Poker split I
Generally poker games are played with the concept that the winner takes all. However, sometimes the pot needs to be shared among more than one players, sometimes several players get a share of the pot, and this pot splitting takes place in games where players end up in a tie or in game variants played as high/low split, in which case the equally divided pot goes to the players who have the highest and the lowest hands in the game. An exception will be when the same player has both the highest and the lowest hand and he is said to have scooped the entire pot and here splitting does not take place.
The process of splitting the pot is interesting. One player takes all the chips out from the pot using both his hands and make a stack of them by piling it on the game table. The chip stacks are now placed next to one another and compared according to their denomination. If equal stacks have been formed, the arrangement is kept aside. If the pot contains an assortment of chips, with mixed vales, then the chips of highest values are formed into stack first, followed by the chips of subsequently lower values. In case while forming the chip stack of high denomination, it is found that they cannot be evenly matched, then some chips of lower value are used to make the stacks equal in value. This process of splitting the pot by sharing all chips equally continues until all the chips, from the highest up to the lowest denomination down have been done. In case the split is not between just two players, but among three or more, this process of splitting is followed. If any odd chips are left over, then it is determined by following any one of several possible rules which one of the winners get the award of that extra chip.
