Double-board, double-flop
In Texas Hold’em, players may choose to play a variation where they may decide to play on two different community boards. While the pot remains single, and players are also dealt only one hand each, the dealer places two sets of flops on two different parts of the board. These two boards of community cards are played simultaneously and at the end of the round, the pot is split between the winners of the two boards.
As an example, player A receives a hand of A-K while player B receives 4-7 and Player C receives 2-8. In the event of a double board, there are two flops that are revealed and while Flop 1 is 2-4-10, Flop 2 is A-6-7. The turn card for Board 1 is 3 ad for board 2 is J while the river cards for Board 1 and 2 are 8 and Q.
In such a scenario, Board 1 ends up with 2-3-4-8-10 while board 2 ends up with 6-7-J-Q-A. Player A with the A-K hand is clearly the winner of Board 2 where the only other contender is player B who only has a 7-pair to compete with player A’s Ace-pair.
Similarly, player C is the clear winner of Board 1 with two-pairs. C has a 2-pair and an 8-pair while her/his competition B has just a 4-pair in Board 1.
Therefore, A and C split the pot as winners of Board 2 and 1 respectively. While player B had a 4-pair in board 1 and a 7-pair in board 2, B doesn’t win anything as the combined total of both boards isn’t taken. However, a player may win both boards if they have the cards that are required to be the highest hands on both boards taken individually. In such a case, the winning player takes the entire pot.
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