Posted Fri Jul 09, 2004 10:55 am GMT by JBuckman
Hi, Im new to texas holdem poker and would like to know in a hand recently I had A,7 and was playing heads up against a guy who had A,6 on the board was a Q,9,8,3,A. So both of us had a pair of A's. I argued that i should win the hand because I had the higher kicker card (7)!! The guy I was playing against said that the pot is split because there are higher community cards?? Can someone clear this up! coz i thought i should win the pot and not split it???
Thanks
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Posted Fri Jul 09, 2004 10:59 am GMT by ballbp
Your friend was right. Both of your hands were A A Q 9 8. Best 5 card hand using ALL 7 cards.
Posted Fri Jul 09, 2004 11:12 am GMT by Replic
Rule of thumb: best 5 card hand. We get 90 billion gazillion posts a day asking the same question. BEST 5 card hand, it includes kickers from the community card. For instance, this hand actually happened on the WPT
1: A10
2: KK
Flop
772
Turn
7
River
7
The KK lost only because the single ace was higher. And yea, he slow played it way too long.
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