Split Pot Question???

[GMFlash01]

I remember this scenario from my last trip to a card room and am still confused by the results. Here is the situation:

Four players are in a LHE pot, players A, B, C, D. During the turn betting player C is moved all in, and a side pot is created between the remaining players.

At the showdown, Players A and D show the same hand and tie for the side pot and main pot. While the dealer is cutting up both pots, there is a extra chip in each pot. The dealer then gives BOTH extra chips to player A since he is to the left of the dealer.

Is this the rule for all casinos? If it really a split pot why are all of the chips not combined and then split equally leaving each player the same amount of chips?

Honestly it's only 1 chip and not a very big deal. Just wondering if anyone else has ever had an experience like this?

[Photoc]

This is normal. Each pot is decided sent out individually. If one player happens to get one extra chip from each pot, then that's the way it happens.

[Annorax]

This is normal for H/L split games, but I've seen some houses that had rules requiring LHE split pots to be split as evenly as possible, alternating who gets the odd chip in situations with multiple split sidepots.

[youtalkfunny]

Interesting odd-chip story, not worth of its own thread, so I'll stick it here:

I'm running an O/8 tourney, and I get called to the table.

The BB is all-in for one chip. The SB and another player played for the side pot. SB made nut-nut, and scooped the side pot.

There were three chips in the main pot. BB turned up the nut low, sighing with relieve that he had survived his all-in.

When all three chips were awarded to the SB, he went nuts, insisting that "that can't possibly be right!"

It was. Holding the nuts at the showdown was not enough to avoid elimination from the tournament.

[pokerswami]

I don't know how to handle this but, 1/4th of 3 chips is 3/4ths of a chip. Shouldn't the BB have gotten 1 chip?

How exactly is the math done?

I remember reading in Robert's Rules of Poker or the TDA rules that a player could not be eliminated from a tournament due to his last chip being lost in a chip race done to color up chips. This seems analagous. I'll have to look at some rules.

edited to add:

from Robert's Rules of Poker:
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5. If two or more hands tie, an odd chip will be awarded as follows:
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(a) In a button game, the first hand clockwise from the button gets the odd chip.
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(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.)
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(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.
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(d) All side pots and the main pot will be split as separate pots, not mixed together.


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So, yes, the high hand got the extra chip, then the one remaning chip went to the first tied low hand to the left of the button.

[Andy B]

Pot gets split in half. High hand gets the odd chip. That's two chips to the small blind and one to the low half of the pot. The low half gets split with the odd chip going to the player closest to the button's left. There is only the odd chip, so the small blind gets that one too.

I do think, however, that just as a player can't bust out in a chip race-off, he shouldn't bust out on a hand in which he "won." I would have given one chip to the big blind.