Poker Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
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How Winners Are Determined in High-Low Poker
How Winners Are Determined in High-Low Texas Hold'em Poker A winner in High-Low Texas Hold'em Poker games is determined as follows: 1. When playing High-Low Texas Hold'em Poker variations, the player holding the highest-ranking hand, provided he has declared for high, and the player holding the lowest-ranking hand, provided he has declared for low, share the pot equally. 2. If a player declares his hand incorrectly, he may correct the error if no other player after him has declared as yet; otherwise the declaration stands. 3. The rank of a low hand is inverse to the rank of a high hand. If the hand contains less than a pair its determinant is its highest-ranking card; if two players are tied as to highest-ranking card, the next highest-ranking card decides the winner, etc. 4. When a player announces for low, he no longer has any interest in high. 5. When a player announces for high, he no longer has any interest in low. 6. When a player announces high and low both, he must win both high and low to collect the pot. Should he lose either way or tie for either high or low, he loses the entire pot. 7. If the high-low declarant loses or ties in one direction but wins in the other, the player defeating him is awarded the entire pot.
If two or more players are tied for low,
If two or more players are tied for low, half the pot is equally divided among the winners tied for low. The other half of the pot goes to the winner, or winners, with the high hand. If there is an indivisible amount left over and a lone player has bid either high or low, he gets it. Otherwise, it goes into the next pot. 9. If there are two or more players in at the showdown and they all declare high, the highest of the hands takes the entire pot. If they all declare low, the lowest of the hands takes the pot. 10. If there are two or more high-low declarants at the showdown and each of the high-low declarants loses or ties in one direction, but neither high or low is won or tied by a one-way declarant, the pot is divided by the high-low declarants as in Cards Speak, which follows.