Timeline for Poker split / side pots
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| May 5, 2016 at 21:29 | comment | added | JimmyJames | This is basically what ended up with in my answer below but I think there are two things missing from this. In step 1, it's not necessary to exclude folder players. I've also added a step to handle the rare (but legal) case where all players fold after betting in a side pot. | |
| May 5, 2016 at 20:12 | comment | added | Robbie Dee | The principle is the same whether you do it on the fly to visually display the side pots or whether you do it at the end. I did mine at the end initially and was worried I'd calculated it wrong and did it on the fly too as a sense check - exactly the same algorithm. | |
| May 5, 2016 at 19:58 | comment | added | paparazzo | @RobbieDee Yes you can look at it a lot of ways. If you are going to look at side pots then the algorithm needs to define how side pot are created. Your answer is split the side pots and yet fails to define the algorithm for side pots. | |
| May 5, 2016 at 19:53 | comment | added | Robbie Dee | I wouldn't get hung up on the terminology. If you find it easier to consider everything to be a side pot then fair enough. | |
| May 5, 2016 at 19:52 | history | edited | paparazzo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 5, 2016 at 19:49 | comment | added | paparazzo | @RobbieDee This approach is not creating initial pots and side pots. Split the main pot and side pots without defining an algorithm for creating the pots is not an algorithm. | |
| May 5, 2016 at 19:46 | comment | added | Robbie Dee | That is more or less it - step 1 is initially the main pot and includes dead chips (players who have folded). Odd chips typically go to the first winner to the dealer's left. | |
| May 5, 2016 at 18:58 | comment | added | paparazzo | Looks like I don't need to track last aggressor. Just split any left over by the order in the hand. That is how some of the existing commercial betting sites do it. | |
| May 5, 2016 at 18:31 | history | answered | paparazzo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |