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Poker night, worse hands winning

powerdemonpowerdemon
edited December 2010 in Game Support
About 6 times now, a single pair has beaten a two pair or even straight.

The most recent was I had a two pair, and strongbad had one pair. He won.

Comments

  • TTG - CalebTTG - Caleb
    edited November 2010
    Is this happening when there's a side pot? If so, this is just how Poker works--the "winner" of a hand is considered the player who won the most money, not the person who has the best hand. Of course, the person who has the best hand is usually the one winning the money, but this isn't necessarily the case if there's a side pot.
  • powerdemonpowerdemon
    edited November 2010
    That could be it. But I will keep my eyes open.

    Would this happen when someone folds as well?

    Tycho just won and he folded.
  • Twitch4youTwitch4you
    edited November 2010
    everyone folded, no side plots, 1 on 1 with heavy and tycho. tycho pulls out a flush, heavy has Ace high, heavy wins, tycho was busted.

    uhh... thats not how poker works, unless i and everyone i know ever learned it incorrectly.
  • vorteksvorteks
    edited November 2010
    I just got a full house, and strong bad got a 3 of a kind. The game announced that Strong Bad won the hand, and the animation showed him claiming the chips and gloating. However, after the animation finished, I was actually the one with the money. I do not believe there was a sidepot.
  • ColdbrewColdbrew
    edited December 2010
    bump

    I'm with Twitch4you, I've never heard of poker working that way, even at casinos, and it's very annoying. I just lost a round where The Heavy and myself were all-in, along with Max who still had some money left over. They each had King High while I had a flush. The game originally said that I won, and shortly after said Max won. So not only was the tournament lost, Heavy's minigun went to Max instead of me. So as far as I'm concerned, I was robbed of a TF2 item, Steam achievement, and lost the tournament.

    Needless to say I'm quite the opposite of happy and hope this is either fixed or explained. Considering it seems like many people didn't understand the main and side pot thing, I would prefer if it was fixed.

    Anyway I got a screenshot. The Heavy's hand was very similar to Max's.
    http://s590.photobucket.com/albums/ss343/Coldbrew71/?action=view&current=pokernightfail.jpg
  • mrfsnipermrfsniper
    edited December 2010
    I just had the exact same thing happen. Won the game with a full house and should have won the Heavy's minigun but Tycho won with 3 of a kind??? This is obviousy a game bug and should be addressed.




    Coldbrew wrote: »
    bump

    I'm with Twitch4you, I've never heard of poker working that way, even at casinos, and it's very annoying. I just lost a round where The Heavy and myself were all-in, along with Max who still had some money left over. They each had King High while I had a flush. The game originally said that I won, and shortly after said Max won. So not only was the tournament lost, Heavy's minigun went to Max instead of me. So as far as I'm concerned, I was robbed of a TF2 item, Steam achievement, and lost the tournament.

    Needless to say I'm quite the opposite of happy and hope this is either fixed or explained. Considering it seems like many people didn't understand the main and side pot thing, I would prefer if it was fixed.

    Anyway I got a screenshot. The Heavy's hand was very similar to Max's.
    http://s590.photobucket.com/albums/ss343/Coldbrew71/?action=view&current=pokernightfail.jpg
  • TTG - CalebTTG - Caleb
    edited December 2010
    Have you guys downloaded the patched version of the game? What you're seeing is a result of side pots, and it should be much clearer who is winning what in the patched version.

    Simply re-download and reinstall the game, and you should see a difference.
  • ColdbrewColdbrew
    edited December 2010
    I have the patched version, and can see the side pots, but as long as they even exist I probably just won't play the game anymore. I don't much care for playing versions of poker with botched rules.
  • Macfly77Macfly77 Moderator
    edited December 2010
    Coldbrew wrote: »
    I have the patched version, and can see the side pots, but as long as they even exist I probably just won't play the game anymore. I don't much care for playing versions of poker with botched rules.

    Side pots are a part of poker and not a botched rule (I became a Texas hold'em fan in 2006 and have seen hundreds of episodes of Poker After Dark); when three (or more) player are in a pot and one of them is all in for less money than is bet by the others, there will be a side pot between the others who will be playing for any additional money on top of the all-in money and covering bets (example: Strong Bad is all in for $2000; the Heavy raised for $4000 and got called by Tycho; the most that Strong Bad could win if he has the best hand of the three is $6000 + any blind and bet that you and Max made before he went all in. Anything above those $6000 would go to whoever has the best hand between the Heavy and Tycho).
    The one thing you are right about in this post is that if you were the one that eliminated the Heavy (if you had more money than him when you went all-in), you should have won the item. If he was eliminated by Max (if the Heavy was all-in for more money than you were and only Max's bet covered his), there is no reason why you should get the item as Max would in fact be the one who eliminated him.
    And that is an actual poker rule.
    Additionally, you shouldn't have lost, but since the game had said that you'd won before saying that Max had won, you probably did receive the money from the main pot and were eliminated on a later hand (unless you quit after seeing Max win the Heavy's minigun).
    I have now played over 30 tournaments (including more than 10 before the game was patched) and I have yet to see a pot won by someone who shouldn't have.
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