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Message: [QUOTE="Shaka8, post: 288550, member: 527"] Ok, I am really new to the game (about a week), but I am getting somewhat frustrated by the "side pot". I am playing on holdempoker.com and it seems random but on some pots (usually sizable ones) the winning hand doesn't win much at all. Instead it mentions something about a side pot and gives anywhere from 10 to 80 percent of the main pot to a lesser (i think?) hand. If anyone can decipher my question (its like 3 am).... What is this side pot, how is its size determined, and what determines when it is put in to play? If there is already an answer to this somewhere I apologize. Thanks in advance - Shaka8 [/QUOTE]