So I was playing a low stakes tourney last week and an interesting situation came up.
I was in the small blind and thought the blinds were 100/200. I put out my 100 and the big blind put out their 200. UTG raises to 600. Before the next player acts, UTG realizes the blinds had actually gone up before the start of the hand, and point out that myself and BB have the wrong amounts in. We both put in our 200/300 so the blinds are now right. Then, UTG pulls his 600 back and puts in 900. I point out that he can't change his raise seeing as 600 is the minimum legal raise for 200/300 blinds.
He starts to argue that since we had the wrong blinds in and he wanted to make it 3x that he can change it. I argued, but the dealer was mainly silent and felt his argument that he wanted to make it 3x made sense. My argument was that it shouldn't matter what the blinds have put in, it's each player's responsibility to know the blind level, and since he had put in enough for a legal raise already he shouldn't be able to change it. None of the other players at the table chimed in, and the dealer didn't really seem to care so rather than hold the game up I just relented and his change to 900 stood.
Was I wrong in challenging this or should he have been made to stick to the original raise to 600?
I was in the small blind and thought the blinds were 100/200. I put out my 100 and the big blind put out their 200. UTG raises to 600. Before the next player acts, UTG realizes the blinds had actually gone up before the start of the hand, and point out that myself and BB have the wrong amounts in. We both put in our 200/300 so the blinds are now right. Then, UTG pulls his 600 back and puts in 900. I point out that he can't change his raise seeing as 600 is the minimum legal raise for 200/300 blinds.
He starts to argue that since we had the wrong blinds in and he wanted to make it 3x that he can change it. I argued, but the dealer was mainly silent and felt his argument that he wanted to make it 3x made sense. My argument was that it shouldn't matter what the blinds have put in, it's each player's responsibility to know the blind level, and since he had put in enough for a legal raise already he shouldn't be able to change it. None of the other players at the table chimed in, and the dealer didn't really seem to care so rather than hold the game up I just relented and his change to 900 stood.
Was I wrong in challenging this or should he have been made to stick to the original raise to 600?
