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dwstern
Rising Star
Bronze Level
Hello - first time poster here, so please go easy. I want to ask who should have come third in this tournament, and why, and can you reference a source for the ruling please?
Context: I hosted my first home poker tournament a couple of weeks ago, as a fun social game for friends. NLHE freeze-out tournament, 9 players each buying in for £5, everyone got a 1000 chip starting stack. The top three places paid out, which is where I am looking for the correct ruling and the source.
In the last hand played (by which stage I had gone out, fortunately, and could just be ‘dealer’), four remaining players had:
A: 5,000 chips
B: 2,000 chips
C: 1,500 chips
D: 500 chips
They all went all-in (thanks guys), so if I had it right, this made the main pot and two side pots as follows:
Main (all four players): 500 each for a total of 2,000 chips
First side-pot (A B and C): 1000 each for a total of 3,000 chips
Second side-pot (A and B): another 500 each for 1,000 chips
(Plus player A had another 3,000 chips not in play)
At showdown their hands ranked from best to worst D, A, C, B.
Player D won the main pot and collected her 2,000.
Player A won the other two pots, and collected the remaining 4,000 on the table, making their stack 7,000.
Assuming I haven’t messed up too badly so far, we just went from four players to two. A and D are still in the game (they actually settled at this point), so deciding first and place was simple.
In the moment, not recalling a rule that would apply in this situation, I awarded player C third place because she had the better hand when B and C both went bust.
Since the game, I’ve read some posts which seem to say player B, with 2,000 before he pushed all-in should have beaten player C, with her 1,500 pushed, due to his larger stack before the hand. But none of these posts give a source or principal that applies.
Did I get that call wrong, and if so, please would you point me towards a source which explains how to award places when two or more players go bust in the same hand?
(See, you might get a chance to tell a stranger they were wrong, and if there’s anything the internet loves, surely this is it...! 😀 )
Cheers!
Context: I hosted my first home poker tournament a couple of weeks ago, as a fun social game for friends. NLHE freeze-out tournament, 9 players each buying in for £5, everyone got a 1000 chip starting stack. The top three places paid out, which is where I am looking for the correct ruling and the source.
In the last hand played (by which stage I had gone out, fortunately, and could just be ‘dealer’), four remaining players had:
A: 5,000 chips
B: 2,000 chips
C: 1,500 chips
D: 500 chips
They all went all-in (thanks guys), so if I had it right, this made the main pot and two side pots as follows:
Main (all four players): 500 each for a total of 2,000 chips
First side-pot (A B and C): 1000 each for a total of 3,000 chips
Second side-pot (A and B): another 500 each for 1,000 chips
(Plus player A had another 3,000 chips not in play)
At showdown their hands ranked from best to worst D, A, C, B.
Player D won the main pot and collected her 2,000.
Player A won the other two pots, and collected the remaining 4,000 on the table, making their stack 7,000.
Assuming I haven’t messed up too badly so far, we just went from four players to two. A and D are still in the game (they actually settled at this point), so deciding first and place was simple.
In the moment, not recalling a rule that would apply in this situation, I awarded player C third place because she had the better hand when B and C both went bust.
Since the game, I’ve read some posts which seem to say player B, with 2,000 before he pushed all-in should have beaten player C, with her 1,500 pushed, due to his larger stack before the hand. But none of these posts give a source or principal that applies.
Did I get that call wrong, and if so, please would you point me towards a source which explains how to award places when two or more players go bust in the same hand?
(See, you might get a chance to tell a stranger they were wrong, and if there’s anything the internet loves, surely this is it...! 😀 )
Cheers!
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