[lorinda]

When physically creating sidepots between any number of players, repeat the following steps.

1) Leave all unmatched bets in front of players. (You get used to this with experience, you can see it coming)
By unmatched, I mean all bets including the first one that were not called entirely.

2) Find the smallest stack. Take this number of chips from each players bet and put them in front of the player who had the smallest stack. That player can win the main pot, plus the chips in front of him.

3) Find the next smallest stack. Using the chips that are left in front of all players, take the same amount from them that is left in the next smallest stack and put them in front of the player with the next smallest stack.
That player can win all previous sidepots, plus this one.

4) Repeat 3) until only one player has chips left. He gets this back as change.

5) After the hands are shown, each person can only win pots up to and including the one where they were all in. Subsequent pots that were made have to be won by someone else.


Lori