Can't work out who came second

We were playing a home game tonight.

Last three players. One big stack, one medium, one small. Medium stack is dealer, big stack small blind, small stack was big blind.

Dealer min raised, small blind called, big blind called, flop came down.

Flop was QQ4. Small blind bet 600 (with Q6) with 1000 chips to spare, big blind went all in (with A3) with 600, dealer then pushed all in with 900 chips (with KK). Small blind met the dealer.

So main pot of 1800 (with all three players) and then a side pot of 600 chips between the dealer and small blind. The turn was 3 and river was an ace. No flushes. So the dealer had 2 kings, small blind had 3 queens and the big blind had pair of aces and pair of threes. So the small blind won with 3 queens. But who came second? It was a tournament so second place was paid when third wasn't.

The big blind argues that he should come second because he had a better hand than the dealer. The dealer argues that he should have come second because he had more chips than the big blind. The other argument is that they came joint second and should split the second place prize.

Opinions? (Ignoring the bad poker). Thanks.

Alright, my last 9 attempts to answer this were major fails. ok. Since the kk and the A3 had worse hands then the guy with trips, they both lose. The guy with more chips before the hand of the two comes in second regardless of who had the better hand between the two of them


And welcome to ftr.

I think OP's question was; should they split the second place prize money or give the prize money to the person with the second best hand

The person who had more chips to start the hand should get the 2nd place prize

Originally Posted by Deanglow

The person who had more chips to start the hand should get the 2nd place prize

Yup