Specific Question to a Situation

Hey all,

Relatively new to poker and play for the fun of it have a group of people together at my house and we play weekly.

Ran into a situation last Sat night and not sure what the rules say, so here goes:

The games Texas Hol em - showdown
Community cards: 8910JQ (straight for all)
Two Players in show down:

Player 1: 88
Plaser 2: KK

Who wins? Obviously both players claim the comunity - straight. So the the individual hands are compared. Player 1 is claiming three-of a-kind with the his pair of 8s and the comunity 8. Can he do that?

Player 2 complains that the comunity cards have been "used" for the straight and cannot be used/claimed again for the 3-of-a kind. In this case player 2 wins. If this is not true then player 1 wins.

Help please, we couldn't work it out, neither was the mood dandy between these players there off.

Thanks in advance.

-Jeen

The straight will win over the 3 of a kind 8's ...this will help you out alittle
http://www.partypoker.com/how_to_pla..._of_hands.html
There is also information on how to play. Goodluck in future games.

The combination of the highest five cards from hole and community cards wins.

here:
Player 1: a straight - Queen high
(hole cards unused)

Player two: a straight King high

( unused )


Obviously player 2 wins.

note: If player two didn't have the King it would have been a SPLIT-POT since both players would have showed a straight Q high.

Hey all,

Thanks for your replies; sorry I a made a mistake, correct in this scenario as I stated king high straight wins.

Okay the situation really though was - that the straight was 56789

and player a) KK
player b) 77

Sorry about that who wins like this: both have the same straight, on comparing hand, can player b) utlise the common cards to call a 777?

Thanks so much!

on a 56789 board with 2 players heads up holding 77 and KK, they split the pot as they are both playing the entire board to make THEIR best 5 card hand, which in this case is the exact same hand therefore split.

I'm sure the player holding KK would be more than happy to let the player holding 77 claim his set. After all, the straight on the board would beat the set, so the player with 77 would lose. The actual result (as SAH89 said) is a split, where the pot is divided evenly between both players.

I ran into a similar situation at a home tournament once. I was head's up at the end, and we had a hand that was something like this:

Hero: A8
Villan: AJ
Board: AQ776

He wanted to claim the whole pot because he had a 'better kicker'. It took me about five minutes of explaining that his J didn't play before he agreed to split the pot, and he still didn't seem convinced.