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While in high/low split poker games, generally the pot is split between two players equally, some exception occurs when one player has both the high and the low hand giving him the spoils of the whole pot. However, sometimes tied hands may happen either in high or low hand or both hands which would require further slitting of the pot in quarters or even lower fractions.

A common regulation of the card speak playing rule is that a player must qualify to play the low hand by having a specific hand value or better. So when a nine or better low game is being played, only those players who have a hand of 9 high or better, such as a hand of 8 high or 7 high, qualifies to play for the bottom half and stands the chance to win it. So even if a player has the lowest hand but his highest card is more than 9, he is not qualified to play and cannot win. If it turns out no player qualifies, then the high hand winning player scoops the entire pot. Though no such qualification is required to play the high hand, some variants like any pair/no pair rule needs a player’s hand to have at least one pair to win the high and no pair to win the low.

If players are dealt more than five cards, he can choose the best possible combination of 5-card hand separately to play for the high and the low game. This sometimes leads to overlapping, as in a 7-card stud poker game. So a player with 7, 7, 6, 4, 4, 3 and 2 cards can form his high hand with two pairs with 7, 7, 4, 4 and 6 cards and form his low hand of 7 high with 7, 6, 4, 3 and 2 cards.