In a hand of 5-card draw, only Smith and Jones remain.
Smith has:
Queen of hearts
Queen of diamonds
King of clubs
King of spades
Ace of diamonds
Jones has:
Queen of clubs
Queen of spades
King of hearts
King of diamonds
Ace of hearts
Do they split the pot?
Yep, it’d be 50-50.
I guess I should give more info. Only the rank matters when determining winning hands. Although the suits do have an order to them (Spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs from highest to lowest), they aren’t taken into account.
So, flushes (or straight flushes) of equal strength in different suits would also split?
So, flushes (or straight flushes) of equal strength in different suits would also split?
Yep.
Ranking of suits is a factor in bridge. It is meaningless in poker.
One final question, please. If the pot cannot be split evenly, who gets the extra dollar/penny/chip?
they go to a Hotel, and rent a room for $50 for 3 people…
Let it ride…
Yes, unless they have a Royal Fizzbin !
I’d leave the extra money in the pot for the next hand, if the player’s couldn’t agree to just give one or the other the money. Or else, draw high card for it, I suppose. The rank of suits is really meaningless in Poker, so that doesn’t come into play.
In encountering this very conundrum, my poker pals and I simply left it in the pot to be won on the next hand. I don’t know what the official rule is.
The rule on who gets the ‘odd’ chip varies. The most common rule is that it goes to the player closest to the dealer, starting from the dealer’s right. So if one of the players was in last position, he’d get it.
Sometimes it’s reversed, and the player who was in earliest position (i.e. the one who had to act first in the last round) gets the money.
That’s the case for hold’em games, where the position doesn’t change between rounds. In seven card stud and draw, where the position changes relative to the highest exposed card and not in comparison to the dealer’s position, I think it goes to the person who was first to act in the last round. But I don’t play a lot of 7-card stud these days, so don’t quote me on that.
What you’re hearing is mostly “house” rules, as opposed to any official set of rules. Im not sure there is any official set of codified poker rules that is viewed the world over as a final authority. So their can be multiple answers to the rules on some of the very fine points, like splitting the odd dollar on a split pot.