Atlassino Academy · Poker in the room · Lesson 5
The showdown: kickers and split pots
At the showdown the cards decide: the highest five of seven, the kicker when combinations match, a split when everything matches, and a side pot when one player runs out of chips.
The last card is out, and two players turn their cards face up. Both have a pair of queens. Who takes the pot?
The short answer
The player whose highest card outside the pair of queens is higher. At the showdown, the moment the players still in the hand show their cards, each hand is read as its highest five cards out of seven: the two cards in the hand and the five shared cards face up on the table, called the board. When two hands hold the same combination, the cards outside the combination are compared one by one, highest first, and the first one that differs decides; that card is called the kicker. When all five cards match, the pot is split equally.
The board
Player Apair of queens
In the hand
The five cards that play
Kicker: the J♣
Player Bpair of queens
In the hand
The five cards that play
Kicker: the 10♥
The pair of queens and the last two cards of the five are the same in both hands; only the first card outside the pair differs, and that card decides. The amounts on this page are examples, not a suggested stake. Amounts are in betting units, not pesos: a unit can stand for any amount, and the arithmetic is the same at any scale.
Leoformer dealer · rules and maths
I dealt hold’em for years, and the showdown was the part of the hand I read slowest. Players turn their cards over in a hurry, somebody says a word, and the pot wants to go somewhere before anyone has looked properly.
So I laid every hand out the same way: the five cards that play face up, the two that do not pulled back. Lay a hand out like that, and you can see exactly which card decided it.
Both cards up, and the cards speak
When the last round of betting is over and more than one player is still in the hand, the players still in show their cards. In Buenos Aires Province, a player must show both cards face up on the table to take the pot or a share of it, unless every other player has folded.
The seven cards Player A can use. Face up: Q♠ Q♥ J♣ 9♦ 6♣. Pulled down: 4♥ 2♠.
Player A from the picture above, with the five cards that make the hand face up and the two that do not play pulled down.
The cards decide what a hand is, not what a player says about it. At Buenos Aires City (CABA), when the croupier announces a hand wrongly, the cards speak for themselves and the combination on the table counts; in Buenos Aires Province, what a player says about a hand is not valid until the dealer has checked it, and a player who calls a hand wrongly to the harm of another player loses the pot. The player who made the last bet turns the hand over first, or, when nobody bet on the last round, the first player still in to the left of the button; the others may then show their hands or fold. Where your room sets no such order, wait for the dealer, then turn both cards face up and let the dealer read them.
- In CABAThe players still in turn their cards over, starting with the player who made the last bet; the others may show their cards or fold when their turn comes.
- In PBATo take the pot or a share of it, a player must show both cards face up on the table. The last player to bet or raise shows first, and the players after that decide whether to show.
- In CórdobaWhen every other player has folded, nobody shows: the winner decides whether to show the hand.
Each rule is the one its own publisher prints, and the rooms differ.
When the combinations are equal, the kicker decides
Two hands can hold the same combination, such as the same pair of eights made with a pair on the board. Then the cards outside the combination are compared, highest first, and the first one that differs decides. That deciding card is called the kicker.
| What is compared | Player A | Player B | The comparison |
|---|---|---|---|
| The pair | 8♦ 8♣ | 8♦ 8♣ | the same rank |
| First card outside the pair | A♠ | A♠ | the same rank |
| Second card outside the pair | K♣ | K♥ | the same rank |
| Third card outside the pair | 7♦ | 6♠ | Player A’s is higher: this card decides |
The pair is the same, and so are the first two cards outside the pair; the third card outside the pair, the 7♦ against the 6♠, decides for Player A.
How many cards outside the combination can decide depends on the kind of hand. A straight, a flush, a full house and a straight flush leave nothing outside the combination, because all five cards belong to the hand itself. The order of the kinds of hand, from a royal flush down to no pair, is lesson 7.1.
| The kind of hand | Compared first | Then, outside the combination |
|---|---|---|
| No pair | the highest card | the next four cards, one by one |
| A pair | the pair | up to three cards, one by one |
| Two pair | the higher pair, then the lower pair | one card |
| Three of a kind | the three cards | up to two cards, one by one |
| Four of a kind | the four cards | one card |
| A straight, a flush, a full house or a straight flush | the five cards themselves | none: all five cards are the hand |
A card outside the five never counts, however high: the comparison stops at five cards.
When the board plays, and when the pot is split
Each player makes the highest five-card hand out of seven cards, in any mix: both cards from the hand with three from the board, one card with four, or neither card and all five board cards. When neither card in a hand improves the five on the board, the board plays: that player’s hand is the board itself.
