<Li> (Variation) Between tied hands, award the odd chip to the first player in clockwise rotation from the dealer . (Note that in a casino stud game with a house dealer and no button this gives an unfair advantage to players on the dealer's left, so the high card by suit method is preferred). </Li> <Li> (Variation) Leave the odd chip as an extra ante for the next deal . This is common in home games . </Li> <P> Sometimes it is necessary to further split a half pot into quarters, or even smaller portions . This is especially common in community card high - low split games such as Omaha hold'em, where one player has the high hand and two or more players have tied low hands . Unfortunate players receiving such a fractional pot call it being quartered . When this happens, an exception to the odd chip rules above can be made: if the high hand wins its half of the pot alone, and the low half is going to be quartered, the odd chip (if any) from the first split should be placed in the low half, rather than being awarded to the high hand . </P>

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