Beginner all-in question

[MattPerry]

Can someone answer the following:

I have 1000 chips and go all-in. Everyone drops except for one player who only has 200 chips and goes all in.
The player with the short stack wins the hand. He gets his 200 chips back plus 200 of my chips.
Do I get my 800 other chips back?

Thanks in Advance,
Matt

[Dave B]

yes

[jwrussell]

Yes. You can only win what you put in the pot. He only has 200 to put in, so he can only win, MAX, 200 from anyone else in the hand. Had there been someone else in the same pot who also had 1K chips it would have gone down like this (we'll assume for ease of math that it is all preflop):

You: All-in for 1K.
Player B with 1500, calls the 1K.
Player C with 200 calls all-in.

Main pot= 600 chips (200 from each of you)
Side pot=1600 chips (800 from you and Player B)

The board is dealt (flop, turn and river).

The side pot is decided first between you and Player B. Whoever has the best hand between the two of you takes the side pot of 1600 chips. After that, whoever won the side pot is matched against Player C's hand and whoever has the best of those two hands wins the main pot of 600 chips.

Also, in the case where betting continues past the creation of the side pot (in otherwords, everyone isn't all in) the players vying for the side pot turn over their cards FIRST. The all-in player keeps his face down until the side pot has been determined.

Hope I helped and didn't just confuse you more! :D

[MattPerry]

Thanks for the quick responses and information. A buddy of mine had tried to tell me that in that situation the 800 chips would remain in the pot for the next hand.
Again thanks for clearing that up for me.

Matt

[Nut Flush]

A buddy of mine had tried to tell me that in that situation the 800 chips would remain in the pot for the next hand.

lol, nice friend you got there :D

[wEbMaStEr]

Thanks for the quick responses and information. A buddy of mine had tried to tell me that in that situation the 800 chips would remain in the pot for the next hand.
Again thanks for clearing that up for me.

Matt

Laugh my big fat ass right off!!!

remind him of that next time you go all in heads up against him with the shorter stack.

what does he think would happen if you had won the pot? would you get your opponants 200 chips and then what? everyone at the table stumps up a kitty to match your other 800??

what an idiot!

man i'm glad there are idiots like that in the world, i presume you had the good sense to politely tell him to blow it out his ass?