The board
Player Astraight to the nine
In the hand
The five cards that play
The board plays
Player Bstraight to the nine
In the hand
The five cards that play
The board plays
Player Cstraight to the ten
In the hand
The five cards that play
The 10♥ plays
Player A and Player B both play the board, straight to the nine. Player C’s 10♥ makes straight to the ten, and Player C takes the pot; without Player C, Player A and Player B would hold the same five cards and split the pot.
Equal five-card hands share the pot evenly. No suit ranks above another, so suits never break a tie.
The board
Player Apair of kings
In the hand
The five cards that play
The A♣ plays; the 3♦ does not
Player Bpair of kings
In the hand
The five cards that play
The A♥ plays; the 2♣ does not
Both players play A♣ K♠ K♦ Q♣ J♥: the ace in each hand plays, and the low card beside the ace never does.
Short of chips: the main pot and the side pot
In Buenos Aires City (CABA) and in Buenos Aires Province, a hand is played with the chips that were on the table when it began: chips are bought between hands, never added to a stack in the middle of one. A player who faces a bet larger than the chips in front of them may play for those chips alone, and that player is then all in, with every chip on the table in the pot.
| Player | Put in | Into the main pot | Into the side pot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Player A, all in | 30 units | 30 units | nothing |
| Player B | 90 units | 30 units | 60 units |
| Player C | 90 units | 30 units | 60 units |
| Player D | 90 units | 30 units | 60 units |
| The pots | 300 units | 120 units | 180 units |
Every player still in puts Player A’s 30 units into the main pot; what Player B, Player C and Player D put in beyond that makes the side pot.
In Buenos Aires City (CABA), the part of a bet that nobody can match goes back to the player who made the bet, and the bets that other players match after a short stack has gone all in form a side pot among those players. The player who went all in takes part only in the first pot, and a hand can have as many side pots as it needs.
The main pot: 120 units
Goes to the highest hand among Player A, Player B, Player C and Player D
The side pot: 180 units
Goes to the highest hand among Player B, Player C and Player D
If Player A holds the highest hand at the table, Player A takes the main pot, and the highest hand of the other three takes the side pot. If one of the other three holds the highest hand, that player takes both pots.
Poker in a room is played against the other players, not against the house: the room deals, and takes a fee from the pots called the rake. Both pots here are shown before that fee. Counted together, the players at a table pay every fee the room takes out of the pots.
Mayaformer floor supervisor · manners, money and breaks
A pot pushed the other way is not a verdict on your play. Over a handful of hands the cards decide far more than anyone at the table does, and a hand you read perfectly can still go to somebody else.
The chips in front of you when a hand begins are the most that hand can cost you, which makes the money you bring to the table the one amount you choose. Choose it at home, and treat the evening the way the table treats a hand: once those chips are gone, nothing more comes out of your pocket.
If it stops being fun
If gambling stops being entertainment, help is available. Minimum entry age: each province sets its own. Where we found the rule or regulator that sets it, we cite it on the page; those we found set it at 18. More on responsible gaming.
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Practice: read the showdown
Every showdown in the practice run is a board and two to four hands, face up. Level 1 is two hands where one is plainly higher; level 2 is the same combination in two hands, decided by a kicker; level 3 is equal hands and the board playing; level 4 is four hands with one player all in, and two pots to share out. On levels 1 and 2, each answer names the player and the five cards that player plays; on levels 3 and 4, it names who takes each pot.
Nothing is bet here. The pots are example amounts.
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Level 2 · Kickers
The board
Player A
Player B
The pot: 60 units, an example pot
The cards are face up. Who takes the pot, and which five cards does that hand play?
- Player B takes the pot, playing K♦ Q♠ Q♥ 9♦ 6♥ Player B holds the same pair as well, but the first card outside the combination is the K♦, against the A♥.
- The pot is split between Player A and Player B The same combination is not yet a split: the cards outside the combination are compared one by one, and the pot is split only when all five cards match. Here the first card outside the combination differs.
- Player A takes the pot, playing A♥ Q♠ Q♥ 9♦ 8♠ Both hands hold the same pair, so the cards outside the combination are compared, highest first: the first of them is Player A’s A♥ against Player B’s K♦. That card is the kicker, and Player A plays A♥ Q♠ Q♥ 9♦ 8♠.
