are the situations in pic form. The moving button type are the 4 table pics and the Dead Button type are the three table pics. The top two show an eliminated Small Blind then the last two pictures are for an eliminated Big blind.
 

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I have played a bunch of tournaments live and online and never come across the moving button situation. By the looks of it when someone gets eliminated the BB jumps forward one person, by using a dead button the BB keeps moving one to the left the entire time.

I think the moving button may also cause confusion by having a SB in the button seat.
 
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