Texas Hold Em Question (1 Viewer)

[Andres Munoz]

Hi guys. I have a question about a particular hand in Texas Hold Em. I was playing with a couple of friends and there was controversy about the following:

Cards on the table

A, 10, 5, 4, 7

Friend 1:
10, 9

Friend 2:
10, J

Both of them have a pair (2 10's). The controversy is in the tie breaker.
Friend 2 says he won because the tie breaker is the other card that each player has, which in this case, friend 2 has the highest (J).

Friend 1 says that friend 2's other card (J) does not beat the highest card on the table (A) and therefore, there is a draw and both players should split the pot.

For those of you that have more experience in this, what are the rules in this case?

Thank you in advance.

 

[Bill Cowmeadow]

The top 5 cards are what count, it don't matter where they are. the remainder cards are dead.

10, 10, A, J, 7 wins

 

[Mark Klaus]

Both players make their best 5 card hand, in this case:

Player 1: 10 10 A 9 7

Player 2: 10 10 A J 7

Player 2 gets the pot.

 

[Patrick Sun]

You play the best 5 cards from each player's hand, so friend 2's J is in play because his hand is 10 10 A J 7, while friend 1's hand is 10 10 A 9 7. The J in friend 2's hand is the higher kicker in this case and nets him the pot.

 

[Malcolm R]

Yep, as noted above, Player 2 is the winner since after the 10-10-A, their J beats everything else on the table.

 

[Dave_Brown]

Sounds like this was a start up game or something? That is a pretty simple scenario actually, and if Friend 1 was that far off, the only reason I'd invite him back was for easy money.

 

[Andy_Bu]

Agreed with every one else.

It is actually the most basic concept of Texas Holdem. Make your best 5 card hand from ANY of the 7 cards.

Next time before you start a game, if you have some rookies, either send email or go over the rules before the game starts to avoid a situation like this.


Andy

 

[Carl Johnson]

About a year ago a coworker of mine invited me to a holdem party that he was hosting. I was vaguely familiar with the game having played at partypoker.net but had never used real cards, much less real money. There was one hand in particular where I had a flush and another guy had a straight, and I figured out that I won the hand based on his reaction to the cards that I laid on the table
There were sixteen guys playing in that tourney and somehow I managed to win the thing.

 

[Andres Munoz]

Actually, the 2 friends in question were the ones with the most experience out of the 5 that were playing. This was just my 2nd game playing with real cards and real money so I wasn't of much help when they were trying to decide who won.

Thank you all for your replies. I have a better understanding now and I'll definately forward this info to my friends so that they can stop arguing.

 

[Mark Giles]

Sounds like they were tryin to pull a fast one on the other one..... I would go to play some games online for play money just to get better customed to the game.

Start with 5 card stud. Everything else is based off of that anyway.


Oh, and maybe the one with the 9 had a suited hand or something! Hahaha! Reminds me of the opening scenes of Ocean 11. All Red!!!

 

[Andres Munoz]

. Nah. I wasn't involved in the game when that happened. I was just a spectator.