Each hand is read as its highest five cards out of seven. Player A: A♥ Q♠ Q♥ 9♦ 8♠, pair of queens. Player B: K♦ Q♠ Q♥ 9♦ 6♥, pair of queens. A card outside the five never counts.
Every showdown in the practice run is read the same way: each hand as its highest five cards out of seven, compared card by card, and every pot goes to the highest hand among the players who put chips into it.
How the practice run works
Where the showdowns come from. Every showdown is dealt from a shuffled deck with a fixed seed and kept only when it shows the point of its level. The answer is worked out when the page is built: each hand is read as its highest five cards out of seven, the hands are compared card by card, and each pot goes to the highest hand among the players who put chips into it. The wrong answers are named mistakes, such as the lower hand, a kicker missed, the board read as playing when it does not, a card outside the five, a suit, the whole of both pots to the player who is all in, or a side pot shared out in equal parts.
One strip, and no rounds. Every square on the strip is one showdown of this lesson, and all of the squares are there from the start. Your first answer fills the square it belongs to; when the squares of one level are full, the next level begins by itself, with no button in between. Practising a showdown you got wrong turns its cross into “fixed in practice” and does not change the count, because only first answers count.
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Check yourself
Mayaformer floor supervisor · manners, money and breaks
Three quick ones. Pick an answer, then check it. No timer, no points: just whether it stuck.
Back to the question we opened with. When both players hold a pair of queens, the player whose highest card outside the pair is higher takes the pot; when every card of the five matches, the pot is split evenly.
Poker rooms and further reading
18+ under each province’s rules · Play responsibly · the helplines are further up this page
Further reading
- Resolución 40/2009: Reglamento del póker descubierto, variante Texas Hold’em · Lotería Nacional Sociedad del EstadoThe national lottery’s Texas Hold’em rules for Casino Buenos Aires: the house may keep up to 5 % of every pot.
- Resolución 1452/12, Anexo I: Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game (Reglamento del Juego) · Instituto Provincial de Lotería y Casinos de la Provincia de Buenos AiresThe Buenos Aires province cash-game rules: the seat fee, blinds, rounds and chips.
- Reglamento del Poker Texas Hold’em · Lotería de Córdoba S.E.Córdoba’s short Texas Hold’em rules.
How it’s worked out
Rules, numbers, sources and hosts
Where this happens. Every hand on this page is hold’em at a table in a poker room you can walk into. Each rule is named with the place that prints it: the Texas Hold’em regulation of the national lottery for Casino Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires City (CABA)), the cash-game rules of the Buenos Aires province lottery (Buenos Aires Province) and the short regulation of the Córdoba lottery. Your room may run things differently, and the dealer or the floor can tell you how.
Numbers. Every hand is read by our hold’em engine, which builds each hand’s highest five cards out of seven and compares hands card by card; the pots are worked out from what each player put in. The practice deals come from a seeded shuffle. Every amount is an example. Every figure carries a machine-readable key and is recomputed by the same engine on every build.
What is deliberately absent. The order of the hands and how rare each one is are lesson 7.1. How the betting goes, and when a short all-in bet lets other players raise again, is lesson 7.2. The room, the waiting list and the buy-in are lesson 7.3. Showing your cards to one player, protecting your hand and asking for a ruling when a hand is misread are lesson 7.4. How far ahead a hand is before the flop is lesson 7.6, and the strongest hand a board allows is lesson 7.9. A chip that cannot be split goes to the winner seated closest to the left of the button. No split pot on this page needs it: every one of them divides into equal whole amounts.
Words. The rules we read compare the cards outside the combination without giving the deciding card a name; kicker is the word players use, and the word this page uses.
Sources. Every claim on this page carries a button with the sentence it rests on, the publisher who wrote that sentence and the date we read it.
Hosts. Leo and Maya are illustrated characters. Their backstories, a former dealer and a former floor supervisor, are written for the course: neither is a real person, and neither speaks for any casino. The rules and numbers on this page come from the sources it cites, not from their experience.
No promise. Poker in a room is played against the other players, and the room takes its fee from the pots. Reading a showdown correctly tells you who takes a pot; nothing on this page is a way to earn money at poker, and nothing here says how an evening at a table would end.
When the combinations are equal
Poker: Se definirá por la combinación de las cuatro cartas más alta, de existir empate, por la 5º carta más alta.Free translation: Four of a kind: It is decided by the highest four-card combination; if there is a tie, by the 5th highest card.
