Flush on the board

[aussiepokerfan]

I had my first home poker tourny last night and we had a problem with a ruling.

There was a flush on the board.

Player A said its a split pot because only the best 5 cards count
Player B said that the player with the highest hole card takes it who's right?

[Martini]

I had my first home poker tourny last night and we had a problem with a ruling.

There was a flush on the board.

Player A said its a split pot because only the best 5 cards count
Player B said that the player with the highest hole card takes it who's right?

Depends on the cards. It is a split pot if all cards on the board are higher than anyone's hole cards; otherwise, whoever has the highest hole card of the Flush suit wins the pot.

[William]

If the board is



And the players are holding and then it's a split pot. The doesn't play and neither does the pair of 9s.

If the players are holding and , then the player with wins since:


beats

[KPrather]

If the board is



And the players are holding and then it's a split pot. The doesn't play and neither does the pair of 9s.

If the players are holding and , then the player with wins since:


beats

Allow me to add:

If the board is  and the players have  and  , it is still a split pot, because the 5 hearts on board are higher than the player's 3 of hearts.

[aussiepokerfan]

thanks for that..

[jerrylane]

Could be possible for both the situations. Basically it depends on the cards. If both the players are having same ranking cards then they have to split the pot. But if one of the players having more ranking cards then he will have the winning amount.

[Nanook]

I could see a couple of people I've played with have trouble with this situation.

Board:   

Player 1: 
Player 2:   

Player 1 wins because the K is higher than the 6 even though player 2 has 7 hearts.

Best 5 cards play.

[William]

Board:  

Player 1:  
Player 2:  

Player 2 wins just because.

[Nerre]

Board:  

Player 1:  
Player 2:  

NOW player 2 wins!

[William]

I think you might wanna have another close look at the board in my example .

[Nerre]

Well, that tells why I like playing online:) Then you get help reading hands.

[cigarherb]

Or you get this situation

 

Player one has 

player two has 

In this situation it just gets crazy because they both play the  , and no one at the game really knows the rules.  And player two has a 45 and player one has a 22. PLayer two is a peaceful guy, but player one knows he is packing heavy and is not real familiar with the guy as they have only played a couple of times together. So player one is sweaten bullets while player two has his hand in his jacket. Then the tourney host walks up behind player two with two smokin hot naked hookers that amazingly cost half the pot each, so the two players agree that it is a split pot. But the next day player one post on here and learns that he should have had both hookers.

[holdemholmes]

lol....classic herb.