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Your right, Texas holdem has that contradiction rule, and prominence poker uses it.
However, holdem has many contradiction rules like I said above. This means that depending on the contradiction rules you choose to play with a kicker can always be in play regardless of the 5 cards.
If both players have the exact same hand it is called a tie. If kickers are not in play, the pot is split. If they are in play, then the higher kicker decides who wins the pot, making the kickers the tie breaker.
The confusion of all of this comes from who knows about what rules. Most people who play texas holdem play by the rules that they first came across and never bother to learn the others. But there are so many contradiction/flavor rules that it is possible for a texas holdem game to be played almost entirely different at each table.
For instance the world poker tour (I'm just using them as an example since it is well known) plays a common texas holdem rule set. Aces are high, so they can't be used to make a straight from the bottom (A2345), kickers are always in play, and they allow blind man's gambits (raising all in without looking at your cards or even before you recieve them, and not being able to see your cards throughout the hand).
But Prominence Poker plays with these rules. Kickers are only active when up to 4 cards are in play, Aces are wild meaning aces can be played from the bottom or the top, with the bottom making it the weakest card, and the top being the strongest card. They also don't allow blind man's gambits.
There are more rules that WPT and Prominence poker play differently, so many that it would make my comment a much larger wall of text than it already is.
Since there are so many rules to play by, it makes it confusing to people, to see a game played by different rules than they are used to. This is why I think it would be a good idea for the devs to take a couple of hours and put a rule book into the main menu.
Not so basic even for me it seems.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=909032526
at the end of any hand all the players have 7 (seven) cards (5 on the board + 2 hole cards): the player with the best 5 (five) cards among these 7 (seven) cards wins. am i wrong or is it very simple?
You are both right and wrong. As I've said above, the five card rule is a rule that says if 5 cards are in play there are no tie breakers (kickers). It is one of texas holdem's many contradiction rules.
But the most commonly accepted way of playing texas holdem is kickers are always in play regardless of the five cards. So even with a straight, kickers decide a tie. Most professional tournaments in the U.S. play this way.
But as you stated, the five card rule seems like an obvious way to play, and to you and many others on here, it doesn't seem like the game can be played any other way.
However, there are people who play this game expecting kickers in play for the reasons I stated above. So I think devs should put a rule book in the game that states the exact rules they choose to play with, so that there is no more confusion.
Understandable, here is a link to a conversation people had about the same subject. Even though they eventually decide the 5 card rule is the proper way to play.
https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/9771/poker-texas-holdem-combinations-tie-or-not-tie
The point of that link, and this whole discussion in fact, is to point out that there is confusion about the rules to begin with and not to try and say which way is the correct way to play. And that there are people who play with the kicker even when all 5 cards are in play.
This is a game afterall, here for entertainment and money. And rules for it will vary greatly on the community that plays it, so there is no point arguing validity of the rules.
Also, on a personal note, and there is no way to prove it of course. But my family, myself, extended family, and friends, have always played with the kicker always in play. The local tournaments both in my town and also in Seattle play with same rule.
Q Q 10 10 5 vs Q Q 10 10 5
Recheck the screenshot. Its Q Q 10 10 3 vs Q Q 10 10 5.
http://imgur.com/a/eCQDJ
Your right had a brain fart moment i was ment to be showing the spiltpot like you show it. Ill shutup now epic fail.
You are absolutely correct, I don't know if OP is being serious or trying to make a joke thread, but there really is no confusion. Very straight-forward. I've never heard of "contradiction rules," and the World Poker Tour definitely DOES NOT have a rule that the Ace plays only high. Maybe that stackexchange forum post was about some weird home game. Once you change the fundamental rules (injecting these "contradiction rules") you can no longer call your game texas hold'em. For example, PLO is PLO, but if you are playing 8 or better, than you have to call it PLO Hi-Lo.