Trío: Se definirá por la combinación de cartas más alta, de existir empate, por la 4º carta más alta, de persistir, por la 5º carta más alta.Free translation: Three of a kind: It is decided by the highest combination of cards; if there is a tie, by the 4th highest card; if it persists, by the 5th highest card.
Par Simple: Se definirá por el par más alto, de ser igual, se definirá por la 3º, 4º o 5º carta más alta.Free translation: One pair: It is decided by the highest pair; if they are equal, it is decided by the 3rd, 4th or 5th highest card.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
Igualdad de Par Simple: La mano se define por el valor de los naipes que componen el Par, de subsistir la igualdad se compararán los naipes siguientes en forma decreciente por valor.Free translation: Tie between one pair hands: The hand is decided by the value of the cards that make up the Pair; if the tie remains, the following cards are compared in decreasing order of value.
Igualdad de Piernas: La mano se define por el valor de los naipes que componen la Pierna; de subsistir la igualdad se compararán los naipes siguientes en forma decreciente por valor.Free translation: Tie between three of a kind hands: The hand is decided by the value of the cards that make up the Three of a kind; if the tie remains, the following cards are compared in decreasing order of value.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
Table stakes and side pots
Ir por el resto: Cuando un jugador toma la iniciativa de apostar todo su resto.Free translation: Going for the rest: When a player takes the initiative to bet all of his remaining chips.
Ir restado: Cuando un jugador no teniendo suficiente dinero en la mesa para cubrir una apuesta, juega la parte proporcional que su resto alcance.Free translation: Going short: When a player who does not have enough money on the table to cover a bet plays the proportional part that his remaining chips reach.
En todos los casos que el jugador apueste su resto (all-in) deberá anunciarlo a viva voz.Free translation: In all cases in which a player bets his remaining chips (all-in), he must announce it out loud.
Pot Adicional: Desde el momento que un jugador no puede cubrir la totalidad de una apuesta y juega por su resto, el siguiente jugador podrá cubrir, apostar o retirarse.Free translation: Additional Pot: From the moment a player cannot cover the whole of a bet and plays for his remaining chips, the next player may call, bet or fold.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
Cards speak
Si el Croupier anuncia una mano de modo equivocado, se considera que las cartas hablan por sí mismas, y se tiene en cuenta la combinación de cartas existente sobre la mesa.Free translation: If the Croupier announces a hand incorrectly, the cards are considered to speak for themselves, and the combination of cards on the table is taken into account.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
Both cards at the showdown
Para ganar el pozo o una fracción de éste, el Apostador debe mostrar sus dos naipes cara arriba sobre la mesa, excepto que todos los demás Apostadores se hayan retirado.Free translation: To win the pot or a share of it, the Bettor must show his two cards face up on the table, unless all the other Bettors have folded.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
Cards speak
Si el Croupier anuncia una mano de modo equivocado, se considera que las cartas hablan por sí mismas, y se tiene en cuenta la combinación de cartas existente sobre la mesa.Free translation: If the Croupier announces a hand incorrectly, the cards are considered to speak for themselves, and the combination of cards on the table is taken into account.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
A misread hand
Las declaraciones verbales de los Apostadores sobre el contenido de una mano, no serán válidas hasta la verificación dada por el Tallador.Free translation: Verbal declarations by Bettors about the contents of a hand will not be valid until verified by the Dealer.
Las naipes se leen por si solos, pero los Apostadores son responsables de mantener sus naipes hasta que se declare un ganador.Free translation: The cards read for themselves, but Bettors are responsible for keeping their cards until a winner is declared.
Cuando un apostador cante una mano de manera incorrecta perjudicando a otro Apostador será penalizado con el decomiso del pozo.Free translation: When a bettor calls a hand incorrectly to the detriment of another Bettor, he will be penalized with forfeiture of the pot.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
Who shows first
En caso que no se haya realizado ninguna apuesta, será el primer jugador activo a la izquierda del botón quien mostrará las cartas. Los demás jugadores tendrán la opción, a su turno, de mostrar sus cartas o retirarse.Free translation: If no bet has been made, the first active player to the left of the button shall show his cards. The other players will have the option, in turn, of showing their cards or folding.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
El primer Apostador que deberá bajar su juego será el último en apostar o aumentar.Free translation: The first Bettor who must show his hand will be the last one to bet or raise.
Deberá obligatoriamente mostrar su juego, y los Apostadores siguientes podrán decidir si lo muestran o no.Free translation: He must show his hand, and the following Bettors may decide whether or not to show theirs.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
Si un jugador gana el pozo por defecto, esto significa que el resto ha tirado las cartas; en consecuencia no se muestran los naipes y el ganador decide si enseña su jugada o no.Free translation: If a player wins the pot by default, this means the rest have thrown in their cards; consequently the cards are not shown and the winner decides whether or not to show his hand.
