# Ace-low straight winner, or bug? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 21, 2010, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ace-low-straight-winner-or-bug/529823 "2010-02-21T00:39:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ace-low-straight-winner-or-bug/529823/1 "2010-02-21T00:39:54Z")
Hi, I’ve been playing lots of hold-em on a little tiny lcd hold-em toy my mom gave me a couple years ago and ran into a weird situation. I had 2-3-4-5-6 NS and my computer opponent had A-2-3-4-5 NS and the computer gave the hand to him. Are there any systems where A-2-3-4-5 would beat 2-3-4-5-6 or was this likely a bug in the programming (i.e. they look for the highest card to break straight ties, even if the ace was counting as a 1 at the time?) ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ace-low-straight-winner-or-bug/529823/2 "2010-02-21T00:57:49Z")
In Pai-gow poker\*, the wheel straight (A-2-3-4-5) is the second highest straight, next to the (A-K-Q-J-10) straight. In regular poker, the wheel straight is lowest straight, and it will lose to every other straight (except another wheel straight) \*At least it is the 2nd highest straight in every casino where I have played the game. Some casinos might have different house rules. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ace-low-straight-winner-or-bug/529823/3 "2010-02-23T12:58:02Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > was this likely a bug in the programming (i.e. they look for the highest card to break straight ties, even if the ace was counting as a 1 at the time?) Most probably this, given pai-gow poker (as mentioned above, which I know very little about) is much less popular than “regular” poker.