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04-22-2012 , 03:56 PM
Hi.

I have just started with poker and so for now i play only with "play money".
But what I still don't understand much is how "side pot" works.

For example here in this game we where 4 in game with different pre-flop "All ins" and I don't know why "armandsan wins the side pot" and got some money back while I with better pairs didn't got anything? (my nick is bzgzd and i had Ah Ac)

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Dealer: xsaturnine is the dealer 
Dealer: Starting a new hand (#21123631) 
Dealer: nanakaza posts Small Blind 1 
Dealer: armandsan posts Big Blind 2 
Dealer: Dealing cards 
Dealer: Your cards Ah Ac 
Dealer: Novellist folds 
Dealer: bzgzd raises to 7 
Dealer: TTR146113452 folds 
Dealer: xsaturnine raises to 12 
Dealer: nanakaza calls 11 
Dealer: armandsan calls 10 
Dealer: bzgzd raises to 60 
Dealer: xsaturnine goes All-in 31 
Dealer: nanakaza calls 48 
Dealer: armandsan raises to 1,547.09 
Dealer: bzgzd goes All-in 231 
Dealer: nanakaza goes All-in 764.43 
Dealer: Dealing Flop
6s 9s 2s 
Dealer: Dealing Turn
6s 9s 2s Jd 
Dealer: Dealing River
6s 9s 2s Jd 2c 
Dealer: armandsan shows Two Pair
 
Dealer: xsaturnine shows Full house
 
Dealer: nanakaza shows Flush
 
Dealer: bzgzd shows Two Pair
 
Dealer: Game #21123631: xsaturnine wins the main pot (169) with Full house - 2s 2c 9h 9s 9c 
Dealer: Game #21123631: armandsan wins the side pot (722.66) with Two Pair - 2s 2c 5d 5c Jd 
Dealer: Game #21123631: 722.66 returned to armandsan 
Dealer: Game #21123631: nanakaza wins the side pot (1,810.86) with Flush - 2s 5s 6s 7s 9s 
Dealer: nanakaza is the dealer 
Dealer: Starting a new hand (#21123752)
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04-22-2012 , 05:00 PM
He just had the person covered that had the 2nd most chips. He didnt "win" the side pot so much as he got a refund.
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04-22-2012 , 05:30 PM
All your money went to nanakaza because a flush beats two pair.
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04-23-2012 , 06:15 AM
You had chips in the main pot and in the side pot that the flush won. You didn't have any chips in any of the other side pots.

Armandsan won the "uncontested" side pot - ie, the one that only he had put chips into. To make things clearer it should be listed at the end of the payouts imo - or just as "returned to" without the "wins the sidepot" line.

Last edited by gothninja; 04-23-2012 at 06:21 AM.
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04-24-2012 , 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by gothninja
You had chips in the main pot and in the side pot that the flush won. You didn't have any chips in any of the other side pots.

Armandsan won the "uncontested" side pot - ie, the one that only he had put chips into. To make things clearer it should be listed at the end of the payouts imo - or just as "returned to" without the "wins the sidepot" line.
Thanks, I think i understand it now... so armandsan actually didn't won anything he just put in pot so much money that after loosing maximum what he could loose he got some remaining money back.

So if I would have same amount of money as he had, I would won from him what he now got returned (and i would loose some more to flush player)...
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04-24-2012 , 08:57 PM
Correct
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04-25-2012 , 06:42 AM
you got it ! :P
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