Lotería de Córdoba S.E. (portal) · Reglamento del Poker Texas Hold'em · read
Who shows first, and who keeps the cards hidden
En caso que no se haya realizado ninguna apuesta, será el primer jugador activo a la izquierda del botón quien mostrará las cartas. Los demás jugadores tendrán la opción, a su turno, de mostrar sus cartas o retirarse.Free translation: If no bet has been made, the first active player to the left of the button shall show his cards. The other players will have the option, in turn, of showing their cards or folding.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
El primer Apostador que deberá bajar su juego será el último en apostar o aumentar.Free translation: The first Bettor who must show his hand will be the last one to bet or raise.
Deberá obligatoriamente mostrar su juego, y los Apostadores siguientes podrán decidir si lo muestran o no.Free translation: He must show his hand, and the following Bettors may decide whether or not to show theirs.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
Si un jugador gana el pozo por defecto, esto significa que el resto ha tirado las cartas; en consecuencia no se muestran los naipes y el ganador decide si enseña su jugada o no.Free translation: If a player wins the pot by default, this means the rest have thrown in their cards; consequently the cards are not shown and the winner decides whether or not to show his hand.
Lotería de Córdoba S.E. (portal) · Reglamento del Poker Texas Hold'em · read
When the combinations are equal
Poker: Se definirá por la combinación de las cuatro cartas más alta, de existir empate, por la 5º carta más alta.Free translation: Four of a kind: It is decided by the highest four-card combination; if there is a tie, by the 5th highest card.
Trío: Se definirá por la combinación de cartas más alta, de existir empate, por la 4º carta más alta, de persistir, por la 5º carta más alta.Free translation: Three of a kind: It is decided by the highest combination of cards; if there is a tie, by the 4th highest card; if it persists, by the 5th highest card.
Par Simple: Se definirá por el par más alto, de ser igual, se definirá por la 3º, 4º o 5º carta más alta.Free translation: One pair: It is decided by the highest pair; if they are equal, it is decided by the 3rd, 4th or 5th highest card.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
Igualdad de Par Simple: La mano se define por el valor de los naipes que componen el Par, de subsistir la igualdad se compararán los naipes siguientes en forma decreciente por valor.Free translation: Tie between one pair hands: The hand is decided by the value of the cards that make up the Pair; if the tie remains, the following cards are compared in decreasing order of value.
Igualdad de Piernas: La mano se define por el valor de los naipes que componen la Pierna; de subsistir la igualdad se compararán los naipes siguientes en forma decreciente por valor.Free translation: Tie between three of a kind hands: The hand is decided by the value of the cards that make up the Three of a kind; if the tie remains, the following cards are compared in decreasing order of value.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
The highest five of seven
El objeto del juego es alcanzar la combinación de cartas de mayor valor posible, mediante la utilización de cinco cartas cualesquiera entre las dos repartidas por el croupier a cada jugador y las cinco, comunes a todos, descubiertas y alineadas sobre la mesa de juego.Free translation: The object of the game is to reach the highest-value combination of cards possible, by using any five cards from among the two dealt by the dealer to each player and the five, common to all, turned face up and lined up on the gaming table.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
Se trata de un juego de partida donde los Apostadores compiten entre sí. El objetivo de cada Apostador es alcanzar la mejor combinación de cinco naipes del mayor valor posible, mediante la utilización de siete naipes, de los cuales dos se distribuyen inicialmente a cada Apostador, y cinco naipes comunitarios ubicados en el centro de la mesa.Free translation: This is a game played in hands in which the Bettors compete against each other. The objective of each Bettor is to reach the best five-card combination of the highest possible value, using seven cards, of which two are initially dealt to each Bettor, and five community cards placed in the centre of the table.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
El Póker Texas Hold´em es un juego de siete cartas que se reparten en cuatro fases.Free translation: Póker Texas Hold´em is a seven-card game that is dealt in four phases.
Lo importante de este juego es conseguir la mejor combinación con cinco cartas.Free translation: What matters in this game is to get the best combination with five cards.
Lotería de Córdoba S.E. (portal) · Reglamento del Poker Texas Hold'em · read
Equal hands split the pot
En el caso que se exista empate en la combinación de juego de dos o más jugadores se repartirán las ganancias (Ver Pot).Free translation: If there is a tie in the hand combination of two or more players, the winnings will be shared (See Pot).
