A quickie: extra chip?

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Who gets the extra chip in a split pot?

[Jaraim]

If you're playing a Hi-Lo split game, the high hand is rewarded the extra chip.

In a "one pot" game, the extra chip is awarded to the first player clockwise of the button.

From Robert's Rules of Poker:

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3. An odd chip will be broken down to the smallest unit used in the game.



4. No player may receive more than one odd chip.



5. If two or more hands tie, an odd chip will be awarded as follows:



(a) In a button game, the first hand clockwise from the button gets the odd chip.



(b) In a stud game, the odd chip will be given to the highest card by suit in all high games, and to the lowest card by suit in all low games. (When making this determination, all cards are used, not just the five cards that constitute the player's hand.)



(c) In high-low split games, the high hand receives the odd chip in a split between the high and the low hands. The odd chip between tied high hands is awarded as in a high game of that poker form, and the odd chip between tied low hands is awarded as in a low game of that poker form.



(d) All side pots and the main pot will be split as separate pots, not mixed together.


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[Riverboat Willie]

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Who gets the extra chip in a split pot?

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The post above is probably the correct way to do it, but some people may not like that rule. In our home game, (after splitting it as small as it can get) we will just leave the remainder in the pot. It's sort of a "third blind" or just a bonus for the winner of the next pot. It's usually not a huge factor because that one chip is worth less than the big blind so nobody cares. Hope this helped.

Mark

[memphis_aces]

Agreed here....we do the same thing.

[nuclear500]

Only time you need to be truly concerned with an extra chip due to a split pot is in Hold 'Em and its a tournament.

Otherwise just leave it for the next hand, like the previous posters said, its usually the price of the small blind.

[Typical_Cat]

At our home games, like a few other people have posted, we leave it in for the next pot as a "bonus."

At the casino I play at, it's determined by the suits of the hole cards. Suit strength is reverse-alphabetical order: Spades (strongest), Hearts, Diamonds and Clubs (weakest). So, as a very basic example, if two players split the pot with AK in the hole to make a pair of Aces with one Ace on board, the Ace with the stronger suit gets the extra chip(s). If one player has the Ace of Hearts and the other has the Ace of Diamonds, the player with the Ace of Hearts gets the extra.

Just another way to split the pot for those interested.

[MasterShake]

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Who gets the extra chip in a split pot?

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The post above is probably the correct way to do it, but some people may not like that rule. In our home game, (after splitting it as small as it can get) we will just leave the remainder in the pot. It's sort of a "third blind" or just a bonus for the winner of the next pot. It's usually not a huge factor because that one chip is worth less than the big blind so nobody cares. Hope this helped.

Mark

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One home game I frequent does the same. I also go to a game where they flip a coin.

--MasterShake

[razor]

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In our home game, (after splitting it as small as it can get) we will just leave the remainder in the pot.

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This seems like a convenient, simple, efficient and suitably friendly solution... it's also entirely redonkulous!

yes the amount is trivial... but shouldn't someone who actually DESERVES it, get the chip?