Ties

1. The ranking of suits from highest to lowest is spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs. Suits never break a tie for winning a pot. Sui ts are used only in stud and then only to break a tie between cards of the same rank (no redeal or redraw).

2. Dealing a card to each player is used to determine things like who moves to another table. If the cards are dealt, the order i s clockwise starting with the first player on the dealer's left (the button position is irrelevant). Drawing a card is used to deter mine things like who gets the button in a new game.

3. An odd chip is broken down to the smallest unit used in the game.

4. No player can receive more than one odd chip.

5. If two or more hands tie, an odd chip is awarded as follows:

• In a button game, the first hand clockwise from the button gets the odd chip.


• In a stud game, the odd chip is given to the highest card by suit in all high games, and to the lowest card b y suit in all low games. (When making this determination, all cards are used, not just the five cards that constitute the player's h and.)


• In high-low split games, the high hand receives the odd chip in a split between the high and the low hands. T he odd chip between tied high hands is awarded as in a high game of that poker form, and the odd chip between tied low hands is awar ded as in a low game of that poker form.


• All side pots and the main pot are split as separate pots, not mixed together