High-Low Poker Dictionary


Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand .In high-low split games, half the pot goes to the best hand (the high), half to the worst (the low). The criteria for deciding the low vary see low. Split games are also often played with a qualifier that the low hand must be "8 or better. " This means that the low hand must have five unpaired cards 8 or lower. Omaha and Seven Card Stud are the most popular high-low split games.