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
En caso de haber empate el pozo será dividido entre los Apostadores ganadores.Free translation: In case of a tie the pot will be divided among the winning Bettors.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
Ranks and suits
El valor de las mismas ordenadas de mayor a menor es: As, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2.Free translation: Their value, ordered from highest to lowest, is: Ace, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
Ningún palo es mayor que otro.Free translation: No suit is higher than another.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
Table stakes
Comprar o añadir fichas a su resto para aumentarlo en el transcurso de una mano, o hacerlo sin dar aviso al responsable de la mesa.Free translation: Buying or adding chips to his stack to increase it during a hand, or doing so without notifying the person in charge of the table.
La recompra sólo podrá ser realizada antes del inicio del pase.Free translation: The rebuy may only be made before the start of the pase.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
En caso de ser necesario el Apostador podrá comprar fichas en el transcurso de la partida, dentro del mínimo y máximo establecido, todas las veces que lo desee, debiéndolo realizar entre mano y mano.Free translation: If necessary, the Bettor may buy chips during the course of the game, within the established minimum and maximum, as many times as he or she wishes, and must do so between hands.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
All in
Ir por el resto: Cuando un jugador toma la iniciativa de apostar todo su resto.Free translation: Going for the rest: When a player takes the initiative to bet all of his remaining chips.
Ir restado: Cuando un jugador no teniendo suficiente dinero en la mesa para cubrir una apuesta, juega la parte proporcional que su resto alcance.Free translation: Going short: When a player who does not have enough money on the table to cover a bet plays the proportional part that his remaining chips reach.
En todos los casos que el jugador apueste su resto (all-in) deberá anunciarlo a viva voz.Free translation: In all cases in which a player bets his remaining chips (all-in), he must announce it out loud.
Pot Adicional: Desde el momento que un jugador no puede cubrir la totalidad de una apuesta y juega por su resto, el siguiente jugador podrá cubrir, apostar o retirarse.Free translation: Additional Pot: From the moment a player cannot cover the whole of a bet and plays for his remaining chips, the next player may call, bet or fold.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
Side pots
En el caso que apueste, se originará un Pot adicional en el que participarán todos los jugadores que cubran esa apuesta. El jugador inicial que hizo la apuesta por su resto, sólo participará del primer Pot; el segundo jugador, que realizó la apuesta, participa del Pot Principal y del Pot Adicional, al igual que los jugadores que hayan cubierto la apuesta. Los pot adicionales podrán ser tantos como fueran necesarios, serán llamados: Segundo Pot, Tercer Pot y así sucesivamente.Free translation: If he bets, an additional Pot will be created in which all the players who cover that bet will take part. The initial player who bet his remaining chips will take part only in the first Pot; the second player, who made the bet, takes part in the Main Pot and in the Additional Pot, as do the players who have covered the bet. There may be as many additional pots as necessary; they will be called: Second Pot, Third Pot and so on.
Si un jugador realizara una apuesta que no puede ser cubierta por otro jugador que va con su resto, la diferencia no cubierta se devolverá al jugador que realizara la apuesta.Free translation: If a player makes a bet that cannot be covered by another player who goes with his remaining chips, the uncovered difference will be returned to the player who made the bet.
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
Cuando un Apostador juega todas las fichas que le quedan, es decir que va jugando su resto, de quedar un solo Apostador más en la mesa, éste solamente podrá cubrir la apuesta o retirarse.Free translation: When a Bettor plays all the chips he has left, that is, he is going all-in with his stack, if only one more Bettor remains at the table, the latter may only cover the bet or fold.
De quedar más de dos Apostadores que aumenten la apuesta, se conformará un pozo paralelo o adicional del que no participa el Apostador restado.Free translation: If more than two Bettors remain who raise the bet, a parallel or additional pot will be formed in which the short Bettor does not take part.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)
The odd chip
las fichas sobrantes serán para aquel jugador ubicado a la izquierda del botón de "dealer"Free translation: the remaining chips will go to the player seated to the left of the "dealer" button
Section Anexo I, Póker descubierto en la variante Texas Hold’em (arts. 1 a 24)
De existir sobrante se le dará al Apostador ganador sentado más próximo a la izquierda del botón.Free translation: If there is a remainder, it will be given to the winning Bettor seated closest to the left of the button.
Section Capítulo 21, Central Póker Holdem, modalidad Cash Game: Reglamento del Juego (21.1 a 21.14)