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Odd-chip settlement sheet

Record each pot before adding anyone’s receipts. This sheet begins after pot boundaries, eligibility and the two tied winners have been established.

Scope: exactly two tied winners per pot; high-only, single-board Hold’em. Use the event’s adopted rules. This sheet does not evaluate hands or decide a disputed ruling. Leave an unknown award unresolved.

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Pot 1 · keep this award separate

Check: A’s award + B’s award = this pot. Each award is a whole number of minimum-denomination units.

Pot 2 · repeat the full calculation

Check this pot independently. A player can receive a remainder from both pots.

Add receipts only after both pots reconcile. If the winner names differ between pots, total by player name. Receipts include chips each winner previously contributed; they are not net winnings.

Constructed example · Answer key

One denomination change, two different totals

Seats are clockwise A, B, C, D, E; E has the button. A and B are the established tied winners in both pots. A is the first tied winner encountered clockwise after E.

The established 500 main pot has eligible players A, B, C and D. The 900 side pot has eligible players A and B. C and D lose; E folded. The example has no ante, rake or uncalled excess.

One consistent whole-hand contribution record is A 500, B 500, C 100, D 100 and E 200. E’s folded contribution remains in the pots. The article explains how these contributions produce the two pots.

Case 1 · Smallest denomination is 100

Main pot · 500

Base share each
200
Remainder to A
100
A receives
300
B receives
200

Side pot · 900

Base share each
400
Remainder to A
100
A receives
500
B receives
400

Total receipts: A 800 · B 600

Both remainders go to A. Merging the pots before dividing, or alternating the remainders, would wrongly produce 700 each under this rule profile.

Case 2 · A separate setup with a 50 denomination

Keep the same pots, tied winners and button. Change only the smallest denomination still in play to 50.

Main pot · each receives
250
Side pot · each receives
450
Remainder from either pot
0

Total receipts: A 700 · B 700

These pots divide evenly in 50-chip units. This is a counterfactual denomination setup, not permission to change denominations after seeing who wins.

Rule profile checked September 7, 2026: Poker TDA 2024, version 1.0, Rules 20–21.

https://www.pokertda.com/view-poker-tda-rules/

2026 WSOP Rules 73–74, page 18, also give a button-based odd-chip award and separate side-pot splits. The event’s adopted version governs its procedure.

https://assets.wsopcdn.com/wsop/1a72ba28-781c-409d-a9c3-5ca13c4c5718.pdf

Outside scope: three-way ties, high-low splits, stud, multiple boards, unknown eligibility and house exceptions. No equity or strategy calculation is performed.

Read the article: Who gets the odd chip?