Question About Splitting A Pot???

[Vino Guy]

I would like to know when a player splits the pot and when he dose not. For ex. two players left heads up. Player 1 has A-2 and player 2 has A-6. The board pairs A’s for both players. Player 1 has A’s with a 2 kicker and Player 2 has A’s with a 6 kicker. As I know it Player 2 with the bigger kicker wins the pot. But some times I have seen the two players split the pot and I would like to know when this happens, when having the bigger kicker is canceled out and the two players split the pot.

[JackAce]

If two players has low kickers it is very likely that they will not get used since the board contains higher cards.

[rayrns]

If the boards 5 cards are all higher than either of the players kickers they will split the pot. Example follows.
Player A: As-5d
Player B: Ad-3c
Board: Ah-Kh-Ts-8s-6c
As you can see the lowest card on the board is the 6c, which is still higher than Player A's 5d and Player B's 3c. This would cause a split pot.