Message Board : Dead Blinds in Texas Holdem---HELP!!!

There is a huge debate going on in our "family" tournaments.  Here is the question–Someone, Anyone please give me an educated answer.  I have not been able to find the answer anywhere else.  Here it goes…….

I understand the fact of "killing" blinds if the person directly beside the dealer falls out so the same person will not have to be big blind twice.  BUT if you have a table of 7 people and a person on the other side of the dealer falls out do you or should you skip blinds when it comes around to the one that fell out.  Someone here is saying that the small blind and the big blind should be killed once it gets to the other side of the table "so you can see as many hands as you should have before being another blind".

This will clarify a whole lot for myself and save me a headache at the same time trying to explain this to the idiot that don’t get it.

 Thanks for your time,

Meliemel

Meliemel said:

There is a huge debate going on in our "family" tournaments.  Here is the question–Someone, Anyone please give me an educated answer.  I have not been able to find the answer anywhere else.  Here it goes…….

I understand the fact of "killing" blinds if the person directly beside the dealer falls out so the same person will not have to be big blind twice.  BUT if you have a table of 7 people and a person on the other side of the dealer falls out do you or should you skip blinds when it comes around to the one that fell out.  Someone here is saying that the small blind and the big blind should be killed once it gets to the other side of the table "so you can see as many hands as you should have before being another blind".

This will clarify a whole lot for myself and save me a headache at the same time trying to explain this to the idiot that don’t get it.

 Thanks for your time,

Meliemel

 

No.  You wouldn’t skip another one.  Everyone is still seeing both blinds every orbit.  That’s the purpose of the dead button/blind rule.  You wouldn’t skip another to keep the number of hands even.  You can have several people knocked out in an orbit or a hand.  It would be nearly impossible to do that accounting once blinds got high. 

DonkStart states it best … it is the BB that moves. 

Somewhat complicated situations can arise where you might be without a SB tho, or the situation can come up where there are 2 big blinds, but no one ever gets to skip a BB.