All In Payout

[BarryH]

Confusion arose the other day down the pub.

There are 3 players, A, B and C.

Player A has £10
Players B and C each have £5

All three are All In.

Players B and C have equal hands, each better than A

How much is in the pot, and how do they share it?

Do they both get £5 from A (ending up with £10 each and breaking A), or do they share £15 (giving each £7.50 and leaving A with £5)

Equally, what would happen if A nd B drew the pot?

Thanks for helping

Barry

[HalfSugar]

In any all-in scenario, the pot size is £15 because B and C can only contribute £5 each so A only has to contribute the same.

If Players B and C tie, they get £7.50 each and the stacks after the hand are A £5, B £7.50, C £7.50.

If Players A and B tie, they get £7.50 each and the stacks after the hand are A £12.50, B £7.50, C £nil.

[BarryH]

Dear Halfsugar

Ta for that. I not only get my £5 back, but I get 2 free pints, an apology, and a head start next Monday. Roll on the cards.

As I am a poker novice, which online site would you recomend to improve my game?

Barry

[HalfSugar]

Ta for that. I not only get my £5 back, but I get 2 free pints, an apology, and a head start next Monday. Roll on the cards.

Result Where abouts do you live that they run poker games in the pub for money? Round my way pub games are all free to enter and have no prizes, they just run a league which at the end gives out a prize. I thought UK law was such that this was the only way to run a pub game.

As I am a poker novice, which online site would you recomend to improve my game?

Anywhere really. Despite being based in the UK, I wouldn't necessarily say try a UK based site but if you want to, Victor Chandler Poker is probably the best and has plenty of players.

The biggest poker site on the Internet is PokerStars which routinely has over 200,000 players online at once. That is good as a novice because you will find lots of games at all different stakes so you are bound to find one that suits you. Plus, as with almost everywhere, you can play for free to start with to get used to the site.

Hit one of the PokerStars advertising banners here to get going with them.

[golddog]

As I am a poker novice, which online site would you recomend to improve my game?

Anywhere really. Despite being based in the UK, I wouldn't necessarily say try a UK based site but if you want to, Victor Chandler Poker is probably the best and has plenty of players.

The biggest poker site on the Internet is PokerStars which routinely has over 200,000 players online at once. That is good as a novice because you will find lots of games at all different stakes so you are bound to find one that suits you. Plus, as with almost everywhere, you can play for free to start with to get used to the site.

Hit one of the PokerStars advertising banners here to get going with them.

Note that HalfSugar completely failed to mention taxesholdem-poker.com...grrr...

[HalfSugar]

I read it as "where can I play online?". Oops

[golddog]

And, of course, I notice that I completely misspelled the URL... Sigh.