Anyone play Texas Hold'em?

[mattl]

Anyone play the game? Got a question. My TV has the game built in and I have been playing it for a few months, never did before. I enjoy it and think I'm getting pretty good, but not ready for real $$ play yet...

Anyway, this is the hand:

Qs Jd Kc Kh Qd

I had: 4c Jc

My only opponent had: 2h 5d and was all in...

I lost - why? no matter how I look at it I should have won,
I had a pair in my hand, albeit lower the the spread, And my hole card was higher.

So, did I really loose or did the programmer screw up?

 

[runematic]

Matt, I don't play hold 'em, but I do play poker twice a year (yeah, real expert). From what I can see, you both had a pair of K's & Q's. You play five cards. You have a J, but so does he sitting out there. So now you move to the higher hole care & he' got you 5 to 4. Just my interpretation.

 

[runematic]

hole care & he' got you

hole card & he's got you. Excellent proof reading.

 

[mattl]

Thanks!

Thanks, that explains it. It was really bothering me, and the computer has screwed up in the past. The game goes to $5000, all 5 players start with $1000, and a couple of times I ended up winning with less than the $5000 total, have no idea where the rest of the "money" went...

It's a fun game, I may start playing on some of the poker sites once I get the nuances down, like the example I posted - though I would have bet anyway. I was sitting with $3200, he was down to $125, I wanted to eliminate him. He won the pot of about $980, but I won in the end...

 

[jeffg]

I don't understand the explanation. Unless this game uses a different variation of Texas hold'em, the best five cards are used to determine a winner, which in this case was a tie. Why wouldn't the pot be split?

 

[runematic]

Jeff, I agree that the pot should probably have been split. But, I was just trying to figure out why he lost. It probably would have been split if it were human to human & humans running the game.