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partypoker hand history says villain won side pot but main pot math looks wrong

so i got a weird one. hand history shows three players all in, decent sized pot. on the river it says the villain takes the side pot and also gives him more chips out of the main pot than i expected. from the replayer, i definitely had the second best hand, so i should’ve at least chopped main with the other short stack, right? i went over the math like five times and it still doesn’t add up, chips disappear somewhere.

not sure if this is just a bug or i’m just missing something obvious. does the site ever mess up the pot distribution or am i just not seeing how it splits with all-ins and side pots? i feel like patience is key, but staring at the hand isn’t helping me see where it went wrong. really hoping someone else has seen this before so i can stop doubting my counting skills.

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yeah i’d trust my count over their hh haha. makes me weirdly jealous of live dealer, at least the pot is sitting there and not doing ghost math on you

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lol had this in blackjack too, ghost math!!!

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Ghost math is cute until a room can track a bonus penny-perfect but suddenly gets artistic with an all-in pot. And no, I’m not buying “you missed something” every time. If the client can tag your position and every call, it can count chips without doing interpretive dance.

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Live Dealer cured me. Misread one chop haha

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nah ur not crazy lol the replayer is usually the sketchy bit... ive seen side/main pot splits display wrong after river all ins. must be nice when villain gets the mystery blackjack chips tho 🙃

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I misread returned bets sooo often

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What usually gets missed is a returned uncalled bet or some dead blind sitting in there, not magic chips. This old man has seen cleaner accounting on a roulette terminal than some poker hand histories after showdown, and that is saying something.

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"five times" is where i quit too. Had a buy-in vanish in a replayer once.

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Lmao “decent sized pot” like what, exact stacks? Side-pot math gets cursed fast, same energy as blackjack progressive jackpot crap lol

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